The snow fell and fell... Amalie (she's 8) and Theresa (12 and pronounces her name differently) went out yesterday afternoon and within moments had huge snowballs build, which we piled up and made the largest snowman I've ever been involved with. Actually, she's more of a 6-foot snow sculpture. And under the maple tree, next to the swing, are two snow chairs and a snow fireplace that glowed beautifully with a half dozen tea lights lit inside. Cold faces and the smell of wet woolen mittens....

Today we all went out walking in the city to get a little bit of the sun that was shining. There were three strange creatures swimming in the rather mucky water along the quay at Aker Brygge. Swan sized, goose-like creatures but white with brown patches. A previously unknown species? Oh, and after that we ran into Gloria (the lady I met at summer school) and Finn Dag and some friends of Gloria’s visiting from Germany and stopped for coffee. I feel like it’s a project I’m working on called Making Friends. Today we made progress.

This shawl... I worked on it a bit last night and again tonight. Sloooow going. Here's what I've done so far with a closeup. I'm consoling myself with the fact that it's 4 less stitches each row. I am not enjoying purling back over 350 stitches but it'll turn into garter stitch when I get as much lace edging done as I can tolerate doing.

I've added some links and a comment feature to this site. I'm an absolute beginner with all this... Theresa (who is so good at this web stuff that it's scary) has been offering to do it for me, but I'm muddling through. I'll be making some entries from the knitting web sites with some descriptions of the fabulous information they contain. Like the one below...