A couple of nights ago the hubby and I were setting up for an invigorating game of scrabble (I know, we are the most boring couple on the planet!!) and we had lit a few candles on the dinning room table. Now, I’m not sure what Jiji thought that I was doing up there, but food (her usual motivator to do anything that requires, you know, moving [Jiji is our personal incarnation of Jaba the Hut {but without the hot, ill-fitting metal bikini clad Carrie Fisher on the end of a chain}]) wasn’t part of the package. So, she hops up on the table to nose around and, well, not to put to fine of a point on it, sets herself on fire. Now, something that I learned from watching the fire woosh up her side is that cat fur does not have the same flame retardant/resistant properties as wool!!! She wasn’t hurt at all, just had a bunch of her hairs singed which caused her to clean herself for hours after we brushed the cat fur charcoal off of her so that she wouldn’t ingest it. Ahhhh, the smell of burning cat fur right before bed….
Tomorrow night is Yarn Therapy here in lovely Ivinghoe Aston. I know I haven’t mentioned it too much of late but it seems that everyone decided to join a knitting group while I was traipsing around the US and Canada. So, to that end I will be in the pub two nights in a row as tonight is Quiz Night! Woo hoo! On the first Monday of each month we have these down at the Village Swan. Neither Tech Support nor I are any good at them usually, sort of a cultural relevancy issue mostly. What I mean is that people who are famous here are quite often not the same famous people as in the US. That, and we didn’t really learn Prime Ministers in the US:-) Anyway, it’s a fun night for us as we usually learn a great deal about recent the history of our village from one of our team mates as well as it being a really good time to pump people for information about, well, stuff around here as most everyone in the village without small children tend to attend.
I also want to give a great big shout out to my friend Terri Pike who got a huge mention on Cast-On today!! Go check out her very cool website with tutorials on how to felt. Just remember Terri, we were on Cast-On first 😉
I am sending to the pond once again, the gray sock. Not only does it not fit my feet but while traveling home from the US an entire needle slid out dropping all of the stitches which, pretty bad on it’s own, was then compounded by the motion of the baggage being moved around and such making all of the dropped stitches run like wussies back down the foot of the sock until they came to the heel. This sock is not only being frog-ponded but it will have the added pleasure of being put into the time-out corner as well! Since that left me sans a sock to knit on, I got out the Krafty Koala sock yarn that I got at Woolfest this spring. It’s called Tui Sock and is a Merino/Cashmere/Nylon blend in the colorway “Undergrowth”. To say that I nearly had a yarngasam just balling it (get your mind out of the gutter!) would be an understatement. This stuff is so soft and smooshy I really would love to knit a pillowcase out of it. The color is a dark green with just hints of blue-ish in it. I will post a picture when I find a time that I can stop fondling it. Until then, I have some yarn to molest 🙂
Sarah Jane Humke 