...I decided to post. I had started a post soon after we lost power a little while ago. I'm sticking it in here as part of my catch up.
It's a snow day! Or an ice day. In any event, no school so no pick ups. We lost power last night and actually had fun. The lights started blinking, then went out. We were looking for flashlights and candles when they went back on. We were rushing around collecting light emitting objects when the lights went out again. Thanks to a box of Shabbot candles I've had since 1998 we had light (it was really nice!) and we watched Spiderwick Chronicles on our charged (yay) portable DVD player that we have for vacations. When the lights went on we filled drinking water containers, did the dishes, made trips to the bathroom while we could still flush because we were convinced that the power would go off again. Everything stayed on, but we decided we liked how calm it was with the lights off and the candles on so we turned off the lights, lit the candles and turned the movie back on.
As it turned out, we were really lucky. Some of our friends were without power for days. We just had an adventure.
I've been starting a lot of knitting recently, spurred on by friends and Ravelry. At the moment I have a shocking number of projects on the needles. I have two lace shawls just started, a simple lace scarf (Stolen Moments Shawl), a project yet to be started for a KAL/contest, and a cardigan. That's just the active pile!
I got a new computer! This is good news, but it is the result of sad news. My old computer bit the dust. I had beened warned, so I was all backed up, but it was still a shock.
