show us your socks

I confess that I am am a person who sees a good idea and gallops away post haste, eager to try it on, without remembering to get the name of the person who came up with it. Someone is doing "Show us your socks." Where you display the first and last socks you have knit. Isn't this a wonderful concept? It delighted me so much that I ran for my socks and camera and forgot even whose blog I saw it on. Mea maxima culpa!

And when I came down to it, the first socks I knit have been worn to dustrags. And the last pair of socks I knit have been given away. But here's an early pair and a recent pair. Blue tube socks on the back legs, and hand-spun wool and firestar stuff on the front legs.









Of course, everything is always better with a kitty.

This has been a slow and rainy weekend. DH is killing demon cows, and I am fighting with my new AT&T air card. No one told me it was glacially slow. Does it run on dial up? Or maybe I am doing something (many things?) wrong. Anyone else use one of these? I think the corner where I have my laptop set up is a wavelength black hole. I can't pick up radio there, the cell phone dies when I take it there, and as for wi-fi - HAH! This corner laughs at wi-fi. It mocks the mother of wi-fi. It imputes unnatural things about the entire family of wireless connections. Can it be that one corner of a house can be receptivity dead? Or is it a communicatory curse laid upon that segment of the property by some ancient Salmon-eating shaman who was annoyed by a nagging wife when he tried to find a quiet place to sit and think? Did he declare, "You shall not speak to me!" and the power of his will caused the area around him to baffle all communications wavelengths? Hey, it makes as much sense as any other thing to do with computers as far as I'm concerned.

But thanks to Monica's inspired suggestion, I have been able to get a few more hands from there to here. Hands are sooo eloquent!

I Iasked for hands doing knitterly things. Winding a ball of yarn. Now THAT'S a knitterly thing no one else thought of! That's extra-capsular thinking (Outside the box. Thanks and a tip of the hat to Grant and Lucia for that phrase!)

Lucia! I saw the contest on Lucia's blog. Tracking back I find it was from quiditity and the contest is over. Oh well.