“The RoseBouquet”

Well, did you notice my absence the last three days? Yes, I had a computer crisis since Saturday. So if you sent me any email - if it was already in my inbox, it will hopefully show up when I get that part set up. If you sent it later, it will download once I have my email addresses set up again in KMail.

Yesterday I was wondering whose computer I could borrow to send out a quick announcement today that I was NOT able to produce the RoseBouquet for this week. However, miracles still happen. (Pretty well weekly for me, right?)

See below under WHAT’S NEW for the details.

Are you in the midst of a winter storm too? I heard yesterday that most of Canada was having winter storms and large sections of Eastern USA too. It doesn’t look too bad right now, but the forecast is for more snow tomorrow.

I guess this is par for the season, but I’m having trouble with cold feet in my house. Also in my boots when I got out. On Sunday morning, after spending half an hour breaking into my car because of the frozen doors, my feet were curling into pretzels in my boots with a rather painful cold. Yesterday I picked up some thinsulate lining material. I want to make booties I can wear in my boots (or at home). I recall once my sister Elsie gave me some and asked me to sew some oven mitts. She said this stuff keeps cold out and heat in.

Last week my friend Shirley got me some “hand warmers’ little packets you can keep in your mitts to keep your hands warm. i tried them in my boots on Friday and found them too lumpy and uncomfortable there. Hence my search for other alternatives for my feet. I’ve already tried some little sockettes made of natural cotton. That tends to stretch out of shape; I think the thinsulate might do better.

Here in my house, the floor is especially cold under my desk, so I’m wearing over my regular socks, those thick black alpaca socks Dad knit for me a year ago. That helps! But then my boots don’t fit me.

Got any other feet-warming ideas? Sugar, but I miss that warm furnace in Dad’s house!