Kim Wasn't Lying!

My new "little" cousin, Nelson,  in the sweater I knit for him last month.  I think this is the last time he'll be wearing it. lol.

We went up to New Hampshire over the weekend.  Got to meet up with  Kim and hubby again for lunch and a trip to Patternworks.   What fun but I can't believe that as many times as we've met up, we don't have a picture of us together.  I'm sure it's because neither of us really like to have our picture taken but we're going to have to remedy that next time.  And she wasn't lying about the snow!  It's exactly the kind of snow I remember as a little girl up there.   There's a picture somewhere in my grandparents basement of me standing on the sidewalk in front of the house we lived in with snow piled way over my head on either side of me.  I remember my grandfather and uncles having to climb out the 2nd story window to clear the snow from the front door and the 1st story windows.   As soon as we hit Highway 16 our jaws dropped as we saw the several feet of snow get deeper and deeper.

The Texas boy got a little taste of New England life as he helped my cousin get the snow off of her roof.   This was after we'd just gone up and helped my grandfather clear off his workshop and garage.   My 82 year-old grandfather swore to us that he wasn't going to worry about the roof of the house because he'd shoveled it a few times over the last month and it didn't have the accumulation the workshop and garage did.  Yea.  When I went out to take the above picture of Dan and Muria on her roof they just pointed up the hill at my grandparents house:

See the guy in the red jacket on the roof?  That'd be my very stubborn grandfather.  See the the yellow wood in the foreground?  That'd be the fence that Joe could just step over because of the snow.

Remember this picture of Joseph that I took last Summer?  This is my grandfather's garden now:

Crazy.  Just crazy.  I'm glad we won't be around when all that melts.  What a mess.

Comments

[Marie]

Oh, he's a cutie in his sweater!!! OMG, I can't believe your grandfather is on the roof!

[My Merino Mantra]

Jean, Nelson is so cute in his sweater! I can't wait to make one.

[My Merino Mantra]

Jean, Nelson is so cute in his sweater! I can't wait to make one.

[monica]

Nelson has a really cute expression on his face!! His sweater is adorable. I miss snow but I only like looking at pictures of it.

[Robin in VA]

Nelson is ADORABLE in that sweater! WOW...look at all that snow!

[Ionadreams]

My daughter lives in New Hampshire and loves it. Those Yankee's are a hardy stock and are just nuts about snow!

[Kim]

Haha! It was great seeing you this weekend!! I'm thinking a vacation right around mud season would be a good thing!

[Tempe]

Nelson is adorable in his sweater! My family has had a summer cottage up in Bridgton, ME since I was about 5 or 6. I always love to hear about other people in that area that I love so much!

[Kat]

What?!? You don't like mud season? Nelson's sweater is awesome.

[margene]

That is one cute kid and isn't he handsome in the sweater? We have loads of snow but nothing, nothing quite like that!

[Norma]

The sweater's adorable, and so is Nelson. At least he got to wear it ONCE. I was worried even that wouldn't happen! The snow, the SNOW! We don't have much, comparatively, this year. I know I would not be saying this if I were in it, but I am a tad jealous of it.

[Wool Winder]

Nelson is so cute in his sweater! And the snow is beautiful! I'm kind of glad I don't have to deal with it though. Did you buy anything at Patternworks?