I made pie crust yesterday and it’s still sitting in a ball in the refrigerator. Today wasn’t a good day. Doug asked me this evening if I was going to finish them tonight and I didn’t even answer him. I just sat there and knit.
I took a video of Olive and showed it to her. One of these days I’ll get around to putting them on Utube.
I played the snowman for her.
I don’t think she liked it.
My husband is scratching my back. Ooh. Ooh. Aah.
You can see her there in the yard. She said, “It’s not cold. I”m not coming in.”
Here she is sitting on the deck railing this afternoon.
Since I don’t have very many ornaments that can stand up to this kind of treatment, it didn’t take me long to trim the Christmas tree. I have also decided to display the Nativity in the glassed in china closet.
I thought it was a Christmas tree, but Olive had other ideas.
Putting up the tree helped to lift my spirits for a while. Maybe I’ll feel better tomorrow. It’s supposed to me warmer. I don’t dare put any ornaments on the tree until we get it tied down. I may have to resort to only using my unbreakables.
I took this picture at 4PM. The sun is almost down. Ican’t stand it.
I was determined to use both colors when rounding out the heel. It took four tries. I couldn’t get it snug enough to suit me.
I finished the ankle last night and started the heel today.
Here’s something you never see around here.
My cutting table has nothing on it. I’ll leave it up while I decorate the tree, then it’ll be folded up for a while. I haven’t been in sew mode lately anyway.
My daughter called me yesterday, absolutely livid. She had ordered a laptop from Dell for my grandson for Christmas and told them to send it to me. Kevin gets home from school a lot earlier than she does and he is very nosy. She knew she couldn’t count on John to be home in time. He has no sense of time when he’s out on a job. A few days ago, she called to make sure there wouldn’t be any screw-ups. Well. It never showed up here, but it did there. To make matters worse, there was a picture of it on the side of the box. She was going to call today and give them a piece of her mind and she expects to get something out of it. Knowing her, I’m sure she will. That’s my girl!
I’ve been working on Latvian socks. I was worried I wouldn’t be able to get them over my heel so I got out a circular needle and slipped the stitches on it. I got them on. Hooray. I hate to take stuff apart. I really like working this pattern. It moves right along. I’ll probably get to the heel tonight.
Here are the needles I’m using. I love them. I got them at Stitches. I had read about them, didn’t want to spend the money without trying them. They are lightest metal needles that I have encountered. I usually only use wooden double pointed needles. Each needle is blunt at one end and pointed at the other and they have four inch lengths. These work.
Last, but not least, I got a Christmas present today. Last week, Doug had gotten me Rigoletto on CD. I had the records at the other house. When I went to put it on the CD part didn’t work. Well, he found a Sony mini-stereo and it came today. He set it up rather than wrap it up. When I put on the CD and Luciano started his aria, I started to cry. I have heard him in concert twice and I am still overwhelmed by his perfect voice. I am surprised that the neighbors didn’t complain. I had the speakers on max.
Look at the pages on the right. I put my pattern there so it will be easy to find. I looked for my scarf pattern, but it must not have been copied from my old computer. I do have a hard copy and I will try to make myself sit down and type it out. Also, when I get around to it, I am going to make gloves to go with these socks.
This pattern is from Lucy Neatby’s sock book.
It was nearly forty degrees warmer today than yesterday. It’s supposed to be the same tomorrow with rain thrown in. The rain will continue into Friday, but the temperature will drop. I am going to get “P” pneumonia!
Excuse me. I have to go down to the basement and point at boxes that are clearly marked as Christmas for my husband. Olive can hardly wait. The others have told her all about it.
Gee, thanks, guys. I only wish that I knew who you were. I should do something to celebrate. How about another free pattern? What should it be? How about the matching scarf? I also have a couple of sock patterns, one of which has an entrelac cuff. I’ll have to dig through my stuff.
I finished my red socks yesterday at knitting group. Afterward, I went out to dinner with one of the girls and we had a great time.
This is the first really cold day we’ve had since last winter. It stayed in the upper twenties. I had to cut my walk short this morning. I was too stiff. Also, the frost on the creek never melted. It was unbelievably quiet.
I am blogging.
I have blogged.
Up a Creek in Lower Slower Delaware 