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Dear Ellen,

I still have a day and a half left of this three day weekend and I already feel accomplished!  I do, however, have lots more to get done.  My biggest problem is, as ever, the things I want to do don’t map directly to the things I have to do.

Things I have to do…

• Watch “An Inconvenient Truth” and write a 5 page paper on it, including other references
• Clean and organize office
• Prep and enjoy yummy produce from Lancaster County

Things I want to do…

• Cast on Bonnie by Fiona Wells
• Write pattern for Cutie Patootie Booties and test
• Read through some of EZ’s books…never really have read them, really just have referred to them
• Start final section of TKGA “Basics, Basics, Basics” course (Yes, I know you didn’t think I needed it, but it did make me slow down and try things I would not have tested otherwise…sort of like your stock stubs.  I’m a better knitter for it, even though I didn’t learn anything new.
• Work on other UFOs
• Watch recorded “Project Runway” season premier and episode 1
• Prep and enjoy yummy produce from Lancaster County

I will do some from each list and really enjoy the last item on both.

Our trip to the property yesterday not only gave me the opportunity to buy a watermelon, yellow wax beans,  sweet potatoes, and tomatoes (all for less than $9.00!), but was a great chance for us to start enjoying our land.  My idea of enjoyment was sitting in the camp chair knitting.  Dale’s idea of enjoyment was firing up the chain saw and cutting through the undergrowth and dead wood that line the edges of our woods.  There’s a real rat’s nest (not literally) at the edge from the original clearing of the property that is now farmed.  I did help — got pretty good with the “weed whacker on steroids.”  And I walked about with the dogs.  We all enjoyed the woods and found what appears to be an old stone wall…we may have to try to rebuild it.  The clearing for the shed is all set.  Here you can see the view from the back of it, one of the places I found to take a knitting break.

And I have made some good knitting progress.  The drive up and back gave me time to work on some new socks that I’m calling Fractured Fairy Tale Socks.  They’re based on the fractured lattice pattern and every time I hear the word fractured, I can’t help but remembering Rocky and Bullwinkle.  Did you know they are available on YouTube?  I’m going to do a simple hybrid gusset on them…hope to knock them out before Hat Wars II starts up.  I finished the last pair I was working on…the Desert Skies Socks on my last work trip.  I went to San Diego where I got to see Martha and part of a Padres/Nationals ball game.  Lots of fun!  I worked up a quick pair of booties for young Austin too.  They’re a lovely angora/wool blend…baby’s first angora!  For some reason these are striking me as just so cute! so I’m calling them Cutie Patootie Booties.  At home I’m still working away on my Einstein…bit by bit.

I’ve wasted much of the day now, so I’ll sign off and see if I can’t at least get at that produce.  I’m hungry too…another good reason for heading for the kitchen.

Love, jan