Joining the cheering section...

Spring is finally here! I love it when spring gets here. Sping, summer and fall are great times for me. I have a ton more energy and get so much done. Things that seemed impossible during the winter are quickly taken care of during the other seasons. Case in point: The hood above my oven has been gross for so long that it was getting fuzzy (I can not believe that I just told you that) All winter I would look at it and think about cleaning it. But it just seemed like to big of a job. Last night I was making a vegetarian stew (that was VERY good) in a covered pot and I started scrubbing the hood on the side that was furthest from the food. That part came clean pretty quickly.  So after supper was cleaned up I finished cleaning the hood, which spread to de-cluttering the counter next to the stove, which spread to washing the walls behind the oven. That area looks ten times better and it wasn't that difficult. So I added it to my to do list. The plan is to wipe that whole area down every day after dinner and the deep clean every week. Which will make things look so much better.
Yes, i started a to do list for myself. I have found that if it is written down then I know what I need to do and things are less likely to fall by the wayside. I actually use Mychores to keep track of what I have to do. It is very useful! It starts out with some general chores that most people do and then you add what chores you do or delete the ones that you don't do. It also emails me a daily to-do list so that I don't forget. This is seriously what I needed. ( I also have the main page as one of my homepages. So every time I open firefox my chore list is right there in my face. And the other tab is my igoogle page so that I still have all of links that I keep there the way I like. It works better for me.)

I bought a skein of superwash merino from Merlin the cat recently ...

Sorry for the crappy photo but it is not at all sunny here. I also sold my Leclerc hand card. They were too heavy for me so I didn't enjoy using them. So I sold them and bought this...


This beauty is a Merlin Tree spindle that I bought from Spunky Eclectic. Much better pictures are on Spunky's page. Again with the no sun. It spins quite nicely and is beautiful. Apparently there are only about 30 some of these spindles made so I was glad that I was able to snag one. There will be more made they just don't have a lot of time right now. On that spindle? a batt that Miss V carded up and I bought in the destash. It is so pretty!
I also picked up Some Louet Gems fingering weight yarn from a ravelry destash. I picked this yarn because I will be making the German Stockings by Cookie A. I can't start yet as I need to finish the secret project and these...
EZ's Pi shawl out of my handspun and...

Socks made out of panda cotton for T. I will make him something that he will wear. Some day.
I have talked your ear off enough for one day. Enjoy Spring!
Springingly
Dee

Comments

[minnie]

ya know, sometimes there are distinct disadvantages to reading blogs through a reader. i LOVE your header!

and i saw one of those spindles on norma's blog (she gave one a way!) and they look freaking gorgeous. you need to bring it to S&B next week!

and did i see you walking kidlets to school the other day? i was driving past on 30th after taking liam to school, and i could have sworn it was you, lol!

[aimee.mychores.co.uk]

Hello, Aimee here, creator of MyChores. I just saw your lovely comments! May i add them to the testimonials page? Let me know your ID and i'll make you a site supporter, which gives you some extra features.

I am glad to hear you like using MyChores! :)

PS. one day i might make an iGoogle app of MyChores ...!