Me, again

Two posts in as many days. Incredible.

The truth is, though, I've had the virus that's been going around this area. Came down with it January 12 with a slight sore throat. That blossomed into a bad cough, much congestion, and it drained my energy.

I didn't go to the doctor, because I'm stubborn like that, but two friends who've had it told me it lasts four weeks, and they seem to be right. I'm still coughing and sounding as if I have The Plague, but I'm feeling SO much better. I actually have much of my energy back and have even dabbled in some housework and cooking.

I'm never too sick to knit, apparently, so I've kept my needles working when I haven't felt like doing much else.

I get such a charge out of that little pink and white hat in the top photo. I guess it's the four "prongs" that crack me up. I know of three babies, all girls, due this spring, so the pink hat will go to one of them.

This weird, dark photo is probably a mystery to you. It's what knitting-by-candlelight looks like. Our power went out for a couple of hours the evening of the blizzard, but since my knitting was a simple knit 5-6 rows, purl a couple of rows, I did my knitting by candlelight.

This is the same candlelight project,...in light of day. Another "pronged" hat.

And this one I finished this afternoon. The color doesn't show well here (It's actually a deep rose), nor does the color of the shawl it's sitting on, but you get the general idea.

All of these little hats are from a pattern by Cascade yarns. It's a free pattern at their website, and it's a quick, easy pattern. It's called the Cascade Fixation Baby Hat.







I also managed to crank out a pair of socks for myself. I do love my wool socks in the winter. If I'm wearing pants, you can bet I'm wearing my beloved wool socks. As usual, the pattern is by Yankee Knitter. It's the only sock pattern I've ever used, and I bet I've knit roughly twenty to twenty-five pairs of socks at this point. I used to give them away as gifts, but before long I figured out that no one appreciated my knitted socks as much as I did, so I keep them for myself now.

So that's what my needles and I have been up to. Now I'm off to bake a couple of loaves of banana bread. Somehow I've managed to accumulate three hands of fresh bananas, and there isn't a monkey in sight.

Storm

Attempt #2.

I just wrote this post, thought it had been saved, went to another website, returned to this post, and darned if the only thing saved was the photos.

Anyway, yes, we got the blizzard on Tuesday. It was a very cold, windy day with visibility about as good as you can see in this photo. I took this one while out in the storm to walk Molly. The wind whipped around, covering Molly in a while coat and plastering itself to my face and clothing.

This shows you the calm after the storm. I took this the next morning. As usual after a good Maine snowstorm, the landscape was beautiful after all was said and done.

Here's Ken's little workshop looking cozy in the snow.

I'm thinking I might be wise to take down my "Let it snow" sign. We have another heavy snowstorm on the way for tomorrow.