Super Tuesday

Today was the first time for our son, Ben, to vote. What an honor! The whole 9 years that I home schooled him, I took him with me to vote. I always explained the process and the privilege that the act was. I was not raised in a voting family. I can NEVER remember my mom or dad voting. It did not matter to them. They were like dead fish being carried down stream with all the other dead fish. When I met my husband that changed for me. My father-in-law is a WWII veteran. He was very serious about voting. I came to understand that if you don't vote, you can't complain about the way things go. My first election that I got the honor of voting in was for Ronald Reagan. I was SO proud to be an American. What a great man he was. Perfect? No. There are no perfects! Sometimes it comes down to the lesser of two evils, but even then, I WILL vote. Even if the election does not go the way I would hope, I WILL vote. I think that it is one of the most important parts of being an American.
I have a correction from yesterday's blog. My husband said that I misquoted him. He said that I was an "impatient tightwad". Okay, I am both impatient and patient, but I am definitely a tightwad.
I finished my Table Runner last night. I will use this one as a wedding present. Now, I have to get some more yarn to finish the other one or find another easy project. Maybe I will start another pair of clogs. I am so excited about getting Christmas presents finished!

Unusual weekend

My weekend seems to have begun Friday morning. I went in for 3 crowns (that did not happen last time) and a filling. Four hours later, I came home exhausted and went to bed hoping that I would wake up having regained the side of my face that was numb. What is it about dental work that makes you feel unreasonably exhausted? Later that night, I got a call saying that my Spin-In was canceled due to bad weather expectation. I was so ready to sit and spin all day Sat. It has been rescheduled for this coming Sat, thankfully. I ended up going to a guild meeting that I was going to have to miss because of the Spin-In. It was nice and I met some new knitters/spinners/weavers.
As far as knitting this weekend, I did not finish my Half Circle Cardigan. I did work on it, but it is taking longer than I thought. At this point, it is so heavy and not portable. I have about 55 rows to go on the last sleeve. I will finish it this week, hopefully. I did work on my Lyra this weekend. I am now on Rnd 101. I made progress on another Table Runner for my Christmas stash for this year and started a pair of knit felted clogs for another friend's Christmas present. I am trying very hard to make progress on Christmas presents every month, at least one per month. I plan on sitting down and writing out my list of friends and each time I finish a gift, I get to mark them as done. I will not call it a New Years resolution. I hope to keep this progress up, but even if it fizzles out, like last year, I will have made progress on some of my list. To me, nothing says "I value your friendship" like a handmade gift.

This is a picture of my roving, ready to be taken for a spin.
This is some hand spun yarn that I will probably be using to make fingerless gloves with for more Christmas stash.