SP8 Mini-questionnaire

First, to answer the questions posed by my SP8 group's hostess, who, incidentally, is doing a really fabulous job - thanks, Tammy!

Okay:
1) What is your favorite season of the year?
Summer - no question - although the other three are not without their charm...

2) Where is your favorite vacation spot?
I would have to say the Muskokas in Northern Ontario, although really, anywhere I can knit, read and hang out with my kids is good enough for me...

3) If you could visit any place in the world, where would it be?
Fiji, then Australia and New Zealand

4) If you were a specific kind of yarn, which brand and kind of yarn would you be?
I would be soft 100% wool, hand-spun, still smelling sheepy and with bits of grass tucked throughout, hand-dyed in bright rainbow colours -

5) If you won a shopping spree to your favorite yarn store, what would you get?
Hmm, nice question... I would look for yarn that I have fondled but can't possibly afford - Muench 'Touch Me' comes to mind; the Mason-Dixon gals' book; a Jordana Paige knitting bag; and then neat yarns and gadgets for my mom and my friends.

This is today's view from our front window - if you squint, you can make out a squirrel hiding in the euonymous bush that surrounds the front doorway:

Just look at the interest he has generated inside:

and 15 minutes later -

they have not moved, I don't even think they are breathing, and this little squirrel has , I assume, no idea of his audience...

I did finally decide on something to knit, although it may be interrupted by some secret pal knitting to be done in the next couple of weeks - I ripped out the RPM sock, as it just wasn't working for me in that particular yarn, and instead cast on the Sockotta from my friend Kelly in a lace pattern:

the lace pattern might get lost with the striping, but I just don't care - I have had a hankering to make lacy socks, and so I shall, and I LOVE the colours...

the top-down two circulars was a bit of a challenge, though, particularly for one as spatially challenged as myself - I have got the toe-up two circ thing down pat, but this was a whole 'nother thing - took me a while to work out the cast on for each sock without having one severely twisted, or without bringing a third circ into the picture to ease my frustration - I did figure it out, but can't quite articulate how - the heel and toe shapings should certainly be, um, interesting...

and I have decided to continue working on the Lotus Blossom Tank - I have discovered that this one goes particularly well while I listen to The Maltese Falcon, so I'm just gonna go with it...