It's been a delightful week of knitting. Filia and Filius will be home tonight on midterm break, and the construction work outside is moving right along, and I am feeling swamped with Bible Study .. need to figure out how to deal with that swamping. It's a time management issue, I'm sure. If only I wouldn't head off on all those bunny ...
LOOKIE! A Knitting belt!
Ahem. Yes.
Now that I have all this free time, I really should concentrate on learning something in a steady, organized manner. Maybe actually devote some time to reading the authors who inspired C. S. Lewis, perhaps? (And what, get halfway through what he read
in one year of before starting college between now and the time my mortal coil gets reskeined?)
No, let's be distracted.
Ahem.
Did someone say pictures? (No? Well, pictures you get anyway.)
I've been growing radishes in the spring for the past several years, according to the package directions. If the bunnies don't get them, then they grow skinny and tough -- about the thickness of a pencil lead, and about as chewable as a nice piece of leather. This fall, Filia planted some radishes before she went back to college ... and God blessed her efforts greatly. Guess who gets to plant all the radishes from now on? (That's a Nr. 2 pencil, about 7" long, Cherry Belle on the right and Purple Something on the left.)
Construction update: On Saturday, the crews were busy going plink, plink, plink with hammers, putting out guides for the curb. Come Monday, the cement trucks rolled in and the curbs became reality.
Today, at 7 AM, the forms for the sidewalks began to go in, and the cement started to flow just after lunch. By the end of the day, it looks like our block will have SIDEWALKS!!!! Not that we're supposed to use them for 7-10 days, while it cures ... but SIDEWALKS! We're going to actually look civilized!
Speaking of civility, our water tower now boasts a nice fat white stripe between the tropics.
And, if I'm going to name this post after my gansey, I should include a progress photo. Last Wednesday evening I started the first cable row. Yesterday, I finished up the half-gussets for the underarm and started working back and forth on the back. I'm doing the back first since it has fewer design decisions than the front. I calculate I have 2 days before I need to read up on how to do horizontal shoulder straps this way.
2 comments:
You seriously thinking of adding Hebrew to your language skills?
Seriously? Not really. Not seriously? Definitely. I'm watching the videos -- they're just two minutes a day and I am starting to pick up bits and pieces of the alphabet. If I keep on with it, I'll get the alphabet figured out, and that has been my main hurdle to a serious study. I've got aleph and the 'sh' thingy down!
But I know Latin and Greek so much better, so should really perfect one of those. There is a Greek a Day series which I may well add in.
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