St. John and the Locusts
It's the one of the feast days of St. John the Baptist -- his extra one today; he gets his birthday, not just his death day. We're noting it, but I'm not planning dinner in accordance -- the honey I could manage, but locusts, no -- though I understand they've got some of their cousins they'd like to get rid of in Utah, so that'a a potential source. No, we're having some beef and rice dish tonight, completely unpenetential.
So I've got this stash-reduction project going on, and I'm steadily knitting my way through the closet -- already fewer bags of yarn fall on my head when I open the door; that's progress, I believe -- but does this stop me from inventing new projects? No it does not. Even though the knitting season is quickly drawing to a close (ozone alert today; sun's out), and even though I need to work on some of the embroidery projects that pretty much only get worked on in the summer, I am thinking up more things to do.
The back issue of Knitter's Magazine (#37) came yesterday, with the pattern that Amber (scroll down to June 15) used for her puzzle ball, and that must be knit. Just must be knit.
Also, I have decided that I want to make a pair of those socks that Anna Makarovna knits in Tolstoy's War and Peace -- you know, the ones where you knit double and then carefully time the finishing of the project to coincide with some party you're attending, and then at an opportune moment you pull one sock out of the other, and voila! you have cleverly knit two socks at once, to the amazement of all, and all your friends are really impressed. You know. Those socks.
Also, and more urgently, I have two skeins of Koigu that I bought years ago, and intended to make a couple of hats with (the two skeins don't go together at all, at all, and so can't be used in the same project), and I even started one of the hats, but I don't really want knit hats, and besides, I want the double-pointed needles back that are at the moment being used in the project I don't want to finish, and I think I'll just scrap the project. But I still have to figure out what one can make with one skein of Koigu. That one wants to finish. And then use. So as not to waste one's time.
And in the meantime, the new computer came in at work (oh, frabjous day!) so I have to finish up some writing quickly, very quickly, so it can get installed. This is A Major Event, cause the one I'm working on in the office crashed years ago, and the hard drive got replaced with some thing they had hanging around, and then nobody ever ordered a new one, though I asked constantly, really I did, and the upshot is that it takes me ALL DAY to download one paper off the interlibrary loan site, when it takes the secretary of the department two seconds.
Also, the new machine is black, and better looking than the old one, and takes up less space, so there's more room on the desk for Art, such as the glow-in-the-dark figure of St. Isidore, patron saint of the Internet. All in all, quite satisfactory. But I do have to, you know, get to work.
So I've got this stash-reduction project going on, and I'm steadily knitting my way through the closet -- already fewer bags of yarn fall on my head when I open the door; that's progress, I believe -- but does this stop me from inventing new projects? No it does not. Even though the knitting season is quickly drawing to a close (ozone alert today; sun's out), and even though I need to work on some of the embroidery projects that pretty much only get worked on in the summer, I am thinking up more things to do.
The back issue of Knitter's Magazine (#37) came yesterday, with the pattern that Amber (scroll down to June 15) used for her puzzle ball, and that must be knit. Just must be knit.
Also, I have decided that I want to make a pair of those socks that Anna Makarovna knits in Tolstoy's War and Peace -- you know, the ones where you knit double and then carefully time the finishing of the project to coincide with some party you're attending, and then at an opportune moment you pull one sock out of the other, and voila! you have cleverly knit two socks at once, to the amazement of all, and all your friends are really impressed. You know. Those socks.
Also, and more urgently, I have two skeins of Koigu that I bought years ago, and intended to make a couple of hats with (the two skeins don't go together at all, at all, and so can't be used in the same project), and I even started one of the hats, but I don't really want knit hats, and besides, I want the double-pointed needles back that are at the moment being used in the project I don't want to finish, and I think I'll just scrap the project. But I still have to figure out what one can make with one skein of Koigu. That one wants to finish. And then use. So as not to waste one's time.
And in the meantime, the new computer came in at work (oh, frabjous day!) so I have to finish up some writing quickly, very quickly, so it can get installed. This is A Major Event, cause the one I'm working on in the office crashed years ago, and the hard drive got replaced with some thing they had hanging around, and then nobody ever ordered a new one, though I asked constantly, really I did, and the upshot is that it takes me ALL DAY to download one paper off the interlibrary loan site, when it takes the secretary of the department two seconds.
Also, the new machine is black, and better looking than the old one, and takes up less space, so there's more room on the desk for Art, such as the glow-in-the-dark figure of St. Isidore, patron saint of the Internet. All in all, quite satisfactory. But I do have to, you know, get to work.
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