Day One of Our Adventure

Yesterday was the first day of our trip. Joanne and I met at the Park and Ride and caught the Sky Ride to the Denver Airport. Just $10 and you can knit all the way, not bad.

We met up with Sharon at the airport and caught our Frontier flight to LAX (we had Flip the Dolphin on the tail). Not a bad flight, though as hard as we hit the runway in LA, I was wondering if the pilot had left some parts of the plane on the runway.

We took a shuttle from the airport to the hotel, with an Iranian driver who just loved to talk. Luckily for us, some guy had to sit in the passenger seat, and got stuck listening to this guy and responded to his continual chatter, much to our delight.

Our hotel is at the Cabrillo Marina in San Pedro, where there are hundreds of sail boats and yachts. We walked over to a restaurant on the other side of the marina, enjoying the scenery and reading the names on the boats. I think our favorite was "Yachta Yachta Yachta" though Sharon's friend Sherry (from Florida - met up with us at the hotel), liked "Twisted Sister." We had a nice dinner at the restaurant with a gorgeous view of the water from our table, blacked swordfish, lobster bisque, steamed asparagus, garlic mashed potatoes and some cheese bread to die for, and of course some nice white wine.

We met up with Patricia, our cruise planner and knitter from Northern California. We met some knitters from Baltimore, Connecticut, California and the Carolinas. Some of our group which we hear numbers 100, are flying in today. We still have not seen the ladies from Oregon.

Almost everyone had socks up on needles. I am working hard on Mandarin. I also saw a square for an afghan, and the bag from the last Interweave Knits. Joanne finished the first sock of the cruise, kitchnering it in the bar last night. No socks up yet for me.

Lots of humidity in the air. I was up as usual at 4:30AM, and couldn't get in the workout room until 6AM, so I walked around the hotel for 50 minutes to get some exercise because I am NOT GAINING WEIGHT THIS WEEK! Needless to say, my hair is getting curlier by the minute in this humidity, so I didn't even bother to straighten it. If I can find a computer that will let me upload pictures you may see me with enormous hair.

We get on the ship at 1PM. Can't wait. Enjoy your day!

What do you think?

I have looked and looked for a picture of the Colorado Rockies to put on the blog and I think I finally found the one. It captures some of the beauty we are lucky to see living in God's Country, a mile up.

I need to pack. I went through the yarn looking for worsted weight. I did not find much. But I did find an assortment of yarn from a Vivian Hoxboro class I took, so that is going along for the color class I'm taking. There's some Lorna's laces sock yarn in lavender that's going along, with a ball of socks that rock in blues and purples. Some sort of theme here?

The bag is a new Maruca bag along with a notions holder that I picked up over at Colorful Yarns. I blame Kris for this. She loves these bags, so of course I had to look them over and buy one.

I have my supplies box, though I need to remember to put some more double points in it for the worsted weight. Sock knitting in worsted, sorry but Yuck!

I have to finally choose the clothes. The shoes will be picked first, then clothes to follow. I'm not that organized a packer and tend to really over pack. Let's see what happens today.

The Mandarin Jacket is coming along nicely. People stop and admire the colors, always a good sign. I think a completed jacket may be in May's future.

Enjoy the day!

I'm starting to get excited!

This is where I'll be this Sunday, along with knitters from all over the country as we set sail on the Sea Socks Cruise. It's almost here! Joanne and I along with Sharon and her friend from Florida will be flying to LA this Saturday. We will be meeting up with Nancy, Dawn and Willie from Oregon, great ladies Joanne and I met at Madrona in February 2006.

Here's the route:

I haven't packed yet. I had my own private fashion show last night, because I have too many darned shoes. I'm trying to pack the least amount of shoes which will go with the most outfits. Decisions, decisions.

The bring along knitting is already decided. I'm bringing the Koigu Mandarin jacket, which I really want to make headway on and get this gorgeous thing done. An easy shawl in Lorna's Laces Helen's lace, for the idiot knitting time (2 or more glasses of wine), and since it is a socks cruise, something is going up on needles, just not sure what. I want to make Eunny's knee highs from Interweave Knits, and since Eunny is going to be on the cruise, I want her suggestions to make them in a smaller size. I also need to put yarn aside for classes. That's right, there's plenty of classes, along with yarn crawls in San Francisco, Victoria and Vancouver. Knitting, yarn, away from all stresses, YIPPEE!!!!!!

