Poor Little Thing

I started a new project, I got a good excuse, I need a present (I will, eventually,,,) It is another of Anne’s Little Nothings – Brambler who called my name and insisted I will try it out before others that I thought I want to knit. Who am I to refuse a call from such a lovely pattern, right?

Brambler - My latest Knitting Project

I am knitting it in Alpaca & Silk yarn of Blue Sky Alpaca in the color Ice. It is a leftover yarn from my stash, I am so good! The scarf is not as long as it looks in this photo, just about 32″, I can’t make up my mind if to knit it longer than the suggested length in the pattern, I think I will.

I am also working on my second BSJ in the Bearfoot yarn of Mountain Colors, it is not very photogenic right now.

And my last photo is of another rescuee but although we are not sure, it looks like this one was not very lucky :(

Poor Little Thing

Two nights ago I suddenly noticed something fluffy walking along the step in our living room, I immediately summoned my hero and he took this little thing and put it somewhere soft outside but we don’t think it had many chances to survive. We don’t know how it came into the house, the wicked Saki was nowhere to be seen, but my guess is that he brought it in.

How do you make it clear to a cat that you really DON’T LIKE such presents?!?

My Hero

My hero recovered the lost photos from the camera’s memory card, he is so good to me, isn’t he?

Now I can show you our visitors:

A Quail family visiting our front yard

Click to enlarge as I had to keep the photo quite large for you to be able to see the little ones! I love the way Mom and Dad Quail take care of their little ones, one day I will manage to catch them walking in their straight arrangement: a parent in the lead and the other one on guard at the end, they are so cute. By the time we got to the camera this time they moved from the paved part to the gravel and there the line dispersed.

I can also show you photos that show my Argosy better:

Argosy Scarf Isn’t that nice?

Argosy flying mid air Another view of the flying Argosy

Weird

The weather is weird – after a few really hot days (around 43 C at the peak) it became very windy and it really cooled off yesterday and even rained in the late evening. Today it is still quite cold for May and grey and the rain keep coming to visit – I am so happy!

The weirdest thing just happened – I downloaded a bunch of photos I took earlier of the Argosy Scarf I knitted for Sam. I saw them in the folder and wanted to delete one that was really fuzzy, I chose it and clicked the delete and all the photos I downloaded disappeared, I can’t find them anywhere, that piss me off, the scarf is on its way to Toronto so I can’t take other photos,,, oy oy oy!

Did you ever knit while you sleep? No, not in your dreams, really knit? I think I did it last night. I woke up on the sofa with my knitting in my hands, I finished the row I was working on and turned the work around and as I have to do decreases every other row, I checked where I am and I can swear I should have been at the end of the previous row! My conclusion – I was knitting and sleeping at the same time! Today when I picked up my knitting and start working I noticed I knitted many stitches into the yarn – just another proof I was indeed asleep while I knitted these stitches! – I think this should be entitled the weirdest but the previous sentence doesn’t go well with weirder so I think I will have 2 weirdest if you don’t mind!

To entertain you, here are some photos taken during our camping trip last weekend:

Knitting in the Morning Knitting on the Edge Better look at the view at the ridge of the Mogollon Rim, Arizona I am such a serious knitter

In them you can glimpse my Argosy, I knitted it in Lucia of Posh Yarn in the colour: Chorus Line – I enjoyed this yarn so much I knitted it three times before I finally decided I like the Argosy well enough to let the yarn stay in it.