change in the weather

Living in the Northeast, I usually think of our weather coming in from the west, northwest, southwest, west west.. somewhere west.  Of course, that is a gross generalization.  When we get weather from the northeast, it’s a nor’easter.  Yesterday, it blew in uphill, from the south, all day.  Weather from the south nearly always brings wind, and it brings a change in the weather.  You can feel it coming, warm winds, too warm for the season.

Rain was forecast all day.  Not so, at 11:30 pm. I had one more thing I had to finish in the shop.  There were still stars peekng through, when I ran down to the barn.  Weird timing??  I knew I’d have an early morning and a busy day ahead.  If I wanted to get some skeins tied to soak for dyeing, they’d have to be done before I went to bed.  And, I had started a new pattern, oh my, that Marseilles pullover by Kathy Zimmerman has my name written all over it and I had fought all evening trying to make due without a cable needle.  I can’t seem to get that cable without a needle technique.  I didn’t know know where mine were, somewhere, and I needed one..so down to the shop to make a one, or a couple while I was at it.   If C thought I was out of my mind, he held his tongue, grabbed his jacket and a flashlight, and joined my walk in the dark. 

By morning, the front had left us.  We were smack in the middle of the rain and I was out the door to the annual Turtle Fur sale.  I wanted to see what yarn they might have. They had a bit of coned wool form Jaegger at 50 cents a half cone.  I judge it well worth the effort.  With the falling rain came falling temps.  By the time I got around to dyeing, it was low forties, damp and miserable.  What a difference a day makes.  Time to move my operation indoors for the season.  I spent the afternoon skeining yarn, some already dyed and some in preparation for the next round of dyeing.  I only managed to get one batch of reds into the pot.  My fingers were freezing.   

Time to get the fire going.  I’ve got an exciting evening planned… I’ve got my new cable needle.