The Life, Designs & Crafts of Marie Haigh
Life is what happens while I am busy planning my next knitting design.
Winter needs to leave now. The cold weather is keeping me from my garden. Seeds for the garden arrived 2 months ago, but it’s still too cold to plant them.
The cold weather is NOT keeping Elly from doing what she loves to do:
playing in her sandbox
(note the boots)
and swinging
Balls of steel my girl has!
Granny bought Elly her own swing.
She loves it. She’s a little obsessed with it.
Dan had a little trouble hanging it. First, he tried the tree, but it was too close to the trunk.
So, he moved it further down the branch. It no longer hit the trunk. The shade was lovely. Elly could swing really high. The only problem was the swing would get twisted on the ropes and I constantly had to realign it.
Yesterday, Dan hung the swing on the front porch.
It’s perfect. It’s in the sun during the morning hours, but that is only a problem 2 months out of the year.
Elly is happy so long as she has a swing she can go on every single day of her life.
How to spin on a swing
How to walk up a slide
How to slide down on your belly
All good fun!
Since Elly has been left out of my recent posts about knitting and painting, I decided she deserved a post all to herself.
Sculpting a bird’s nest with 2 eggs (because she had just watched a Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That Nest Best Thing episode where Sally and Nick learn how to make a robin’s nest)
Leading her scooter down the sidewalk (still learning how to ride it)
the swings are back at the Spruce Park! (as you can see in the background, they were hanging them while we were there)
On High Street in Pottstown, a row of sidewalk is missing. Elly has to stop to play with the rocks every single time.
I hope to make this a weekly event. It seems silly that I take a billion pictures of Elly and only a handful of people ever get to see them. Call it my brag book if you will.
The Life, Designs & Crafts of Marie Haigh 