Back after nearly 6 months of silence

Last week, on Tuesday, I actually slept in past 7am (a miracle!) and ended up getting woken by the boys coming in, shouting that it was snowing.

Snow in December? thought I.  Surely not.

Yet there it was, snowing.  Where we live, on the seaward side of Puget Sound, we usually get snow in February, not sooner.  Yet despite the fact that Tuesday's snow didn't linger past midday, we got some flurries on Christmas itself, and as I type this, looking out the window at our front lawn, it's snowing again, and the grass has nearly completely vanished.  So, about 2" overnight and still coming down?  I opened the back door earlier and Sushi (our cat) set one paw out in the snow before deciding hell nope.  I'll have to see if I can get the chickens into their (covered) run in a bit.  It's so quiet that the snow coming down sounded like grains of rice falling.

It's supposed to stay below freezing for the next five or so days, so whatever we get, should stick.  I kind of doubt it'll match February's 11 inches, but I'll take it.

I did get three quilts (and five pillowcases to go with) done for Christmas.  First was Niecelet's, which I didn't get a proper picture of, but here's an in-progress photo:

The colors in the photo aren't true to life, and this was before I appliqued four more starfish and two Flounders in that middle border.  There was a matching pillowcase, and I had also found an embroidered pillowcase at the thrift store at some time, so that went with.  I'm actually quite proud that every piece of this quilt (except the ombre fabric, which was a remnant from Joann's) was a thrift store find over the years - including that red sea glass Kaffe Fassett border fabric, and the sea-green batik that I used for the backing.  You can find good stuff at thrift stores, if you look.

I'll do another post later on the boys' quilts - which are still here, so I can take pictures of them!  And right now they are being slept under.  Everyone got to stay up quite late on Christmas.  Wonderful Husband and I resumed work on that 2000-piece puzzle that's been shoved up and out of the way for months.  We're in agreement that 2000 pieces is just too big, for future endeavors.