Let's Try This Again

Yesterday I got notice of a couple new Book Funnel promos and one of them sounded just made for Horizon, my book about a woman in her mid-50s who's trying to escape other peoples' expectations by re-imagining her life. She takes up watercolor, changes her hair and wardrobe which annoys her kids and best friend, and is pursued by an ardent suitor. It's my title that's hardest to sell so I thought a giveaway in exchange for a newsletter signup sounded like a good idea. The promo starts May 1 so we'll see how it goes.

 

The old-fashioned daffodils have finally opened. They're the all yellow ones with the yellow trumpet shaped centers like used to grow in Grandma's yard. When I took this picture, the flowers were surrounded by a whole bunch of tiny bees. I guess either they've got nectar or they're a stopping spot for bees visiting the neighboring hyacinths.

 

Speaking of bees, I drew two of them this afternoon while talking on the phone to a knitting pal. He was going on about airplanes and hangars so I could draw and listen at the same time.

 

At Friday Night Knitting, I cast on a Scrap Hat. I read a blog post the other day about a webinar about knitting things with leftover yarn scraps. There's a big tote downstairs with lots of scraps of yarn in it so I went down and dug around, found some yarn, and got busy. Using big size US13 needles, I cast on 40 stitches and in three hours got this much hat done. I'm carrying four worsted strands together to make super bulky. I've got to knit four more plain rounds and then start the crown decreases. I like it. And I've got a whole bag of yarn scraps to play with. I foresee lots of these hats in my future.

 

It was a gorgeous day today. The temperature got up to 71 and it was sunny with a little breeze. It was so nice I took a little walk. I need to do that more because I'm in terrible shape. We had another thunderstorm tonight with gusty winds, lightning, and rain. And it's supposed to storm again in about a half hour. Also tomorrow the temperature's supposed to top out at 45 degrees. Mother Nature, please make up your mind!

--Barbara 

P.S. I had a 3-hour knitting Zoom and I didn't get kicked off or freeze!