A friend got married last weekend, and it was just the push that I needed to finish up my Cape sweater. It's a little wider than I had hoped, but still fits pretty good.

I'm zipping down the sleeve on my Rosemary's sweater finally. I decided to heck with it and used my 24" circ until I got down to the point where I can use dpns. I still need those size 8 dpns to finish up the sleeves on the two sweaters for the kids. These are driving me nuts. I also am planning a new sweater for Vincent in the gypsy cotton I have left over from last summer. I think I might have enough of the yarn left from the stipey sweater to do a second sweater (in wide stipes this time) or at least a poncho for Isabella. I made Abigail a poncho last year, and Isabella really really really wants one too.

I think we are going to take the house off the market. It's been really annoying getting ready for all of these showings for the last year with no result, and what with refinancing a few months ago, we wouldn't have all that much by getting a cheaper house, unless we go under $90K and even in this area that will get a you a house that needs some to a lot of work. So, I think we are just going to struggle through Luis' winter layoffs somehow and stay here for a few more years. Now that that's pretty much decided, I want to move where the chicken coop is, modify the garden, and plant some fruit trees. I figure if I get dwarf ones, I could fit one on the garden, one in the side backyard flower bed and one by the driveway or in the front. Of course, I need to price them out still to see if that would even be feasible.