What’s the best thing to do at the end of a long and exhausting week? Why, more work, of course. The temperatures “soared” to the mid-40s were in southern Wisconsin and I took advantage of the heat wave to move the bicycles from the garage to the basement. I didn’t do any cycling this summer; maybe 2025 will be the year I hit the road again. I do miss it. Eldest and I also insulated three more windows: two that face north and one that faces east. Psychologically, the house feels warmer already.
Having moved a lot of things out of the way so that we could insulate the window in the library, I decided that I wanted to retain a certain spaciousness in the room. I moved box after box to what is now a guest room upstairs. I tried not to just make a new pile of clutter up there. I can go upstairs on the weekends and sort through those boxes to decide what to donate, what to keep, and what to throw away. (But will I?)
I do feel more relaxed in the library now, even though there are still a few more things I could move out. All in due time.
With regard to the biography project, one work of fiction was delivered last week and I have ordered another copy of the work of nonfiction that I’m studying. Well, two more copies, actually. ANYWAY, pretty soon I will need to do some scanning of the library copies I have on hand before they must be returned at the end of the month. So I’m working on the schedule for that. I was also going to set up a photo-taking area in the house, but I didn’t end up having time this week to even start that process.
I made no progress on the Impossible Read this week, though a friend did give me several books I can add to the list. If you wonder why I’m not making progress…well, I do have assistance with digging my literary hole deeper and deeper.
Knitwise, I am now more than half done with the pink and grey scarf. I finally did some stash-diving this weekend and found almost (or possibly actually) a full skein of light heather grey yarn that feels like Wool-Ease. So much so, that I now wonder if the dark grey heather I have used as a narrow stripe is Wool-Ease after all. Anyway, I started knitting the light grey yarn onto the scarf and I have now knitted over half of that skein, taking me to past the halfway mark for the whole scarf. It helped that, this weekend, I had an F1 qualifying session and a race to watch, as well as an interview with Leigh Bardugo about her most recent novel. Knitknitknitknitknit. Repeat.
Because this yarn contains a certain amount of wool, I will probably wash and block this scarf after I finish it; that should even out the edges a bit. Right now it looks extra ragged because I haven’t woven in the ends yet: I have just tucked the ends under the scarf for the sake of the photo shoot.
I’m not good at taking progress shots on the dining room table, for several reasons. But this photo shows the colors in closer proximity without having the ends of the scarf slide off the curved edge of the table.
I’ll keep plugging away. Maybe (fingers crossed) I’ll have the knitting on the scarf done by next weekend. Then I can do more stash diving and find more yarn I can use up.
Chocolate Sheep 