We had another successful meetup last night. I brought along my shawl and knitted about 1 round on it. I was so tired from the day I had.
My husband just became a citizen yesterday, and the Naturalization Oath Ceremony was at the Pomona fairgrounds. It was hot. And stuffy, and I got blisters on my tootsies from the walk back and forth to the car. So by the time I got to the meetup, I was tired (and late) and so didn’t knit very much. But I will have some carpool time today to work on it a bit more. Over 6000 people were sworn in yesterday, in two ceremonies. I am really proud of you all, I am sure it’s a scary and exciting thing to renounce the country of your birth for another.
I have put the swank on hold. On the shawl, I have been making real progress (other than yesterday) and so I don’t want to lose my momentum and work on somehting else. I will return to it soon, I am sure. I also made some mousies that I need to send in to Wendy, but I haven’t yet. I might make some more, so I have been holding on to the package.
This weekend looks to be another of the pulling up the strips of wood that surround the edges of the room to hold the carpet down. I am sure there is a name for those, I just don’t know it. The genius that installed the carpet apparently didn’t trust the nails that were already in the wood strips and are nice and short and come out easily when pulled. No, they used some really long nails, in addition to the pre-nailed nails, so it’s been slow going in some parts. Others are just speedy, it’s those darn long nails that are too close to the short ones so the tool can’t get around either one unless I pulverize the wood. Then, it’s time to take down the ceiling.
Here’s a pic of the carpet up, but the wood stippies still down. We are going to have to sand the crap out of this floor to make it all nice, but I think it will be worth it. I took this photo with my Palm.