Coughs, Consolations and Messy Tuesday
May 6th, 2008 by 
mel
In the absence of knitting, blogging, photographing of messes (or knitting), working on Summer Sky, keeping up with online friends & their activities, and possibly most disappointing - a trip to one of my favorite annual activities, MDSW - there has instead been coughing, aching, sniffling and general yuck. I am almost never sick, but when I do come down with something I am a big old baby (must work on that)! I’m finally resuming normal activities and fortunately, there have been some consolations!
While I was mourning the missed trip to MD, I won Connie’s contest for her brother’s T-shirt! I rarely enter blog contests anymore in an effort to minimize the stuff coming into the house - there is a stream of “stuff” going out as we continue to pare down and filter out the unwanted or unused so that we can actually find the useful and valued, including yarn without a set purpose - so even potential free yarn or other contest swag feels like a burden sometimes - weird huh? Somehow this hasn’t stopped the book acquisitions though. I wish my public library had a better knitting collection. I digress, I digress!! I loved her brother’s illustration so much that I caved on this one. And who would have thought? I won! Check it out here! Talented family, no? Have you seen Connie’s latest IK design yet? Thank you so much Connie (and your brother too! It’s a beautiful design!) I look forward to wearing it!
Other bright spots have been Mathias’ returning strength (funny, I thought it would be the dogs that required us to stay home, not me!), and a resulting brief trip to VT a week ago to join Tad in seeing Tim & Martha and our sweet niece AB, and our little vegetable seedlings taking off in their new bed (built by Tad!) and flourishing with the recent rain and collected rainwater from our growing collection of barrels (the goal is to support the entire water needs of the garden this year with rainwater if we can). Oh, and it’s primary day in NC! We walked to our precinct’s polling place this evening, conveniently located at the edge of our neighborhood. I was very excited to go vote!
So how about a Messy Tuesday pic (taken a week or more ago now!)?
Sad closet shelf with hidden WIPs - Go to Flickr to see the detailed notes.
This is not usually where I store my WIPs - an as you can see, they’re suffering for it - That’s my Festjakke and Riata Tweed Jacket, which looks like it needs some detangling. Ouch. I think these got stuffed here in a quick “cleanup” for company weeks ago - and strangely enough, they haven’t been touched since! But! Belvedere the second has been progressing though slowly, and I’ll have a pair of finished socks to show in a couple days. Some work has been done on Summer Sky, my brain finally felt up to tackling some of the math on Sunday and I think that I’m on target for an end of May/early June release. Taking this step back to rework and revise has been very valuable, if time consuming. Which makes me even more excited for some of the other designs I have on the brain! I hope you’ve all been well and doing fun stuff, knitting and making messes!
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May 6th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
Sorry to hear you’ve been feeling a bit under the weather…and that it caused you to miss MDSW..
…great looking veggie bed though! My neighbour and I just put one together this past weekend too…very excited for the produce when it comes!
Good luck with the math..
May 6th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
I’m really happy you won my contest, Mel. I just ordered your T-shirt and it’s being sent to me via UPS so I hope to have it out to you soon.
Hope you feel better soon. I hate being sick too - and am also a big baby about it.
May 7th, 2008 at 5:02 am
So sorry to hear you’ve not been well.
I really like what you say about paring down. Sometimes I feel swamped here under all the ’stuff’. Years ago we had a house fire and lost most of our possessions and, weirdly, it felt very freeing. Hmmm… there’s an idea… (joke!)
May 7th, 2008 at 8:41 am
Awww, yuck. I think that nasty coughy thing has been travelling- I missed MDSW too because I was ill. It’ll be there next year; I’m hoping I’ll be a much better spinner then.
I hope you’re feeling better!
May 7th, 2008 at 11:35 am
I voted yesterday too! And I was thrilled with the outcome - although it was rough staying up until 1:30 this morning…
May 7th, 2008 at 11:41 am
Ha! I spy a hydration bladder in the corner of that picture!
I’ve stopped entering every contest I run across, for the very same reasons. Also, I feel like I have a healthy stash and maybe someone else whose stash isn’t as voluminous as mine deserves a chance to win.
May 8th, 2008 at 2:59 am
I wish I got one of those stickers when I voted! Thanks for your comment on my last blog post. I am so excited about this election. I am glad Obama won NC-at least the state I used to live in went his way
NY is not as cool yet..but it’s getting there. Mixing knitting and politics together always yields flavorful results. p.s. my closet looks way worse. i just throw my crap in there and slam the door. i fear what it has become.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
I’ve tagged you for a meme Mel..if you’re interested the questions are on my blog!