Finished one Ripple Weave sock using Wildfoote. First time with this yarn, first time with the pattern. Wildfoote is not bad. Not the softest but definitely not the itchiest I've used. The fit of the sock is great save for the gusset. It's the first time I've knitted a sock where the gusset was too big. Will pick up fewer stitches next time.

The sock yarn stash continues to grow...

Sundara's Somewhat Solid in "Plum over Slate." I am head over heels. She ought to name her yarns Somewhat Edible. I wound it myself into a center-pull ball using a toilet paper roll. Worked great! I've already started knitting with it - another Ripple Weave sock on the way!

The yarn stash grows some more...littleknits.com is having a sale on Cherry Tree Hill supersock yarn, plus another 10% off on top of that, and as soon as I received the notification email this morning, I was ON IT. Two skeins in Purple Rain and Emerald City. Why not?! I gather more sock yarn in the spirit of Socktoberfest, and in this case, I am trying NEW sock yarns, for my own sock edification. Good thing I nabbed these colorways; within minutes they were gone.

Will try to post more again and more often. It's been a busy busy week. Can't believe it's October already. We've been in Santa Fe for nearly a month!

PS Backstory on the drunken post from last week (which was 100% authentic by the way). I don't know what possessed me to blog in that state except that I'm a loser or I was just in the really happy giddy drunken haze that I wanted to talk. I'm a fast typer, no looking at keyboard, but I was typing even faster when tipsy. Like wheeeee! Type type type type! There was no stopping me!

As soon as I logged off, a horrible "oooooOHluuurrAAACK" issued from the bathroom. My Duck, he got sick. In all the years I've been with him I've only seen him sick twice before, and that second time was earlier in the month. Fruitful month, September. Anyway, I myself did not get sick. The trick is to not let yourself lay down, no matter how dizzy or groggy or tired you get. DO NOT LAY DOWN! It increases the dizzy factor one million percent! Stay upright, drink water! I sat up half the night propped with pillows.

Despite the sickiness, that stuff we drank was so effective and so good that there was no hangover the next morning, at all, that we went right back the next evening. But only one drink per person this time...:)

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