12/12/06

I've been knitting

Which is why I haven't blogged in ages. Like I do every year I bit off more than I could chew and have been frantically knitting up tons of Christmas gifts. I am hoping I can get them out by Christmas...some might be getting late Christmas presents. Sigh.

But I have finished some knitting which is a good thing. I can't find Burt (my camera) so no pictures of the finished products.

My Dad was here last week: I was able to give him gifts for that part of the family--saved on shipping! He also bought me a ton of yarn from Knit Picks--I have the beginnings of a respecable stash. Lot's of laceweight yarn...in wonderful fibers. Being an idiot though I bought too litle sock yarn in too many colors...meaning I bought 3 balss of sock yarn in three different colors...and it takes ONE ball to make ONE sock. So I am off to buy more sock yarn so I can actually make pairs of socks.

My Great Aunt Mart died early early Sunday morning. She was in a nursing home and was suffering from dementia...and may have had pancreatic cancer. In reality she had given up on living 20 years ago when my Uncle Sarge died. I didn't see her when we went up to see my Grandma in Mass. over the summer. I wanted to remember Auntie Mart the way she was when I was little, not the decrepited state that she was in. She would have been 84 next month.

My mom flew up for the funeral, which is tomorrow. My great aunt will be interred a few spaces beyond my Grandpa. I am sure going back to the cemetary will be very hard on my Grandma.

I'm supposed to clean today--grin I'll get to that eventually--I just need to knit a few more rows.

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