tow heatwave

It’s strange to be writing about a heatwave in the middle of February but do keep in mind I live in Australia now. I am hearing about minus 30, 40 temperatures back in Wisconsin and I am thinking I wouldn’t mind a blast of freezing wind now. We had four days in a row of 40+ (that’s 100+ in F). Then we had a “cool change” which brought the temperatures down to 35, that’s 95 degrees F. Tomorrow we are expecting 43C (110 F) and for some crazy reason Sunday’s forecast is a pleasant 26C (78F). I am praying that the AC will survive long enough to help us survive the Saturday.
This is how Hermoine spent the heatwave

She would lay down like this in the spot the AC blows at and not move for hours. I know there is a LOL cat joke here somewhere but I can’t think of one!
I have been obsessively knitting a pair of knee high socks. Almost all my handknit or otherwise socks are ankle high. But I had this lovely blue skein of Wollmeise that comes in 150 g hanks and I knew it had to be something special.
Look how pretty blue it is

The colourway is called vergissmeinnicht which is the Forget-me-not flower.

Just starting out on January 16 th.

After turning the heel

Work in progress
And this is what it looks like now

Yup that’s a mailing tube that’s “wearing” the sock. It is hard enough to photograph my own feet without breaking my leg! I started increasing for the calf. There is a pretty design that goes on the calf, which is another reason why I keep on knitting because it is interesting.

I am just starting the calf pattern so there isn’t much to see. I love the heel turn, I am becoming quiete the pro at that!
I only have one FO to show.

These are butterfly button slippers. They are made out of cotton yarn so they keep my feet nice and cool.

Love the butterfly button!
I bought a book called “Knitting Socks with Handpainted Yarn” I love sock knitting so most books I buy are on socks. Though I did buy Knitting Nature by Norah Gaughan after borrowing it from the library and realising that I would wear half the patterns there!
The sock book divides handpainted yarns to three categories, “Nearly Solids” “Wild Multi” and “Muted Multi” I love playing with my sock yarn stash so I took out the sock yarn bin and separated my sock yarn into those categories.

I love my sock yarns! Top left are the nearly solids, top right are the wild multi’s and the middle are the muted multis.
Back in November 2007 I had declared our house an official Turk’s house because of the permanent placement of the tea kettle on our stove like this

I had my friend Jess point out that we can’t become an official Turkish household without having doilys around. I remedied that situation last weekend by putting this on top of our coffee table

Neither ACA nor I mind it because it is actually functional and very pretty. I promised him that the rest of the house will stay doily free.

I put a plastic table cloth on top to protect to lace. Look how pretty it is,

That’s some impressive crocheting (not by me though)!
UPDATE: My mum confirmed that this was the table cloth my lovely grandmother crocheted for me. May Allah rest her soul.
Now I am used to seeing Christmas items start coming out late October around here. But this is just too much,

I snapped this at the grocery store last weekend. Easter is on April 12th! Can we at least wait till there are 2 months to go till Easter?!
We bought this in the same shopping trip

Yup that’s 825 grams (that’s 1.8 pounds!) of Corn Flake goodness. Neither ACA nor I eat cereal. So why did we end up with a kilo of cereal in our already cramped kitchen? It was on sale! I wanted to buy some corn flakes to use as coating to fry chicken. I sensibly grabbed a small box that was 2.99. On the way to the registers ACA spotted this monster pack for 3.29. Yes it is very, very cheap but I don’t need to feed an army with cornflakes. I just need a few grams to coat chicken! We also won a reading timer from the package. ACA was also happy about that.
I am impressed with my new phone’s camera abilities. It has a 5 megapixel camera that takes really good pictures. Here’s my new phone Taco,

It’s actually Samsung Tocco (F480) but I like calling it Taco. It is an awesome phone. It’s fully touch optimized and it has haptic feedback that gives you a little vibration when you press the virtual buttons. The camera is amazing and the call quality is fantastic. I’ve been having fun playing with the widgets!
Lastly a shout out to my (not so little anymore) brother. He will be taking Honors English, Honors Biology, Honors Advanced Algebra and Trig, Honors German, and AP Politics! And I thought I was the nerd of the family! Good job bro, keep it up!!