Green is for more than yarn

My teenage offspring cut seriously into my knitting time tonight. I walked into the kitchen and was stunned.

Half jokingly, the DH and I made this deal when we got married – or he accomodated me – but I normally do not do either kitchens or bathrooms. I hate dusting and vacuuming as well and always avoid them whenever possible, but that was not part of the original deal. I don’t eat much at home – glass of juice in the morning on the way out the door – then cook my noodles at work. So I spend little time in the kitchen and hardly notice it at all.

Tonight there was no choice when I realized that all three of teens had escaped (Monday and Tuesday) without cleaning up after themselves. And no, I am not grateful that they can cook. Any person in my house who is tall enough to reach the fridge and doesn’t, well I am not really excited if they stay hungry. Especially since the teens had a lot more hours off than I.

They left me a sink full of dishes, two frying pans and the cookie sheets. The cookie container was empty. Sheesh, at least they could have left me a bribe. I can’t blame the DH, he left early Monday, well ahead of the messy crew. It is amazing how fast you can clean up while waiting for the microwave to go off.

I had plans for this coming weekend, a Space-A trip. The KC-3 crew decided that they did not want passengers on their turnaround to New Hampshire. Depriving me of a weekend visiting friends in Portsmouth and yarn shopping, it has given me the gift of 2 days at home free to knit and drive the kids bonkers with chores.

Knitting

If you haven’t seen The Last Knitter on YouTube, it is hilarious. I found the reference on Rosie’s Knits.

I am making progress on the shadow lengthwise socks. Not as much as planned, very little knitting time today (see above, plus work, plus dog). Following directions, I am now at the point where I need to do the long graft for the back. I am going to do that tomorrow afternoon, even though I had really wanted to finish this sock tonight. Daylight seems like the best idea. The detail shot is of the back leg gusset. It was really fiddly – with a lot of short pieces of yarn.

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Instead, I decided on Lemon Grass (STR) for the May Day Socks. It seemed to be reserved in the skein, but brightened up considerably in the hank. A few minutes with the ball winder and I was ready to go. Trying my new 2,75mm (US 2) Sox Stix. They feel nice and are a great length, but the points are really blunt. Don’t you just love the difference between outdoor photos with natural light and what one gets indoors, without a flash but with a halogen spotlight.

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Since I am off to Butzbach in the morning, the dog and I are headed to bed.

About Holly

fiber person - knitter, spinner, weaver who spent 33 years being a military officer to fund the above. And home. And family. Sewing and quilting projects are also in the stash. After living again in Heidelberg after retiring (finally) from the U.S. Army May 2011, we moved to the US ~ Dec 2015. Something about being over 65 and access to health care. It also might have had to do with finding a buyer for our house. Allegedly this will provide me a home base in the same country as our four adult children, all of whom I adore, so that I can drive them totally insane. Considerations of time to knit down the stash…(right, and if you believe that…) and spin and .... There is now actually enough time to do a bit of consulting, editing. Even more amazing - we have only one household again. As long as everyone understands that I still, 40 years into our marriage, don't do kitchens or bathrooms. For that matter, not being a golden retriever, I don't do slippers or newspapers either. I don’t miss either the military or full-time clinical practice. Limiting my public health/travel med/consulting and lecturing to “when I feel like it” has let me happily spend my pension cruising, stash enhancing (oops), arguing with the DH about where we are going to travel next and book buying. Life is good!
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One Response to Green is for more than yarn

  1. amanda j says:

    Your housework philosophy and mine are quite similar. There are things I just don’t do unless absolutely necessary.

    I happily knit while those around me clean up the house, with only a tiny little bit of guilt. Hey, I work full time! The others do not!

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