(I’m still working on editing more photos which will eventually make it over on Flickr – so watch the thumbnails at the top of the page! – or over on PointySticks.)
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Frozen…
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Snow Day!
As of midnight last night, school was in session today.
As of 2:30 am this morning (when I couldn’t sleep), school was in session today.
As of 5:15 am, as Jason was getting up for school, school was in session today.
As of 5:45 am, 15 minutes before Jason leaves for the bus (I know, crazy, right?), school was in session today.
As of 6:05 am, after Jason had left for the bus, school was canceled. A neighbor was nice enough to come out and tell him, and he called home to verify that it was correct.
I really, really wish the school district decide this a bit earlier than 10 minutes before the bus comes. I realize not all kids get on the bus that early, but come on. They could have figured it out by 5:00 am so that Jason didn’t have to get up and get ready for school.
Meanwhile, I will post icicle photos and the beer cheese soup recipe later today! Boy, I sure hope we have enough bread and milk to make it through. I know we have bread, not sure about the milk, and we are all out of butter and margarine. We may have to fix that.
PS – Today’s weight loss total is now 10 pounds down from my highest weight in January according to the home scale, 7 pounds down from my January 1 start weight. w00t!
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Ice Storm! Ice Storm!
I truly love how the news the past few days has been all ice storm and nothing else. Yes, it is freezing – literally – down here in Houston, and you would think if you turned on the local station that that is the only news in the world. Mike went to the grocery store on Monday afternoon and he said it was a madhouse, as all the people stocked up for the BIG FREEZE.
Then it didn’t rain like they expected, and today was just bitter cold (with the windchill), but not frozen like they thought.
It was a good excuse to get out the crockpot and make chili and sloppy Joe’s. (Not for the same meal! The chili was yesterday, the sandwiches with some beer cheese soup were for today.) I actually kicked Mike out of the kitchen long enough to make two meals! Well, he made the soup, but I made the rest.
To help me keep warm with the big freeze, I’ve been a very busy knitter. Friday night, we went to EJ & Sherry’s house to watch Clerks 2 (the adults watched the movie, not the kids – they were upstairs playing video games and learning the Overwatch team composition) and I swatched for Elaine’s Tempting sweater. Saturday, I realized that if I knit really fast, I could have a sweater to wear in New England when we go there for a wedding in 3 weeks, so I started swatching with the Brooks Farm 4-Play for that. Once I finished that, I cast on for the Cambridge Jacket (the men’s sweater in the IK summer ’06 issue – the one with the Icarus shawl in it) and I’m over halfway done with the back. Sweet! If I keep up the pace, I should have it done with time to get the zipper in before we head north. I’ll post more details about it and the progress over on Pointy Sticks.
Thank you to everyone for delurking, and I will be back online more tomorrow. For now, I really want to try to finish the back of the sweater. Just one more row? (The cry of all knitters when we really want to get something done!)
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Delurk! Delurk! Delurk!
Damn, I totally forgot! It is delurking week! So if you are out there, and you don’t normally comment – here is your chance! DELURK!
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A Moment of Panic…
While working on the Faith jacket, I always had quick, portable knitting to take with me. I mean, come on. It is basically a lot of short garter stitch scarves. I can knit them in the dark.
The Faith Jacket is now done. All 50+ ends are woven in. It is ready to wear as I type this.
We are about to leave to go to EJ & Sherry’s house to watch a movie. Of course, I want to take light knitting along with me. Something that requires no concentration really, just knitting. I finished weaving in ends just over an hour ago, and so now I feel lost.
I must admit, I’m sure there is a skein or two (or twenty) of sock yarn around here that I can grab and take with me. But I just feel weird without my Faith jacket strips. I think it is time to cast on the Brooks Farm 4-Play scarf!