So, today started out as a real “meh” day. Grey skies, dreary….not looking too promising. I hid for awhile in my computer and then kicked myself in the butt. I switched over to Youtube and some knitting podcasts and picked up MT’s sock. Have spent a couple hours with EarthtonesGirl and Lesley Arnold-Hopkins……much needed calming and humor injected into my day.
I recently did a DNA testing (actually three to see if they would balance out each other or wildly contradict) and find that I am over 61% British Isles. I know my families came from Moffatt, Scotland and Wales….but it turns out deepest, darkest London is in there and a bunch of Donegal, too. I also have 4% Scandinavian with no country that could be defined, so I am thinking maybe when the Vikings visited either Normandy or the British Isles that part of the bloodline was secured. I also am 0.10% (1/100th) Native American, so I guess a piece of me does belong here. Also 19% French and German with a smidge of Dutch. So I mostly have that white, Anglo-Saxon, protestant thing rocked.
EarthtonesGirl is a SOCK KNITTER…….she is so interesting and sweet and calm. I could never imagine this lovely lady raising her voice in anger, unlike myself. They say opposites attract….she had me at “socks”. I so enjoy her podcasts.
Lesley Arnold-Hopkins is so charming. She reminds me of my best friend from Junior High, Charlotte, who passed away a few years ago. There was nothing that we could not talk about. Lesley , to me, is that type of person. Her humor and stories and yarney talents are wonderful. Watching her podcasts is like sitting with your best friend for an hour.
For your enjoyment:
EarthtonesGirl…….
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTOHLh3DIKPMy0to3hrkJhA
Leslie Arnold-Hopkins……
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4RKrk7jhkjKTvNe8-t_6Vw
So yesterday I lost my keys in my house. I took everything out of my purse (a couple times), touched every surface I had touched the day before when I came home sick from the museum, moved, shuffled, put away, hoed and throwed, checked my garbage sacks, and finally turned to St. Anthony (whom my mother implored for help all my childhood), dumped my purse on the couch and they were the very last thing to fall out on the pile. I tell ya….God has a sense of humor. I think He just wanted me to clean up my house a bit. I even put away tons of yarn that I had been auditioning for a project.
This is all leading up to why I only got the sock ripped out yesterday and have worked through the heel turn and part of the foot today.
Isn’t that “Sheep Squeezer” cute? They are made by Onesockwonderbags.com…..It was either the sock or the hot pad to work on today…….and I really, really want to finish the sock today. I am going to go back in and binge on those two ladies older podcasts and get this thing off my needles today.
oh, look………..shiny