January 20, 2007

Tempted to wear socks

Yes, I'm in Tombstone, Arizona and yes, that's snow. I almost put socks on my feet this morning, but then remembered it would all melt off by noon. Monday saw the lowest temperatures recorded since the 1800's, according to the Tucson radio. It was also my first experience with frozen water pipes!
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This morning I woke up to the suprise of several inches of snow.

I can see the Courthouse from my front yard.
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The cactus in my front yard looked funny with their icing of snow.

As long as I didn't have to drive in it, scrape it off of the car or shovel it; the snow is a beautiful sight.

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The Mesquite tree and the hills from my back porch really glistened as the sun came out from behind the clouds.
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~Creativity Notes~
I've been playing with designing and making a bead crocheted skullcap for a friend. I'm on about my third iteration as something doesn't seem to work each time. The first error was my misunderstanding on where to add increasing and I ended up with a strangely lopsided cap. Another "light bulb" was the fact that if I did it all in beads, it would be so heavy that it would probably slide off of the head all by itself. Then I thought crocheted netting would be interesting and tried that.... well, maybe... however I'm now told that a specific pattern is wanted around the circumference. So back to the drawing board and maybe treat it like an over sized rope, crocheted from the bottom up and shape the top portion.




2 comments:

  1. LOL...sorry, Judith, but I can't feel much sympathy for your weather woes! After all our ice, and power failures, and now the just plain freezing cold weather...nope, can't seem to find any sympathy here. :)

    Heck, I even considered knitting myself some socks with toes in them, my feet got so cold!

    Meanwhile, Bill has been sick in bed half the week with a miserable cold, and he's still down with that today while I've just gone down with it myself. So we're all real happy here!

    Knit dicky is on it's fourth try - thought I was doing fine, wanted to do a 1x1 ribbing for style and so the knit would lay flat without blocking, and found that it knits much looser that way. I think the wind would breeze right through the stitches. So that's in the knitting time-out bag today, while I think about what I'm doing. Oh, yeah - and cough, and blow my nose, and try to think of things that I can stand to eat that aren't just junk... :P

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  2. The snow looks beautiful! It is too cold for me. I will take the rain we had in New Orleans this weekend.

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