Spinning on a cold day

I skipped out on church this week.I was in church Wed.night to care for the babies in the nursery.They all had runny noses & 2 were cranky.I have cellulitis in my right eye again,& just didn`t feel like going out.It is bitterly cold here in Pa.too.
This is my progress on the purplely roving I spun.I taught myself how to spin by reading & buying many books.The books say to wind your plied yarn on your skeinwinder,then tie it in several places,take it off,immerse in warm/hot water,blot it,then I hang it on a hanger to dry with a can of soup or something like that for weight.It is supposed to relax the yarn.Well,twice now I had trouble with it getting all tangled up.It takes me hours to sort it then,so as of now,I made up my own rule.Wind it in a ball right off the skeinwinder.I figure it relaxes enough on there.It says in the books not to store it wound in balls,but I am.I will block my work later if I have to.Those pretty hanks of plied yarn I`ve never been able to do.
Here is the fleece I carded in the summer that was part wool & part my goats mohair,if you remember I dyed it with koolaide.I started spinning some of it today while watching the birds outside.Not many coming to the feeder today.Anyways,when I have leftover singles of different colors on the bobbins after plying,I wind them on these antique bobbins I bought at the flea market & I store them in a wooden bowl to use later for my wool applique.

Simba is getting stronger & stronger.He slept with me some last night,his purring put me to sleep.When I woke up,he was gone & I was hanging off the side of the bed,I guess I was afraid I`d lay on him.He`s eating good & using his litter box,getting up & down off the bed,I guess he`ll make a full recovery.I`m still so thankful that we were here when he seized.