You know it is going to be a long day when the first thing you have to do upon awakening is make a fire. DH loves heating with wood for the romance of it all and because he cuts all the wood we need for free. I am in the anti-wood stove camp as I hate lugging in wood and sweeping up ashes and pieces of wood and generally being a slave to a black box.

The Stitch and Motif maker software arrived and I'm terribly impressed with its ease of use. I will spend today working on charts for the knitting booklet and starting my next knitting project. I just got Sheila McGregor's Scandinavian Knitting (Dover reprint) and plan to make a pair of Selbu mittens from a chart included in the traditional red and white.

Peaches is doing everything possible to keep warm.