Great Galumphing Grasshoppers!

I really don't like it when bloggers or podcasters apologize for "being gone so long." I rarely notice it myself unless they point it out. So I'm not pointing it out. And you're not noticing. Are we clear on that?
As I am a working woman (I'm afraid to say working girl these days--my duties are extensive, but not that extensive), my time and energies are more limited. I find myself working mostly on projects that are

1. well-directed and don't involve much modification. For instance, I finished my Smoke Flowers Socks. The chart--pattern is Hearts & Flowers" by Wendy D. Johnson--is very easy to read. Not to mention that I'd already started these socks before THE JOB and was well under way. I think they're so pretty!


2. automatic. These purple-on-black Vanilla socks are always with me. The perfect thing to knit in the dark. (Not to fix in the dark--I need a really bright light for that!)ooh, Purple Vanilla... or Violet Vanilla, or Black Vanilla... what do you think? I need a name for this project. I'll hold off calling it something until I get some input (That's your cue, Dude... Dudette... Dude-Being: click the respond button and tell me what you think I should call it.


3. with friends. This is my Knit-in-Public evidence. The project is Callsign Required socks.Even though I miss a lot of meetings these days. I'd like to schedule a different time of the week for an alternate knit meeting. If I can figure out a regular time...


4. Fun & easy. More about that later. If you're good.

And no, there aren't any grasshoppers in the blog. But feel free to make yourself one.

• Frozen Grasshopper


• Palm Leaf Grasshopper


• Clothespin Grasshopper

Wha Happa?

That's "What happened?" as heard by most dentists. Go ahead. Open your mouth wide, stick at least four fingers in, and try to say it. If you can understand it, you're probably in the dental profession. (Free-Range, I'm talking to you!)

Anyway, my thoughts were that I would probably put down the knitting needles and pick up something else once I had completed the long, long shrug for Tiny. Nope! I yanked this ball of yummyness (That's a word. Look it up.) out of the stash and started on Wendy D. Johnson's Hearts and Flowers Toe-Up Sock. I could barely stop myself to eat. It's wonderful! Perhaps it's because I don't have to do it. There's no assignment, no deadline, nobody but me waiting for 'em. But that's not like me. I do well with assignments, deadlines, people waiting... Hmm, maybe I'm possessed. That'd be cool. Possessed by a ghost that knits socks. So I've been working on this for just three days and I've already completed the heel!

Or perhaps.... somebody else has been working on this for just three days and already completed the heel.... Ooooweeeooooohhhh...