We're havin' a heat-wave...
A tropical heat-wave. And by gosh, it's even too darned hot to can can! Too hot, certainly, to schlep out to the yarn shop to gawk at Koigu KPPPM yarns. Here's the context for my bitching: I ordered a few skeins of KPPPM mid-week last week, having fallen in love with two colorways I saw in Patternworks' catalog, one a bright turquoise with red and purple areas, and the other pink with red and purple. When the order got here (Tuesday, very fast delivery time), I was disappointed to find that the turquoise skeins (I ordered two) were much more muted and pastel than I'd anticipated, different enough that I'm not particularly charmed by them and can't justify keeping them when I can (fairly easily) send them back for another color. The pink skein (I only ordered one, silly me) is just take-it-home-and-love-it good, but might be a bit too girly to make into anything for professional wear. Sooo, I've been wanting to look at other colorways *in person* to avoid another disappointment like the one I had with the too-pastel turquoise skeins. But there's a "heat warning" posted, and the air quality is "hazardous" with high ozone levels, which means that I can't really justify potentially risking my health in order to go look at "all the pwetty widdle colors". We won't get into the fact that I went out once already today, to take Hawthorne cat to the vet for her six-month kidney function check. She was a trooper in the car, but hissed, growled, and screamed in the exam room, so much so that the vet tech had to put on opera-length leather gloves in order to handle my (usually) docile and sweet girlfriend-diva-kitty.
I think I'll just sit in the apartment, where there's central A/C (thank you, sweet Goddess of mercy and technological innovation!) and futz around with my in-progress Litla Dimun shawl (five rows done, 400+ stitches per row, don't want to think about how many rows to go...). I've already goofed up once and had to "tink" (un-knit) 20+ stitches, but I think with time and patience, even *I* can get the hang of this pattern. :)
And let's also not get into the fact that I should really be doing load after load of laundry, since I'll be going on vacation at the end of next week and leaving the DH to look after the cats and fend for himself while I visit with my father, aunt, and cousins in Idaho. Maybe *one* load of laundry today -- I think I can accopmlish that.
I think I'll just sit in the apartment, where there's central A/C (thank you, sweet Goddess of mercy and technological innovation!) and futz around with my in-progress Litla Dimun shawl (five rows done, 400+ stitches per row, don't want to think about how many rows to go...). I've already goofed up once and had to "tink" (un-knit) 20+ stitches, but I think with time and patience, even *I* can get the hang of this pattern. :)
And let's also not get into the fact that I should really be doing load after load of laundry, since I'll be going on vacation at the end of next week and leaving the DH to look after the cats and fend for himself while I visit with my father, aunt, and cousins in Idaho. Maybe *one* load of laundry today -- I think I can accopmlish that.