The view from my window. The white powder represents cold.
…is that it is too cold to go outside if the white powder is on the ground. So I won’t. At least not yet.
We’re in Tahoe this weekend. We finally arrived last night after an interminable car ride, during which I knit exactly two inches of Malabrigo Gruesa (color: Olive). I planned to bring my sewing machine, but stopped being crazy right before we left, which was lucky for everyone.
We also stopped at the Vacaville Outlets, ostensibly to grab lunch. My brilliant plan was for the children and their father to go have lunch while I picked up a few things. Of course, my husband would discover that Oakland’s legendary Fenton Creamery has opened an outpost in Vacaville, and eat there, and have ice cream, while I had nothing. Nothing!
Given that, despite being a clearance shopping fanatic, I have never once enjoyed a trip to the Vacaville Outlets, I don’t know why I expected this one to be different. The lowest point involved me standing, in a thunderstorm, outside the Vacaville Popeye’s Chicken carrying two shopping bags that contained nothing for me personally and a small paper bag that contained a mild chicken thigh and a biscuit that I devoured like a scavenging beast once I was finally picked up. Also, as always, I failed to see how these prices were cheaper than the clearance sections of the original stores, where nothing has an Irregular tag. (The chicken was not Irregular.) (Or was it?)
Current Ski Report: 50% of us went skiing this morning. 75% of us ultimately plan to ski. The remaining 25% is sitting in our apartment, nursing a cold and knitting. The snow is so pretty to look at! From inside.
The yarn will become a present by magic.
I am working on several Hanukkah gifts at once, which is why it is so convenient to have the unbroken stretch of knitting time. (I think I am also supposed to work on a novel?) Unfortunately, because they are gifts, I cannot say much more, other than to point you towards Elizabeth Zimmermann’s Knitter’s Almanac
Anyhow, Happy belated Thanksgiving, The Internet! I hope you had plenty of iStuffing and eGravy, which are obviously the best parts of the mealdotcom.
P.S. If you still have Pilgrims on the brain, read Sarah Vowell’s The Wordy Shipmates. If you do not have Pilgrims on the brain but you want a unique perspective on their history, read it anyway.
P.P.S. If you want the This American Life experience, the audiobook is basically a seven-hour long episode of TAL where this week’s theme is Puritans and the reader is your favorite TAL contributor, Ms. Vowell herself. AKA it is exactly what you want.
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