Sunday Hike

view of Tranquille on the way

Sunday was a warm spring day finally and we enjoyed getting out for a hike up Cinnamon Ridge to the hoodoos. There were 2 caches in the area, lots of cactus and the ticks were out. The grass is just starting to turn green and the snow is receding on the hills.  We ran out of time to do the other caches further up. We'll come back another day for them!

Fiber's West, Abbotsford , March 18

Three friends and I drove to Abbostford on Friday to go to the annual Fibre's West in Abbotsford.  We stayed overnight in Abbotsford and drove home the next day.  It was lots of fun and everyone found goodies to buy. The event is quite small although it is growing every yera, it still barely filled half of the space. there were vendors from as far away as Vancouver Island and Alberta. I bought a little bit of knitting yarn but I couldn't find the specific yarns I was looking for. The Silk Tree had a booth but she did not hae the 12/2 silk that I was looking for. She said she will send it to me with no charge for  mailing, so I just have to wait and see.  The fun part for me was that I won the first door prize which included a Namaste knitting bag from Jane Staffford.

Laura Fry's booth.

                              my Namaste bag filled with goodies and then filled with my knitting.

Hamel's Quilting store in Chilliwak on the way home

Penticton Trip March 11

We made our third trip of 2011 to Penticton to take my dad to get hearing aids and to do some of his business now that his house has been sold.

We drove home through Keremeos and Princeton. There was still a lot of snow on the hills and Princeton had about 4 inchs of snow on the ground.  We saw some mountain goats just outside Princeton and lots of deer in the fields.

ice on the Similkameen river

This is the time of year to see lots of eagles in the fields and on the frozen lakes

Wednesday is for Ballet

Works in Progress and Some Finished Objects

I finished the quilting on a landscape I started last year. This is the view of McGillivary hills from the Pritchard area.

mug rugs underway on my little loom

3  chenille, supplementary warp scarves waiting to be tagged

another warp ready to go

Geocaching Birthday

We were surprised by a late season snowfall, but we still had fun geocaching on Rick's birthday.

                                        Papa found the cache! - cupcakes!

February

February was cold, gray and snowy but we managed to have some fun. It included a trip to Regina, Sask , a trip to Penticton , a birthday, some geo-caching and a flu bug. Hope spring comes soon!