My Sister's Great Talent

When my sister comes to visit she brings be awesome hand made things like paintings or towels.

On her latest trip she brought me kitties doing the old fashioned days of the week tasks. You know like Monday is wash day and Friday is market day. They are cute and adorable.

But these speak to me. Embroidered alpacas? Yes please!

This one is my favorite with its coloring and cactus.

 But the purple 'paca jamming to its tunes is D's favorite.

Walking

I've been walking daily for the past few months. I started out slow but my endurance has increased at a more rapid rate than I anticipated. I started taking pictures as a nice way to take a break, but it grew into my motivational tool. I send pics from my walks to some of my friends. One of my friends even sends me pics from her walks too. We get to be virtual workout buddies.

I mean who wouldn't appreciate cactus pics?

Burt and Mellie cheer me on virtually too. No really they are more of my post walk recovery team.

I enjoyed watching the trees bloom first.

I've seen a few Roadrunners too. Living near Roadrunners has to be one of the coolest things about living in New Mexico. They are such amazing birds that you never want to mess with. They eat a lot of things but my favorite is snakes. They grab the snake and bash it into the ground till they get a tasty snake smoothie for themselves. See I told you not to mess with them. 

See I cannot resist the beauty of blooming trees.

 

New Chicken Incoming

I found a wonderful way to knit up some handspun yarn. She is going to be more than a little red hen, but I just so happy to know I'm finally working with some of my handspun.

I did need to correct a little "Are you sure you're really following the pattern" issue. Yep I knit one tail feather bigger than the other. Simple reknit of one gets me the matching size.

Burt thinks this chicken is just warm enough. Originally I was going to use two of my handspuns together, but this one was two ply and the other was three. I worried gauge would be too difficult to make them work together. Plus why fight against this gorgeous color changing yarn? It has all the magic it needs.

Happy Knitting!!