Snow!

....that beautiful barn on Workman road taken with a fish-eye lens.....

.....and today when it started to snow...

wow! did it snow for awhile; the pier was busy

....the beach was stormy

a different view of 'the barn'

birdhouse finial in the garden

Knight's apple trees

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playhouse door

had time to spin a little wool this week.....

I gave myself a pat on the back the day I finished the wool---I walked over 8 miles according to my pedometer!  Then I realized I had the pedometer on while spinning the wool...oh well, too bad I ate that extra muffin....

finished David's slouch hat....now I just need to finish the other 15 projects I have on needles

new year's traditions....

love the playhouse lit up at this time of year

heart-shaped stone finial on a birdhouse

Mom sent me home with my own bottle of home made advocaat...too bad I am the only one who likes it here! Whooooo!

Mom also sent us home with a bag of oliebollen....she only made 250 this year!

made some poffertjes for lunch with homemade jam

thought it was time to melt down the bee wax cappings....

we don't have a solar melter, so I simmered the cappings in water in a large pan.  The wax floated to the top,  I skimmed it off and put it in a smaller container.  Adam has a friend who works in encaustic painting, and I told her we would have WAY TOO MUCH WAX as it was in a 20 Litre pail when we started....

....little did I know the HUGE PAIL would melt down to a 4 litre tub, or not quite 3 3/4 lbs. of wax.  Here Adam is straining the last bit of wax through a nylon (I told him it would build character)

the finished product--smells great & looks good.  We'll be giving it to Sierra so that she can create something beautiful with Cobourg beeswax

Dorothy & Nigel bought this sweater for Archie for Christmas & today was a great day to wear it....

.......it was frigid on the beach this morning!

One of our greatest traditions--Brian throwing the Christmas tree out the front door.  This might be the first year without snow to throw it into in many years!