Merry Month of May Monday
What a beautiful day we had today! Blue skies, a bare handful of white, puffy clouds, 70-degrees (Farenheit, of course) . . . scents of lilac and all sorts of other flowers on the air . . . just really beautiful.
Except, of course, on our street, which is still being torn up by the electric company, filling the air with dust and dirt and really excessive noise. At least Chappy isn’t too bothered by the big, orange, square “Work Ahead” sign they stood on our front lawn today!
I got a lovely little RAOK card from Maryellen today. Plus an origami camel!
She asked how Chappy got his name. It shouldn’t be surprising to anyone who knows my family, but it’s a Martha’s Vineyard-related name. Chappaquiddick, in fact, and it says so on his registration papers with the Boykin Spaniel Society. Conveniently, though, “Chappy” adapts quite nicely to “Chapter,” too–which, along with Martha’s Vineyard is one of the favorite things of this Biblioholic. Isn’t is nice when a name is that versatile? I even sometimes sing that little Gershwin ditty at him: “I’m the Chappy to make you happy. I’ll tie your shoesies and chase your blue-sies, oh lady, tell me, oh would you, could you use me?” (Except, of course, I change the “I” to “You’re” and it’s “UN-tie” the shoesies, though really, he hasn’t done that since he was a puppy!)
Knitting news . . . well, I didn’t gain any ground last night, but I didn’t lose any, either. I knitted half a row on my Peacock, but the count was off and I had to tink it, and by the time I’d done that and made sure all the stitch markers were in the right place, I’d pretty much had enough peacocking for one night, so I moved on my to my NbaT and frogged the whole thing (since you’ll remember, it was too large despite my efforts at pairing gauge to yarn to needles. I’m just going to have to try to remember to knit tightly!). I managed to get back to the place I’d left off, though–with both sides of the hem knitted, just not yet joined.
Really, it was a rather unsatisfying knitting night! And, I’m sure you’ll understand, neither of those projects deserves a photo today. They really need to behave better than that.
Hey, do you know, my blog had its 9,000th visitor today? Not bad for a blog that’s only been around since January!
Some knitting days are like that but what I always say is…it’s the process. My lace is misbehaving, too!!
That shawl is lovely on you…a nice use of variegated in that pattern.
Heh, AH, your Peacock is beautiful. I really ought to pick mine up again and work on it…
Congrats on your visitor milestone! That’s great!
Two instances, today, in her blog, of silk blends expanding. That is an N of at least four now. I suspect we are on to someting here.
http://saltwater_purls.typepad.com/my_weblog/2005/05/im_still_im_sti.html
Congrats on the visitor stat! 10,000 deserves a party.