When walking out the front door of our house, we look to the left and see this lovely bird feeder that my husband made for us to enjoy all the winter birds who come for a visit. We watch the little chickadees hopping around in the crunchy brown leftover foliage from last summer far to the left and enjoy their flitting too and fro. The foliage is left in place from the gardens and flower beds to keep the top soil in place during the rainy time and for the birds when they return to nest in the spring. To some it looks unsightly and unkept. We're caring for God's creatures. :)
This is my beautiful red maple in our front yard just to the right of the above picture. She certainly looks like she needs a jacket! Brrrr!
The suburban is pretty well covered. The boys were out uncovering her this morning when we were getting ready to leave for church. They scraped for quite a while because underneath all this snow was quite the layer of ice!
The dry erase board looks very full of meal plans, grammar and the word "Ventriloquist". This is pretty much how full it is at the end of a day's worth of work. This day, we discussed diabetis and how detrimental too many carbohydrates are in the diets of diabetics. After discussing this above, I set them to colaborating on the first week of dinner menu plans for February using this as a guide. They did pretty well.
This is how our table looks while doing school every day. Yes, there is usually a stray bottle of ketchup still on the table from lunch. LOL It usually gets put away as soon as they're done writing. LOL
And...
And...
...when Momma lets them collaborate and walks away to sit down and knit...
...this is what happens...
Winter time means lots of snuggling with Biscuit. :)
I found a new pattern to try, so I've been working on it too. :) I've made 2 crocheted dishcloths, 1 knitted dishcloth and 1 crocheted potholder out of this cotton. It has been so very nice. I love the flecks of color in it! :)
What do you do in the winter?
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