the vote was pretty uneventful at our polling station. Utah has the Diabolical© machines, but also has a paper trail. You get to review your vote on screen before you submit and then on the paper receipt and THEN cast your ballot. The only ‘problem’ when i was there was that they only had two machines up at 7:00 (and a line of 8 people) and they were handing out cards faster than people could vote. This meant that people were standing behind the people actually voting at the time and, since it was the fist time voting with the new system, invariably they were watching the voters’ screens. The poll-workers had the card issuers stop issuing cards for a while so that they could get caught up and by the time i finished casting my ballot no one was standing behind any voters and four machines were up and running.

Happy U.S. voting day everyone! Enjoy your voice.

My ennstal socks have been put on hold again. Even after switching to 2mm needles, they were going to be too big around. So i started the embossed leaves socks from IK Winter 2006. Still using the Nature’s Palette yarn, but trying these stretchy circulars i got at one of my LYS the other week. The first 10 rows or so felt weird on the circs, and i had to keep pushing the stitches around and stretching the needle, but now that it is more established, i don’t have to push very often and i am getting used to them.

We’ll see if i finally end up with another pair of socks!

You may remember me fretting over dogie and his paws. Thursday night, we finally got him some grip-trex booties from RuffWear.

His other owners has brought him over with some booties that he had worn the tops off of within a couple weeks, so we are hoping these do the trick. We found a store locally that had just ordered some in (fittingly, after special ordering some for some red heelers).
The good news? He LOVES wearing them! (As long as they are on his hind paws). The bad news? His back legs are weak enough that he is having to get used to lifting them up a little farther to clear the shoes and that is wearing him out. We think he’ll get stronger with time though, and it will be great to have his paws not hurting so much.

can you spot the D-O-G?