Pattern: Swing Set by Karen Alfke for the 2010 Rockin' Sock Club (May kit)
Yarn: Blue Moon Fiber Arts Socks that Rock Lightweight in "Sweet Pea"
Size: Women's Small
Yardage: about two thirds of the skein
Needles: 2.00 mm dpns

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I got some pictures of my new socks yesterday. They are just so cute! I don't have much more to say about these that I haven't mentioned already. I made one alteration to the pattern: when you knit the ribbed portion (hidden under the fold over cuff) the pattern says to increase to 64 stitches and then decrease to 60 when you're done. I skipped the four extra stitches and only increased to 60 in the first place. I usually make my socks 60 stitches around so I knew they would fit. I love the lines of eyelets down the sides of the foot. They're such a nice detail.

I'm keeping this entry short, partially because I don't have a whole lot more to say, but mostly because I have a package from Blue Moon sitting on my kitchen table and I promised myself I wouldn't open it until I  was through my to-do list. Blogging was the second to last item on my list and since it is now almost quarter after ten I think I can let the last one wait until tomorrow when I'll have a bit more time. Hello yarny goodness!

We've been having a crazy amount of snow this year. This is our side deck. Two weeks ago today it had absolutely no snow on it. Now I'm not even sure where the steps are. We've had even more snow since I took this picture. Thank heavens they ploughed our street on Sunday or we would never have gotten out of our driveway yesterday (as it was we still got stuck a few times getting home after work - a crew of 7 or 8 people who were walking by helped push us out). I've never seen this much snow so quickly here; our climate is normally pretty dry and it would take us half the year to collect this much snow.

It's bad for walking through too. I feel like I'm wading in rough water or something. You wouldn't think so but it's slippery too since under all that snow in most places (i.e. roads, sidewalks) there are just sheets of ice so even if you get all the way through the snow there is nothing for your boots (or wheels) to grip. It will actually be a relief when the temperature drops a little further and the snow firms up. Until then we're getting lots of exercise (shovelling, trying not to fall over).

At least everything looks very pretty. Even the scraggly pine trees at the back of our lot have a romantic charm with this much snow on them.

The spider plant my sister gave me has been showing buds for a little while and today I noticed that it is finally blooming. They are such delicate looking little flowers.