If this ain’t a tornado, I don’t wanna see one.
August 20th, 2008So, here’s what “tornadoes were forming but didn’t touch down” kind of looks like the next day.
I woke up at 3:30 in the morning, thinking a freight train was aiming straight at the house. If that’s not the real thing, then I sure don’t ever want to meet it!
At the back of the picture you can see the three large trees torn right out by the roots.
It snapped those two trees off (sort of twisted off the one) and laid them on my vegie garden. Freaky. I figure I was pretty lucky that all that got damaged were some corn plants in the garden.
I won’t post a picture of the Sort of Cornish Guernsey. It still needs the neck and sleeve ribbing done, and I’ve been working on this:
Yes, I know. Fuzzy picture. That’s because it’s another Secret Project. It is a tad behind my self imposed schedule. At 30C it’s hard to knit with wool. I finally started getting up at 5AM when it was only 20C and knit for an hour. Today it is finally back to reasonable temperatures, so I should have it done by lunch time.
The Finn yarn and roving should be shipped to me on Thursday on the bus. Then next up at the mill is the Icelandic laceweight. I just talked to Sheila about the processing. There is some grey on a couple of the fleeces, and we decided to not over-card to get a homogenous blend. It will still have a bit of a light heathery look to it, which will look lovely knit up, and give depth to any overdyeing. This is being spun from beautiful lamb fleece from a farm here in Alberta.
I am rooting around in the stash and planning out a whole whack of baby projects. I decided to sort of test out some of the ideas by first knitting hats/socks for the Grand Baby. A baby can’t have too many of either one, and it will hopefully slow me down on that starititis thing…you know, cast on, knit a bit, not too happy with it, get out new wool, cast on, repeat.




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