Weather wise, today is an amazing day. It's 15C , sunny and despite the blustery winds, it's brilliant outside. I spent almost an hour doing yardwork today, even though the ground is still too wet. Since it's only the top couple of inches that have yet thawed, it's an odd sensation, mud over frozen ground, but was totally worth it just to do "stuff" outside.
I hung out the first laundry. I enjoy hanging laundry out. I love being outside first thing in the morning, I love the smell of the laundry and even the sound when it's breezy and you can hear the cracks and rustles of the shirts and towels. It's going to be a pain to bring in though because the strong breezes have wrapped it around the line in places!
A quick check of the gardens shows that the chooks have cleared out much from the flower beds. I fear that also includes the flowers. I've never seen them so clean before! A few bulbs have survived. These are daffodils, bravely pushing forth in defiance of the hungry chooks!
More white yarn! I'd spun up the white yarn for the Master Spinner 3 class, practicing the long draw. In the end, I wasn't satisfied with it as it was too thick for my liking. I had lots of white roving left, so I spun up some more. This is half the diameter of my first skein with this roving, and I'm much happier with it. There is 340 yards of it, so I should have more than enough.
I've a new sock on the needles. I've turned the heel and knit past the gusset. I forgot to take a photo of it so it will have to wait until next time.. Hopefully, tomorrow I'll get some sewing time in. I've spent the past few days waiting for a delivery. If I was off sewing, I'd have never heard the truck drive up. It came today, while I was outside doing yard work with the chooks. From the chaps reaction, I don't think he'd ever seen a chook up close and personal before. However, they were "helping" me, okay, not so much helping as getting in my way, but they were being very social and they were quite curious as to who this guy was in our driveway! Some were brave enough to run right up to him. The rest just hung around in close proximity, probably looking like a flock of guard chooks.
It's been a quiet few days which have felt amazingly unproductive. I've spun more of the Woad or Dyer's Knotweed dyed fibre. It's just another bobbin of blue, which is coming along slowly. Slowly because I seem to have been spinning the blue yarn for a while. It's nice yarn, but everytime I think I've about finished up the roving, I've found another bag of it. This last lot was compacted a bit, more so from being crammed in a ziplock bag than the dyeing process, I think. It is slowing down the spinning process as I'm carding it all by hand.
The blue socks are done. I found the yarn on sale. There was a bin with a bag of 3 different types of yarn, enough for 3 pairs of socks, on sale for the price of 1 skein of sock yarn. While I was only after a skein of pink yarn or some Scheepjes Invicta as it's very nice to knit with, I couldn't avoid bringing home the pink, the Invicta and the bag of yarn on sale. I thought this might have been one of those fake fair isle type colourways, but my sampling showed it was striped with a thick mottled stripe. My sample was a 3/1 ribbing, so I just kept knitting. There were a lot of knots in the second half of the skein, so I had a bunch of ends to stitch in. Even if I'd tried to match these, it would't have happened because of the knots. The colour is called "storm" - quite appropriate I think. 
The chooks are laying lots of eggs. I think the mild winter was a factor in the girls only slowing down a bit for a couple of weeks. They are right back at it though. I realized that I've no idea what a standard egg size looks like anymore. Since the old girls started laying last year, they produced these huge eggs and now my mind sees any egg smaller that that, as small!
