So, fifty-three rows later, and here it is. A sleeve.

Which means that in another 53 rows, I’ll have a completely finished sweater. Not even any seams to sew–not even the underarm. Wow! Just some ends to weave in, and that’s it. I’m hoping to finish tomorrow, which certainly seems feasible, huh?

Of course, it helped that I had the day off today, and was able to spend some of my afternoon knitting. (I’m still using up extra vacation time from 2005.) And what weird weather we had today! Cloudy when I woke up. Then raining. Then sunny. Then windy. Then rainy and windy. Then sunny and windy. And little by little, the temperature dropped. It’s supposed to be a cold weekend.

I took Chappy out for a walk around lunchtime–it was great. Sunny, not too cold, but windy. Gusts around 40 mph, I think. I love windy days. There’s just something invigorating about that oh-so-alive air. The extra ions, or something, just make it fun. Exciting, almost. At one point, Chappy’s ears were flying almost straight back. And when we were walking with the wind at our backs, he did this cute little sideways skitter with his tail down . . . I think he was getting a draft where there’s not supposed to be one!

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