As The Yarn Turns

Oh So Tired and the TP Mystery

Have I mentioned how much I hate Daylight Savings Time yet? I'm not even close to recovering from the time change yet. I've never been able to go to bed early and the time change has only made it worse this time.

As if the time change wasn't bad enough, my coffee maker died on Sunday. Apparently the early Daylight Savings Time was just too much for it. It had made coffee faithfully almost every day for, well, a long time. I actually don't remember when I got it, but I've had longer than I've had Rick. This one was a combo coffee and espresso maker. Only one side died so I wasn't completely without coffee and now I'm breaking in a sparkling new coffee maker and espresso maker.

So to distract you from my lack of knitting progress, here are some flowers from the yard.

I planted these when we first moved into the house. I'm not sure exactly what they are, but they are doing great and have spread into the yard. I kind of like it that way. When I took this picture, the flowers were full of honeybees. We've had lots of bumblebees, but these are the first honeybees I've seen here in a long time.

I planted these when we first moved into the house. I'm not sure what they are, but they are doing great and have spread into the yard. I kind of like it that way. When I took this picture, the flowers were full of honeybees. We've had lots of bumblebees, but these are the first honeybees I've seen here in a long time.

I'll leave you with the toilet paper mystery. I know it can be irritating when you can't get that first sheet of toilet paper off of a new roll, but really.

In this case, I think it was a ferret that couldn't quite reach that first sheet of toilet paper. Sigh.

by Sydney  |

A Wee Bit of Knitting Progress

Things kind of ran amok last week too so I got almost no knitting done. Luckily I decided to join Emily's Wee Tiny Sock Swap or you would be looking at a few more rows of the same old stuff.

The nice thing is that I can report a wee tiny FO. Over the weekend, I rummaged through some of my left-over sock yarn and came up with some Koigu, just enough for a wee tiny sock. About an hour later, maybe less, I had a finished sock.

Even if it's tiny, it's good to have a finished object. It looks so much different from the actual socks. At this tiny size, the yarn actually stripes.

So when you left me last time, I was going to a magic club meeting. The meeting was in Huntsville, about an hour away from our house. So on the way over, Rick mentioned that one of the club members had brain surgery. I'll him Mr. B. We still talking about this when we pulled up to our usual meeting location and noticed almost no cars. Oh yeah, this is where Mr. B works. He, of course, wouldn't be here to let us in. Rick didn't have any of the local club members in his cell phone and didn't have his newsletter with him. He calls another member who might know, who says it's right across from Sam's. The only other Sam's we knew about was on the south side of town about 20 minutes away. We drive like demons to the Sam's but the place for the club meeting wasn't there. At this point we give up, decide we would be better off going to dinner at our usual Indian restaurant and then stopping by bookstore. So in spite of the rough start, it ended up being a pleasant meeting.

I'll leave you with a picture of Katie, who's wondering why I'm not knitting a wee tiny sock to fill with catnip.

by Sydney  |