February 12, 2004
The Art of Aging Gracefully
Update, Friday afternoon: Due to President's day, my next posting won't be until Wednesday, 2/18. In the meantime, Frankie, TMK and I wish everyone a Happy Valentine's Day and an enjoyable President's Day!
You know it's time to stop counting the years when this is the candle your partner picks for your birthday cake:
Knitting Knews
Almost finished with the baby sweater but I'm getting lost in a jumble of balls of yarn: One for the right shoulder, one for the left shoulder, one for the neck, one for the sleeves—and yet I only have one original skein of yarn, so I'm manufacturing mini-balls by scrabbling desperately for free ends and using some ball-rolling sleight-of-hand. And I don't have yarn bras for any of the balls, so they are constantly leaping off the couch and making a faster-than-the-speed-of-light beeline for the other side of the living room. Ack!
Thinking back over the last year, I'm starting to feel like a bit of a doof. Remember how I didn't participate in the Highly Secret Project because I didn't know how to do cables or aran-type knitting? Now that the aran pillow and the baby sweater have proven to be insanely easy, well, hindsight, 20-20, blahblahblah. Now I understand why the other participants were rolling their eyes—albeit nicely—at my bellyachin'!
Dye Garden Dyegest
The Mysterious K and I are overwhelmed with little green seedlings. In fact, we're having trouble keeping up with our Germination Station jungle! I planted some blue sweetpea vine seeds (not for the dye garden; just 'cuz) which sprouted almost immediately and have grown so fast they're pushing up against the seedtray cover and have circled three times around on themselves. It pains us to see them so tortured but we haven't had time to rescue them, and we don't even know if we can since they are still too delicate to survive being transplanted. Oy, the trials and tribulations of being parents. Maybe if we just hadn't experimented with those fertility pills...
Debra, have you planted any seeds yet? We were talking about you the other day and were wondering how it was going.
Posted by Ryan at February 12, 2004 11:04 AM