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The mitts reminded of how COLD my fingers were after picking the grapes this morning for my DIL. It was barely above zero with a slight breeze. After they were picked we enjoyed the best part of the job - delivering them and seeing our youngest grand. He had such a big beam on his face when his mum told us that yesterday he offered to wash the kitchen floor and then took out the vacuum and plied it where needed. Today was a canning day AGAIN at their house (she sells some of her product). The little guy was peeling and cutting up potatoes for a big crock pot of stew.
 
Our grapes aren't ripe yet...Knitting I'm much slower ;) Crochet faster ;) here's the LAST pair for today - I have never crocheted so much in one day ever!...I now have 10 pairs of fingerless gloves - knitted and crochet for the local salon's gift shop!
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Northwind said:
I'm really happy with how it's knitting up. I had the green for the heels and toes already. I'm hoping the recipient loves them. This is a surprise.
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Good surprise.

It is just a hair above freezing here but there is a strong wind so we have windchill...I just closed the sales and the snow is staring to blow.
 
We're getting a nip in the air and the nights are single digits. Still, it's currently 14 so no complaints here, especially knowing there's snow in other areas. :)
 
KayTheCurler said:
The mitts reminded of how COLD my fingers were after picking the grapes this morning for my DIL. It was barely above zero with a slight breeze. After they were picked we enjoyed the best part of the job - delivering them and seeing our youngest grand. He had such a big beam on his face when his mum told us that yesterday he offered to wash the kitchen floor and then took out the vacuum and plied it where needed. Today was a canning day AGAIN at their house (she sells some of her product). The little guy was peeling and cutting up potatoes for a big crock pot of stew.
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I had pulled a few rows of beets before we started getting the overnight freezing temps. Thursday maybe? I had started to cut off the tops before dinner & rinsing off the excess dirt. Wanted to get that all done outside especially with the bugs in the greens. Convinced Chemguy to come out and help me after, was so glad - it had started to drizzle making the coolness feel that much worse plus my little seat (a new one, not the one I fell off of!) was pretty wet at that point. Would have not been a nice thing to have finished off alone. Chemguy doesn't do as nice of a job but at that point I was happy to have his faster speed for doing it.

I haven't seen any snow yet personally, but Chemguy noticed a few flakes when he was out BBQing yesterday. The remaining beets will wait for a warmer day!

I'll be making at least one tomato dish tonight - not sure yet if sauce (way less effort) or bruschetta or if the bruschetta goes well possibly both. I thought I would be passing on bruschetta altogether at first this year, but the tomatoes are ripening fairly quickly indoors.

Canning - not sure if I will ever get into that. If there's enough freezer space where it's not necessary to can to keep produce is it still worth it?
 
over an inch and still falling but melting on the roads/sidewalks...further south you go in AB the heavier it is.
 
Today I was working on a second crochet newsboy hat and discovered as I was doing it that I had made a HUGE MASSIVE mistake on my first one and that may be why I ended up using twice the amount of yarn (and running out)...thankfully crochet is easy to undo and I'll redo that portion and see how it goes.
 
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