I have been knitting on the bag for the level 4 knitting. It is really looking awesome. Yesterday CJ came for a day of yaking and spinning but I'm spun out for a few days and so I just felt like knitting. I carried on on my bag that I started Wednesday night and wow is it ever cool. I don't have a pattern for it but I started out with a circular needle and 120 stitches in blue. I knit rib stitch for about 8 rows and then I switched to the next colour and stockinette stitch. The colour change was more abrupt than I liked but that was ok because I decided that it would work with the stitch change too. But from that point I wanted the colour change to be more gradual. I began knitting several rows in one colour and then introducing the next colour on every alternate stitch for a few rowes and it worked. You can hardly tell where one colour ends and the next begins. It is truly inspirational.... now I just have to decide on the handle and how I will do that. It will be just big enough to carry around little tools for knitting or weaving.... actually it is more of a pouch than a bag. I might even designate it to my 2 x 6 Weavette that I make bookmarks on. It would be pretty cool for that purpose.
With the relief of the hay situation off my mind now, I feel like I can turn my head to other things. Of course I will have to figure out a way to haul the hay in here but I think I have that figured out... it's just that Teapot needs to be consulted first. I guess it is time to get back to the level 3 spinning and those dreaded (dratted) t.p.i. questions which continue to confound me.
There were some rip roaring thunder storms that passed through the region yesterday and overnight, with some rain but not lots. I am beginning to see little patches of green again but they are very sparse. It is really only enough to make you feel at ease. If you actually dig in the dirt you realize how bad it actually is. The moisture in the soil only goes down about a quarter inch... the roots of the Dandylions are surviving and some of the grass will come back but it will take a lot more than a few quick showers to turn things around in this area. Another year of drought like this and I may have to reconsider having fibre animals at all..... that would be horrible!
Having Teapot away has made me realize a couple of things. It has dawned on me that our friends think Teapot is a moron and that I am a capable person or they just like Teapot better than me. When I go away for ten day trip.... all of our friends (including my parents) are doing everything in their power to invite him out for dinner and feed him and the girls.... but when he goes away I never hear from anyone.... now this is not a complaint... it is just an observation.... I'm just not quite sure what to do with that observation. Do they hate me and love Teapot or do they think Teapot is just a complete idiot.... and can't cook for himself.... (he is actually the better cook of the two of us).
The other thing that I have realized is that raising two daughters through their teens would be an absolutely terrible tragedy without Teapot. Teapot has a great sense of humour which I don't seem to have, well, at least it is not as apparent when he is not around.... Somehow Teapot evens out all the bumps and bristles in me and makes being human a whole lot easier.... otherwise I turn into a total monster and the girls resent that.
I have watched my two daughters turn into scary things indeed this summer.... Daughter #1 has a desire to look like some kind of street walker and Daughter #2 has seen fit to become the laziest piece of flub around..... we had it out the other night and I am just so done with that..... Daughter #2 at least had the where-with-all to apologize for her behaviour..... Daughter #1 eventually apologized but it took a little stewing first..... I really liked them a whole lot better when they were enthusiastic 6,7,8,9, and 10 years olds. After that it got a little dicey. I actually do enjoy them but sometimes I just want to knock their heads off! : ) and I wonder what alien life form has now taken over the body of my child..... Actually it is not all that bad and they haven't come home with anything pierced yet, thank heavens!...... so we will suffer through somehow and hopefully will come out of the teens a little better and a little wiser..... argh!
The flies in the house have now reached epic proportions and they are buzzing me regularly as I sit here which is not a good thing for the temper and for the office either, as I seem to want to destroy the computer each time I swat at the buggers... so I think it is time for me to move on this morning and find a cup of coffee and a bowl of cereal.... yeah....
Knitting pictures to follow when Teapot returns with a decent camera.....
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