Hooking and Beans weekend

The winter hooking weekend wasn't as well attended as usual. We all have busy lives and co-coordinating a weekend that we are all available is quite difficult. Four of us walked, hooked, chatted, laughed, knitted and ate too much.

Friday was a dull, grey, but mild day for our beach walk.

The ice is beginning to form up along the shore line.

Making for some interesting sculptures.

We walked on the beach Saturday as well but by then there was drifting snow, cold temperatures and a wind. It was a short walk with a couple of snow angels thrown in.

Sue was working on a cushion that she started in Cheryl's "Rug in a rug" class at Apps in September. She alternated this with knitting a toddlers sweater.

Heather was also working on a cushion, of her own design, of 3 crows flying over fall tree tops.

Brit finished hooking Martina Lesar's Sumac Leaves pattern. She was also knitting socks.

I have about a third of the stone wall left to do on my adaptation of Connie Bradley's "Counting Sheep"

Rasta was, of course, investigating everything, sleeping on everyone's beds and walking over them and annoyingly playing with his squeaky mouse. Now he is exhausted!

As usual, we took turn cooking. I do love it when someone else cooks. Oddly, this year, every meal we had beans or lentils. Enough said about that.

We didn't get as much snow as was forecast but we did wake to this

and all shoveled the driveway before anyone could leave.

There is a lunar eclipse tonight but I doubt I will stay up to watch it. I took this out of my bedroom window of the shadows cast by the full moon.