03/13/2006: "We were doomed from the start"

In typical Goddess fashion, I've spun, I've knit, and I've purchased stuff right through Cold Front 2006. The newscasters were predicting Rain! Hail! Ice! SNOW! for this area. We were doomed, I tell you, DOOMED! It might, God help us, get down below 32 degrees! HOW can people live like that!?

We were doomed.

It was fairly impressive, I'll admit. On Saturday morning there was snow within sight of my window (on a mountain a few miles away. A doomed mountain), which, for a California girl such as I am is, like, far out man! It was a crazy cold weekend (for these (doomed) parts) and is still pretty chilly, so I've been able to wear scarves. Yay! I don't generally get to do that, around here. It's too warm for the most part and I don't like stuff around my neck because I have a strangulation issue. As in, I am afraid I will strangle at any given time (hey, it could happen). But when it's this chilly (37 degrees in the morning! Cold! Shut up, East Coast!) I will risk an ignoble strangulation death in favor of warmth. And you know what I discovered?

I don't have enough scarves.

This would seem impossible to anyone who has followed my knitting progress, but it's true. I actually only have one wearable scarf. There's the purple Grief Scarf, which, dur-hey, I can't wear. Maybe someday but probably not and if you don't understand why, well, we should talk. There's the silver and blue scarf that Mom made which is very cute and I do wear it but it's fashionistic, not warm... istic. And there's the red chevron one that Bean made me, which is the clear winner here. It's cozy. It's warm. It can be dressed up or down. It's... just that much too wide.

Clearly I need to look for The Perfect Scarf. Soft and luscious without being so expensive that I'm afraid to wear it, warm and cozy without being too bulky (with this chest and these shoulders, what I don't need is bulk). I'm considering many options. Any input you have will be appreciated.

Anyhow, in the midst of all the Weather Commotion around these parts, I have been spinning, dying, knitting and buying up a storm but I have no pictures of any of these activities because when you spin and dye and knit and purchase you are very tired at the end of it all, and so the reader at home must wait to see all the pretty lovelies.

Let's just say that I am continuing to buy spinning materials at an alarming rate, but that the Fleece of Donna now resides in a proper cotton drawstring bag (of DOOM!), the Carders of The Fleece of Donna have arrived and resemble overgrown dog combs (of DOOOOOOM!), and that a pound of inexpensive Lincoln wool has replaced 8 ounces of multicolored domestic in the (oops! brand new!) Basket of a Thousand Spinning Happinesses (no doom there) in the living room.

There may also have been the purchase of a tensioned Lazy Kate, 3 new bobbins and the ordering of cold water fleece wash. Maybe. I'm not speaking of that. It would doom me.

In order to forget that we ever had this conversation (a DOOMED conversation, yo!), I will direct you here to become completely creeped out by The Lego Knitting Machine and Creepy Phillip Glass Music Player (of doom) (of course).

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on Tuesday, March 14th, Barbara said

Since I work night shift I was headed home at 8am. After slipping and sliding in the snow, which was still coming down heavily, I decided that there was no way I was driving back down the hill and home again. Hence, Zarah had her first snow day. Wimp.

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