Finally! We are home. It is so nice to sleep in my own bed. The one thing I haven’t missed is the TV. I could live quite well without one (and have in the past for many, many years) but I’ve found that the time I spend with the man watching TV is actually my best knitting time. I have missed that. It’s been three weeks since I’ve knit anything. I’m looking forward to starting again.
I did manage to collect hats from the good ladies at Caps for a Cure in September (as well as make two hats myself) and send them off to Knitting for Noggins. The 37 hats in the picture are from just one woman, Marsha, aka Hobobird. Awesome! She made such a wide variety and did some very cute things with them. Check out the cute frog in the left-hand corner! A couple of the ideas, like the balloons and the whirly-gig topper, were listed on the Knitting for Noggins website. The campaign netted over 21,000 hats for the hospital, 65 of which came from our small group.
Audiobook Blurb:
What I’ve really had time for recently is listening to my audiobooks. I have several to talk about, but I’ll take them one at a time. I’ve added a bookshelf to my sidebar, courtesy of Shelfari, that will help me remember what I’ve read, although they won’t all fit on it. Shelfari is a great book organizer with forums for discussion.
One of my Audible credits went to the purchase of Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen. The story was a fun, romantic tale with a bit of a mystery that poked fun at the trend of reading gothic novels that prevailed at the time. As usual, the characters were of the wealthy classes with all their concerns for marrying advantageously where finances are concerned. I enjoyed the book and the reader was very good.
Comparing this novel to Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, I have to say that Northanger Abbey was more enjoyable for me. There were too many disturbing undertones to Jane Eyre that I found contradictory, such as marrying a man who was not really kind. Austen’s book was a simpler, more light-hearted read.
Now I’m off to decide which knitting project to pick up and complete. : )
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Here’s a picture of one of the things keeping me busy. This is Sammy. She absolutely loves chasing a ball. Leaping up to catch it just adds to the joy. She’ll even chase the ball in the pouring rain, which has been ushering winter in quickly in our neck of the woods.