Life is proceeding pretty much apace here.  Thanks to some help from Mom & Dad over the Thanksgiving Weekend, the shed now has rafters and some sheathing:

I finished off a hat and sweater set for my sister’s baby:

And Rowan and I got out for a wee hike yesterday, during which we found an abandoned beaver lodge. Rowan also found many very unhappy squirrels and one startled Spruce Grouse.