Home Again

Hello! I'm back! We had a wonderful weekend up in Pickerel Lake at CS's cabin and I have some photographs to prove it. On Friday early evening, we had cosmos, cheese, crackers, and pretzels on the screened porch while we made sure that the new chairs didn't blow away. (No, it wasn't that windy. That's just our excuse for sitting out there all weekend.)

I sleep on the living room couch because I'm not going to sleep in the upper bunk and have to climb down in the dark when I have to pee in the middle of the night. Sleeping there affords me a sunny wake-up call (there are no curtains) and also this view when I sit up.

Also on Saturday morning I was the first one up so I had the chance to sit with my little notebook and a pen to get in a little writing because I knew that I'd only be knitting (and yakking, also eating) the rest of the time. I was happy to add to one scene I wrote last week and start another one. Yay, me!

The first thing I worked on and off-and-on the rest of the days was the Zauber Crazy Sock. I started with the dreaded gusset and finished that on Friday night. On Saturday for most of the day I knitted on the sock foot. This morning I got to the toe decreases and stopped because that requires thinking and I just wasn't in the mood.

In between bouts of sock knitting I finished the Ribbed Preemie Hat. Isn't it cute? It's so tiny but it really stretches so it'll fit a lot of little heads.

The least enjoyable project I had with me was the Denim Washcloth. It's least enjoyable because the irregular dyeing of the yarn makes it very difficult to "read" my knitting for clues to what I should be doing when. It's a very simple pattern--k1, slip 1, k1 across on the right side and k1, p1, k1 across on the wrong side--but it's easier to remember if you can see the pattern develop and with this yarn that's hard to do.

After a fantabulous brunch of Eggs Benedict with home-smoked bacon and made-from-scratch Hollandaise Sauce with crispy Hash Browns on the side (which I neglected to take a picture of) we adjourned back to the screened porch for a bit more chatting and knitting. I cast on a Roll Brimmed Preemie Hat with the Water Lilies yarn that I used for the last preemie hat. Because it was all I had on hand and I really like the colors.

Once I got home around 4 o'clock, I unpacked and hopped into my own car and went to the grocery for bananas and lunch foods. I might have bought a few other items but I carried it home in two bags that weren't overfull so I didn't do too much damage.

It was chilly up by the lake over the weekend so I was really really glad that I had on long jeans, a long-sleeved tee, a sweatshirt, a hoodie, socks and shoes. It felt weird to be so bundled up but sitting out in the chilly evening on Saturday made me glad I had it all. It's supposed to get back up into the 80s this week so I can't decide what to wear when. It's just crazy. And I really have to mow the lawn tomorrow afternoon. It's getting pretty shaggy. I meant to mow on Thursday last week but it rained so tomorrow it is.

--Barbara