Hibernation

This is kind of how I feel lately. Dormant, prickly and cold. Not the best blogging inspiration.

It's been less than a remarkable week here. Cold and rainy and gloomy for most of it. I decided to spare you all my inane commentary, because most days I had oh-so exciting things going on like car registration at the DMV, parent teacher conferences at semester-end with my children's teacher, and things in that vein.
I was really doing you all a favor by not blogging! Trust me y'all.

I have been making quiet progress on a few projects. The largest of which is the queen size quilt top I've been working on (omg, sooooo big, soooo many pieces, make it stop!)
The piecing is finally finished, whew!! I have the backing and the batting ready to go. and hopefully I'll have a finished object soon. Not a minute too soon, according to some!

It's been COLD around here, as I'm currently having a battle (mostly one -sided) with my propane company. We have propane fuel for our furnace, hot water heater and stove. Everything else in our home is electric powered.
All of a sudden, with NO warning, the propane costs have skyrocketed from a manageable 60 dollars a month to the $250-$270 range. WTF? When I queried the company I got the standard "Oh, energy costs are higher everywhere!" line. Grrrrr. Why do I feel like I'm somehow getting the shaft here!?

Now this particular company has a monopoly around our area. I haven't any alternative but to use their services. As a result, I've been refusing to turn up the heat until we are nearly blue. I spend a lot of time muttering foul epithets under my breath directed at the company (those price-gouging propane fuckers!!)

The good part of all this is that my family is finally starting to think that hand knit wool socks and homemade quilts are looking like a better idea all the time! Bwahahahah! Resistance is futile, you will be assimmilated!

I'm working on two socks as pictured the other day. The stripey, happy yellow and blue one is almost to the heel and the second of the fluted banister socks in that marled reddish-purplish yarn is on the home stretch and about halfway through the cuff. Just check out the pic from the last post and imagine them a bit larger. hee.

I think I might have quite a bit of knitting time in my future today, because I'll be doing little else. Last night as I was putting my children to bed, I was bent over and tickling my daughter and we were laughing, when out of nowhere my 8 year old son decided it was time to roughhouse and without warning he leapt upon me. He somehow managed to land his little 70 pound body in the middle of my upper back. I was in soo much pain and up most of the night in tears. Not good.
I can hardly move today . I'm hobbling around like a very old woman. I think he bruised some of my ribs pretty well. An accident of course, but DAMN! Ouch ouch ouch!

Back soon! Time to venture out into the world and drop the kids off at school!
03.10.06 @ 07:16 AM PST [link]