Happy New Year!

Pumba sends out his Happy New Years to everyone, too. He is such a character. He really thinks he's people.

Woke up this morning to snow, and it has been snowing ever since. Maggie loves it. Here she is trying to catch the falling flakes.

By the sounds of it 2010 is off to a very white start. Here's our forecast from the government weather site:

Issued : 4.00 PM AST Friday 1 January 2010
Winter storm warning in effect
Storm surge warning in effect.

Tonight
Periods of snow ending this evening then cloudy with 60 percent chance of flurries. Amount 5 to 10 cm. Wind becoming northeast 20 km/h after midnight. Temperature steady near minus 3.

Saturday
Periods of light snow becoming at times heavy in the afternoon. Snow and blowing snow. Risk of freezing rain late in the day. Snowfall amount 5 to 10 cm. Wind northeast 20 km/h increasing to 40 gusting to 60 in the afternoon. High plus 1.

Saturday night
Snow at times heavy changing to rain or periods of drizzle late in the evening. Snowfall amount 10 to 20 cm. Rainfall amount 5 to 10 mm. Wind northeast 40 km/h gusting to 60 increasing to 60 gusting to 90 late in the evening then becoming east 40 gusting to 60 overnight. Temperature rising to plus 4 by morning.

Sunday
Periods of rain. High plus 2.

Monday
Snow or rain. Low minus 1. High plus 1.

Lovely, eh?

The other day we went to Bridgewater, and I spied some bargain yarn at the end of one of the aisles in Zellers. I know some of my fellow Knit Niters have found real bargains here, though whenever I get there it just seems to be acrylic and novelty crap yarns. I did finally find some stuff that wasn't too bad. There are four skeins per bag, 115g each. These two bags are the same kind just different colorways. It's 70% acrylic, 30% wool, machine wash and dry. It is spun like Patons SWS only not so thick. The orange caught my eye, must have for me. I am thinking of doing a scarf for me and one for a gift for someone or possibly a scarf/hat/mitts set for me. The beige colorway will either be two gift scarves for Christmas next year or a scarf/hat/mitt set. There was another bag that had 10 smaller skeins of white cotton/acrylic blend yarn and some others that were acrylic/wool blends, but I tamed myself to just the two bags.

I haven't sat down to add up my FOs of 2009 yet. The Oldest One is hovering for the computer, so I'll do that another time. Got to get back to sewing. I am NOT very good when it comes to sewing. Of course, the boys each got six new and much needed pairs of pants for Christmas, and they all have to be hemmed. I got the Littlest One's done this afternoon, now I have to do the Oldest One's. Hope no one looks too closely at the hemlines -- they'd get a good chuckle!

Happy Knitting!