No worries - I won't bombard you with any more snow updates - suffice to say that the northeast is getting smashed and we are snowbound! Scott got in from the bahamas just in front of a big storm and blew out again yesterday in the MIDDLE of one! He and his golf cronies friends were going to get to the airport - No. Matter. What. Well - the first airport closed down (and this is a military airport!) so they rerouted to another. But the two major highways leading to it both shut down - one for 40 miles. Can you imagine? Some motorists sat on that stretch all night long. (Here is the first sign that perhaps one should wait out the storm and postpone the trip ...) This band of gypsies found an airport in a different state and made their way toward it and sat in the terminal for many many hours. They did make it to Florida AND their tee-off time - amazing.
Back home, Hilary was without power AGAIN. She lives about 7 miles northwest of me where thousands were sitting in the dark for two days. She and Carson rounded up the shivering dogs and came to me where Andrew joined us and we had a sleep over!
Harley wasn't happy about giving up HIS spot on the couch, but he found his good doggie manners and allowed Bubbha the catbird seat.
Hilary is under there somewhere - the poor child just could not get warm enough and we piled at least three quilts on top of her! No, I haven't taken ALL of my holiday decorations down yet! I love those chubby muslin angels holding hands across the mantel! It's hard to say good bye to them!
Carson is all worn out from his CO training program. He graduates next Friday. We are all so proud of him that we can barely stand it. NYS has an extremely challenging program and he has excelled in all areas. No doubt!
Yes, I'm told that it is tropical where Scott is!!! No matter. We are having a good time - well, I am. I love the snow and I love having my children and my dogs about. OH! And I am making progress on the old 'Looking Glass' sweater. I want to be able to wear it this week, but the front bands are making me crazy ...
That 'curve' is unintentional and I am worried. If anyone out there in Knitting Land has experienced this kind of problem and has suggestions - I am all ears! Enjoy your weekend.
It's been a quiet few days around here - blessedly so. I love the long Thanksgiving weekend - it's sights and sounds and quiet tempo. Oh, and the smells - the aroma of the turkey carcass boiling down with fresh herbs - the extra casserole of cornbread stuffing baking in a dish filled with water - the corn chowder coming to a simmer - its shrimp and crab swirling in the cream. We've been eating a lot of really excellent homemade food.
Can-Do-Guy installed a woodstove in the barn while I sewed the binding on my daughter's new comforter. He also installed motion detector lights on the potting shed so that, in his words, when I pull into the darkened drive, the lights will come on like a prison yard and I may be blinded! Enough so that I could possibly drive THROUGH the potting shed! He's funny. I'll take my chances, thank you. It's been a struggle these last few weeks of daylight savings time - we have no street lights on our country road and when I tell you that it's dark out there, believe me, it is PITCH BLACK! It's not the two-legged intruder that I fear in the dark - it's more the four legged, black and white striped one that I have no interest in stumbling over!!!
There was blocking ...
Love that picot edge, but this sweater is SMALL - although the photo makes it appear huge. The front bands need to be knitted and applied after blocking occurs, and according to my calculations - it will end up being somewhere between a small and a medium. Neither of those sizes describe me. Someone is going to receive a really pretty holiday gift this year! But I'd like one for myself, so I cast on Briar Rose's 'Fourth of July' and combined that with a few silk noro skeins - I'm liking this creation A LOT...
I've started to pull out the Christmas decorations. I like this gourd-made-into-a-night-light very much. It serves two purposes - one is to get the holiday juices flowing, the other - a bit more diabolical.....
The Can-Do-Guy and I have some issues. I want you to look at the backdrop of the image above. Notice the plaster and lathe (complete with horsehair which you may or may not see). THREE years ago in February, on the coldest damn night of the year, I came home to find Can-Do-Guy's work crew SHOVELING the plaster walls of my hallway out the front door. I shit kid you not!!!! To say that I was alarmed would be putting it lightly. I asked - why? He replied that the 180 year plaster walls had the consistency of cheesecake and that they HAD TO GO! Ok.
But as I mentioned - it's been nearly three long years, three long years WITHOUT CEILINGS AND WALLS IN THE HALLWAY. When are they coming back? Every time I bring this up, a fight ensues. I am lost. I have no idea how to steer this train wreck back on track - and I would appreciate any and all comments - does anyone out there have a tried and true formula for getting home improvement projects up and running?