Got to get back to work. I need to clear my desk before the week is out.

Did I mention, I find out my Colorado bar results while on the cruise? Either way, bar results = bar presence on the ship. Time to break out the idiot knitting.

Itsy Bitsy teeny weeny yellow polka dots on that bikini

I could have crocheted this. But are you kidding me? Maybe Tim over at String could have whipped this out for me, or Cassidy or Kate for our cruises. But mine would have had to allow for the many additional areas of skin that are on an almost 50 year old body.

Instead, this went home with me yesterday. Boy, I don't know. I may have lost the weight, but I still have baby belly. And I don't know if a million sit ups could fix it. My husband picked out this suit. I think I need to take him to the eye doctor. He must think I'm still in my 20s.

The cruise is this Saturday. How did it get here so fast? I need to figure out what I'm bringing. There's requirements for the classes, but they list worsted weight yarn. I really don't use worsted that much. I need to go through my class yarn bag and see what is in there. I have plenty of DK. Oh well, what are they going to do if I bring the wrong yarn - kick me off the ship? Make me walk the plank? Send me to the bar? Yeah - send me to the bar.

Thought I would get the pink shawl done last week, but not much knitting was done. It's not that I didn't have some time, I'm still in that funk. I need something that I just have to work on. Is it just lack of Spring Fever? I didn't even hit a yarn store in LA. I could just be on system overload. My husband said, why don't you design something last night, when I said I should go knit, but nothing has my attention. I have some ideas in my head. Who knows?

I'm thinking of going back to school to get an LLM in Tax (Master of Laws in Taxation). I don't know. I went to college for 13 years already and have enough degrees to paper the bath room. I received a letter from an attorney who teaches at DU, so I need to talk to him to see if it is feasible that I could practice in this area and do it part time. Decisions, decisions.

Enjoy the day, it sure is pretty outside.

Not much knitting today

Today was a blur. Grocery shopping, laundry, bills and taxes. No time to knit though I did finish reading "The Friday Night Knitting Club." Have you read it? If so, who are you in the book? Cat? Georgia? Anita? Peri?

I'm off on a plane again tomorrow. Wheels up to Pasadena. Three shawls are coming along for the ride. Enjoy your week.

Looks like a boa to me...

There's the 4 boas, googly eyes is in the back, green hair to the right, snake shirt to the left, and the "ridiculous one" in the middle. I think he looks darn good, but I'm the seamstress.

I'm knitting bored. I don't know what I want to knit. I will finish a shawl this weekend and want to work on something new. Haven't got a clue what to do. Like others out there in blogland, I'm missing the knitting mojo at present. Send me some good vibes.

Top 10 Reasons

Not much time for a post, but I read this on the Knitter's Review and thought I'd share it with you:

Top ten reasons to buy yarn:

10. Doesn’t have to be watered, fed, repotted or pruned.

9. Doesn’t have a shelf date.

8. Doesn’t need to be walked, groomed or fed. And it doesn’t shed. Usually.

7. Doesn’t need a sitter when you go out. Or someone to watch it while you’re on vacation.

6. Doesn’t need its litter box changed.

5. Doesn’t raise your blood pressure. Or your bad cholesterol.

4. Never talks back or asks to use the car and then returns it with the tank on empty or borrows your handpainted yarn socks and washes them in the machine on hot.

3. Makes a great interior design color splash even if you never use it.

2. Never changes the channel to a sports program. (It's okay if I do!)

And number 1: isn’t fattening.

There is a chair under there...

Amazing what you find when you start to put away crap. There's the knitting chair with only 2 projects on it. Now, I'm not a miracle worker, there's things that are in staging areas to be "put away in the yarn room" but I have my chair back. Did I knit in it though? Nope - sat on the bed as usual.

But in the mess, I found two shawls that just need to be worked on. So, it's a shawl week. I'm on row 95 of 200 plus rows on one of them. I wonder how much progress can be made this week?

Time to wake up the boys, I'm single mom for a couple of days. Enjoy!

A mess and a dress..

That is my knitting chair in the bedroom, which is dark, because the other half is sleeping. Pretty bad don't you think? The house is a disaster, alot of which is due to me. Let me think, which rooms have yarn in them at this moment? Answer - the kitchen, the desk in the eating area next to the kitchen, the dining room, the front room, my bedroom, the yarn room, the bathroom in the yarn room, and the basement. This is bad, very bad. Oh my. Crap. "Lucy you've got some xplaining to do."

