I have been working on a knitting project for, oh, about a month now. I have probably 45 rows done. That is slooooow for anyone wondering. It is a delightfully complicated pattern and a beautiful yarn and I am very motivated to finish it by a certain date, but life has intervened. No, no, WEATHER has intervened. It is blazing hot out here. Blazing. And we don't have air conditioning in our house with the 50-year-old windows. Last night before bed it was 89 degrees INSIDE. That is after we had kept the house shuttered all day, blinds closed, windows sealed. It was so hot that a package of refrigerator biscuits that I accidently left on the table without putting away exploded after about 30 minutes as they started to rise! And when it is this hot, you just don't want to knit. Your hands get sweaty and the needles slip around and you end up dropping stitches and ruining everything.
I will perservere in the hopes that I finish this excellent project by the recipient's birthday, but I can make no promises. Blasted heat wave!
If anyone is living in a place with nice, cool weather, please send it my way. And while you are at it, a nanny and an extra few hours in the day would be nice, too. And cookies. Lots of cookies.
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The irony is that DC has been positively delightful! I probably shouldnt speak too soon, but this summer hasn't been humid and has been in the low eighties mostly. Dreamy .... and so very un-DCish.
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