It Got Me, Too

I know several of you have had issues in the past week or so with Blogger not sending you comments by email. I had this issue several months ago but managed to fix it when I discovered that my email had disappeared from the appropriate field in the comment notification settings, but that wasn't the case this time. I tried deleting my email address and adding it again, but that didn't fix it. So I've posted about the issue in the Blogger Community in the hopes of getting some answer; so far the only response hasn't been helpful, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed that someone who knows how to fix the issue will see it. Bonny has found a workaround that seems to help some (posting a comment and checking the box to be notified of other comments), but it's not a permanent solution. So please bear with me as I reply to your comments -- I do appreciate every comment that's left on the blog and try to reply to all of them, but Blogger really isn't making that easy these days! [EDIT: I don't want to jinx anything, but it looks like it might be fixed!]

It is a very soggy day here in Western Pennsylvania, which means I'm not going to get in a run today (I'll run in light rain, but not this!). It'll be a good day to stay in with my knitting -- in between work, of course -- and that looks to be the case for the weekend as well. All that is to say that I hope you can excuse my photos today because there's no natural light to be had today.

My Shoulder Season is finally starting to look like a real sweater now that I have joined the two shoulder pieces and started on the back. I've also started alternating skeins, so now there's a bit of detangling to do every two rows. But at least I am at a fairly mindless point (a long stretch of garter stitch) that I can do while doing something else.

Yesterday I also made a lot of progress on my sister-in-law's socks -- I'm almost to the heel of the first one!

I'm doing my usual vanilla sock recipe for these, but I did a tubular cast-on and 1x1 ribbed cuff to change things up a bit. The yarn is Fibernymph Dye Works Bounce in the colorway Cuddletime, a tea-inspired colorway from a club that I'd forgotten I even had. They're not my colors but will suit my sister-in-law quite well. And I expect even more progress will be made on this sock today while I work and this evening, when we're going to Rainbow's school Fine Arts Festival. She'll be performing with the choir at the beginning and end of the event, but there will be a lot of time waiting in between -- a perfect situation for sock knitting!

Tomorrow I'll be up early to go get my annual mammogram. I discovered last year that Saturday appointments are a lot faster because, as there's no radiologist there on the weekend, they send you home right after taking your images. It does mean having to wait until Monday morning to get scans read and results sent to you, but I can deal with that if it means less time sitting in a hospital hallway in a gown. It does mean the potential to have to go back for a follow-up, but that's something that I've had to deal with since I started getting mammograms because I have dense breast tissue. I'm going in for an MRI in a couple months at my doctor's recommendation, too. This is just your reminder to make sure you get your needed check-ups and screenings done!

Have a great weekend, and see you back here on Monday!