In my two years of blogging I have discovered that if I have pictures and an idea, the post writes itself. Tonight I have almost no pictures and very little in the way of ideas. Let's just see what happens, 'kay?
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I finished a really good book, Eye Contact by Cammie McGovern. I read about it on someone's blog, I think, and requested it from the library. It is a murder mystery of sorts, really a novel where a murder is one of the organizing principles, a mystery with more than the usual amount of really good character development and insight into those characters' souls. A little girl is murdered, and the only witness is an autistic boy. Well-written. I highly recommend it if you like mysteries that are not particularly bloody or graphic.
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I started back to work the day after Labor Day, half-time until mid-October. The half time is because of my county board commitments -- meetings, committees, budget. It is taking me a while to get back into the regimen of being a worker bee instead of the Queen of Leisure. I love the work, I just don't love work, if you get my meaning.
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Without photos, I can't show you my knitting. I finished a stealth project that is a birthday gift for #2's girlfriend. After the 16th I can show it to you. The scarf I talked about a couple weeks ago is a lot bigger now, and I did some creatively funky things with the laciness of it, all of which will be revealed... sometime. I finished the socks mentioned in that post which needed toes and knit the second sock of another pair mentioned there. I have not worked on the Summer Chevron; the weather has turned cool, so I have lost motivation. I still like the sweater a lot, so it will get finished sometime before next summer (she said confidently). I started a child's sweater for the current Afghans for Afghans drive (deadline October 1) using Knit Picks Wool of the Andes from stash, a bright blue that is the same color as the blue of interstate highway signs and a cherry red. My charity knitting has been sadly neglected this year, and it feels good to be doing some. It is a saddle-shoulder pullover knit all in one piece using EZ's method outlined in The Opinionated Knitter. No seams, yay!
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#2 son has some more pictures of the St. Paul police in their full riot gear at the RNC, but he has only been able to email me this one from his Blackberry. Grrrr.
There are much better pictures in soxanne's post about participating in the September 2 march on the RNC; go check them out. A number of my friends here in Polk County marched in St. Paul, too; I didn't because I have trouble walking more than a few blocks. Those that did march have my undying admiration -- it was about 90 degrees that day with the same humidity.
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Oh, yeah, we went camping on the North Shore for 4 days the week before Labor Day. I have lots of pictures and things to tell you about that... when I have time. This will just have to do for now.
