May 02, 2003
Why, Come On In! Make Yourselves Comfortable!
Occasionally, K and I like to “pretend” house-hunt so when, a couple of days ago, the urge came upon us yet again, we got in the car, put the top down, and went tooling around looking for “For Sale/Open House” signs. One side trip took us up a long driveway to a somewhat larger-than-average house. We looked at the house, looked at each other, shrugged our shoulders, and spent the next ten minutes blithely wandering from room to room, tramping up and down the stairs, rolling our eyes at the self-aggrandizing photo-portraits on the walls, and peering in the bathrooms. Finally, we said, feh, we weren’t particularly impressed. It wasn’t until after we left the house and drove down the driveway that we saw the sign that said the sale price on the house was $1.2 million dollars. Gulp. In retrospect, I think that sign was posted where it was, half-way up the driveway, to encourage riff-raff like us to turn around right then and there. We were never supposed to have made it to the house. Of course, we took some satisfaction in knowing that even if we had $1.2 million dollars ($1.2 million dollars more than our combined incomes), we’d still think the house was ugly (or “OOOO-gleh” as my hair stylist says).
Knitting Knews
I finished the little Santa cap for the moose. It has rather an obvious seam up the back but so did the original so I say I do good work! I gave it to my co-worker who perched it delightedly in her hand the way it would sit on the moose’s head, and proceeded to wander around the office carrying it just that way. Below, for your entertainment, a picture of the old hat followed by a picture of the finished product (the picture sizes obviously hugely out of whack). Advanced, intarsia and Fair Isle knitters are only encouraged to look if they need a laugh. Beginning knitters, you will appreciate the effort that went into this, my first hat.
Dye Garden Dyegest
I purchased the undyed yarn this weekend, about 560 yards of Henry’s Attic Montana merino for $10.14. The wool is so soft, so inviting, so screaming out to be dyed! I waffled between buying the Kona, which is superwash, and the Montana, which is not, because I wasn’t sure how the superwash process would affect the taking up of the dye color. Finally, I decided to play it safe and go with the Montana. If anyone out there can tell me if the superwash process would affect the dyeing process, I'd be interested to hear...
Below a close-up-ish photo of the yarn, plus another of the yarn and the progress in the garden. The "tee-pee" the yarn is on is just awaitin' to hold the tendrils of the apricot sweet peas whose seeds have been planted around it (for decoration and pure enjoyment, not for dyeing).
Can you see the spot where the sprinkler doesn't q-u-i-t-e reach?