Okay, okay, I will never win house keeper of the year, nor will I win mother of the year. I am content to do what I can, be happy or a bitch, like every normal woman on this earth, and go on. As long as I can buy yarn and knit. Oh - and buy books and shoes of course!

You know, I work full time, and try like an idiot to do everything else. So when the oldest son told me he was in a play, I said okay, let's do the mom thing and make an outrageous costume for the boy. And I can sew anything - right? So I trotted off to Joann's, bought snake skin fake fur, did I say I had to turn him into a boa constrictor? And worked on the thing for a couple of days. I made a hood, attached a 10 foot snake tail, and proudly showed it to the family. I thought it was pretty cool myself, and thought won't his friends and teacher be so impressed? Well, J came home and told me his friends thought he looked ridiculous. The other boa had a visor with googly eyes for his costume which was so cool. So again, no mother of the year, I just made my kid look ridiculous!

It's Easter, the kids are up, but haven't realized yet that their Easter baskets are hidden in the house. Good for me, since I need to jump in the shower. Oh - and it's snowing again. Oh please - let the lilacs bloom. I will be so sad if they don't.

There's a dress on needles pictured in the above mess, or should I say, there's a 4 inch portion of the bottom lace edging on needles in that mess. I have looked at that dress ever since I saw that Rowan book. I have no idea what I will wear under it, but I have yarn, needles and beads.

Went to String yesterday, where I got the yarn and the book. Cassidy looks great, her baby is due in August. Some people just look so pretty when pregnant, I just felt like a blob.

The other half has to go to Ohio to testify in a trial for a case he worked on three years ago. I don't have the heart to tell him that I just did a preliminary job on the taxes and we owe again. He gets so pissed off. I can't wait to hear the screaming. Maybe I'll tell him when he gets into the truck to leave. He can scream by himself, yep, that's the plan.... "Bye honey, and by the way we owe big bucks, have a good trip....."

Enjoy your Easter, eat that chocolate, and have a great day.

It's a Koigu Day

It's April. I have leaves on the rose bushes that made it through the winter. There's purple buds on 2 of the 3 lilac bushes. We mowed and fertilized the yard. So of course it is snowing.

Yes Colorado, you got us again. We thought it was spring and you said oh no you don't. Let's have some more of the white stuff.

A friend called me up last night, and we left our kids with the other halves and went out for drinks. I think we laughed ourselves silly. (So did people in the place that saw me land on my backside after slipping on something on the floor!) It sure is nice to be able to go out with a bud, when things haven't been that great and they make you laugh.

So, it's a Koigu day. 12 different, cheerful colors to play with while I watch the boys at swimming, and watch whatever mindless TV I want - though maybe it's a Food Network day.

The Sea Socks cruise is in three weeks. I can't believe it. I am so ready to go. Ten days away with friends and knitting- yippee!

Oh, and last but not least - THE GATORS ARE THE NATIONAL CHAMPS!!!!!!!!

Enjoy your day!

It's been a long week.

This week has not been fun.

A lot of crap went on at work this week, nothing that had to do with what I do or how I do it, but rather it concerned people, their own agendas and their true natures coming out.

We had people working at an off site location that were told that they were to move in to the building I'm at. One of these people was determined to get me moved out of what he said was the corner window office. So through a thinly disguised rationale designed to advance his own agenda, he succeeded in convincing the powers that be that I should move, since I am not a division employee, rather a headquarters employee assigned to the field. So through his lies and whining I am again moving to another office, without the new carpet I fought for, and with less space. And to top it off, I have known this guy for probably more than 10 years. When he needed help to get promoted I helped him and also gave a good recommendation. Amazing. I have no desire to even look at him. His behaviour along with several others this week has been quite revealing as to people's true colors. Oh - and this all happened when I was working in Phoenix and wasn't around to present arguments in person and expose his true nature.

So today, when I looked down at the needles I was using I noticed that I had bent the heck out of one. It must have been when I was knitting pissed, thinking about some of the crap going on. Too hard on the Addi I'm afraid. I didn't get much knitting done, except for Thursday night when the plane home was delayed and didn't get in until almost midnight.

Sorry about the tone of this. It's my only way to express my frustration without coming across as a person who is not a team player at work. I wish I could have retired, I would have walked out this week.

