I Need Outta Here

Texas, that is. I need to leave this state. Where to? New Hampshire. Maine. Vermont. New Brunswick. Nova Scotia. Prince Edward Island. You catching my drift? I want to be somewhere on the East Coast-ish area - mountains and the sea. Long, cold winters with white, blue storms. In Texas? We've got none of it. Sure, we have a sea (swim in it if you dare) and we've got mountains (take water and an anti-venom agent when you go), but it's just not not the same.

It's just not the same.

(Am I being incredibly cynical and negative about Texas? Yes. A bit unfair? Probably so. But just humor me, please).

The good thing is that because of the recent downpours we've had, the heat level is much lower than it has been previous years... but the rain is slowing and the heat is, in turn, rising.

I blame this on my poor knitting weekend. I started a sock on Friday morning, worked a little bit on Saturday, and then a little more this morning. That's been the extent of my knitting these last few days. I realize that there's been a heatwave everywhere, and we're actually very LUCKY and even cooler than a lot of other places, but I still want to complain. I want my little cottage in the woods, where the mountains meet the sea (I think that may be copyrighted, woops, but I like it) and my little garden out back and my sheep in the barn (once I learn to spin, of course).

But all of this was to share the fact that I don't have another new FO to post about.

Good news? The Loopy Ewe will soon start carrying Trekking! I've been wanting to try it out for a while now, so now there's no excuse for me not to! I love the self-striping versions I've seen out there.

And I just have to say: The Loopy Ewe is the BEST online store out there. I don't know how she does it, but Sheri is awesome - she writes a handwritten note with each order, replies to ALL OF HER BLOG COMMENTS, gives lots of little gifts and fun things, is affordable, and ships super fast. Amazing, amazing, amazing - and even better, the store just projects an aura of being welcoming and inviting. Normally, I'm extremely shy and a little apprehensive about being around other knitters (all of the issues about: am I doing this stuff right?; I've only been knitting a few years, not my whole life; oh, oh, oh, I'm so inadequate), but she just seems so friendly and makes me comfortable about replying to her blog entries (which takes a lot of guts for me to do, my friend). So yay! I love the Loopy Ewe :)