Wool & Words

I shouldn't have waited so long to update...3 whole days have passed!

Monday:

Steve & Dad went fishing--30 fish are now lifeless thanks to them. I pretty much hung around the house. There were many fish eaten when the folks got home.

Tuesday:

We went to Lafayette and visited with my grandmother after making a stop at one of the local Catholic bookstores. Then we took Trey (my nephew) to see The Chronicles of Narnia which Steve & I had seen already, but certainly didn't mind seeing again. We ate far too much popcorn, then returned home for a Scrabble match against my aunt, Mary, and her son, Nick. I won the first game at the 11th hour (it's good to be the first to go out), and Nick won the second. Round two on Saturday during the New Year's Eve festivities.

Wednesday:

The initial plan was to head to the local yarn shop and bop around the town, but those plans went awry when I felt a very nasty sharpness in my unmentionable reasons. I immediately sensed UTI, and off to a walk-in clinic we went, where we spent the better part of the day waiting.

I got a fair amount of knitting done on Steve's Trekking XL sock.

I also got some serious drugs, one of which (close your eyes if this makes you squeamish) turns your urine colors. What fun, eh? So far, I've been treated only to a very vibrant orange, but I'm hoping for blue eventually.

That done, we returned home, but only after finding and procuring a DVD of Wallace & Gromit shorts. We watched one of them last night and will likely view the remainder this evening.

Thursday:

Finally got to the shop. The Yarn Nook in Lafayette, LA is a great little shop. Given the climate of south Louisiana, I didn't expect a great deal of heavy woolens and I was correct in that assessment. The selection of novelties was quite good, with some classics (Cascade 220, Aurora 8) thrown in. A couple of nice cashemere blends, lovely rayons, some handpaints....all very nice. I bought a couple of skeins of Skacel Duo and one skein of green heathered Cascade 220.

The surprise for me at the shop was really the rest of the stock. From what I can surmise, the shop shares space with a haberdasher (or would it be a milliner?), so there were lots of lovely ladies hats about and fabulous bags. I petted a couple of them lovingly, but I really don't have the budget to become the hat and bag collector I someday could be.

After the shopping, we headed off to Dean-O's Pizza, a favorite pizza parlor (highly recommended), then did a bit more wandering. We're home now and will watch The Polar Express (again, I know, but Steve & my mom haven't seen it--good knitting time for me).