Our weather has 'bipolar mood swings'

Or so my 14-year-old flautist friend states! It DOES seem to be that way, yesterday we hit 24 celsius and it was sunny and beautiful, this morning it is much colder and so gloomy I will have to put on my light when I leave this computer (not to mention windy).

This week has been the week of clearing out. On thursday Goodwill came and picked up a whole porchful of things that we (my dad and I) cannot use anymore, including three full sets of suitcases from my mom, my grandma and a great aunt, some old clothes of mine that are a bit young for me now, some clothes of my mom's that got missed when we took the huge load out to the Salvation Army in November, and a number of other things. Later that day, my dad and I took a full carload of electronics over to an e-waste (responsible electronic recycling) site-this included the microwave that broke after almost 30 years of life in February, the ancient Windows 95 computer, a printer someone gave to us that never worked, the dvd player my sister brought us back from the US from Target that was DOA when we plugged it in (and unreturnable), and the record player that broke a few years ago. And then yesterday we had Got Junk come and pick up a bunch of, well, junk from the basement. So, given all that has now been removed from the basement, it is a lot emptier! And stranger...the ancient chairs down there had been down there since I was a toddler. The good part about this is that I finally got back the $2 that I lost when I was 9 years old down the 'monster' chair (I call it this simply because it probably weighs about 100 pounds and is very hard to move-fortunately the Got Junk guys turned it upside down and it fell out). Yes, I do remember losing the $2. When I was a kid, I very rarely got allowance, so when I did, it was extra important. That particular day I had fallen off my bike and badly gouged my knee on a rough edge of the sidewalk. I was downstairs resting with my leg up (this chair was a recliner) when I received it, and only a few minutes later, it slipped from my fingers and disappeared into the chair never to be found for about 12 years!

In a couple of days I will be sending off one more blanket to Project Linus

The best thing about this yarn is that it does the work itself-it creates the floral pattern and the colour changes all on it's own (I LOVE Bernat Baby Jacquards yarn!). It was the first time I'd done a pattern with picking up and knitting stitches and it worked out pretty well! And if we really look at things, one more thing will be out of the house in the form of the Stoned Wheat thin crackers box that it fits perfectly in!

This coming week we will hopefully be able to get out Basement Renovations Building Permit. The ball has definitely started rolling!