Not too much writing, or cooking, or eating, or anything else organized around here these days. My dad is having major surgery tomorrow, so I’ve been practicing my coping mechanisms.

Thankfully, this also means getting my charity knitting out of the way early.

Exhibit A:

This is a vest for the Seamen’s Church Institute’s Christmas at Sea program. My friend G. and I cannot read enough Frances Hodgson Burnet, who mentioned it once, so we kind of have to knit for poor sailors having to work at Christmas. We make fruitcake every year, too, so it is possible that she and I are eccentric cranks.

Exhibit B:

Gorgeous, right? I love this yarn. It’s Paton’s SWS – 30% soy. This is only slightly less weird than the last bit of yarn I used, which was 30% “jadeite fiber.”

How does one make yarn out of rocks? I would dearly like to know.

ANYway, this scarf is for the Orphans Foundation of America’s Red Scarf Project, even though it is not red.

I hope that I shall retrieve my brain from its cold storage in Worryville and have something interesting to say – perhaps some time after 3:00 pm central  tomorrow.