Welcome back!

Welcome back to the rain, rain, rain
We're glad the water's coming down again
The seeds are born in the storm
Welcome back to the rain.

(from Circle Round)

It's a glorious rainy day here. We haven't one in far too long. There was essentially a drought here late summer and fall and very little snow this winter. It's so nice to have a rainy day.

The rain means no planting my peas today, though. No walk to the PO either. I hope Luis gets home in time to go for me because I have a package that really needs to go out today.

I just bound off a ponch for Abigail. It's a light blue that I paired with aqua stripes. When they are next to each other, the blue takes on a periwinkle look that is really nice. It's really simple. I took a neck down raglan pullover pattern and just didn't seperate for the sleeves. Joan S on knitlist shared that wonderful idea. I still need to picku up the stitches and finish the neck, but she can't wait to wear it. It's a little big, but I wanted her to be able to wear it next fall, and maybe next spring as well. I'm debating fringe still. We'll see how it looks once I get the neck finished.

I've been working hard on my Cape sweater. The back and one sleeve are done. I've got about 2-3" done of the front as well. It's longer than I was trying for. I tried to shorten it by an inch, but I suspect I messed up somewhere with the conversion of centimeters to inches. The color is gorgeous, completely me.

I'm stalled on my socks, but will proably get going on them again soon now that the poncho is finished. The poncho was a quicky project I did on the spur of the moment. It would have been done a week ago, but I didn't like the bind off I tried, so I put it down for a few days before ripping that out and doing a different bind off.

Rosemary's Sweater is just beautiful, but I'm stalled on that too. I need to either buy a 16" size 9 circ or get the Denise set. My size 9 dpns are shorties (5"??), too short to work an adult sleeve with.

To finish this entry - a job for you.

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

"The Vanir are more mysterious than the Aesir, with no surviving mythology to account for their origins."

My nearest books was The Book of Runes, and the beginning is discussing Norse Mythology.

What are you reading?