From Tracey G.

Wow. Where did February go?? This short month really caught Kris and I “short”! So therefore, we are declaring today, March 1 2019, our own personal February 29th!

I know my month has been off-the-rails crazy. A crazy February usually is due to the birthdays of Harry and me, but this year, 7 out of the 28 days were School Snow Days. That really threw me out of whack, I started forgetting what day was what, and now having had a couple of full 5-day school day weeks has added to the confusion of where I am and what I’m doing!

I made cookies for Harry’s class treat in honor of his birthday. This year I tried something new, the paint-your-own cookie thing. There are great stencils that you apply to your plain white cookie that you covered in royal icing using black, stiffer, royal icing. When it dried, you can paint it. In the package, you include a little paint palette that’s made from food color that is activated by dipping a little paint brush into some water. It’s really cute and proved to be a lot of fun! It was an easy activity to do in class – plus not too complicated/time-consuming etc. But, the preparation took a good week of my time, lol. I set myself up a timetable to have x, y and z done by to make my life easy and a little less stressful. So, that week seemed to go by in a blur of frosting and cookies!

As for my birthday, I treated myself to a BluPrint Box – a starter kit of everything you need that corresponds with one of their start-up classes, on learning how to knit! I am having so much fun learning this, even though I’ve had my share of frustrations too, lol. I look forward to seeing myself improve and am enjoying an activity that’s non-food related and I can do anywhere, anytime. I used to crochet, but I just never really liked it much, it was just something to do, so I gave up on it years ago. It also helps I have Kris the Knitting Ninja on speed-dial when I have problems!!

And that about covers my crazy month of February! (Oh and snow, lots and lots of snow…)

from Kris B.

As Tracey said, we are calling this our own personal leap year – as in February leapt into March without us realizing it!

I feel like February in Texas can best be explained and having a flower and pulling off the petals but rather than saying, “He loves me.  He loves me not.” we say, “It’s spring.  It’s winter.  It’s spring.  It’s winter.”  We have had days in the high 70’s and yesterday we awoke to a world covered in ice.  It’s crazy!

Since my spring semester started so late this year, on January 22, it wasn’t until February that I felt like the semester was truly underway.  And now it is March 1 and I am a week away from spring break; the semester is almost half over!  Time seems so weird to me these days.  Nothing seems relative.  It’s like one day’s twenty-four hours in different from the next day’s twenty-four hours.  Maybe that is an age thing!

As I look back at My month otherwise, it has otherwise been fairly calm.  The garden and greenhouse have not much going on.  We have no family birthdays or other celebrations this month.  I’ve had no travel.  And I still don’t know where the time has gone!

I have been busy knitting.  It is my winter “sport” of choice.  And I guess I should take responsibility for pulling Tracey down the knitting rabbit hole!  Two years ago a dragged her down the Erin Condren Planner hole.  This year it’s knitting.  I wonder where we’ll go next!!!

Happy March, everyone!  Hopefully spring will be in the air in your neck of the woods soon!