I’m feeling much better today. Know why? I got new shoes! Shoes were my obsession before yarn came into my life. I love shoes. Like yarn, even if I don’t get to use them, as long as they are in my possession, I’m happy. Though it does kind of suck that they have to sit in the closet because, even though they felt fine in the store, I have some that prefer to make these lovely things called blisters instead of being the comfy shoes they pretended to be. I keep hoping for the miracle of shrinking feet. Has yet to happen unfortunately.
The Man is out of town for a couple of days on a very important mission. If he completes this mission, there will be both new yarn and shoes! Think happy positive thoughts for me him. When he’s gone, I feel like I have lots and lots of extra time. I don’t know why because he doesn’t really take up much of my time. Maybe because I don’t spend hours trying to figure out what to fix for dinner. When he’s gone, it’s junk food all the time baby! I stay up until all hours of the night. I knit. Oh wait, I do that when he’s here. It really makes no sense why I feel like I have extra time. So, because The Man is on the mission and I have all this spare time, I’m going to post a lot of pictures. Because, you know, if I have all this extra time to post them, it only makes sense that you have the same extra time to wait for them to show up on your screen. They’ll all be clickable so you can choose which ones you really want to wait for.
Bella
This is the view we often have of Bella in the backyard. There’s a bug or something under the ivy making a noise, which she thinks she needs to put a stop to. Or at least do her best investigating.
Big balls
You’ll probably have to squint to see what I saw but considering traffic was running 80 mph, this is as good as I could get. The man has a set of, well, balls hanging under the hitch. Just exactly what is the statement he’s trying to make? That his set is really that big? Or is he saying he has the balls to do something the rest of us don’t normally do? (Boy am I gonna feel stupid if someone tells me those things hanging there have a purpose other than just looking like a set of balls.)
Who needs a secret pal!
Screw the secret pal stuff, I’ve got Donna. What better thing to arrive home to (after getting new SHOES!) than a package waiting at your door. She spoils me something fierce. Yarn, pattern books, magazines, candy, and Tim Tams! The Lifesaver flavors are Musk, Orange Fizz, Raspberry Fizz, and Strawberry Sundae. Yummy! I’m refraining from opening the Tim Tams because once that seal is broken, those babies are devoured.
And I have to show you something. I’ve been playing with the DB Cotton Cashmere. Here’s a swatch I came up with a few days ago.
Now look at this outfit
Knitting!
Here’s the Mystery Stole in it’s current state. Most of the knitting was done on the Small Town trip since The Man was a real sweetheart and did ALL of the driving. But wait, there’s more after the pic
Remember when I confessed to not thoroughly reading directions? I told you then that I wouldn’t learn. There’s this line that says to work a set up row. My eyes glazed right over that one single line. Either that or my brain chose to ignore it. I realized it when I went back to the provisional cast on to work in the other direction. What I tried to do was fix it by working that set up row from the 2nd side. It would have worked, but I wasn’t completely happy with the fabric I was getting with the US 4 anyway, so I ripped the whole thing out and started over from scratch. And this time, I included the set up row. Yay me! All’s well now, right? Wrong. Notice anything funny with that middle diamond? Do ya? Huh huh, do ya? I do! I didn’t notice it until I went to resize the picture to upload it. I’m sure if this stole could talk, it would say “I’m with Stupid” and there would be a big arrow that points at me. So even though I’m going to be spending my evening fixing this instead of knitting on it, I’m still in a good mood. Because I got NEW SHOES!
And finally (anyone able to hang in there this long? :)) news on the Grandpa situation. They think he may have had a heart attack and have him hooked up to more monitors, but he’s still stable and still talking. My daughters got the security code that you have to have so the nurses can give you info when you talk to them on the phone. Voila! Bypass the hags (just because I’m in a better mood doesn’t mean they aren’t still hags) and get the real info. Hooray for talking to upbeat people!
