No crafty stuff this past week,

though I did get the silk hankie single spun on the drop spindle - and it actually fit.  It is so very uneven that I will have to ply it though.  I was hoping to ply the Tiger Eye, and also the silk this weekend, but other stuff took up my time.  I almost forgot - I dug out the merino I'm going to spin for the Tour de Fleece and unbraided it and am letting it 'decompress'.  But that's it for crafty stuff.

We've been carshopping this week (and the past few weeks), and finally compromised on this:

 Buick Rainier

He wanted a truck, but I needed something I would feel comfortable driving in ice and snow - and a full-sized truck wouldn't be it considering I drive a Honda Fit daily (and we have a truck), and a compact truck wouldn't have enough room.  This is very comfortable (heated seats - nice!), and smooth-riding.  And it's AWD, so should be good in bad weather. :-)  I wish it got better mpg, but we will probably get better than advertised - I usually do.  I also wish it didn't have leather seats - I much prefer fabric - but you can't have everything.  I'll probably be taking it on a long trip next weekend so I'll get to play with all the fancy doo-dads.

Then today DH tells me I have blueberries to pick.  I planted those blueberry bushes when we first moved here 17 years ago, and at most I've gotten a couple of handfuls of berries so I pretty much have ignored them the past few years.  But this year appears to be different:

There are 3 more bushes (though they don't have as many berries on them) and many unripe berries left to pick, so I'm going to have a unusually large crop for me!

I'll probably cook most of them down in the crockpot to make a sort of blueberry spread - that way they will get put up without sitting around and spoiling.