Pretty days in Somerville

Posted on April 30, 2009
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Except for Tuesday, which was super hot, it has been really lovely recently. Each day has been filled with clear sunshine and the temps have been in the upper 50s-upper 60s. I’ve been enjoying my little walks (mostly to True Grounds, my current favorite coffee shop/work spot).

This week our nursery furniture arrived. The crib and dresser came on Tuesday. They both require assembly, so they’re in pieces at the moment, but last night we did open up the crib box just to make sure everything looks okay. It does. Yesterday the comfy glider arrived. Looking at the measurements online I was a little worried that the chair would be too big to fit through the doorway to the nursery, but Ez got it through with no trouble. I like it! We’ll have to be vigilant about de-linting it… microfiber, you know.

chair

This week I also finished the second knit hat for our little muncher. It’s the same as the first, but in a different yarn and color. I liked working with the wool yarn a bit better–I think that’s a general preference of mine. In my experience, wool just tends to be softer and to produce better stitch definition. I think both of the hats are super cute, though. He’ll have one for summer/fall and one for fall/winter! Oh, and I finally (after–what is it now–13 years of knitting?) got some little double pointed needles to finish the top of the hat instead of improvising and probably stretching out the yarn. I’m not sure what I was nervous about–that I’d drop stitches or lose the little needles, I guess.

nursery paint tests
Last night Ez tried out two paint colors in the nursery, so I’ll be periodically wandering in there today to scrutinize. It’s a sort of drab green at the moment, so the effect of the new (light, slightly greenish blue) paint is going to be very different. We’ve been pondering leaving our Miro poster where it is in the nursery–all those bright colors and interesting shapes!–challenging and exciting!–perfect for our kid, right? But we’re thinking maybe not. It’s not Miro’s “friendliest” work. It’s open to interpretation, but it might be a bit angry-looking, even war-like, for a fresh-hatched type. I can see just the spot where we can move it in the living room, in fact. He can worry about war and anger later.

Why we love Suki, part 3876559

Posted on April 22, 2009
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Suki

There’s nothing like the ways of a cat to make you stop what you’re doing, forget about stress and tasks, and just say “tee hee!” and be happy. I recently went through a lot of papers and files in my office and produced 5+ bags of recycling. In the midst of moving furniture out of the office, we discovered Suki as you see her here. Never to be deterred from perching in the sun’s rays, and as much a fan of little nesting places as the next cat, she found that this particular bag of recycling would do quite nicely, thank you.

A Visual Montage

Posted on April 22, 2009
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I promised a picture of the little hat I knit over the weekend, so here it is!

Knit hat

And while I’m at it, here are a few others to catch you up on the last several months.

Union Square, New York January in New York’s Union Square

doorway, Portsmouth
A Doorway in Portsmouth, NH

And the obligatory picture of a cute baby, Lydia, who we finally met over the weekend.

Lydia and JohnLydia and John

A Monday in New England, or an excuse to catch up on the ol’ blog

Posted on April 20, 2009
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So it’s Patriot’s Day, which I didn’t even know existed before I moved to the Boston area. And it’s Marathon Monday–this year it’s the 113th running of the Boston marathon. A guy Ezra works with has already finished. He came in 60th overall. Yeah, that’s right, 60th out of 26,331. One of Ezra’s other co-workers and our friend Randolph are still hoofing along and seem to be doing quite well. Whoop whoop!

Suki is at my shoulder as I write this, accepting kisses and purring.

Some New Englanders have today off; Ezra is working from home.

We had quite a busy weekend. Saturday we met up with friends John, Sonya, and their wee spunkmeister Lydia. Pictures of Lydia eating and generally checking out the world are coming soon. After a nice little visit with the pals, we decided to go to IKEA. Our goal this trip out was to get some lamps for the nursery, but of course we ended up finding a lot of other things that we genuinely need as well–a new bathroom rug, some little pads to prevent our furniture from scratching the floor, that sort of thing. Then yesterday we rented a U-Haul van and moved some assorted furniture out of the home office and into the studio. I’m not yet totally useless for such things, though anyone watching me push my wheeled cabinet up the ramp at the studio enjoyed quite a little comedy routine, and I did wake up this morning with an assortment of aches. We moved the larger part of the desk through our (open) front window… we’re just a couple of engineering geniuses is all.

Last Friday we had a doctor’s appointment, and afterward I wandered over to Windsor Button, where I found two skeins of Sirdar Sublime yarn–one a washable merino and one a washable cotton. They’re in such nice colors–I had to get them to make hats for our mini muncher. I finished the first one last night–they’re so easy! Pictures to come.

Song of the Day

The Essex Green-Sorry River 

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On My Needles

Rhapsody in Tweed cabled pullover for Ezra! using Tahki Donegal Tweed in Forest, from Fall 2004 Interweave Knits. I've just picked this one up again, so it's moving up in the queue!

Sweater with Cable Patterns pullover using Araucania Nature Wool Chunky in Mauve, from Rebecca Magazine Number 28

Heather Pullover using Classic Elite Wings in Larkspur, from Rowan’s A Season’s Tale... This needs the knit doctor. I'm going to have to frog back a little bit and redo the shoulder area. Long story.

Hush Pullover using Jo Sharp DK wool in Wine, from Rowan’s Calmer Collection

More scoop on my knitting endeavors can be found at my home on Ravelry (clicky here).

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