Knit My Dog

It's been a long week. I'm still sick, either up all night coughing or getting some drug-induced sleep from cold medicine. My productivity has been WAY down. I go to work, then collapse in the evenings. I've gotten comments from "You look like shit", to "What's Wrong With You?!" whenever I see people. I guess I pretty much show how I feel. I haven't even felt like blogging, or commenting on blogs although I've been sitting around reading them. So sorry if I've been absent from blogland lately.

About all I've had the energy to do this weekend is one walk on the beach with the dog. It was a beautiful day yesterday, and I hear we might be in line for some frozen precipitation this week, so we enjoyed the warmth and sunshine while we could. We also depleted our wood pile today. We lugged the wood inside and we have about four more days of fires left, then we're onto burning the fossil fuels.

About all of the knitting energy I've had this week has gone to these:

Two vests for Dulaan using up all of my leftover partial skeins of worsted weight wool. I think I have enough for one more vest then I'll be up to five Dulaan items. This is a first for me, knitting for charity, so I'm excited about my accomplishment.

I haven't even shared my big news of the week. I bought a wheel! When I was leaving for my last spinning class last week, Howie asked me if I would be coming home with a wheel. I was feeling somewhat guilty because this is supposed to be my year of no purchases. I had been doing great until I got turned on to spinning at SPA. I bought a drop spindle and some roving from Amy and proceeded to be hooked. Then I took the spinning class. Howie has been encouraging and even figured out a way for me to buy the wheel. OK, it's still cheating on the "no purchases" thing, but I guess I can live with it. His birthday is next week, and he informed me that for his birthday he wanted "A Love it double pedal spinning wheel." So I bought "him" the Louet S10 double treadle that I had been trying out during my class. I guess the first thing I should spin is enough yarn to make him a sweater! I haven't done much spinning this week due to my lack of energy and enthusiasm, but I sure do love it ;-)

The vests pass the "Moebius sniff test" of approval.