Simple Woman - 1-26-09

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."

- Thomas Jefferson

FOR TODAY ~ Monday, January 26, 2009

Outside my Window... there is snow, lots of snow, we have already had 44 inches. The normal average for the "season" is 63 inches. We still have February and March and April, and sometimes early May. February's usual average is 14 inches, March is 10 inches and April is 3 inches. if we still to average, we will have 71 inches, oh and we still have to get through this last week of January, for which they are predicting a potential for up to 8 more inches.
I am thinking... snow is nice to look at, from a distance, like Florida
I am thankful for... spring and summer and fall
From the kitchen... two cakes: pineapple/angel food and cheesecake for a co-worker's birthday tomorrow.
I am creating... a scarf for Lindsey . . . see the pics below
I am going... to a meeting, lunch and shopping
I am wearing... jeans, turtle neck shell and knit sweater
I am reading... 19 minutes by Jodi Picoult
I am hoping... to finish Lindsey's scarf by the end of the week
I am hearing... not much. The snow is very quiet. My blackberry keeps buzzing, I suppose to should check it to see if anyone from work needs anything right away. Sigh.
Around the house... replaced a zipper. wound some yarn.
One of my favorite things... not having to wake up to the alarm
A Few Plans For The Rest Of The Week... meeting today and one tonight at Lindsey's school, meetings tomorrow, meeting Thursday, meeting Friday.
Here is a picture thought I am sharing with you...

I started this scarf on Christmas for Lindsey. The initial problem was that I couldn't read the pattern (remember the eye surgery), so my sister wrote it out for me. It is really easy and given the ease I may adapt it with beads for Sarah's wedding shawl . . . add about three more repeats in a lace weight with beads. It just might work.

The advantage to this is that it is in Knitpicks "bare" and when Lindsey gets tired of the "bare," it can be dyed.






A close up:


And this one is a little bit back with the balance of the skein of yarn to be done.

You know when you use size 3 needles the thing just goes on and on and on and on and on.