Looks like it’s going to work!

My experiment, that is. Here it is knitted up in a ball of Jojoland Melody (#MS29). It didn’t look too promising at first, but after it was soaked and blocked severely, I think it has definite possibilities. I still need to “test drive” it, once I figure out what I have that goes with it, and it might need a set of mitts for company, especially since I have another ball.

Just checking to make sure she did it right.

As you can see, I had a snoopervisor/helper when I was blocking it

ETA: At least on my computer, the colors look pretty close in the last photo.

Never a good sign …

Uh oh!

especially when it keeps happening! My main/newer (‘07) computer (I’m glad we still have the previous one as backup) has been balky lately. Sometimes it just sits there blinking and refuses to start at all, which is when the cover comes off, and so far Himself has been able to revive it. We tried contacting support this afternoon, which ate a big chunk of time that could have been put to much better use, and didn’t give us any answers – I really need to back up my current work to the remote hard drive more often so I can get to it!

Surprise!

Since I wouldn’t give up my chair, I guess Amber decided to move in on Maggie – they stayed this way for 20 or 30 minutes

No joy in Mudville …

well Casey didn’t exactly strike out, but the Cardinals went 3 and out against the LA Dodgers Once they clinched a spot in the playoffs, they seemed to hit a wall. The hapless Rams, at 0 and 5 are no consolation either.

Best thing I could think of was to grab my camera and head back towards the woods. After the rain ended, we’ve had 2 nights of nearly freezing temps, and I suspect the color may not last long, as we’re supposed to get more rain later in the week.

Now that I’m mostly caught up with stealth knitting, I’ve been experimenting with an idea for a cowl design. So far I’ve got a weird looking wedge of knitting in a sock yarn leftover that’s totally too busy for what I want to do – time will tell whether or not it will ever grow up to be something!

Noah, where are you?

It’s been raining pretty much all day, and it’s not supposed to stop until sometime tomorrow. I know the rain gauge already had 2″ in it several hours ago – at times like this, I’m really glad we’re on top of a hill! As you can see, Amber’s not too worried. (ETA: Rainfall came to 4-7/8″ by Friday afternoon.)

The current pair of socks is back on track — Regia with Cotton is nice to knit

The sky was really pretty a couple of evenings ago.

Bienvenu

a la Vielle Mine – it’s fall so it’s Fête time again! The weather on Sunday was lovely, plenty of food, crafts (a small basket might have followed me home), music, dancing, visiting and lots of fun.

Yum!

Making croquignoles (glazed or powdered sugar)

La musique

La Danse

Looking more like fall …

all the time. The walnut trees are nearly bare, sumac and Virginia creeper are turning beautiful shades of red

Sumac

Virginia creeper

and the clouds were very interesting the other evening.

Looking back …

at a few memories from the lovely trip I took to Ireland 2 years ago.

The River Boyne by Knowth.

The Salmon of Knowledge.

Column base at the National Library of Ireland.

I’m trying to finish a stealth knitting project and construction matters keep distracting me – deadlines are definitely not high on my list of favorite things. On the positive side, my studio window is here; not installed, but here, and the deck is showing definite progress

Later …

Looking backward & forward

We drove through some pretty heavy rain coming home from St. Louis today. When the sun came out, we had a rainbow behind us and more really big clouds in front of us.

I saw this bumper sticker on a parking lot recently. I thought it was a hoot, and couldn’t resist sharing it