Paraphrasing Adam Duritz

A couple of weeks ago, on a particularly unsavory (but typical) day in late November, the boys and I took a drive to a yarn shop so that I could do some learning and capitalize on some inspiration (Ginny) that I'd been harboring for awhile. For the entirety of the trip I kept thinking, "in November when the weather bothers me." That's exactly how I was feeling and how the weather was (and had been) affecting my mood. Anyway, the aptness of the lyrics made me smile.

Then, this made me smile:

Then this:

Then this:

Then I went home and got to work on this:

Being that this all occurred two days after the three year anniversary of my mother's passing, I really needed those smiles.

*I just ripped out that child-sized scarf this afternoon to make it over again. Overall I was happy with it, but there were a couple holes and I thought that, since Wideawake claimed it, it didn't need to be so wide and possibly, then, a little longer. It was more of an opportunity for practice, anyway, and now on the second go I'm doing ribbing and color stripes to practice those techniques.