Yesterday we spent hours cleaning up the front and back yards – this was a family event, a gift to George for his birthday (next year, we are all pitching in on a gift card!).  Needless to say, I was physically exhausted and a bit the worse for wear by the time I settled down to my knitting.  And was not at all surprised to find my hands breaking out into tremors every now and then as I knit!

This morning I woke feeling as if I had been beaten with sticks.  And I am still pretty tired.  Fortunately, I could “lie low” today – the only real activities being church and watching the Mariners game on TV.  Sadly, the M’s lost today – though they took the series with two fabulous wins Friday and Saturday!

But I digress from knitting.  Which is pretty much how it has been going lately with our Sasha & Geoff home from college for a few weeks and family events dominating our days and evenings.

But what I really wanted to do here was to confess that I have been discouraged by our winter-ish spring and cannot really face my true summer knitting – the Mermaid Shell, for example.  Even lace seems dangerously insubstantial in our cold wet weather. 

(Note: today we finally broke down and took the flannel sheets off the bed! Not because they seemed to warm, but because it was time to change the beds and I refused to put flannel back on – it being Memorial Weekend, for heaven’s sake!) (I digress again)

So, I have cast on the Otter Rock Sweater – a cozy beachy sort of pull-over with is much better suited to our gray days.  I succumbed to the current weather.  And I succumbed to the delicious Blue Sky Alpaca yarn I bought at Renaissance Yarns! 

So, blow, blow thou spring winds!  And summer winds, too!  I have the right knitting at hand.