... but I've gotten no pictures since the normal time to take them is morning when the light is right in the house. The heel on the first sock is nearly finished (canyoubelieveit?) and about two inches of patterning on the second sock. I've really slowed down in knitting for three months and it's time to get mooooooo-ving again. Must stay out of the forums and knit!
But I do hope to have some pictures up by tomorrow, midday. Tomorrow I am going to go to a friend's house to help finish up the decorations for the rockhound club Christmas Party. The ones we did last year make up the Christmas picture for the blog that goes up soon. Thanksgiving is quiet this year. There is no big trip out to the desert with the rockhounds. There is no smoker to cook a turkey in, as we did for years and years. Eleven Mile Road and Goldrock were destinations for the whole group of rigs, and then we went on rockhounding field trips from our base. Dinner was cooked inside and to show our true grit, as the wind was usually blowing up around 45 miles an hour, we huddled outside and ate a full Thanksgiving dinner. It was fun.
The best trip out for Thanksgiving Holiday was to a place called The Potholes, near the Arizona border, where a lot of us went drywashing for gold. If you got any "color" at all, it was micro flakes and was put into a tiny glass tube with water and a stopper, this so that you could shake it until it floated. It was then shown around with great ceremony to the ooohs and ahhhhs of those less fortunate. It was pretty rare to find anything, so we celebrated! Dinner was at sunset, and we had the whole spread, and NO WIND! I have pictures of it and will post them as soon as I can. It looked like an Oasis as it was along and irrigation canal from the Colorado River to the fields. All the women went walking one day and we found a tiny migrant worker graveyard with broken sticks for crosses that had been kicked around by some mean spirited people. I set about reading and straightening them and discovered the graves of some infants. That was a sad place to meet your end, and I just hoped that they had all been given the last rites.
Sounds as if you celebrate differently in your area. It is a bit like our Australian Christmas which is usually boiling hot. Lots of people go to the beach or have barbeques. Seafood and salads with frozen desserts are the most popular food. Not many people eat the traditional food.
ReplyDeleteHi Joanm. :-) That sounds yummy and is usually our summer fare, too.
ReplyDeleteIt's hard for me to imagine a Thanksgiving or Christmas that is as hot as your, or our, summer months. Our traditional foods for Independence Day, in July, one of your winter months, are what you are describing, with beach parties and backyard barbeques. Only we Yanks are heavily committed to red meats.
At the time, we were off road dry camping in motor homes in the cold months-- it is freezing at night in the desert-- for our Thanksgiving Days, and so we had a picnic style of meal with the bad winds and weather thrown in as a kicker. Gosh, I could probably not do that again willingly now that I think back!
I love those socks! The color is great and the pattern is lovely!
ReplyDeleteWell, thank you Ma'am. I will like them again when they are finished and I can get onto another pair or start on the two sweater WIPS. Lace is too hard for me except when it's very, very quiet around me. Got another pattern set done yesterday and will knit #2 up through the heel, then do both gussets and start the feet together.
ReplyDeleteThe sock pattern is free off the web and is called Susan's Opalicious Lace Socks.
http://www.ptyarn.com/susanopalicious.html
You can try it without the http, or without the extension because it's a whole page of various patterns. Weeee! More Socks!