That Great Light In The Sky

It's been a rough week here in the South.  If  you've been reading my blog lately, or following me on FB, you know kind of what we've been going through down here.  Between days and days of driving rain and flooding, topped off by violent storms with tornadoes and hail, well, it's been rough.  That's all I can say.

This morning, when I woke up, such a beautiful sight met my eyes, I had to share it with you.

Do you see?  Do you see what it is?  Sunshine.  That's what it is.  Sunshine.  I'd almost forgotten what it looked like.

I also want to thank everyone who has called or messaged to check on me.  I'm fine.  The floods didn't come anywhere near my house, and the really bad storms last night passed to the South and East of where I am.  Lots of people were affected, though, so keep them in your prayers.

Just a quick note, if you think you might want to donate to flood relief, please, please, please don't send stuff.  Most stuff ends up being tossed anyway.  It's much better to donate to a reliable charity, but NOT the Red Cross.  They are as corrupt as a socialist government.  I suggest the Salvation Army or your particular religious denomination's disaster relief fund.

While I was keeping up with all the watches and warnings, I managed to get two hats knit.

This first one is with my Red Heart Fall colorway.  I tried an 80 stitch cast on, but all it did was make the stripes a bit wider.  No pooling.  Except at the beginning of the decrease rounds.

This one is an 88 stitch cast on, and the yarn is Red Heart Super Saver in Pinata colorway.

That's the kind of pooling I was hoping my Fall colorway would do.  I thought it would look like autumn leaves, in my mind.  I guess we'll never know.

I was sitting there this afternoon, wondering what to cast on next.  I looked over at my big box of hat yarn in the corner of my living room, then came up with a solution.  I closed my eyes, and dug way down to the bottom of the box.  Whatever I grabbed is what I would cast on with.  It just happened to be this.  Pale Yellow is the colorway.

I'm thinking I may do a patterned hat with this one, since the color is so light.  Not sure what, though...I'll figure it out.

In the meantime, I got three more of the records I'd ordered from Ebay.  This first one I have on cassette tape, but the last time I tried to play it, the tape got all tangled up, and I didn't want to risk breaking it.

If I can get my software installed and get it converted to MP3, we'll be good to go for a while.  I haven't tried installing the aforementioned software, because my ancient computer is so slow, I know I'm just going to end up frustrated.  I'm almost to the point where I want to buy a new computer, but not quite. 

Anyway...onward.  This record is one I bought because I thought the cover looked familiar.

However, after listening to it, I'm not so sure.   It's still a good album, so I'm not sorry I bought it.

And this one, I just bought. 

Unfortunately, I wasn't that impressed with it.  That's probably why there were so many of them available.  Eh, it happens sometimes.

I've got one more album on the way, then I need to pick up the last three from the National Geographic collection.  I'm thinking about hitting some of the local thrift stores to see if they have any vinyl, since I seem to have created a monster.

On the sea shanty front, YouTube has this neat little thing called autoplay.  You can pick a song and just let autoplay go, and it will select similar songs and play them.  That's how I discovered this little gem -- and another group to follow.



This really makes me want to get back out onto the water. 

I mean, really.