A Few Sheep Shy of a Farm

As promised, here is a photo of this mornings Hack. This was taken from the Boston Globe website . . .

Oh how I wish I still had my camera!

Santa are you listening?

I don’t often post about things like this, but as some of you know I work at MIT in Cambridge Mass. There is a long tradition here of “hacking” and I don’t mean the computer variety. It seems that particularly at the end of the semester (though also at other important times) the students will pull very elaborate pranks in several prominent places around campus, click here for past hacks.

This morning as I walked up the lawn of Killian Court I noticed people gathering to look at the dome, looking up I noticed what was drawing attention. A replica of the Wright Brother’s plane was perched on top of the Dome! What a fantastic Hack!!!! If I find a picture some where I’ll add it later . . . .

No knitting/spinning news to report . . . . and 8 days till x-mas!

I got my Dreamweaver back! Can you tell?

I’m still working on the holiday knitting, but making some progress. Since I’ve done several pairs of mittens now my mind is starting to wander . . . I’m thinking about what gifts to start for next year, if you can imagine!

No new finished objects to report but I’ll keep you posted.

Happy Monday!

Interesting weather we are having here in New England! Can you say yuck! And it isn’t even (technically) winter yet! I have a feeling we are really in for it this year! I’m thinking 3 1/2 months of this, good thing I like wool!

Anyhow. I did manage to get some knitting done this weekend, despite 2 migraines and slicing my thumb open on Sunday! I got one of my step-dad’s mittens finished and will start the other tonight. I also did 3 pairs of childens’s mittens on a string for the Giving tree at work. I really like doing these, they are just so darn cute. Times like these I wish I had my camera so I could have taken a picture! Well, for those that are feeling adventurous, I’ll add the pattern here. I wrote it up for a co-worker this morning . . .Mittens on a string

A little more work was done on the barn yesterday, there is now a floor where the 2nd floor will go, though it has no walls yet! One step at a time . . . perhaps it will be done by spring

T.G.I.F.

I think Friday may be my favorite day. You have all the promise of the weekend ahead, the time immediately after work feels like it is part of the weekend and yet you haven’t, technically, used up any weekend hours yet.

This weekend is going to be rather crazy, with all the holiday knitting left to be done. And it looks like I’ll be taking my car downtown to leave with my DH since he is working a double shift today and won’t have been able to drive in. Then I get to take the subway to where he does park to get his car and head home. It means getting home about an hour and a half later than I would if I just went home, but it also means not having to go and get him at Midnight or later. The upside is that time on the subway, if I can get a seat, isn’t totally wasted as I can knit while I’m there . . . silver lining!

The holiday projects are coming along. My step-father’s “sportsman’s mittens” are almost 1/2 done. Just a little more to go on the 1st one, which included working out how to do the slit in the palm so the 2nd one should go faster . . . I hope to finish this one tonight and have the second one done tomorrow. I also need to make a couple of pairs of kids mittens to bring to work by Monday for the “giving tree” there. I didn’t take tags to buy toys this year but decided to donate some mittens that can be added to toys to keep a few small fingers warm this winter. . .

On my list of 2004 New Year’s Knitting Resolutions is to start in January, knitting some extra pairs of mittens and some wool hats in various sizes, not for anyone in particular but to have a selection of them on hand for giving away this time of year as needed. Even if I did one of each each month I’d have a dozen of each ready by next December and that would certainly take some of the pressure off! I’ll keep you posted on how that plan works out!

Time to go pester someone in IT about getting Dreamweaver again so I can update the background of this to a winter scene and make a few other additions . . .