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I enjoy vacation grocery shopping more than any other kind of grocery shopping. Today we strolled the aisles like we never have before and I found salt water taffy in the bulk candy bins and black tea infused with real vanilla bean.

It’s day two of vacation and I’ve done a few things. I’ve stripped and painted more furniture, assembled some patio furniture we bought at rock-bottom, cleaned some things, knitted, and not read a page of anything. It has been somewhat restful but not as restful as I’d like since I have a talk coming up in a couple of weeks (at Vaughan Public Library on fiction, fantasy, and the Middle Ages) that I’m only just starting to give any real thought to, and I’m feeling a wee bit of anxiety since I’ve never done anything quite like this. Things will get more restful once I’ve got something down on paper.

And I took it as divine intervention that 20 balls of this arrived on my doorstep as I was frogging the poncho I restarted with the recalculated-single-strand math I worked out. Why? Because it’s just the right weight and gauge that the pattern calls for (it’s true, I swatched it). So I cast on the recommended stitches and finished the two rectangles in a day. It’s a lovely charcoal grey (bought on ebay from this excellent retailer) and all that needs to be done now is a little seaming and some light fringing.

I’ve been taking pictures, and even downloading them, I just haven’t gotten around to the selective uploading part yet. If you don’t believe me at all, I understand.