The courtyard at work, last Wednesday.

The last day I went to work. Last day the girls went to school.

There have been four more inches of snow since then.

And several days of sub zero weather.

It will be zero in the morning when the girls leave for school.

I put the next warp on my loom,

And enlisted to these two to empty my bobbins when I finished.

The new warp.

I tie it to the ends of the old warp and pull it through the heddles and the reed.

Looks like spaghetti while it's being tied on.

The new warp.

It's two thirds sapphire and a third other blues and greens.

About forty yards.

I tested some of the sapphire to weave. Looks good.

I tried some light blue. Not impressed.

The lime green looks good, too.

The yellow is called "idle weave,"

to close up the V sections from tying the warp to the apron.

Back to work tomorrow.

See what happened to that load of salt.