Speaking of teams, Gators are in the Final 4 tonight. Probably will be another heart attack game. I listened to the last one on the radio so I didn't have to watch and worry about a choke. I'm looking forward to getting some good knitting done today, though I have to make one of the boys a costume for a play.

Sun is out, I'm not at work, it is looking like a good day!

Can you say shawls?

It's a shawl day. I broke these two out of the stash and will try make some good progress on them this week. I'm a little down on my sweater knitting lately. I need a dress form to fit me. I looked at the My Twin forms at Joann's this week, but am not sure that is what I am looking for. Anyone out there know where I can get one made to my measurements?

It sure is a pretty day today. I wish you could look out the window with me. What a change from Saturday. I don't know if you saw it yesterday, but we had rain mixed with show, and let me say this I have never seen snow flakes that big in my life. The flakes were the size of quarters. Granted it turned back to rain, and there was no accumulation, but it sure was interesting to watch. Leaves are out, I'm watching the lilacs, can't wait to see them. I'm not sure how many rose bushes I lost during all that snow, but it is looking like three.

Classes went well yesterday at String. I can't wait to see how the beaded bags turn out. And the Fair Isle Jazz scarves are coming along, just in time for Spring (oh well, they will look great next fall).

The Sea Socks Cruise is about a month away. Woo hoo! Boy am I looking forward to that.

March madness - I was so disappointed yesterday, and part of me thinks today just might not be a good day for the Gators. I hope I am wrong. I don't know if I can watch.

Have you ever checked the Foxy Knits web site? www.foxyknits.com. 200 colors of Koigu. I need 14 for a new project. I'm hoping they can help me out.

Enjoy!

RIP IT!!! Or shall we say Hello Kermit?

I am so in the frog pond. Make that, the get new yarn, and start the whole dog gone thing over, pond.

I have been working on the Forest Path Shawl. By the way I hate nupps. Purling 5 stitches together on size 3 needles is driving me crazy.

Anyway, I have been working steadily on the shawl this week, and kept asking myself, this is a masterpiece, why am I not making this in white or cream? But I kept going with my green, because of the leaf theme.

Last night at 10 PM, after ripping out the lily of the valley motif for what seemed like the hundredth time, I said to myself, that’s enough. Time to start over in the right color yarn.

So I trotted down the hall way to the stash that can rival anyone’s, and decided what white lace weight yarn that I wanted to use.

I pulled out a monster cone of 100% Alpaca cream lace weight from West Valley Alpacas that has been in the stash since May of 2003, waiting for the right project. I then trotted back to the bedroom, put on the food channel and cast back on.

I’m on row five of the seed stitch bottom. Here we go again!

March Madness starts today. I’ve picked my brackets. Go Gators!

Trains

I knit on the train. Granted it’s the light rail and my trip is only 27 minutes long, but that’s what I do.

What I like about knitting on the train is that it is my time. I plan what I want to work on that day, and that’s what I knit. I might not knit on the same thing for weeks, but that’s also part of knitting on the train. Each day brings a choice, and the opportunity to enjoy my time doing what I love.

I choose my project, my knitting bag, whether or not I want to read or listen to my Ipod at the same time, and I look forward to my knitting. Be it lace, fair isle, socks or a sweater. I like it all.

Traffic jams don’t bother me. It can snow all it wants. I’m not stuck in it.

Who wants to drive? Not me, I’m knitting.

When in Salt Lake....

I'm back from another road trip. This time I was off to Salt Lake City for a couple of meetings.

I finished my meeting early on Wednesday and when I got back to my hotel room, after changing out of the business clothes and throwing on jeans, I grabbed the phone book. I was thinking that there had to be a LYS nearby that was open, and who knew what things they carry?

Let me tell you something, I am so glad I did. I walked on over to the Black Sheep Wool Company http://www.blacksheepwoolco.com/. Next to a bridal shop (gorgeous gowns in that window), and upstairs is a great little shop with Rowan yarns, natural fibers, buffalo yarn, and assorted other items. By the way, they have one of those seats on the banister for people who cannot climb stairs easily to get upstairs). And then there is Betsy. She works there a few times a week, and knows my buddy Pam who is one of the shop's yarn reps. Betsy designs, knits, and drives a convertible.

