A snow day

 Thankfully, we didn't lose power, and the bad part has now passed - it's just cold, but there's not enough ice to cause downed power lines, so I just need to stay home another day (roads are bad) and maybe by late in the day tomorrow things will start clearing. (We don't have snowplows here; we barely have road treatments - they generally throw down grit on the intersections and count on the people who CAN stay home staying home).

This was taken midmorning, leaning out my front door. Not the most snow we've had since I've lived here but a fair amount. There was crunchy ice under it, but the ice was already starting to melt so it cracked instead of being slippery.

Still, I did use my walking stick when I went out to get the mail, just to be sure I didn't slip, or if I did, I had a way to get back up more easily.

And I'm glad I did bother to get the mail; a thing I ordered came a day before it was scheduled (and a week or more before I was expecting it)

This is the first little self-bought birthday present: a tiny "loaf" form Izzy Moonbow from the new My Little Pony (I have not seen the movie but of the character designs Izzy is my favorite)

 

I have one of the "official" little ones (Hasbro-made) but this one is way cuter - from an Etsy seller. (It seems like Hasbro cares less about IP, as long as you're not using the characters in a horrible way, perhaps they feel they make enough money off the official ones?)

I just stayed home today - read a couple research articles towards eventually writing up this summer's research. I have a couple more to read tomorrow. It was a fairly peaceful day.

I've also been picking away at the Incunabula sweater, but it does take a while - I'm about 3 repeats worth from dividing for the armholes. (It takes a while because it's a finer yarn - double knitting rather than worsted weight, and because you are knitting the WHOLE body of the sweater at once  - it's going from one front edge around to the next; this is just the cabled panel on the back: