april showers

Well, it's rained more than 3 inches over the past couple of days (I need to get a new rain gauge). My house has water all around the east side of the foundation (my sister had a good idea, to dig some trenches to carry some of it off). The sump pump is sucking its little heart out. We're under a tornado watch and a severe thunderstorm watch (wind gusts in excess of 60mph, heavy rains, "deadly lightning," large hail). I'm supposed to be sitting in the basement away from windows, but (a) there's spiders and water in the basement and (b) there are windows in the basement. There's not actually anywhere away from windows in this house. I've decided the best I can do is to take the dogs into the back hallway and close the bathroom and bedroom doors. That would protect us a little bit, until the roof fell on us...

Oh yeah, and we're also under a flash flood watch.

And it's supposed to snow tomorrow.

I've turned the heel and started on the gusset of my spring lace sock. I'm a little nervous that I might not have enough in this skein to finish the foot. That would mean ripping back to the leg--it's got 4 diamond repeats and is a bit longer than my usual sock leg length, so I could rip back and start the heel at the bottom of the 3rd diamond. I hope I don't have to do that.

HERE THEY ARE!

I finally managed to (a) get decent pictures of the sock I'm working on (although the colors still don't reproduce bright and clear enough here; they looked okay in my photo-editing program), and (b) get them from the camera to the computer with a minimum of fuss .

Once you see them you'll be scratching your head and wondering what all the fuss was about. Well--put it this way--I think blogs are better with pictures, esp. chatty ones like this one, and I've been pretty short on pictures lately.

Here's the front. I like how the diamond and lace patterns break up the stripiness of the colors (and btw, that orange isn't nowhere near as orange as it shows here--it's really a delicate peach--these colors are so soft and gentle in person).

And here's the back, where you can see what the yarn looks like knit in stocking stitch and in pattern.

What you can't see is that the yarn is ever-so-slightly fuzzy--it's 25% mohair.

It's supposed to be sunny and in the 60s today and tomorrow, so I'm planning to spend a lot of time with the dogs outside. I've set up the new tunnels (though I need to run out and get something to protect the one against the fence), so Taenzer will be happy, and Timber just enjoys being outside even if he doesn't run around as much as she does. And while they're playing, I'm going to be knitting. Maybe I can finish the first sock this weekend!