Night in the Big City

We spent last night in Philadelphia to celebrate our anniversery. The kids gave us a night at the Rittenhouse 1715, located a block from Rittenhouse Square. It's a beautiful hotel with only 23 rooms, each room being slightly different. It has a tiny elevator, but since we were on the second floor, we only used it once. Our room was a junior suite, it had a small foyer with a double closet and table and chair, the bathroom and bedroom opened off of it. We had a fireplace in the bedroom and king size bed. First hotel that I've been in that had turn down service, bath robes and was triple sheeted.

We took the long way to the city and went to the Lancaster area first. We stopped at several fabric stores, only bought some batting and background fabric. Both are allowed purchases in my use it up program for the year. Also had lunch at Shady Maple restuarant.

Our room was in the section with the blue shutters, in the back. After we checked in we walked around, did some shopping and went to the park where we sat on a bench and watched the kids play in a fountain, dry, of course. Stayed out until early evening, then had wine at the hotel. Left late this morning, but before the St. Partick's Day parade.

Wonderful weekend, Thank you- Tom & Erin.

Whales Tail

Before the tale, let me rant about Windows Vista. I would blog much more if the *******computer did not shut down to update (what I don't know) right in the middle of working. Can't stop it, can't delay it, it just happens. Anger****Anger.

I started to knit little cat toys. I got the pattern from Ravelry (yeah). Knit, Knit, Knit, turn to page 2- whoa- NO TAIL instruction, so......

Once there was a whale with no tail

He tried to swim but to no avail.

Try as we might

To fix his plight

The download instructions continued to fail.

Finally it worked, so here is the whale with his tail.

Now I am working on the third part of the last quilt.

Snow day

We did not go to work on Monday. SNOW DAY yeah, yeah, yeah. So this is what I did. I quilted two sections of this quilt. Finished it will measure 118" by 118", queen bed size, to be used without a dust ruffle. The pattern was a guild project, with the pattern given out in sections, center, stars and Jacob's ladder. I added the outer row of stars to make it the correct size.


Last night I sewed these two sections together, by machine on top and by hand on the backing.

Snow photos, icicle at work the next day from a broken drain.

This is how Mac spent his snow day. Although his beard is white it is not this long or thick. ICE, brr, brr. He had a great day. He would move to Maine or Alaska, just to play on the snow. Florida is looking good to me.

Waiting for the Snow.

The first band of snow arrived over night, but it is just a dusting. A small break is expected. We plan to visit my parents, then I hope to jump into the hot tub for a short while before the second and stronger storm arrives later today. The forecast is for 8 - 14 inches.

This is what the backyard looked like a couple of weeks ago with only about 4 inches.

To keep busy, I have plans to begin quilting a queen size medallion bedspread and of course knitting. I have a gas fireplace to keep warm and lots of vanilla scented candles for light.