Okay, it is *still* Monday. It was a brisk weekend and work was wonkier than usual. Most of the time my time with volunteers is golden, but every so often, it gets me down to the point where I can't sleep. Yep, one of those days. Guess I'm better for being vegetative nearly all day. Some progress was made with the sister socks of Easter-egg ( Read more... )

Not a whole bunch going on -- there's no movie night this evening, so I'll check with Ron to see what he'd rather do.  Today I am working on the pair of incomplete socks that my sister sent to me.  They're going to be very warm and colorful when I finish the toes later today.  Then back to a hat that I'm working on.  Then a look at the various yarn ( Read more... )

Or something like that.  My spate of allergies and a nasty little cold has had me non-communicative for several days.  But now I'm feeling better and am in a better condition to report my recent activities.

When not sneezing or running off at the nose, I have been faithfully knitting socks for Socks 4 Soldiers.  I now have four pair ready to ship ( Read more... )

Oh well -- here we are again. Ron is working from home and I have finished my spate of knitting for the day. I got a hurry-up commission from a co-worker friend for a shawl for her sister. So my fingers are tired, but I am now more than 1/3 done with this assignment ( Read more... )

While I have been letting the dust accumulate in my blog, things have happened. I turned fifty -- which was stranger than I thought it would be, sent off my boss to Portland, acquired another one, bought a new (still not yet running)scooter, helped friends move and found out that my eyes may have a problem ( Read more... )