After buying some yarn for a dragon Dale for my little guy, and needles (of course) we got to talking and Betsy invited me to go eat appetizers and drink wine with a friend of hers. (She fits right in with the rest of us spiders doesn't she?) We ended up over at Oasis where I had a great salad, lobster linguine and a few glasses of Kendall Jackson.

Betsy's friend Lisa joined us at the restaurant. Lisa is a knitter who has a great "real" job. She puts on the Utah Arts Festival www.uaf.org. She also teaches at Black Sheep - Fair Isle, Norwegian Knitting. She was working on a sweater out of the third Jameison book - I'll have to look at this one, mitered squares, looked very interesting. She invited me to a knitting retreat at Alta - that's Alta as in "altitude" not as in "all" and I'm going to this one. I just haven't told the other half yet. Another friend of theirs joined us at the table, so there we were, all four of us knitting and drinking wine for over 2 or so hours. I had a great time, met some nice knitters, I hope I have another trip out there.

The knitting up at the top is my Fair Isle Jazz scarf sample for class. I wasn't sure on my choice of colors, but they seem to be okay.

I'm in a little bit of a knitting slump, or should I say period of frustration. I have just got to get a dressmaker's dummy in my size. Being short waisted, and oh so critical of my finished projects, I am never as happy as I could be with my finished sweaters. That's probably why I like to knit shawls, they fit no matter what. I am working on a open work pullover, and I am going to rip back to the armholes maybe later today. I have other things to work on, so this is being put aside until I figure out how I am going to change the shaping.

Well, it's a beautiful day in the neighborhood. We might go to the world's shortest St. Patrick's Day Parade later on. Later....

P.S. Worked on the Forest Path shawl. Haven't really done entrelac lately, but this is a beauty that I want done for the cruise (hopefully). Boy do I like lace.

It feels strange...

I listened to music and knit on the train this morning. It feels like forever since I have been able to enjoy my commute in. No lectures to listen to, no studying, I'm free. Wow, life's little pleasures.

I'm working with Alpaca. It's slippery on the Addis, driving me crazy when I put it down and then find out that stitches have walked the plank when I put my knitting down. But I am determined! Major progress will be done, on this relatively BORING knit.

Have you seen the Katherine Hepburn Cardigan? It's super high on my must knit list.

Short post, I have time to knit tonight. Isn't that cool?

I'm Back!

The test is over, in the books, finished, done! Don't know if I passed, I was not happy Tuesday afternoon, and you never know with the multiple choice - it always comes down to 2 answers. But I'm done!

It's beautiful outside, a gorgeous day in God's country. We are supposed to hit the mid 50's today, hooray! After Friday's bone chilling cold, and it wasn't even in the minus's I'm ready for spring. And not to get too personal, but thong underwear and wind whipping up your coat and cutting through your pants just does not go well together!

I've lost 15 pounds. I only weigh 2 pounds more than I did when I got married. And thin clothes from the closet fit. Too cool! More working out though, the lower half is taking a lot more time to get in shape than the top.

March is a major finished object month for me. I have class projects to knit, cruise stuff that I need to get done before the end of next month, and things I would just dearly like to finish and show off. Some of the knitting is boring, but the end is worth it. I should get some knitting done during March Madness. Go Gators!

We are going to lunch today with the other half's family. My nephew put it together. It's all a little strange, he came in from Omaha. I think he is going to announce that he asked this girl to marry him, who is the sister of my other nephew's wife. Need a score card? So we will see. Things that make you go hmmmmmm.

I saw a hawk today, sitting on the roof of a house 6 doors down from mine. I was on the way back from the gym, it was still pretty quiet outside. He was pretty impressive. I think he was a red tail hawk, he had some beautiful coloring. Speaking of this morning, isn't it nice that's it's getting lighter earlier? But with the time change next week, back to dark in the morning. There's just something about the sun being up when you go to work, and not darkness.

Well, chores await me, the house is a disaster which I let happen since Christmas because of the studying. Had to buy a brand new fridge because our only 6 year old one bit the dust. The vacuum cleaner is in for repair. I must have house gremlins playing tricks.

Enjoy the gorgeous day!

Welcome to my mess!

This is where I have been hiding myself, and it's not pretty. The yarn room looks like a bomb went off in there. I had to move numerous projects off the bed to make room for my outlines and books, with room for me to read. You will see that the ball winder is off the table, it was in my way when I was doing essay practice questions. And there is yarn everywhere. It's on the floor, in baskets, in tubs, and yes those moving boxes are stuffed to the brim. The tall boy is full, the dresser you can't see is full, the closet is full with at least 8 more of those tubs, the armoire is full - you can't see that from the doorway, there is even yarn in the bathroom to the right drying.

