Saturday is normally a day where we are more heavily involved in domestic pursuits than usual.  We have our family-only Keepers at Home meeting (irregularly, must be more consistent!), work on developing forgotten domestic arts, and do some bulk cooking.  Not to mention getting caught up on the dishes – still have the laundry to go though!

Today we had a surprise addition to our domestic activities.  There aren’t many children in our neck of the woods, most farmers in Alberta are 60+ and we’ve seen the evidence of that.  Our new neighbours to the North are the only children other than ours that live right around us.  There was a homeschooling family down our road with 4 boys but they moved soon after we came here to life.

The two oldest girls came down for a visit – and to learn to knit today!  At our visit a few weeks ago the subject came up, I mentioned that Kaelynn is learning to knit (she’s great!) and everyone was so excited!  The oldest daughter (12) made it through around 20 stitches and is getting the hang of things, I’m going to pick up some better ‘beginner’ supplies for her though, because Kaelynn is using our ‘big’ needles and yarn.  I taught myself to knit from books, and from a few minutes of help from Larry’s mom – it makes a HUGE difference having someone ‘on-hand’ to help out.  It’s thrilling to pass on art-forms that are no longer widespread to the next generation, I only wish I knew more!