For reasons of privacy, and from my belief that people should be free to tell their own stories, I will not go into detail about some of the things that happened this week. I have had some bad weeks, but this has probably been the worst week of my life.
I can say that, just when I thought it couldn’t get any worse, I tested positive for COVID on Saturday morning. I spent an hour or so texting everyone I’d been in contact with in the previous 48 hours or so, then settled in to rest in isolation for the first of five days. Fortunately, I don’t have a fever, my symptoms are treatable with over-the-counter medicine I already had on hand, and I have the ability to work from home this week as I continue to recover. But, heck, there was no need to kick me while I was already down.
This week I have done a lot of reading (my sickbed resembled a bookshelf with blankets) and a lot of thinking. There are things in my family, in my house, and in myself that really need to change. In many ways I have continued to be stuck in parts of my past. I’m beginning to feel ready to make changes and start to move forward into an uncertain future.
I had hoped to have some peach-seed roots to show you by now, but they haven’t started to do that yet.
I’ll check back in another week to see if anything has started to happen. If not, then maybe it’s just not going to happen. But since this is an almost zero-effort project, I can keep it “going” for as long as I want to. It’s not hurting anyone to let them sit there.
I mentioned that I have been doing a lot of reading; I have also been trying to update my reading journal. Right now there are only 4 books that I have read this year and not completed an entry in the journal. (Let’s not go into how many books I’m still reading but have not finished yet, or how many titles have just plain fallen off the book-cart. That’s not important right now.)
Knitwise, I thought about the scarf I’ve been asked to make. I logged in to Ravelry and I did a Google search to see if someone had already written up a pattern for the scarf (it’s based on the celebrity photo I included in last week’s post). I came up empty, though, and when I have the time I’ll just cast on and forge ahead, and see if what is in my mind is something that will work.
I’ll write it down, I promise. But it’s basically a 1×1 rib that I want to knit in the round, then close off at the ends with fringe. The problem is that I’m a thrower and my “lateral gauge” will be inconsistent as I go between knit stitches and purl stitches. It will also be slow going for me.
Knitters, if you have any suggestions please put them in the comments. My brain is too occupied with other matters right now to think clearly about how this scarf should be made.
Chocolate Sheep 