I'm not knitting much at all, which sucks. My exam is in 2 days. I am not ready, I just want to pass. I don't care if it's just by one point. I just want this over with. I am trying not to panic that I just have two more days to study.

My break is over, evidence is calling my name. I miss you guys.

P.S. Guess what I have - the new Lace Addi Turbos in sizes 0 - 6. Can't wait to try them, they arrived via FEDEX on Friday. Lace I'm a coming!

Yes it's been quiet.

Yes, it's been quiet over here at Mountain Purl. Right now my life is so busy that even taking time to blog is a premium.

What you see on the needles is 374 stitches of that Debbie Bliss cape in the picture. It is going on the plane with me Tuesday along with a shawl. Yes, I'm on the road again, this week and next.

I want to tell you something that happened to me this week which has happened to me twice now in my life, and it still just blows me away that it even happened the first time.

I was buying 2 hanks of periwinkle lace weight, each 600 yards long and the woman asked me if I wanted to wind it in the shop. Now I could have wound it at home in the yarn room where the swift and ball winder are always up, but I thought why not, get it done now. The first hank was one of those nightmares. You know the type, when somehow, somewhere, something happened and there is no way in hell you can wind from that hank off a swift. The yarn is tangled, you have to weave the ball through the hank during the whole process and it drives you crazy and takes forever. Now, the woman says, why don't we cut it and see if that works? I'm thinking ARE YOU KIDDING ME????? 600 YARDS OF LACE WEIGHT AND YOU WANT TO CUT IT??? ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND??!!!! I thought if she stepped one foot near my yarn, we might have come to blows. What was she thinking? For goodness sakes, she WORKS in a yarn shop. I'm still blown away by this and it was 4 days ago.

You see, this happened before to me in a shop in Marin in Northern California and that idiot girl CUT MY YARN! I was shocked, and the only thing was, that was the only hank of that colorway in the shop. I never went back there again. That still amazes me to this day. AND SHE WORKED IN A YARN STORE!

Well, I have to study today and start doing practice questions. Hey - I've lost 8 pounds so far!

Later.

Sweaters, snow and studying

Diane, me, Debbie Bliss, Denise, Leanne, Kris and Kate

Here is a picture of the usual suspects with Debbie of course, at Highlands Ranch String on Wednesday. What a great day. We enjoyed listening to Debbie talk and saw many of her beautiful sweaters, some from her upcoming book and booklets. The consensus was that the majority of sweaters would look good on various body types and that sweaters we never would have thought of knitting, because of how they look on the "stick" models should be moved to the must knit list. There was a cape that I never thought of knitting for myself, that several people told me looked fabulous. Her designs take advantage of the drape of the yarn and she allows ease in the sweaters. I am now thinking that some of her sweaters that I have up on needles may be too big. Hmm....

Yesterday was the Dale Knitter's meeting, and it was a day of frustration for some. I think we put the sweaters away for too long, and the knitters were just not happy. I felt crappy myself, with a brutal headache which was forecasting today's weather. Things will get better, we need to meet soon and get people cranking on these sweaters.

I have too many projects going as usual, the circular cardigan is easy, the yarn Alpaca Silk Dk feels great on my poor chapped hands, and I can work on it while I study which is a bonus. There are other things, shawls, socks and thrum mittens that are crying for attention, piled around my study and knitting chair in the front room, which I do not have time to give right now. What a mess! Friday night I met with the other Starmore knitters and pulled out Elizabeth. I am knitting it in Daletta. It should be beautiful when finished.

I am so behind in studying. I have had earphones in my ears so much listening to lectures, that even now while I sit at the computer it feels like I still have them in my ears. I am not having fun.

It is snowing. That makes 5 significant snows since December 20. Right now the snow is blowing sideways. I am not even going to try to shovel until the wind dies down. It was snowing when I left for the gym this morning at 5:45am and hasn't stopped. Hey you in other parts of the country - Please do your snow dance!!!! (But don't do it in Orlando, because I have to go there the week after next).

Well, I have played hooky from the studying and need to get back to the exciting hearsay exceptions. Happy knitting!