Oh, Tumbling Tumbleweed...

I can just hear the song, which is bound forever to "The Big Lebowski" in my mind. (Damn, I do love that movie). Today at work I had to park at the very boundary of our parking lot, which is edged by an "empty" lot. There is a colony of squirrels that live like prairie dogs between the tumbleweeds. I really love this time of year, to see the green tumbleweeds before the Santa Ana winds come. The tumbleweeds will dry out and die and my car will be buffeted by wayward tumbleweeds.

I think it just makes me happy that a tiny bit of natural Calfornia survives in Tustin, albeit between the warehouses and the parking lots and the "development."



I also noticed the remnants of one of the old pines that my employer cut down a couple weeks ago. It was beautiful in a sad sort of way.



I am still knitting away on my Ribbi Cardi.







I was actually knitting on a break at work today and one of my coworkers noticed and came over. I had known that she crocheted, but I didn't know that she also knit. She took a look at my Ribbi Cardi and told me that it was good. She also told me that I have been knitting and purling from the "back of the loop", which isn't the normal way to complete the stitches. Huh. I guess you are supposed to knit from the front of the loop, not the back. The way I have been doing it causes a little twist in the yarn, which she said is actually specified in some patterns. Learn something new, right?

It totally made my day, anyhow. She told me I had "good tension" and that if I took my knitting to a yarn store, they would be impressed that I have only been knitting for a couple weeks.

I'm blushing, really.

Also, my neighbor who is a rebel sort of knitter (self taught artist-knitter), mentioned a local project to knit a "green" cozy for an SUV, with an associated "stitch and bitch" session. Hmm... Interesting, no? I mean, when was the last time you knit a political statement?