yes, i’ve been drooling over the bee house teapots for over a year, but i thought i’d share today.

“CSIS, this is three”

yes, that is how i answered the phone at work once today. one of our techs is on vacation this weeka nd so i am answering the phone more, and obviously doing an amazing job of it as well. don’t ask me how i blanked out on my name and called myself “three”, but trust me, i’ve been a source of amusement for many this week.

i’m on a plane. i wish they’d explain the parachutes to the passengers so that we’d know what to do with them if we had do evacuate. then i realize that they never gave us any parachutes anyway. i don’t have a lot of faith in the seat-cushion plan.

i’m outside at the dugway proving ground, as are many others. we’re all examining the crashed capsule. i don’t have my camera with me. aren’t all these people clambering all over the capsule going to destroy any surviving data? but they tell me i have to go look at it and so i do. i’m climbing up close to it, looking into it. it reminds me of the stones you find in the escalante desert. then i remember the explosives that were supposed to engage the parachutes and i decide i do not want to be so close.

i’m inside with twp others. i’m talking about the curry recipe i am going to devise and submit to the local paper. the one person tells me to just change the amount of salt in that recipe in the book, but i have greater plans than that. i call the orchid shop to find out what their hours are. i have to get this ready.

my postman must hate me. or maybe he’s a knitter and is stealing the lovely yarn i ordered for the poncho-a-long. or perhaps he is psychic and knows that i am not set on the pattern yet anyway, so what does it matter if i have the yarn or not? but then again, he could just hate me. but, on the off-hand that it is the psychic thing, i have done a rough sketch of what i think i want the poncho to look like:

the main color is a dark purple and the contrast color is a pistachio green. the colors are based on a house i saw while walking harley. the texture is based on a zip-sweater that my dad’s mom made for him long ago. it is mostly purls, with 4 knits (on top of each other) every so often. boy, what a description, aren’t i good with words? anyway. i want the knit columns to go up and down, so i will need to cast on a few stitches and keep increasing from there, and then decrease after the halfway point. the pistachio color will come in for some of the knits. anyway, maybe i should do a test strip first, just to let the postman know that i am really serious…