Snow Days

December 27, 2025

It’s hard to believe how much it has snowed in Ketchikan lately.

We had snow before Christmas, snow on Christmas, and then a whole new wave of snow today.

I love the snow.

It makes everything feel extra beautiful and sparkly—and it gives me the perfect excuse to hunker down at home and learn a new skill.

This week’s new skill: crochet.

But not your grandmother’s crochet.

No doilies.

No baby blankets.

No delicate heirloom anything happening over here.

I jumped straight into adorable 3D animal territory.

That leap was inspired by a shopping trip to Town and Country with my sweet Emily, where we picked out a couple of Woobles crochet kits as Christmas presents for each other. Emily gave me a dinosaur kit, and I gave her some sort of kitty situation to crochet.

On Christmas Day, we eagerly broke open our kits, excited to do something creative together.

Emily lasted about ten minutes.

Then she calmly shoved everything back into the bag and asked me to do hers for her because it was “too complicated.”

I don’t think I fully heard that part, because I was already completely absorbed in a step-by-step video explaining how to make a single stitch crochet.

More hours than I am willing to admit later—

after more stitches stitched, pulled, unraveled, re-stitched, and questioned than I can possibly count—

I am now the proud creator of a 3D crocheted dinosaur.

And I’m almost finished with Emily’s kitty, which is technically labeled “intermediate,” but somehow feels easier than mine.

Naturally, this has led me to briefly consider whether I am, in fact, a natural crocheter—and whether this has been my calling all along.

I doubt it.

Please do not ask to see the one mitten I crocheted in 2015 without a pattern. It's definitely a mitten, but....

Anyway. I’m having fun.

And I may have a change of plans.

Perhaps I’ll pivot my entire life toward making adorable crocheted animals and selling them online. This seems like an excellent use of my time, skills, and experience.

I’m sure I’ll be paid very well for my time.