Sunny Saturday

Here it is, a nice and sunny Saturday, after a dreary, gray, and cold day yesterday. I have already gone for a nice long walk, and stopped at the bakery to get some goodies for later. On days like this, I really enjoy getting out early in the morning when everything seems bright and fresh. The fact that it is also Saturday is just the icing on the cake.

ABC-along 2008

If you have been paying attention, you know that we are now up to the letter J in the ABC-along 2008. So you probably saw this one coming ...

J is for Jetsam!

Here he is a few weeks ago, when he was "helping" me plant some flowers in the garden. Jetsam is now two years old, and he is still having as much fun as he ever did as a tiny kitten. One of his current favorite activities is to burrow under the rugs to the middle of the room, where he will sit for an hour or so before coming out. Whenever anyone walks by, you hear a little "Merp!" sound, and can see a paw under the rug trying to grab your foot.

As you may have guessed, we spend a lot of time straightening out the rugs here ...

The story of how Jetsam joined our family is here, if you are interested. I can say that he is still a sweetie, a troublemaker, and the ultimate optimist, in that it is still impossible to even come close to hurting his feelings! He is apparently of the belief that any attention is good attention ...

Here are a couple of pictures, taken recently when we were sitting out on our deck, and he was dying to join us - but because he would easily be The Cat Most Likely To Jump Off theDeck, he was forced to stay inside - the indignity of it all!


Left: "This poor little kitten would love to come out and sit with you."

Right: "OK, a breakout is the only possibility!"

Actual knitting content!

Hey, it happens ...

I have made more progress on Dotty:

I'm very nearly at the point where I will need to get ready to create steeks for the armholes and V-neck. This makes me nervous, as it never occurred to me that I would be doing steeks - I thought it would be one of those divide-at-the-armholes-and-continue projects . Lisa (our instructor) assures me that it will be fine, but what if my poor brain is so full of fair-isle, there's no room for steeks??

I'll keep you posted ...

I am also happy to report that I have finished another secret Christmas gift project, and have gotten halfway on another! As you know, I can't show you the pictures here, because I want them to stay a surprise to the recipients, so you'll have to wait until December, when they have been gifted, and once that's done, I'll have all kinds of pictures for you.

In the meantime, if you are on Ravelry, you can see the finished project in my notebook.

That's it for now, time to do more Saturday stuff!