I am finally home from a wonderful trip to beautiful northern Michigan (see photo above), and I've got lots of knitting progress, yarn shops, photos and new experiences to blog about, but most of that will have to wait since we are now in the midst of the monster storm bashing much of the US.
Winds are gusting at up to 50 mph, a neighbor's giant tree crashed down across our street, blocking the roadway, and the icy roads are like glass. The dog has not yet been blown away as she goes outside to do her 'business', but I'm keeping her on a short leash and holding onto the deck railing - what an adventure!
Our power was out overnight (we burrowed under many layers of duvets and stayed toasty warm) and although the lights are currently on, it is intermittent, so just a quick update to let everyone know we are OK and I'll post when our power is reliably steady (despite it's occasional drawbacks, I
love winter - yes those are snowshoes on my feet!).
Today is
Groundhog Day in the US and Canada, and both
Punxatawney Phil and
Buckeye Chuck failed to see their shadows, a prediction for an early spring! An early spring has only been forecast 16 of the 114 seasons of prediction.
Wild winter weather, predicitons of an early spring... these remind me that
"to everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven.."
Progress continues on my Cascade 220 top-down cardigan, which was nearly one quarter complete when I completely frogged it and re-knit the yoke from the beginning because I was not happy with the experimental rate of increases, or the general proportions of the stitch patterns.
I enjoy a project like this to sink my teeth into and I'm loving how it's turning out now that I'm finally into the pattern stitch.
I'll have a proper post hopefully soon, until then, happy knitting!
