July 2, 2009

• I do not believe it rained at all during the waking hours yesterday...That was an improvement over the past several days!

  Dh is sick....He's been sick all week.  Poor guy.   He was home Monday (sick and it was Nature Boy's birthday party) he was home sick on Tuesday, yesterday, he mustered up the energy to go to work and felt worse and came home early.  Honestly, when he got home, he looked awful.....He is snorky and sniffly and generally miserable.  I don't know his status for today yet as he is still asleep.  Summer colds/viruses are just the worst!

  I have not knit for a couple of days...I did make some progress on the red and yellow soaker.  I pulled out my knitting book, opened it up to the kitchener stitch page and seamed the soaker up....

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  I think I might have pulled the stitches a little tight....but it is fine.  There was one wonky half stitch in it...but again, I think it was fine (in other words, I can live with these imperfections).  It wasn't as hard as I was expecting and as long as I chanted what I was doing, I was fine...Though I think dh might have thought it slightly odd to hear me repeating over and over again, "Bottom as if to purl, top as if to knit, bottom as if to knit and slide off, bottom as it to purl, top as if to purl and slide off, top as if to knit, bottom as if to knit and slide off......"  The process has a nice rhythm to it, that's why it wasn't so hard to do.

  Once seamed, I looked at the soaker and thought the leg holes looked too long...And that the rise in the front looked too short....So, I seamed the legs down a bit and knit up the first cuff.  I still was not happy with how it looked....That made it seem short in the leg hole.  I inquired of my friend as to the measurements on a soaker I had knit and given to her previously....Kindly she humored my obsession and measured for me.  Turns out the soaker was correct to start.  Now, I need to pull out the cuff and un-sew the bits I closed up on the leg holes.  Not a big deal....But I was annoyed about it for a couple of days, so I haven't done it yet.  Today, I have already pulled it out and looked at it and will get back to the project.

  I was also told that the lovely purple soaker has waaaay too much stretch to it.  I am going to have to reknit one of those to get the pattern kinks worked out.  It might be that my knitting is a bit loose (which it is!) and so it allows more ease to the ribbing.  Mind you, I tried to correct for that by dropping my needle size, but given that the ribbing is so stretchy, I will redo the next one casting on fewer stitches.  I have had a color request too....So, I may have to make a trek to Kaleidoscope Yarn.......Oh, the burden of it!  

  What else?

  Last night, I made a quick modification on the grazing ark.  The pigs are eating the grass so fast in it that they make bare spots on the lawn! To allow them a little more room for grazing and to curtail a secondary issue (cleaning!) I took the floor out of the part that is the little house.  Basically, I had lined it with an old towel (on top of the piece of plywood), but they were still getting it pretty urine soaked and it smelled.  Now, they will have the ground to pee and poop on and I won't have to worry about cleaning up.  It's a win-win situation....They get more grass and are happy, I get less work and am happy!

   

   

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