Leper Bandages

To my delight, my brother Jim has discovered the blog, and, happily, the comment function, so I expect now to hear frequently from him. He has some things to say about the Deadhead rumor, for instance, which you can peruse here. (You'll need to click on the comments to find Jim. And if, after that, you feel that you've just not had enough time with Brannens, you can go play with the interactive crystal drawing program over at Carl Andy's site.)

The weather people told us we were going to get a lot of snow, but we didn't believe them, cause they told us that the day before yesterday, and then it didn't snow, so we figured that everybody else was getting snow but we weren't, but we were wrong.

We were visiting friends last night when the phone rang and our hostess's sister told her she couldn't drive up the hill. When we looked out the window we saw why this was so -- there was at that point three to four inches of snow, all of which had accumulated whilst we were eating our nice chicken stew.

So we got out of there. Had to leave Sam's car (we'd come in two), and drive my all-wheel drive Subaru home, past city buses stuck on the roadside. Left the child, too, who had been scheduled to spend the night. So now we're here in the South Hills with eight inches of snow over the driveway, a car and a child up in the city, some Audubon society birdseed to pick up over in Mt. Lebanon, and grocery shopping to do. And Sam, poor man, is Not Well today.

So I'm the snow shovelling person today. This will make up for some of that missing the gym that was going on lately, I expect.

Maybe some knitting later, then, and in the meantime, here are the leper bandages, all 20 of them:



Two are mine; the rest are from students, both undergraduates and graduates. We'll mail them off this week, as a present from the university.

Classes are over; now it's grading papers, giving finals, going to meetings. And thinking about Christmas.