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Back Yard Greetings

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7:00 am, March 5, Southampton, NY

It’s a beautiful morning — there’s not a cloud in the sky (and it’s become bright blue now), it’s crisp but not too cold (fine enough for an early-morning photo shoot), and Thursday’s snow still conceals the end-of-winter dullness. The deer have been by this morning, and the chickadees have been making themselves heard. Annabelle has had her Sunday morning tour of the bottom of the stairs (yes, my cat is weird), and I’m back inside to warm up and have another cup of coffee. I’m glad you could stop by!

These are the stairs up to my apartment in a greener time of year (last September). I live in a sweet little place, which happens to be above the garage of my landlords’ house (they are the best in the world — D even shovels the snow off the stairs for me!). I’ve lived here for six years. Boy, does that sentence make me shiver. I’ve rarely lived in one house for six years! Does that mean I’ve settled here?

This is for Becky’s virtual field trip, by the way. Check out her sidebar and join us!

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My lace scarf project is not the easy knitting I’d hoped. It’s not that it’s difficult, really, but that it requires my attention at all times. You lose one yarn-over, and there goes your evening. Here it is, in all its 293 stitches of rumpled glory, with cat toes for scale. It’s not much to look at yet, is it?

I’m also knitting away on the second sock for that R. I’ll finish the pair this week, and I’ll finally have something new to report to Amie’s 2000Socks count. Have you seen that ticker on her blog? It’s at 1026 socks, and it’s barely March!

It’s time to get on with this beautiful day. It will involve a road trip to Target for supplies (cat toes must be fed), but I’m planning to visit a lot of back yards, too!