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Me, with idears.

I've made it through the second "budding lace" chart on the shawl and am prepared to start the lilies. I am overly excited about this shawl for very good reason that will be discussed later. There's not much to say/show now besides more wadded up wool. Really, it's not that interested to anyone but me. My husband has made that pretty clear.
Yet I've been accepted to the Swallow Tail Shawl Knitalong. Perhaps they might understand the gushing.

I knit this shawl all last night and since I broke up with Lost recently we tried out Bones (Yes uhm hi? David Boreanaz is male lead in said show? Where the hell have I been?). Anyway, knit I did, all through this and into the questionably repulsive episode of South Park last night, when we encountered some numbness in the elbow area. Thus, progress is halted, at least until much later this evening. I've been thinking about other projekts.

Meet my crappy backyard.

To make a long story short, summer in VA this year was like, 9 thousand degrees. Hubs and I only have a threshold of maybe 2-3 thousand. Thus, we ignored yardwork in favor of fall and cooler weather. This spot of land needs to be either taken out or transformed into something a bit more... manageable. In summation, it's all mine.
I got a book at the library yesterday. A Dyer's Garden is delightful, concise, and urges me to grow a garden. I can see this happening for two reasons.
1. A 2007 intention is destined to be spending more time outside beyond the walking/running that's already going on.
2. I love roving and spinning and fleece and making yarn and am totally into the idea of making crazy colors, carding things together, and otherwise discovering the mechanics of the things that currently hold a grip over my squishy brainmeat. Dyeing is currently second on the list of things needing to be discovered.
Hell, we could make it December. It's still '06 right?