....typically. I did pick up approximately 810 stitches, knit 27 rows and frog about four times, if anyone else is counting. And I finally got the letters I'm going to use in Mom's vest on Exel and charted. More or less charted. I may change a few things there as well.
Finished reading In The Shadow of the Throne: The Lady Arbella Stuart by Ruth Norrington and meant to read Jack Higgins new thriller but.....Bess of Hardwick: Empire Builder by Mary S Lovell insisted I hear her side first. Bess really did have an interesting life but her 4th and final husband sounds like he had his hands full with Bess, Queen Elizabeth and Mary, Queen of Scots. Wife, queen, prisoner. Prisoner who might be the next queen if the current one didn't make it. That sounds like a thrilling tightrope to walk.
Someone thinks she should be an outdoor cat again. Someone who rolled around in the dirt.
She was not amused.
You specialize in ripping or something? :)
Posted by: Rachel | April 30, 2012 at 11:48 PM
Gaaaah! Good thing your middle name is Patience.
;-D
Posted by: Cheryl S. | May 01, 2012 at 06:34 AM
At least you finished a book ;) Also, my cats will never see this photo of Hez, they will want footstools of their own too.
Posted by: Stefanie | May 01, 2012 at 07:26 AM
Is that Hez's throne?
Posted by: Sonya | May 01, 2012 at 08:17 AM
But you finished a book - that's not nothing!
Poor beleaguered Hez.
Posted by: Chris | May 01, 2012 at 10:46 AM
Hez is keeping track. No worries there.
Posted by: Cookie | May 01, 2012 at 05:06 PM
Sorry, just wandered off to the OUPress site for a while. Interesting. I am sorry to hear about all that ripping. GAH - I hope it's not lace weight or Kid Silk Haze at least.
Posted by: Mary Lou | May 02, 2012 at 04:59 AM
Should I say something semi-sage-y like "It's the process, not the product"?
Yeah. I thought not.
Posted by: Kim | May 02, 2012 at 05:41 AM
Someone looks like she is practicing to be a queen, too.
Posted by: Nicole | May 02, 2012 at 03:11 PM
Yay! Tax season is over for you! Well, the deadline anyway...
That sounds like a really good book.
Bad Hez.
Posted by: Brigitte | May 02, 2012 at 03:47 PM
Carrie- I do that too- spend days accomplishing nothing.
NOT for amateurs.
Posted by: Lorraine | May 03, 2012 at 06:38 AM
It sounds like pretty cheerful nothing! Hez is always an adventure, is she not?
Posted by: Julia | May 03, 2012 at 01:36 PM
At least you're knitting.
Hez's friends at my house roll in the (outside) dust every chance they get.
Posted by: Angie | May 03, 2012 at 08:19 PM
Poor Hez. Especially since she's on her throne and mistreated by not being allowed me-OUT! *wink*
Posted by: Knitnana | May 07, 2012 at 12:41 PM
Is that a throne that Hez is sitting upon? She surely must be obeyed?!
Posted by: mrspao | May 07, 2012 at 02:14 PM
I've had days like that - knit, rip, knit, rip. On the other hand, three days of knitting and reading is three days where you're not doing taxes!
Posted by: Jocelyn | May 10, 2012 at 09:58 AM
How do you read and knit at the same time? I can't manage that balancing act UNLESS the book is on my computer and I am doing straight stockinette.
Posted by: Marj | May 10, 2012 at 06:23 PM
I quit reading at 'picked up 810 stitches' when my eyes started twitching...
Posted by: Rachel | May 18, 2012 at 04:47 PM
Hi again Carrie! Long time no visit. I happened to read an old comment from you today, thought I'd stop by. And so good to see Hez again too. Wow, those are my kind of bookshelves, never enough books or time LOL. Happy summer, G
PS: I have 4 blogs now!
Posted by: Geraldine | August 07, 2012 at 11:20 AM