Bummer

It’s snowing and cold.
I know it’s only March 12th, and that living in Toronto I have no right to be offended about it being cold and snowing at this point, but I’m offended anyway. The weather has been warm (well…warmer than this) and there are snowdrops in the garden down the street. I’ve been waiting for it to get warm enough to run outside instead of having to do battle with the treadmill (my arch-enemy) and last night I went for a run outside. I ran from here to High Park (which is absolutely irrelevant to you, unless you care that my goal is to run *around* the park by the end of the year. I thought it was a pretty good goal until yesterday when I was practically crawling back to my house) and all I wore was a tee shirt and fleece. Then this morning…it’s all right back in the dumper. I cannot bear the thought that the little snowdrops are covered in this offending crap. (Now would not be the best time to tell me that this may be why they are called snowdrops, okay?) I may start the Snowdrop shawl (which I am yet to write the pattern for) in their honour. Remember the swatch?
snowlace
In other news. I am knitting clogs. Probably until I die.
What book did I get? This one. Am I going to be sorry? What I really wanted was this one. Just kidding. I crack myself up.

10 thoughts on “Bummer

  1. Be glad its cold, it gives you a chance to wear wool for more than 3 days a year. It has been over 80 degrees twice this week here already, I shudder to think what July will be like.

  2. Sorry to hear about the snow. Did I mention the sun came out on Monday and it’s been 11 all week? Amy had her sandals on again yesterday. (ducking and running for cover in BC)

  3. Well, it’s sunny and beautiful in Charleston, South Carolina USA. I love the weather this time of year before it gets so hot. Most of the projects I have are for winter. I really need to start thinking Spring!!!
    LA LA LA
    LA LA LA

  4. You won’t be sorry. I had a chance to examine it at my knitting group and it’s really nice.

  5. Hahahah… still laughing at Vera’s LA LA LA Song of Spring!
    The weather’s the same here (I’m in upstate NY… the middle of the long bottom edge of upstate NY.). I was *so* bummed to see white on the ground this morning. I had such high hopes that Mother Nature was over that phase.
    You know… you make such beautiful things. That shawl swatch is magnificent. I can feel the dark side calling to me… my boss lent me a pair of knitting needles so I could learn how… and looking at all your lovely projects, and hearing all your knitting stories, really is making me want to try. Never mind the 2-foot-wide (so far)
    blanket I’m crocheting. Never mind the nearly-finished cross-stitch project. Never mind the painting kit I’ve yet to open… and the lovely sewing machine I was given for getting my Master’s…
    I think I want to knit.

  6. see…here’s the thing about celebrity scarves. there are some neat scarves in there…and it’s cool that there are actresses and stuff who knit. i happen to strangely love julia roberts (though i don’t think she’s in that book). however, i was annoyed when flipping through it when it was mostly garter or stockinette stitch scarves followed by the phrase “this yarn not commercially available (read: these people are famous and spend bit $$$ on yarn to be hand made by people much cooler than you) please use something big and crazy that will cost you three weeks’ salary and drive a rift between you and your husband who was really hoping to get the transmission fixed on the car, not support your Prism Light Stuff habit…again”
    wow…that kinda got away from me, didn’t it?
    i do love darryl hannah’s scarf though. i could never wear it (at least not at my current size) because it would look like i had a piece of hairy spaghetti around my neck…but one day.
    got away from me again. clearly i need to stop. 🙂

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