Happy Saturday to all! Thank you, Natalie, for hosting #WeekendCoffeeShare and bringing this small group of bloggers from around the world together to share highlights of the week.

It’s as though a switch has been flipped, going from warm and sunny to wet and freezing. The temperature for this week hasn’t peaked much above freezing and this kind of temperature does not inspire me to go out into the garden at all, so I’ve been staying in this week. Also, I haven’t been feeling so well. Indoors, my nose is constantly stuffed and I’m sneezing all the time but when I step outside, my nose is instantaneously cleared but even bundled up, my body would start to shake and a feverish headache would come on. Things would revert when I step back inside. It’s the weirdest thing.

Work started back up this week and I have been answering emails non-stop. The frustrating thing is, a customer would send me an email and then less than 30 minutes later, they would call to ask about the same email. “I’m working on it!” I almost yelled.

When I opened my inbox on Monday morning, I gasped. There were 60 unread emails in my own inbox and a combined of almost 500 unread emails in the 3 shared inboxes. It took me 2 days of non-stop answering emails to clear out those 500 unread emails before I got started in my own inbox. It wasn’t until Friday afternoon when I finally cleared my inbox.

Anyway, the only gardening thing I did this week would be that I swapped out the thin frost clothes and replaced them with a thicker one to help with the low nighttime temperature. I got the front beds swapped and hopefully the sun will provide me with a little warmth so I can swap out the beds in the back garden today. I’ve also placed a container of water in each bed to slow down the heat loss at night. I don’t know if that works yet.

Most of the seeds I sowed on New Year Eve have germinated. This season’s seed-starting feels like it’s been more hands-off than previous years. I remember I had to constantly move the seedlings around and so far, I’ve only needed to move the seedlings once. I’m also using a self-watering seed-starting system, maybe that has something to do with it.

Without much intervention in the garden and seed-starting, I began crocheting again, as a winter hobby. I last crocheted in 2024 and did not crochet at all in 2025. I only just crocheting again last weekend and have been amazed by my muscle memory. I didn’t think I remember after not doing it for so long but I was wrong, my hands knew exactly what it’s doing.

After crocheting this week, I even feel like I’ve gotten better. I have been making strips to be pieced together to form a blanket. I bought a book at the end of 2024 and I’m working from the patterns in the book.

I have been working on the “zigzag bobbles” the last 2 nights and I think I only have a few inches to go. I started on purple strip of “bobettes” on Sunday but ran out of yarn on Tuesday night. The green and white “bold arrow” crochet was done in 2024. I hope to try to do some complex crochet before spring like mosaic crochet, tapestry crochet, amigurumi (crochet stuffed animals), and mandalas.

I appreciate you sticking around. Thank you for reading and have a wonderful week ahead.