I made yet another foray into Michaels. I purchased, my favorite, Baby Soft Lion Brand Yarn. (Yes, it was on sale.) I have an assigned project: a crocheted ripple baby blanket using primary and secondary colors. Now, I have a question: how shall I arrange the colors? A traditional: Pink,O,Y,G,B,P,Pink,O,Y,G,B,P? Pink,Pink,O,O,Y,Y,G,G,B,B,P,P? Pink,O,Y,G,B,P,P,B,G,Y,O,Pink? P,B,G,Y,O,Pink,Pink,O,Y,G,B,P? There will be a 'row' of white between each of the colors.
What'd'ya think? Let me know.
Sunday's temperatures were in the low 60's... Monday, snow showers... Tuesday, just plain cold and this morning, we woke to almost three inches of snow - not quite the 'possibility of an inch' that was predicted... Once again, traffic is snarled and schools are closed.
A cul-de-sac was built at the back of our property; having the required number of houses with the minimum back yard. Now, as the cul-de-sac has a slightly higher elevation than our property, the builders, with their infinite wisdom, placed a drainage pipe from the cul-de-sac that empties on our property. "So what," you say. And, mostly, I say, "So what." But, today, I say, "Yikes! They had a party and I wasn't invited!" 
A close up view and a far away view. Yikes! Not to mention the erosion from the water flowing through the pipe!
Almost a full kitchen sized bag of aluminum cans to add to my recyclables! Well, there has to be an up-side!
The ground was very soft from all the rain that we have had. Here are some animal prints near the stream.
Forty tons of ice are in downtown Hamilton today for the sixth IceFest , "Animal Kingdom in Ice". More than 100 sculptures sponsored by area businesses line High Street. 
Each work starts life as a 40-inch high, 20-inch long, 10-inch wide block of ice(350 pounds); some of the finished works are single blocks, some are several blocks fused together by a stream of water. 
This sculpture reminded us of K.K., the "bug lady".
And this one, reminded us of Noah. New this year was an indoor Art Fest in the Butler County Government Services Center. 
One of the displays was this train set from a model train store in Milford. 
'Animal Kingdom' outside the BCGSC. 
The 'King' chair. The entrance to the children's area: "Talk to the Animals". 
The sky was overcast, the temperatures in the low to mid 30's. The weather this morning was much more amenable to the ice carvings than it was at IceFest 2006 .
Jeff Stahl, owner of Forest Park's Artic Diamond and the U.S. national champion ice carver three years in a row, was the instigator of IceFest in 2001. He thought IceFest would be a good way to breathe some life into a dreary February weekend. "The ideal temperature is about 22 to 24 degrees, but we're fine as long as the temperature doesn't climb too high into the 30's," he says. "Bright sun is the enemy because of the refraction factor. Too much sun and the ice starts to melt from the inside out."
This afternoon, the sun was out and temperatures reached almost fifty degrees...
