Living in Michigan we naturally get a lot of snow and ice during the winter.  When you have a satellite for your internet connection on your roof, this can be a huge problem!  We routinely lose our internet connection in the winter, and while I do hang out of my daughter’s window by straddling the windowsill, using a metal fence post to break the ice from the roof above the satellite, it doesn’t always work.  It is also not something I can do when it is -15 Farhenheit outside.  So, no internet for the last 7 days.  Time to call the company and be on the phone with someone for 2 hours while they run all the useless tests I already did (I am not dumb, for god’s sake) until they finally say they need to send someone out to the house, which is what I told them at the beginning of the call.  It usually takes 2 to 3 days after the phone call to get someone out to restore our connection.

I guess I should have thought of all the internet connection difficulties when I began my blog:).  I am posting this from the salon while my daughter gets her haircut.

Anyway, I did get some creative things done last week.  I knit a baby sweater for a co-workers granddaughter, she was born 4 weeks early at 5 lb 3 oz and is completely healthy and beautiful.  Her name is Lilliana.

I made a sweater from a pattern called Harper by Julep B, made in Liberty wool light, both purchased at Clever Ewe in Ada.  So soft!

I also painted a box and decorated it to give the sweater in: not my best work but I still like it, and it was fun to do:

 

Now there are 2 boy sweaters I need to make for my pregnant co-workers!  I have 2 more boxes, so maybe I can put a little more thought and time into those as well.  They are due in May and early June, so I have a little bit of time.

We are expecting more frigid temperatures this week, but no snow, so maybe I will have an internet conneciton again in a few days!