Too Much

Here you go. I do not live in Palm Desert.

The only thing that saves us is that this is a relatively dry heat. I sent the Pixie home early. There will be no work in the dye room until the sun goes down. For the time being...it is giving me a headache.

There is something new, of course. It came in through the ether on Thursday and we got it up on the site on Sunday. Berry Poppins.

I am determined to make Sivia's shawl. I was certain that I had ADD because I could not concentrate on knitting the lace pattern enough to not make mistakes. I tore it all out and after talking with someone else that is knitting this, I have upped my needle size and my time per row and thankfully I am well on my way again. A few rows a day, just like normal people. I am just so used to sitting and knitting or spinning with a vengeance and this has not worked well for me, at least at the point where I have been able to see the pattern. Once I SEE a pattern, it is a piece of cake. Time to change into normal reading glasses, I think...too much focusing in and out with my normal progressive lenses...headache? What headache? Page one is complete and I am stopping for now. I will only knit on this when I am alone and not tired and there will be a chance for old cross-eyed me.

The dogs are flat and snoring. I think that I need to do the same. It is not quite 3 PM and I am waiting for Mother Nature's fever to break. Perhaps she is really really really pissed off about what those piles of knuckleheads are doing to each other (and all of those poor innocent souls caught in the middle) in the Middle East. ENOUGH ALREADY, DAMMIT!!!!!!!! I have friends on both sides of this mess and just wish that it would stop.

Comments

[Lisak]

Oooooh! Aaaahhhhh!! Love it! Thanks for the pretty picture.

[vanessa]

you and me both! love the berry poppins :-)

[Kerry]

Ugh. I'll quit complaining about my 98'.

I love the Berry Poppins!

[CarolineF]

It's almost that hot here too. Ewww.
I am not very hopeful about the middle east. Even here, thousands of miles away, where we are not really involved, people are acting insane. On Dailykos people are fighting the war themselves in the comments. One cynic said he thought the situation was so intractable that the fighting would continue until only one party was left standing, and a bunch of people started accusing him of advocating the destruction of Israel.

[Rosemary]

Yesterday it was 118 F here in the backyard. In the shade. :P I feel your pain. Love the new colorway. :)

[Lisa S]

Ok Rosemary, you win! We only got to 110.5 and then it began to fall a little. 118...were you standing over a geyser up there in Geyserville? Good LOOOOOOOORD! I hope that the babies could play in some water. My babies just found some tile floor to flatten themselves against. Not much knittin' in your neck of the woods...I got back to dyeing once the sun went down and man, everything dried nicely over night. :o)

[marti]

the heat makes me wilt just thinking of it...and here we are heading to chicago in a week or so...i'll stop complaining now.

[Sheila E]

Glad now that we live in the PNW!! I have been complaining about the gray cloudy days and the sun coming out at 4pm.....I'll shut up now (maybe).
Lovely new colorway Lisa!!

[AlisonH]

I've got AC, and it only hit 98 here, you wanna come dye some of that gorgeous colorway on this side of the bay?

[Sheri in St. Louis]

Mother Nature's fever - love that. She must be really sick here in St. Louis, where it feels like you're walking in warm jello when you venture outside. All the more reason to hang out in air conditioning and knit.....