All in a day All in a Day

on one side of the road you can see mountain's and snow and ice and water from the ocean coming into the duck flat area.and on the other side more of the same
but the drive to the local yarn store is breath taking
when we did get there it wasn't open just yet hours are from 11 am on to i think 6 or 5 never have tried that late.
there was a sign on the door from the day before . it has snowed so bad here over the week end and our city workers all go home for the week end and don't work. except for the buses and a few other agencies like fire department and such. no one works meaning the snow plows don't move one inch all week end. and the buses don't run on Sunday's.
which means come Monday if there has been major snow fall its tough going for everyone. soooooo this past Friday everything got closed down because of the huge snow storm and for Alaska that meant a bad one. which for this sourdough who has seen more then 20 years of winters here meant this was nothing i have seen far worse. far far worse. but they closed everything down anyway which was good for all . Come Monday they closed it all again. just way to much snow coming down for them to catch up or keep up with by then.
so when we got to the local yarn store the sign on the door saying the sit and stitch group wasn't meeting due to snow meant the store had not been open at all since last week.
i waited across the street at the other stores ... the pawn shop that carries alot of camping supplies and found time to wonder through the tool store nothing interesting just passing time. finally i saw the owner unlocking and saw the yarn dog wondering around outside. She is some sort of mix looks like a blond German Shep. she is so sweet loves to wonder around after you in or out of the store as you shop or as you come and go. sometimes i am tempted to ask her opinion of the yarn i am looking at ... one can never have to many opinions right?

hubby found when we stopped at joanns earlier they were having a sale on patons wool so he grabbed the black out of the bin seems they are not going to carry anymore of it. grrrrrrrrr. his comment was the label says this is good for felting .

and i found a magazine at the grocier store where i stopped to get a soda in fact it is the only store in town carries the best selection of knitting and scrapbooking magazines . so in order to get a good one you have no choise but to take that long drive which i dont mind much in the summer or spring or fall . but in the winter man its not an easy one to make . slow slow slow.

before days end someone hit one of the re taining walls along the road out of town and flipped their car. i am sure they we not driving at excessive speeds just not slow enough though.

and i bought to size 4 , 26 inch long which was the only short length she had at the lys in this size oops time to order more needles :) joanns had none at all smallest size circulars were 9 and up.

went home and spent the rest of the night casting on and ripping off over and over until i think i got it. trying hard to learn how to knit on two circulars two pairs of socks. doing one on two was easy . I got that in not time flat. but trying to figure out what needle to grab next for two was like a puzzle but i think i figured it out. took me until 10:30 last night to get this far ... and i got home about 4 dove right in would get frustrated and walk away for a breather and then right back at it. determined .

we will see where this goes. and lastly .........

here is my traiter sled dog . meantion anything and she is ready to run away in fact this is what she was trying hard to do in this picture. when my one grandson came for a visit Evie jumped into his suit case when he was trying to pack for his return trip home and wouldnt budge. he even grabbed her and dragged her out of it a few times before he gave up. she really took a liking to him. I am sure if i said dog sled to her she would pack up and hit the nearest airplane out of here and go live with pat. LOL

temperature today is 36 degrees as i sit her at 5:36 am. hubby has gone to work and mike will go to work here soon yep he finally got a job yesterday. walked in to put in an application and got hired on the spot and put to work right there never made it home from his doctors appointment he orginally set out to go too. yahooo i should get the house to myself me and the traitor dog LOL