January 2011
6 posts
More Snow
I hadn’t been paying much attention to the weather but thanks to my obsessive daughter-in-law I was made aware last night of the massive winter storm that will be rolling through our area over the next few days. Her advise was to go stock up then but I decided this morning would be soon enough. The store wasn’t very crowded, I got my usual 9am parking spot. But every conversation I...
Out with the Old; In with the New
My first attempt at knitting a sweater didn’t go very well. I finished the sweater and assembled it and blocked it. But it just didn’t look right. It just doesn’t work to take a pattern for a size 10 woman and multiply everything by two to come out with a size 20 sweater. So last week I ripped it all out, gave the yarn a good soak, let it dry draped over hangers, then...
Ah, the pleasures of working from home when it’s freezing cold outdoors! A few degrees below zero this morning, but I didn’t have to drive to work. I was already here! Yesterday, though, was my day to be at the office and the snow storm was just ending during rush hour. Fortunately, my boss called me before I left to tell me the company had declared a two hour snow delay and to...
Socks!
I finished sock #1 and started sock #2 with my Panda Cotton in lullaby colors. I’d post a picture but I’m too lazy…okay…my iPhone is here beside me, I guess since I’d don’t even have to get off the couch:
The k4, p4 ribbing looks better in person than it does in the picture, some of that is probably a problem of perspective
I struggled through the short...
Le Tour Sommeil
I’ve never been to France and I haven’t ridden a bicycle in decades but the other night I had a vivid dream of biking along country roads in France. It was one of those very long, very detailed dreams that you remember for days. But I’ve got to wonder, where did it come from?