A Cold Day To Thread A Needle

For the first half of January, the news were full of stories about global warming -- likely because it was uncommonly warm outside and there was no snow on the ground. Well, greenhouse gases fought bravely and managed to hold out for a long time, but they were ultimately defeated by Jack Frost in early 2007. When winter finally decided to come to Ottawa, it came with a vengeance.

Today was not a great day to try to thread a needle outside. This task is nearly impossible while wearing thick gloves, but without the gloves, your hands would hardly function. Lucky for R, her "sewing orientation" was held indoors.

For Christmas I bought her a sewing machine from a store that provides a 2-hour orientation with every new machine. I was very excited for her, because she often comes across a situation where she would like to use a sewing machine and has to do without. She ends up doing it by hand or not at all, which doesn't seem to be any fun. Time are a'changing.

She learned lots of great stuff at her little class... which was held indoors. Good thing.