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Just a busy Saturday

There’s a ton of wildlife in Calgary, and it has a tendency to just pop up wherever.  We went for breakfast down at the Blackfoot Diner with Chelsea…and what should be parked on top of Chels’s building?  A Canada Goose, full of attitude, honking away on the roof.

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We walked down to the Diner, and Chels showed off her new toes.  Well…she’s always had ‘em, but now she’s got ‘em on display.  Apparently she had to get the more audacious colour, too.  Bright, bright pink.  Now…both Robin and I had heard of these things, and had been very curious about them, but had no idea where to get them.  Apparently MEC carries them for a very reasonable price.  We stopped in after breakfast and picked me up a pair of Vibram 5-Fingers Sprints.  What most folks probably don’t know is that I have horrid posture & my back has been killing me like crazy for a good part of the last month.  Barefooting is supposed to help that.  We’ll see how that turns out.

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After getting home, and putting on those bad-boys, we went for a walk over to Dale & Morgan’s place & then walked back, taking a stop off at the Safeway for a brief coffee with friends… and saw a wee froggie on our walkway (he posed for a photo-op.  The bunny that wandered past our garage the day before didn’t stop long enough for that).  We ended the day with some meat on the grill, the remains of a bottle of chardonnay, and a bit of knitting in the last few sunbeams of the day.

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Hope everyone else had an equally good weekend!

Published April 18th, 2010 in Diversions, Knitting, absurdity, nerdy, shopping | 1 Comment »

Son of a B(SJ)

Indigo MoonMmkay.  So I seem to recall mentioning that I re-cast the BSJ on with some Lorna’s Laces and some unnamed black yarn that, in its dubious past, may just be 100% acrylic.  Well, it’s still percolating.

Not long after I hit “Publish” on that post, I made the decision to head down to m1.  I walked in to find that Bess had received an order of Madelinetosh worsted that was to die for.   I promptly staked my claim and headed home to start work.  My only concern was whether or not I’d have enough yarn to finish.

Well…apparently not.  But luckily for me, there was still some of my colour/dyelot when I returned on the weekend (we were looking at wheels…I love my spindle, but it’s so SLOW!).  The second skein is now joined, and I’m almost done.  I’ve gotten past the part where you knit 10 ridges in the middle before picking up stitches for the final few rows.  Yay!

It looks gorgeous.  No pictures will be posted until after Yule, however, so that all the folks who will best appreciate seeing it in person (I’m looking at The Family here…) can do so.  The name I’ve given it (Creamsicle BSJ) is kinda an apt descriptor.

In other news…that sock I mentioned last night?  Finished.  On to #2!  My goal is to finish the pair this week so that I can move on to the next pair.  No picture of the finished product again, pretty much due to the same reason as the baby sweater.  However….you may wish to head over to Indigo Moon and salivate over their fingering weight 100% merino, because that is the lovely lovely yarn that I’m using. I’ve even included a picture of the household mascot with the bare yarn.  I can’t enthuse about it enough.  It feels like heaven on the fingers, and it knits up surprisingly fast on size 2.5 needles.  If I wasn’t pretty sure that I’ve shot my yarn budget for the month, I’d get more.  Because it’s worth it (plug plug).

Published December 2nd, 2009 in Diversions, Knitting, Uncategorized, shameless plug, shopping | Comments Off