Grandparents weekend

We had a nice 3 day weekend. My mom and Step dad, who by the way is an amazing woodcarver and has blessed us with quite a few art pieces over the years, came over Friday afternoon. They had given our son a carving kit at Christmas with tools, books and wood. Wonderful gift.

Two of grandpas walking sticks in our entryway.

Grandpa showed our boy some techniques and look at his masterpiece.

For dinner I made Minestrone and garlic toast , mom made ravioli

and my girl made muffins. We then played ponytail canasta till the wee hours.

Saturday Hubbie manned the log splitter, and the kids and I hauled the wood on sleds through the snow and stacked it on the front porch. This was the tree with the ant invasion so when we found a piece with a cavern filled with ants, we took it to the chicken pen and the girls went crazy. I guess you'd have to be a chicken to appreciate the taste of hibernating ants. I love having wood to keep our heating bill down and the smell of the fresh cut wood greets you every time you open the door.

The kids and I then went to my Dad and Step mom's for dinner (Hubbie plays hockey).

My step mom cleaned her closets and let me and the girl take home "new" clothes and made a pistachio encrusted salmon for dinner which was deeeliiiishhh! We are a spoiled bunch. Then played a rousing game of clue that grandpa after we explained the rules to, proceeded to win the game.

Sunday morn, girl and hubbie cleaned her room, it needed it bad, they even sorted clothes and vacuumed the closet! I do have quite a man.

I felted my first bag. It should be perfect for my daughters water bottle and Chapstick carrier for soccer. It's great how you can take a poorly knitted object and it turns into something you wouldn't actually mind carrying in public. I had stitched the flower with some leftover yarn but it didn't show up as well as I'd hoped. I'm going to try to stitch over it again to have it show up better. Speaking of felting, do any of you ladies smarter than me know if you can felt other materials than wool, cashmere, etc... I am wanting to felt some sweaters that have weird combinations of yarns in them and hoped if the water was hot enough maybe they would work.

Also do any of you know if you start some water for tea in your beloved teapot you received as a wedding shower gift over fifteen years ago that you use on a daily basis, go down to the basement to do some sewing, forgetting about said teapot, boil the bajeebus out of your one and only enamel teapot for who knows how long till its bone dry and then some, is it safe to use ever again? I don't see any chips, but the bottom is kind of gray, I just don't want to be ingesting some weird metal every time I use it.

Oh it is in the 40's today and I'm searching the closet for some shorts!

Take care and squeezes from me.