Quick change artist

A Quick Change:
Looks like it will be a quick change from fall to winter here. The white stuff started down yesterday morning and then quickly melted but this morning it's actually still remaining on the ground. Usually that means (however small an amount) that it's here for the duration. Lots of snow/rain showers in the forecast for this next week so it could be that I'll be on the runners with the team when I get back from Michigan at the end of the month.

Learning to count:
Some days you just need a change so I've switched over to working on a triple braid egg basket and working up the wool drying basket for the VFAG'ers class in March. Even I am capable of not being able to count. Worked up my base, trued the size, upset my spokes, and found that I can't count to eleven yet. Had inserted twelve spokes and that throws the pattern off. So you see, even the professionals screw up on occasion. I figured it was an omen to get out of the studio for awhile.

The Granny Shuffle:
You can't really call it a run, it's to slow to be called jogging, and it's not a walk, it does make you sweat, so what do you call it....the granny shuffle. When your craft includes sitting a lot as in basket weaving sometimes you have to get outside and become one with the woods. I do the granny shuffle with the "inside" dogs. These are the dogs that decorate the floor inside the cabin. Satch the coon hound and Moon the retired lead dog are the header/heeler of the walking the dog duo. Satch tells everyone I'm coming (eventually) and occasionally checks back to make sure that I am. Moon takes the invisible I'm-behind-you-Mom approach which I think is very odd for a LEAD dog. I think it's his continuous affirmation to me that he's retired and doesn't have to do that anymore. They get a chance to let loose of some energy and I get my tank filled up so I can go back to the studio and do more "over-and-under".