If you haven't wandered over to Purly Gates lately, Suzie is selling a few stash items, magazines, books, etc. to help pay for her "boot camp." She has some lovely items up that she needs to sell to fund her way to boot camp. You can read more at her blog. I bought the Morehouse Farms Merino book that she was destashing.
Also, if you haven't been to Bezzie's blog in the last week or so, she's running a program called KAYE. The "Kootchie Awareness Yarn Extravaganza" is simply a way to raise awareness of cervical cancer. Bezzie says it best in her post.

And keep the Yarn Harlot in your thoughts, her laptop "bricked." Seriously, how bad is that for the Harlot?

If you haven't noticed my clever deception, I don't have much more to report. Bunny barn gets fixed tomorrow. I'm off of work until the Chief gets back on Monday. I have a new litter of baby bunnies that were born here in the house and if I can figure out how to put it up, maybe I can show you a baby bunny at the dawn of life (it's a bit after birth, but not much).

Snow Finally Makes it to Indiana

And a decent amount of snow too, if I so say so myself. Wait, I just did. I've been traipsing around in it all morning with the repair guy. Repair guy? Yes, as in my heating/cooling unit needs a new brain and the bunny barn heater needs a new gas valve. (sigh) This means that I will be forced to wait to replace the watering bowls with the automatic watering system until later this spring. Will is going to continue to work on designs and I'm hoping to have it at least partially installed by the end of March. I'm judging some rabbit shows and I'll be putting as much of the money as I can towards upgrading the bunny barn.

I've been knitting some on my sweater and started another pair of socks, Fleece Artist socks in the color Amethyst, because they make me happy. I also bought myself some flowers, pretty roses. I took a picture to share with you all. While there is some sun out, it hasn't hit the back of the house yet, so these are still a bit washed out in color. The petals are a bit more orange, but the edging is that pretty coral. :)

I'm off to take care of things before I go into class. I'm reading everyone's blog even if I'm not commenting and I apologize for not popping in to say hello more. I'll try to leave a comment on everyone's blog in the next few days. :)

Nothing Important

This will be a phenomenally boring post so feel free to skip this one. Call it your freebie for the the month. ;)

I've been cleaning and organizing and getting things ready for my new semester which starts today. My closet is cleaner than it has been in two years. I finally parted with all of the shirts that I was wishing would fit. My yarn stash is organized, at least to me. :) My kitchen cupboards and refrigerator are clean. I am getting my school papers cleaned up and filed away to go to class tonight. My bunny barn is cleaner (still working on that), and Will is designing my watering system.

I had a tiny set-back with the bunny barn though. I run a small LP heater in the barn to keep the water from freezing in the bowls. It is better for the bunnies and somewhat warmer for me (I keep it at about 40-45 degrees F), plus my pump doesn't freeze. Unfortunately after four years my heater's gas valve has gone bad, and at $282 I don't really want to replace the part. So I'm looking at replacing the heater with another LP or possibly with an electric heater.

No worries though, I will still be able to buy my watering system. On the knitting front, I cast on for some socks using my Fleece Artist "Midnight" skein last night, but I only have the cuff of one foot done and it's not really that exciting yet. I also did a few rows on my sweater, but I may have to make it a shorter sleeved sweater, it seems that I only had 8 skeins of the Kimono Angora and not 10 like I thought. (This was what precipitated the stash cleaning. lol) So I may go with a short sleeve or a 3/4 sleeve. I am also ignoring the lace scarf that I am nearly finished with as I am stumped on the corner and I just don't feel like figuring it out right now.

I must get back to organizing, I have class at 6 tonight and I want to get the book before I go in. Have a great evening!