Spinning for Cold

I mean...Gold!

What fun spinning is!  When the weather turns cold, like we've had lately, spinning is such a wonderful way to pass the time!  How cold has it been?  Two nights ago, it was twenty four degrees BELOW zero.  That was air temp.!  Air that cold is not typical around here, and our society does not have the infrastructure to handle such cold.  Plastic and metal breaks like twigs in that cold.  Furnaces that heat homes stop working...or burn out because they cannot keep up.  Batteries in cars drain without warning and cars stop working.  Water buckets freeze solid in a couple of hours, cracking apart.  Mittens freeze instantly to stall latches, bucket handles, door knobs and gate hooks.  Yuck!!  Makes the shepherdess feel more like a tree frog...

Over the years, I've had to deal with all of these problems, but this time, we seem to have come through the cold snap ok.  Hope all is well in the homes and on the farms of all of you out there!   We hope you are getting to enjoy knitting and spinning rather than repairing or fixing.  Soon, this cold snap will move on.

In the meantime, I'll keep spinning for that gold...