158 metres on the 158 metres..... you take one down, knit it around... 157 metres on the wall. Actually I am just about to get some lunch here but after that I am going to knit the first rounds on my socks. Yes indeedy! Sock #1 here I come. I was pleased yesterday when I finished spinning and plying that I took a nice 158 metres off the wheel. Three ply lovely 50% cotton, 30% bamboo, and 20% ramie. It was washed and smacked on the log pole holding up our verandah last night and then hung to dry on the rail over night. I just checked it... nice and dry.
This morning I got up to snow! : ( 2 inches..... but it is now starting to melt and a good thing too. I promptly went back to bed. How bad is that.... I haven't done that now for a couple of weeks. The alpacas look bedraggled and the dogs are running out the door to promptly turn around and look back. The cats are looking at the door suspiciously. Teapot drove to school instead of biking and the Daughters went with him and wore warm jeans instead of shorts. Hopefully this won't last too long. My dreams of Crocuses and Violets I think are a bit premature!
I've been thinking a lot about New York... the city. I follow the Spindle Princess' blog As The Whorl Turns where she just doesn't write enough... but she does Tweet regularly and her Tweets are on her blog page and I read those daily. She has recently been in New York for work and it reminded me of my trip to the Big Apple many years ago. After high school in one of my many former lives I had the opportunity to fly to New York for a week of staying in a mid town Manhattan hotel (of which I can't remember the name right now) and sight seeing, and shopping. I had a bit of a yin yang relationship with New York. I loved all the shopping and I loved all the sightseeing... but there were aspects of New York that really didn't agree with me. For one, I had a nose bleed every morning that I was there, due to the pollution, which I suppose is normal for any large city. Secondly, I twice had scary situations arise where I thought I might be raped... and ended up not but they kind of scared the bejeepers out of me. Thirdly my mid-ranged priced hotel had terrible plumbing as a result the bathroom tub would leak regularly.... there was water everywhere. Then the hotel was so densely packed that I felt like I was packed in like sardines. Fourthly, the traffic was dreadful. Fifthly you wouldn't catch me traveling anywhere by subway unless I had an armed guard with me. On the up side we walked everywhere and had absolutely no problems finding anything thanks to the grid of Manhattan streets. The artsy fartsy factor was awesome, the bagels divine, and the shopping was like nothing else I had ever experienced. My most memorable day was when I went to the World Trade Towers and experienced the truly diverse population that abounded in that region of New York... it of course made me think doubly hard in 2001 when the Trades came down. I saw all of the regular things... you know... the Empire State Building... Lady Liberty... The Rockettes.... Saks Fifth Avenue... Macy's... the World Trade Centre... I didn't get up town to Central Park because I just ran out of time but I did go to Wall Street not that there was a whole lot to see there other than a lot of high powered businessmen and high buildings everywhere. Still we were able to get tickets to see the Eurythmics with Annie Lennox front and Centre.... it was really an awesome concert mostly because they were playing in a small rinky dink place and everything was close up and personal. That was back in the 1980s and I was just out of high school only two years before. Little did I know that I would watch the World Trade Towers come down on the first day of school far Daughter #1. While my trip offered me an opportunity to see something I'll never see again and the shopping was unlike anything I've had since, it really gave me an understanding of what a hive must be like. I'm glad I went once... but I wouldn't want to go back.
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Since writing this earlier and getting distracted by a phone call and forgetting to come back to the computer till now, I have been knitting on my socks. Oh they are going to be sweet. I'll try to get a ittle more done on them tomorrow so that I can show pictures here. Right now I have gotten through the main lace pattern once and the other lace pattern has been repeated three times. So far they look great... still, there is a lot to do. I have to repeat the main lace pattern three more times before I begin the heel flap and then turning the heel. At first the lace pattern was hard to figure out and I know I have at least two small mistakes... but then I am not being judged on my knitting... I am being judged on my spinning... I tried looking for the mistakes and you wouldn't notice them unless you ahd a really good eye for these types of things.
By the way... I don't have a good clue why I called this, " Pushing The Envelope"! I wonder if I had something in particular that I was trying to say. Oh well, maybe I'll remember tomorrow.
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