Then Facebook changes.
The West is on fire.
We're in the thick of hurricane season.
We're in the thick of a vile presidential campaign. There's gotta be a connection between weather and politics.
We've just found out that the #MangoMendicant knew --- KNEW --- how bad COVID-19 was back in January. Yeah, I know that there were probably some cognoscenti who probably saw this coming back in December. But one would think that if there was a scintilla of humanity in that moron, he'd have been honest.
But there you go. That word. "Honest." He (and nobody in his family nor his administration) doesn't understand that word. Nor does he understand "Honor, Dignity, Service."
The Knitting...
So this baby hat is for a friend who can't knit but wants to give a knitted gift. I do those "pro bono" things every once in a while, and if she asks, I'll ask her to make a donation to our church's food bank or something. I did have to buy a hank of yarn, but it's Encore Worsted, so it's what? Seven bucks? I can live with that. It's one of the rectangular ones; she wanted University of Michigan colors; so I've started with the gold (which I had) and I'm just now adding the dark blue. I had to buy that one. Which is fine. I use Encore for the prayer patches we do for church, too. Another hank in the stash won't kill me.
The baby blanket is the Project Linus variation of Feather & Fan. I'm using the colors from the Wedding Afghan - the taupe (brown), cream (bone) and Ocean (forest green)... I love to do a baby blanket in sophisticated colors. The mom just had her first scan, and I'm not sure she'll share the gender. But with those colors, it's not a big deal. It'll be fine. I should have a picture soon.
I had actually finished the batch of hats and picked up the Long Sands tee - then realized that Baby was actually going to be along sooner than I'd thought, and I'd better "get skippy" and start knitting on that blanket. If I've learned nothing else, it's that time files and I do not like knitting deadlines!
Random Picture... Raisa turned 7... She's technically an "adult" but since she's a Siberian Husky, we actually have a few more years... (sigh)... Now, for the elkhounds we usually do a tin of sardines. We tried that for two birthdays with Raisa. She loves sardines. They do not love her. They're not cool on the "come back up" round. So - she gets no sardines. This year, I bought her a "heavy chewer" squeaky toy, since she killed her flat stuffy. This one lasted 3 days. Now all but one squeaky has been killed. She's working on killing that last squeaky. There's some "fire hose" type fabric on the underside of this one, so we'll see if she ends up trying to eviscerate this one.
It's a hobby. We all need a hobby. She and I can't go visit Lewis University this term; we'll see what happens for Spring semester.
So as you can see, I'm still struggling with this crap version of the "new Blogger" -- which they shouldn't have changed in the first place. You can't place pictures easily. "Give us your feedback" is a blatant lie. And margins change at whim.
Do us all a favor and put it back. Otherwise, WordPress is going to see a heck of an increase in subscribers. And I hate WordPress even more than I hate this iteration of some programmer's nightmare...
