signs of the time

The cold that followed all the rain the past weekend, precipated the yearly bring in of Podo and the rest of the plants (read that *trees*).  I gave Podo a good trimming back in preparation, but no matter how much I think I can get away with, when he comes into the house he needs more.  Podo is a major presence in the room.  Major!  The room is dwarfed.  The sane thing would be to send him out on a job.  But Podo has lived here, with me, for many , many years.  C. always treatens to cut a real Christmas tree.  We have.  But most years, Podo is enough.  He looks good decorated and lit up with hundreds of lights.  Two trees and there isn’t enough room for us. 

My back is out, again, big time.  So what do you do when you are way too groggy from muscle relaxents to drive, yet not so bad that you know you need to keep moving?  How about ring a round the rosy spinning.  A little bit of the natural spun seated.   Then, when my back starts screaming "IT", as it has for the past couple days, I’d move to the Fricke elelctric in the back room and keep right on spinning,

this time standing up and walking backwards from then back again towards the spinner, a couple yards at a time, some stuff I bought from Persimmon Tree at Maryland,  just recently pulled from my stash.  Shopping at home again, between stash and the internet, I hardly need to leave.  Sounds good anyway, especially if you leave out the part about the office work, and the laundry. 
In answer to just what am I thinking of doing to the sweater.. that front cabled sesction I want to change.. well.. I’m looking for a cable to use that works in a space with a mutiple of 5+3.  I’m up to the armhole decreases on the back and the sleeves are knitted onto the sewn together font and back sections.  I’ve got to think fast.  Any ideas?