unburied Barry Bear
I escaped on Saturday.
I can’t begin to tell you how good it felt just to do normal things like buy groceries. But my first stop was to one of the LYS, where Cindy happened to be working. I gave her a big hug! It was so good – so good, gentle reader, to be back amongst my peeps. And I got to show Cindy my finished secret project, and she agreed that it’s pretty kick-ass. I bought some Addi Turbos in celebration.
Well, and because I really needed some shorter circs for the new secret project that I’m working. I knew I wouldn’t finish it by Christmas. But New Years? I might make it if I knit really a lot between now and then. And Christmas, you know, is coming a little late this year since everything was put on hold by the snow.
Since I have no knitting pictures I can show you, I’m giving you one last picture of Barry The Berry Bear, finally uncovered from his long winter nap. I took this on Saturday, when there was still a bit of stubborn ice and snow left to melt. It’s all gone now. The ruler is for size comparison. It’s 16″ long. In the end, the snow completely covered Barry. Not even the tip of his paw showed through. I don’t have a picture of that because, well… all you could see was snow. But, I would guess that the chez PI unofficial snow depth was right around 18″.
That’s a lot of snow.
I haven’t seen that much snow since I left SE Idaho. Although Bro, who is in SE Idaho for Christmas along with SIL and amazing niece Z, assures me that they do have a bit more snow there.
They can keep it.
P.S. The robin is still guarding the Asian pear tree. 
P.P.S. I made a slight change to the blog look. There are little pictures for commenters now. If you have a gravatar already, it will use it. If not, it will assign you a little face. It uses your email address in some sort of hash routine to come up with one that is uniquely yours. Comment and see what you get. The assigned pictures will only show up in the comments list under the post, but not in the sidebar. Your own gravatar will show up both places. I think the little pics are cute, but we all know I’m easily amused. Let me know what you think!
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I didn’t get any kind of measurement of our snow, but it was probably around the 18″ mark, too. The drifts at my brother’s house in NE were about 3′!!! Crazy.
1Remark from aimee noel — Monday, 12/29/2008 @ 9:32 AM
Glad to hear you’re no longer confined by the snow!
2Remark from Bonnie H. — Monday, 12/29/2008 @ 11:34 AM
I’m happy you have been freed and are out and about. Happy knitting!
3Remark from Mitzi — Monday, 12/29/2008 @ 1:50 PM
Okay, you are OFFICIALLY a total geek for me
Wonder if anybody else noticed that is a print ruler you used to measure Barry the Bear?
My daughter lives in Portland now, and shared with me some pictures of that unusual snow. Wow! She said after about 3 days, it felt weird when it STOPPED snowing.
Signed
~ a fellow geek
p.s., Thank you again for responding to my eMail question about the Tangled Up in Blue socks pattern. I’m finishing up my second pair in that pattern – I just love it.
4Remark from Rhonda — Monday, 12/29/2008 @ 1:54 PM
And when will the rest of us ordinary mortals get a glimpse of the completed secret project?
Can’t stand the suspense!
Pat Martin
5Remark from pat — Monday, 12/29/2008 @ 1:57 PM
Rhonda,
And I know how to use it, too! Or used to, anyway. Nowadays it’s sort of not all that useful any more. I keep it around because it’s such a nice, handy length. And it does have inches and millimeters on it as well as points and picas and such.
I wondered if anyone would notice.
6Remark from Judy — Monday, 12/29/2008 @ 5:53 PM
Y’all will get to see it just as soon as the intended recipient gets to see it.
Not too long, now.
7Remark from Judy — Monday, 12/29/2008 @ 5:54 PM
Three cheers for the end of Cabin Fever!!
8Remark from Dave — Monday, 12/29/2008 @ 7:21 PM
It sure is good to watch the snow go away, isn’t it?!
9Remark from Sharah — Monday, 12/29/2008 @ 7:45 PM
Our daughter had a friend visiting from Portland over the holidays and he felt right at home in the midwest after the snow stopped because we had dreary cold rain. Thanks to your blog I was able to intelligently converse with him regarding the unusual weather in his hometown of Portland. Thanks. And I’m glad you’re finally out from under.
10Remark from Queen Ducky — Tuesday, 12/30/2008 @ 6:27 AM
Thank you for sharing your wonderful blog with us!
11Remark from Cathy — Tuesday, 12/30/2008 @ 6:39 AM
I love that you had a handy snow-marker on hand for your recent blizzard. Oh! And I got an awesome fully-stocked toolbox for Xmas from my brother in law! Figured you could appreciate that!
12Remark from amy — Tuesday, 12/30/2008 @ 8:50 AM
Amy, that is very cool!
What a wonderful brother.
Don’t suppose it came with an odd bucket thingy with a spout and a crank on the side?
13Remark from Judy — Tuesday, 12/30/2008 @ 9:00 AM
I am so green. 18 inches? Wow. The last time we came close to that was 1996. I love snow.
14I’m glad you can now get out and about, tho’
(((Hugs)))
Remark from Knitnana — Tuesday, 12/30/2008 @ 10:31 AM
Just wanna see what face it’s going to do.
15Remark from elizabeth r — Tuesday, 12/30/2008 @ 2:09 PM
This will be a well-remembered holiday, that’s for sure. We just heard on NPR that Spokane had 59″ of white stuff in December! I would guess that we had about 18-24″ here, but I never remember daily snows in all the years we’ve lived here. It’s been CRAZY!
16Remark from Judy S — Tuesday, 12/30/2008 @ 6:20 PM
The little faces remind me of characters from one of Michelle’s demented cartoon shows, “Aqua Teen Hungerforce”. I like the show, and the faces are cute! Can’t wait to see what mine is. I’m also looking forward to the unveiling of your secret knitting project!
17Remark from sharon — Tuesday, 12/30/2008 @ 7:53 PM