Almost...

...finished. This isn't the greatest photo because the sun is too bright. Wait! I didn't really complain about that!

Anyway, I still have the binding to do but I'm pretty pleased with the rug so far.

Kind of cool

Remember my pink socks? I think the colorway was called "Sugar". Well, I liked the yarn so much that I bought another couple of balls - this time in a green colorway called "Kelp". When the socks were knit up, they did look like kelp floating in the ocean on a very sunny day.

After knitting the grown-up socks, I had remnants and I like to knit kids' socks with these leftover bits. I was wondering what would happen if I knit one round in pink and one round in green throughout. Here's the result. Isn't it wonderful? I call it "Skyblue Pink" and these are for Becky. Because of the way I do short-row heels, there's part which is just green and the toe I made just pink for balance. The other sock will be the opposite due to yarn distribution.

I'm looking through my remnants for more that I can do after this. Great fun!

Where were you?

We all voted in our municipal elections yesterday. Well, some of us did. Our District had a shocking turn-out...less than 17% of eligible voters showed up to cast their ballots. What is wrong with everybody?

I don't know how low (or high) it was in other municipalities. In a way, I hope it was that low everywhere just so we don't look so pitifully apathetic. But, really, I hope we are an anomaly. There's nothing exciting going on here, I guess, to get the citizens fired up. I mean, how passionate can one be about garbage pickup schedules and whether someone on the other side of town gets to develop their property? But we should care. Isn't this the government closest to us?

Maybe it's a feeling of not being able to fight City Hall? Surely, this was the opportunity to get out and say something...anything. Just say it!

Discovery

Apparently if you get up early on a Saturday morning and your newspaper hasn't been delivered yet, there's something amazing on CBC Radio 2...Molly Johnson and a lot of beautiful music. This is worth waking up for.
This morning I was especially happy to hear a song by Emmylou Harris that she wrote herself: Red Dirt Girl. I could listen to her all day. But, there was more. Lots more. Jimmy Cliff and Ella and Lenny Kravitz and Diana Krall and BB King and Rufus Wainwright and oh, so many more. Just great stuff for four hours.


I'll be back.