The weather is remaining warm and damp and has triggered a case of the blahs. It’s one of those times I wish Texas would pick a season and stick with it but that ain’t gonna happen so I might as well make the best of it of puttering around in my studio/workroom.
I’m thinking ahead for future projects and I’ve been stash diving for inspiration. My go-to is the fingering yarn bins but I’ve also got some lace weight yarn that I haven’t looked through in a long time. Ditto DK and worsted weight yarn.
I’ve really enjoyed the tubular cowls using mini skeins of fingering yarn and in chatting with someone online it occurred to me that I could dig into my big bag of left-over fingering yarn and make a really long tubular scarf and put fringe on the ends instead of grafting the ends together for a cowl. I might even do something wild and crazy like random colors just for the fun of it and maybe alternate sections of stocking stitch with some pattern stitches. This is a project I could cast on anytime and work on it in between other things for a break.
I’m also working on the ribbing for the purple socks. This is yarn I purchased online earlier in the summer from The Dragonfly Yarn Shop. I looked for them on Instagram yesterday and discovered they have sold the shop and are retired. I’m glad I got this yarn and a few other skeins when I did.
I had planned on shopping for another TENS unit yesterday after we left the chiropractor but we both just wanted to come back home. It was drizzling rain and 68° and I wasn’t in the mood to stop anywhere else. We are in for more rain and warm temps today, clearing for a day or two, and back to rain on Friday with temps in the 60’s. My joints are not happy about this but it’s bound to change sooner or later.
When I got up yesterday morning and turned on the TV intending to watch the news I discovered that we had no cable TV service so I switched over to streaming video since our internet connection wasn’t affected. It was still out when we got home from town. It was still out as of 8:30 pm and I gave up checking on it. I called the service number for Sparklight in the afternoon and got a recorded message that acknowledged the problem and stated that there was no ETA on restored service. Someone must have messed up big time for it to go on that long. I haven’t even turned on the TV this morning to see if our service has been restored. I’ve got other things to do and I’ve not been watching that much TV or streaming video lately anyway. Tired of reruns and the same old recycled news.
I’ve got nothing else to do today but putter around the house and work on my knitting. I’m waiting for Brad to wake up and we’ll have coffee and some breakfast. I’ve got everything we need for a tossed green salad for lunch and several things to choose from for our evening meal.
Enjoy your Hump Day, ya’ll and God bless.
Rural Texas Knitter 