It was a beautiful day today! Finally! Sunshine! So we had to get out in it. We decided to go to Indian Painted Rocks. And, of course, I brought my camera.
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A couple of years ago I bought some silk hankies* at Stitches. If you have been reading my blog for awhile you might remember my little demonstration where I draft the silk hankie and knit a scarf. I worked on this for awhile and then decided that it was frustating me. The scarf really turned out awful, for one. Secondly, the silk itself was too sticky to work with. So I kind of stuffed it all into the Ziploc freezer bag and forgot about it.
Until I started spinning yarn.
When I first began spinning in September I remembered I had it and thought, “wow. I have that silk hankie. I wonder if I can spin it.” And, with a bit of searching the internets, I found out that you can, indeed, spin silk hankie.
Here is what has been making me procrastinate my little teensy final bit if Christmas knitting. It’s still kind of sticky to work with but it’s not really annoying me as much this time. I am really liking how this is turning out! I just hope I have enough of it to knit something with.
*If you don’t know what silk hankies are, they are basically a stack of silk cocoons. You can read a little more about them <a href=”here at Knittyspin. Or here at at Wormspit.com
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My last post was really rather bitchy. And I apologize. Actually, as I am learning more and more about it, it does seem like this windstorm is a bigger deal than I previously thought. The Western side of Washington and Oregon really are getting the brunt of the storm. Spokane’s situation really pales in comparison. There has been quite a bit of damage to homes and cars here, though. On my own house, the force of the wind was so strong it blew apart our fence! I think my husband has fixed it, otherwise I would show you a picture.
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Image by Majiscup – Gotta Take The Cup Tonight. via Flickr Yes, we had a windstorm last night that knocked out our power:
More than 40,000 households in the Inland Northwest remain without power following a powerful wind storm that tore across the region Thursday night and this morning.
The storm brought winds gusting to 68 mph and toppled hundreds of treesm including dozens that fell on homes, businesses, cars, power lines and fences in North Idaho and the Spokane area.
We were without power for about 4 hours this morning. The biggest problem for me was, not the fact that I didn’t get to take a shower this morning, but the fact that I couldn’t get my coffee early enough to avoid a caffeine headache. I did end up driving down the South Hill to a Starbucks that actually had power and got the big-ass size coffee. And now I feel better. Still have the headache, though.
Incidentally, I have to say that Starbucks kind of annoys me. Maybe it’s the caffeine headache making me cranky but I’m annoyed by the naming of the sizes of coffees. They have the “tall” , the “Grande” and then what the hell is the big-ass size? The “Venti?” What is that? Why can’t they just call it a small, medium, and a large? Why? I find it very pretentious and, therefore, annoying.
Back to the subject at hand. One of the radio newscasters this morning was making this winter storm here in Spokane out to be a big deal, calling the “Windstorm of 2006.” I mean, it is kind of inconvenient to be without power for a few hours. And, yes, it did blow some trees over onto houses and cars. And, yes, that is a big deal. But, “The Windstorm of 2006?” I don’t know. I think that’s being a bit dramatic.
Sorry about the crankiness. And this is not to belittle what is happening over on the West side of the state. That is pretty Gnarly. And totally worthy of the “Windstorm of 2006” headline.
Read more about it here:
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Image via Wikipedia Okay. so I am weeding the non-fiction VHS tapes right now. As I am doing this I’m considering how many times a video has been watched. I can look at the record and see how many times it has checked out, but I am guessing that when it gets to somebody’s home it is watched over and over and over again. Because that is just what kids like to do. Watch videos over and over and over again. I know this from experience (as a nanny).
So as I am thinking about this I realize that this was not my experience as a child. I didn’t watch videos over and over again. Why? Because VCRs were not around when I was a child. That is kind of blowing my mind right now. In an “I’m getting old” sort of way.
