It’s been so long, I just can’t believe it. We’ve had lots going on in our little neck o’ the woods, so I guess that’s my excuse for not even realizing I haven’t posted since the 3rd. I know, right?

Everyone is sad except Channi!

Channi is long gone. We had a fabulous family going away party on Friday night. I’ll keep the details quiet, since it’s a bit geeky, but needless to say, we had fun. Then Saturday we drove her to the way far away place she’s chosen to go. For those of you following the weather at all, many northern places are snow free and relatively warm for this time of year, and Utah is right there with them. We have had one dusting of snow in the valley all year, and it’s been in the 40′s, which is just unheard of for January. So guess what? On Saturday, when we are moving Channi, it snows. Even Logan, Utah, the freezing tundra of the state got it’s very first snow that day. It was cold! As one friend put it, Murphy’s effin’ law, right? Oh well, we kept at it.

We drove by these apartments and K said, “Wow, those are dumps!” Guess what? That’s where she lives. Uh huh, yeah. She likes them though. There is so much more storage than her last place. Plenty of room for yarn.

Then we get home and realize, she basically left us a huge mess to pack and take to storage. We were pretty upset. Because here is the deal….her leaving triggered a mass of moving in the house that took most of the weekend, and is still not completely finished.  Jude moved to her room. Then we moved the treadmill and desk into Jude’s old room. We brought some furniture from storage and I created a little knitting nook in my bedroom. And we had saved the Christmas decorations to take down when we got the furniture from storage. So it was a busy day. Still not completely organized, but it is getting there.

I bought the coolest standing lamp for my ‘nook’. It has one light that points up and another I can train down on my knitting. It is so utterly awesome to be lit up like that! Love it. I’ll send a pic of the area when I’m all organized.

I am working on the Baby Surprise Jacket. It is interesting. I can see where people get

Baby Surprise

frustrated, but so far I am just trying to keep the Elizabeth Zimmerman attitude of casual calmness about it and it’s working. I think so anyway.

Color choice was hard. I wanted something that could be for a boy or girl and I could not find any sport weight, which it calls for that I liked. So my friend Leo mentioned that on Ravelry, the most used yarn for the project was Cascade 220, worsted. Good Old Cascade. I picked Celery, which I love and started up. The great, great thing is, that the pattern included directions for three different gauges. So it calls for 6 stitches to the inch, but if you get 5, guess what? It tells you how many to cast on and has a whole set of instructions to correct for that. EZ is brilliant, no? So I did not have to knit 5 gauge swatches and change needles and waste time. just knit a little swatch and started in.

Amy, Vic and Me

Anyway, ups and downs, as usual. Granny is very ill, and so people are all coming to town to visit. This is sad, of course, but I get to see family, which is a positive.  And Vic did take K and I out for sushi, so that was even FUNNER. Yes, funner, as in more fun.