Visual Knitting and Pets Round-Up and General Update

[cimorene]

Life

waxjism's winter or "winter sport" holiday of one week started yesterday. I had a little bit of energy and got the empty cookie tins from Christmas (9 of them) washed, dried, and put away. We were going to go for a walk yesterday and then we were going to go for a walk today, but the sun has set now - it's almost 4 pm - so I guess we'll try again tomorrow. Also in the last week Wax has taken the trunk of the Christmas tree outside and I finished packaging up the huge box of wrappings into trash bags (and a little bit into plastic and cardboard recycling) and now we have recycling bags all over the hallway and the cold porch. All the star lanterns are still in the windows, but I haven't had the energy to turn them on in a month.

Winter knitting

Since Christmas I have finished this double-layered stocking cap for my dad (Musselburgh by Ysolda Teague), half in Scheepjes Downtown self-striping sock yarn in Lakeside and a contrast half in Sandnes Garn Sunday in Jelly Bean Green/Petite Knit Statement Green. I made two pairs of socks to use up the remnants (adding a solid chartreuse yarn in the second pair because there wasn't enough for two whole pairs). Also some legwarmers, this pale pink brioche sweater and a matching scarf from the remnant of the pink yarn, a balaclava which I have worn almost every day since I finished it (v. amused that it makes me look like the marginalia recorder-playing musician in this icon), and finally this beautiful two-color brioche shawl (Raina by Andrea Mowry).



Pets

Inspector Japp continues hanging out on the sofa frequently. Rowan has taken to coming and personally begging us for dry used teabags which is probably good because he gets less of them that way (we won't let them have more than 1-2 per day; they don't manage to consume very much of the contents). (These pictures are of him emerging from a narrow bunny hay tunnel and nothing to do with tea.)

Tristana continues to hang out near the gate and watch Sipuli with increasing chillness but Sipuli continues getting impatient and jumping on the gate to stick her paw through the bars and try to grab when Tristana won't come any closer. Wax and I continue NOT doing what the animal behaviorist recommended, which is parallel play and training and sitting with the cats close to the gate to keep them calm, because executive dysfunction/energy/planning. I hang out near the gate on either side and sometimes a cat will sit on me, that's about as far as we've come. Wax can't figure out a way to make herself comfortable near the gate at all. A bit like Tristana, hah hah hah.

Comments

[princessofgeeks]

Wishing you all the best as you get organized and await spring. Wishing you all success and NOT another year of Cat Divorce argh.

[barbaratp]

Desmontar as coisas depois do natal pode ser bem cansativo. Minha árvore não sobreviveu a uma queda em dezembro e está guardada desde aquele mês então. Minha mãe esbarrou nela com seus glúteos e na queda deixou minha árvore totalmente bamba, a pobrezinha não se mantém mais em pé sem ficar caindo. Os males de uma árvore artificial, mas aqui não é culturalmente comum plantar uma arvorezinha pra depois cortar e fazer de enfeite no fim de ano. Mas é comum algumas pessoas terem elas em seus quintais e enfeitarem conforme elas crescem ao longo dos anos. Achei lindíssimo todos os trabalhos em fio que você fez. Essa foto é do seu pai? A tradução desconfigurou um pouco o texto, acredito que perdi algo no meio do caminho, além de que as fotos ficaram fora da ordem quando meu tradutor mudou o texto para português brasileiro (tragédias do layout)

[cimorene]

Hahaha! Well, Finland is mostly forest, but we didn't used to buy trees often when we lived in apartments. Now when we are hosting Wax's brothers and their families and children for Christmas Eve dinner (every other year), we would have bought one, but this year's tree grew in our yard - a volunteer, we didn't plant it! It was about three years old, I think. We decided to use it since it was just a little taller than a person this year. (The place it was growing was too close to the house and another large tree to allow it to get big there permanently. It came up in a row of small flowering bushes.)

And yes, that's my dad! He sent the picture which my sister took after they got the hats in the mail. They live in the US.

[barbaratp]

Foi o destino essa árvore nascer bem aí de forma natural e espontânea. Milagre de natal.

Quanto a foto realmente ficou excelente nele, legal que mesmo longe você ainda mande presentinhos para seus familiares u.u

[cesy]

Wow, lots of knitting!

[cimorene]

While hyperfocusing it just seems urgent to get as many projects done as possible of course but when I take a step back and look at everything it seems like tons!