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socktivus yes!
Today, my father would have been ... seventy-nine? Jeez.
Damn, I miss him. A lot. It didn't help that I had to buy power tools and screws, and kept thinking 'you know, I could just call DAD and ask about this kind of thing', except, well, I couldn't.
The Yarn Garden will eventually own my SOUL. But I now have two projects' worth of yarn and needles, and I'm all signed up for the 'intro to socks' group. Yay socks! There was a girl in the cafe (had to sample their coffee and muffins, of course - they win, they have marionberry muffins) that was knitting red-white-and-blue socks, both at the same time on a pair of circular needles, for a friend who was going to New Zealand. So I've already decided that I'm knitting a pair of red-white-and-blue socks and a pair of red-and-white socks and splitting up the pairs and keeping one 'pair' and giving the other 'pair' to Chris, because I can do that.
(It helps that we have the same size feet.)
(I am also, as is apparent, a huge dork.)
And they wound the skein I bought into a ball for free while I waited, too, using one of those nifty umbrella swifts like![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hobbitblue has. Very nice people. I feel like my soul will be getting a fine home. :-)
Now that I'm done being stereotypically girly, I'm now off to play with my new power drill.
Damn, I miss him. A lot. It didn't help that I had to buy power tools and screws, and kept thinking 'you know, I could just call DAD and ask about this kind of thing', except, well, I couldn't.
The Yarn Garden will eventually own my SOUL. But I now have two projects' worth of yarn and needles, and I'm all signed up for the 'intro to socks' group. Yay socks! There was a girl in the cafe (had to sample their coffee and muffins, of course - they win, they have marionberry muffins) that was knitting red-white-and-blue socks, both at the same time on a pair of circular needles, for a friend who was going to New Zealand. So I've already decided that I'm knitting a pair of red-white-and-blue socks and a pair of red-and-white socks and splitting up the pairs and keeping one 'pair' and giving the other 'pair' to Chris, because I can do that.
(It helps that we have the same size feet.)
(I am also, as is apparent, a huge dork.)
And they wound the skein I bought into a ball for free while I waited, too, using one of those nifty umbrella swifts like
hobbitblue has. Very nice people. I feel like my soul will be getting a fine home. :-)Now that I'm done being stereotypically girly, I'm now off to play with my new power drill.
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