Today is Nate’s and my 14 year wedding anniversary. I’m so excited to see the years tick by and add up. It’s very rewarding. I wanted to post a wedding picture, but I don’t have easy access to a scanner anymore, and we weren’t taking digital pictures 14 years ago.

“in my day, we didn’t have no fancy-schmancy di-gi-tal cameras”

So you get a pretty picture of the roses Nate brought me this morning instead.

I love you, babe. More than I can even say.

I’ve been playing with my anniversary present and making batts. I finished the red portion of the roving I’ve been blending,

(that’s most of them) and I’ve started on the green.

The picture doesn’t accurately capture the color at all. It’s a bright, lime-type green, and it’s gorgeous. The third color is teal, and the three look fantastic together. I didn’t have enough teal silk to get a matched blend, so I had to divide up the green silk between the green and teal wool, and add some yellow silk to the green wool to maintain a 25% silk to wool ratio. It’s very, very pretty, and I was pleasantly surprised to see that I still only had to card the fibers three times to get a very well blended batt.

I’ve spun one red batt so far, and it’s nice. There are only a few little nups, and I think that’s because the dyed roving is a bit felted. Nate is fascinated by the carder, and plays with it a lot. It cracks me up. He says he doesn’t want to card fiber though, he just turns the drum and pokes around in the needles.

On Saturday, Abby sang with the 5th and 6th graders in a holiday concert.

I couldn’t get a decent picture to save my life, but I tried.

Abby’s in the middle, wearing glasses and a purple Hayden Hat. It was literally freezing outside, and I took great satisfaction in bundling everyone up in hats, scarves, gloves, legwarmers, and sweaters, most of which I’d knit myself. We were all plenty warm.

Nate and I are dropping off the boy this afternoon and going to lunch. I can’t wait.