Ohmygosh.

I finished my first sweater!
I didn't post any pictures or mention it because it was just a sea of stockinette. I'll have pictures and details tomorrow when the sun is out.

Bookworm: Meme

Instructions:

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
6. Tag 5 people

Salem Falls by Jodi Picoult.
"Oh, you're tough, Jack. It takes a real man to beat up a guy as old as me...and to fuck a child."
Jack's hands twitched at his sides.

Nice. It sounds bad, but it isn't really. Here's the summary on the back cover:
A handsome stranger comes to the sleepy New England town of Salem Falls in hopes of burying his past: Once a teacher at a girls' prep school, Jack St. Bride was destroyed when a student's crush sparked a powder keg of accusation. Now, washing dishes for Addie Peabody at the Do-Or-Diner, he slips quietly into his new routine and Addie finds this unassuming man fitting easily inside her heart. But amid the rustic calm of Salem Falls, a quartet of teenage girls harbor dark secrets -- and they maliciously target Jack with a shattering allegation. Now, at the center of a modern-day witch hunt, Jack is forced once again to proclaim his innocence: to a town searching for answers, to a justice system where truth becomes a slippery concept written in shades of gray, and to the woman who has come to love him.

This is a book I've been reading for a few days and it's really good. Maybe I'm biased because I like all of Jodi Picoults books. She has also written My Sister's Keeper, Plain Truth (there is a Lifetime movie based on this one, starring Mariska Hargitay from Law & Order SVU), The Pact, and others. I suggest that you check one out.

Meme stolen from http://schrodinger212.blogspot.com/(I'm too lazy to link properly right now) I tag whoever wants to do it.

Finally, real snow!

I finished this hat for my friend for a late Christmas present. I think she liked it. Simple hat pattern in bulky yarn. Easy-peasy.

My posting has become erratic and it's only the end of January. I guess I'm not up to this commitment. I'm not going to post everyday with little tid bits of info; if I'm going to post anything it will at least have some interest. Like today. We finally have snow here. Substantial snow that would probably give other districts at least a delay tomorrow, but we have a different person who decides snow days here and whoever it is doesn't like to be lenient. Oh, well.
These are pictures of Fletch playing in the snow. He loves it. I don't know what's up with him, but he always thinks that there are squirrels in any tree that he's free by. If he's on a leash, he's pretty calm. I have a video of him playing with a soccer ball. I might upload it to youtube or something and then I'll post it.
I've gotten almost no where with this walk one hundred miles thing. I guess I'm not very consistent with things that don't involve TV or browsing the Internet. *sigh* As a matter of fact, I think I've misplaced that paper...

Ice, Ice, Baby

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I took these pictures this morning. Why wasn't all of that rain snow? I mean, it broke our trees. Ugh. I'm getting so impatient with this dusting of snow and then rain. But it just started to snow now, so maybe there's hope?

Leeds, made-over.

This is a swatch of a shawl I'm working on. It's based on this pattern. I had to chart it out and I'm not knitting it in garter stitch. I'll probably add a different border, maybe Eunny's from the Print 'o the Wave stole. If you've noticed, this is the same yarn that I was using for PotW but I wanted something bigger, and I had made more mistakes than I was happy with.

79 days.

There are 79 days until April 1. I have only walked 3.75 miles so far. It takes Fletch and me twenty minutes to walk a mile, or once around the "track". I still have 96.25 miles to go.Hopefully, I'll be able to walk, maybe run, faster and I can get two or more miles in per day.

100 miles by April?

I have been reading about this in the blog world, and I thought,"Hey. Why not? Fletch and I could use some excercize." I just got home from an almost thirty minute walk with Fletch. I'm thinking about joining the walk/run/whatever along, Run-a-go-go. I won't be running, at least not any time soon. I'm so out of shape. I need to be working on that anyway because of my up coming Alaska trip. Oh, did I forget to mention that? I'm going hiking in Alaska like I went to the Grand Tetons last summer. At least I won't have to buy boots again. I definately do not want to get sick like I did last time. I felt like I held the whole group back. I won't this year.

Look Ma!

Look what I can do!...I mean, look what my mom did! She knitted this scarf over Christmas break (my Christmas break) and she just added the fringe this afternoon. Go Mom!Specs:
Yarn: Assorted colors of Cascade 220
Needles: US 10, straights
Finished size: 4 1/2 inches wide and 64 inches long, 72 with fringe.
Pattern: Cast on 20 stitches and work in garter stitch (all knit stitch) for twenty-four ridges and change color for 9 stripes. Bind off. Add fringe.

Fletch was a bit nervous with the scarf around his neck. He did pretty well staying still though.

Time to go read Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton. I hope it's good.

Day One.

Happy New Year! My resolution? Blog at least once a week. I would have been doing that already, but I'm extremely lazy. I'm always online, but I just don't blog. Bad me.

My mom asked me to show her how to knit on Christmas day. This was started after a few fudged attempts. For about six inches on a swatch, she kept picking up stitches by spiltting the yarn.This picture is a rather bad one because it is dark out, and I'd say my mom has improved. The scarf is almost five feet long. I also have kind of sad news. My wheel has to go back next week. I've got some roving that I got for Christmas to finish up. No problem. And I leave you with a shot of Louie. I love his nose.