Sir Christopher spent the day stuck up a tree. I went out this morning to look for him, and I heard him meowing up there. So what did I do?
I took pictures. I'm a terrible person. Anyway, you can't make it out here, but he was about 10 or 12 feet up, and the notch he's sitting in is the tree's lowest branches. Below that, it's straight trunk. I don't know how he got himself up there, but it took us all day to get him down, poor thing. He seemed fully recovered this evening, though. He was tearing around like a little daredevil--maybe trying to make up for not being able to run around while he was up in the tree.
I worry about that cat a bit, though. He lives mostly outside, and he's always getting into scrapes. I guess he got stuck up a different tree a while back, and apparently he managed to find his way inside of Clay's swamp cooler once. Mom and Clay go away for the weekend pretty regularly, especially in the summer. What happens if he gets himself stuck somewhere and we're not around to save him? Darn kittens. They're just like children--you have to wonder how any of them live to be adults. But, darnit, when I called him "Sir Christopher", I was not trying to turn him into an explorer!
Apart from playing with the cat, I've basically been doing nothing but knitting and reading. I made a case for my stepbrother's Nintendo DS.
It was my first foray into felting with a washing machine. SO much easier than doing it by hand. (No, really, Emma?) I also took the opportunity to work on one of the sweater bags I'm making, but it's not finished yet and I don't have photos.
I do believe I've been bitten by the sock knitting bug. Yesterday, I picked up some more sock yarn, and I'm this far into my second pair of socks:
The yarn is Patons Kroy Socks, in "Winter Eclipse". The colors were a lot prettier in the ball than they are in the sock, but oh well. I discovered the meaning of 'negative ease' when my gauge for the sock (8 stitches per inch) turned out to be noticably different than the gauge on my swatch (7 1/4 stitches per inch). It's a bit snug, but I think it'll be comfortable that way--I do hate slouchy socks.
