Safe! (also warm!)

Well, we got lucky here in Forgottonia, and got just a thin glaze of ice, and rain all day, so even though things will re-freeze tonight, we won't have the problems Oklahoma and Kansas and Missouri are having. I'm grateful.

I also went and did it: ordered a battery-powered Coleman table-top lamp and a candle-powered stove. So IF I need them I'll have light and I'll be able to heat soup and water. This comforts my mind considerably. I intend to add a few other things over time so I have a little emergency kit, but at least I'll be okay for a power outage.

Last night I turned the heat WAY up. Usually I keep it kinda cold in here, to keep the power bill down, but I thought if we were going to have a power outage, if I got it as warm as I could in the house it might not get really cold until the power came back on. And I must say, it was quite an experience to be--well--comfortably warm--not too hot, just--comfortable. Too bad I can't afford to keep the heat turned up that high all the time.

I have about another inch to go on the first of the alpaca socks before I start the toe. I guess I'm getting somewhere with the Lemonade socks--I think I said I ripped the one back to the heel to reknit the foot, and I'm about to run out of yarn. What I should do is rip back to the heel, snip the yarn, and attach a new skein to have a smooth, non-lumpy foot. I could use the snipped-off piece in the leg of the 2nd sock where a join would be invisible in the pattern, and then use the remnant of the new skein to do the 2nd foot.

I might possibly get these socks done by, oh, July.