I love December days. 
I have that nice buzzy purposefulness going on inside my head – and all
around me is the cool gray peace of the natural world at rest.  A solitary crow flying across the clouded sky
and maybe a little fadey patch of blue behind the silhouette of black bare
branches.  With night descending so early
now, there is a preciousness to even the dim light of a rainy day.

I am even feeling pretty good about the Christmas Knitting
today.  Oh, the occasional wave of
panic….but no serious misgivings or worries as yet.  It helped to read The yarn Harlot’s blog –
heck, she has yet to start a “largish pair of socks” and is ripping back an
entire (albeit child-sized sweater).  And
she is still waiting on yarn that she has ordered!  Admittedly, she knits about 10 times as fast
as I do, but if she is not panicking, I am not panicking.

We can both panic later in the month.  Knitterly camaraderie.

I am in the midst of all by Christmas Knitting projects – my
“spinning plate style” (remember the old Ed Sullivan show act where the guy had
about a dozen plates spinning on sticks and would run back and forth between
them to keep them spinning – for those of you too young to remember, yep, we
watched that…).  I sort of herd them all
along toward the 25^th like a flock of sheep.  So, nothing is actually done yet.  At least, that is my usual M.O.  I actually am planning to complete 3
particular projects, as well as the Extensive Sewing Project, by next weekend (Sarah & her family
arrive from North Carolina
on the 15^th – so that is my impetus).

Superstitious souls may say I am tempting fate to lay out my
plans so blatantly.  But I am all for
raising my hopes to the skies!  Those
peaceful gray skies with the crow and the fadey patch of blue behind the black
bare branches.  And God – the Creator of
creativity – surely blesses the work of our hands when it is done with love and
such childlike enthusiasm!