Showers, Right On Schedule

There will be no April Fool's jokes from me today (but I will share that in French, the term is "poisson d'avril," or "April fish"). However, Mother Nature seems to be taking the old saying "April showers bring May flowers" to heart this year, because it's raining and will continue raining for most of this week, with a possibility of some mixed-in snow showers at the end of the week. In the words of toddler Mo, "No like it!"

We did have a nice, but busy weekend. Services on Friday night were really lovely, but it ended up being a late night because we decided to go out to dinner afterwards and of course had a wait. Thankfully we all slept in Saturday morning. Mo and I thoroughly enjoyed Mamma Mia on Saturday afternoon -- apparently this national tour is celebrating the show's 25th anniversary, which means when I saw it the first time in Toronto, before it went to Broadway, it was part of the very first season of shows. I got a lot of sock knitting done, too, and though I needed a little more time yesterday, I did indeed finish the socks. I'll block them today and then take them to my sister-in-law sometime this week.

I used my usual top-down heel flap/gusset recipe for these, worked over 80 stitches using US 0/2.0 mm needles. The yarn is Knit Picks Felici in the colorway Lassi (as in mango lassi). Felici is pretty generous on yardage -- 436 yards per 100 g -- but my sister-in-law's feel are so big that even knitting her shortie socks used 65 g! Despite starting the socks in the same place in the stripe sequence, they don't quite match, but honestly I think they're close enough, and she may not even notice.

Last night we had some friends over for dinner, as as we were sitting and talking, I looked down at my feet and noticed I had a big hole in one of my own shortie socks (this was a pair that was "missing" for a while in the mess that was my closet, so I suspect some critter may have nibbled on them and weakened a strand that broke). After I finished grafting and weaving in ends on my SIL's socks, I did a repair job on mine:

Before       |       After

I didn't have any of the yarn left (the socks were themselves made from leftovers), so I pulled out some that had sort of similar colors and stitched it all back together. It's not a perfect fix, but I mainly wear these socks around the house, so it doesn't much matter anyway.

This week is shaping up to be another busy one. Tomorrow at 8 I go back to the dentist for my permanent veneer, and then at 11 I've got an appointment to donate blood. Plus there are the usual work meetings, school pickups, and chores around the house. I don't know if I'll be able to get outside to exercise at all this week, other than walking to and from my appointments. At least being inside all day means I'm closer to my knitting, which I hope to do more of this week!