In a warm house
Tuesday November 15th 2022, 10:50 pm
Filed under: Family,Garden,Knitting a Gift

If I do a full repeat every day, I’ve been telling myself, I’ll have it done before the wedding.

Fully aware that if they do come to their cousin’s wedding, too, their luggage will be weighed down with baby gear while they’ll be wrangling a one-year-old and the last thing they’ll need is to have to stuff a whole blanket in. I should ship it.

But one takes the motivation and the deadline one has. So far, they know nothing about it.

I was pretty proud of myself for how much I’ve gotten done the last four days–it just had to get past that point where the bottom curls up against your hands like a toddler grabbing your legs and whining when you know all they need is a meal and a nap.

Today I did the most of all. Momentum and all that. I finally decided, okay, give the hands a break, put it down, you want to be able to do this tomorrow. Pace it.

That was when I looked to my left and saw what had been quietly waiting all day for me to notice. I don’t know how many times I’d walked right past it.

I had moved the bag just yesterday and there were a bunch of I thought roots: y’know, I really need to plant those…

That’s no root. All that (matching lavender!) color happened today. I almost missed it. I almost missed discovering how divine saffron crocus flowers smell.

I will need to remove those bulbs very carefully from that bag.

Tomorrow. It’s way too cold out there right now.

 


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Wonderful! And you can always give it to them with the offer to ship it if they cannot add it to their wrangling. That way you get to see them receive it but they don’t have to transport it if that is unwieldy.

Comment by Margo 11.16.22 @ 5:02 am

Oh, that’s so beautiful! And look how well it goes with the knitting! So cool. Or, rather, warm!

Comment by ccr in MA 11.16.22 @ 5:52 am

So very beautiful, both! And in line with Margo, you could also offer to ship home their dirty clothes, so they can take the lovely blanket with them.

Comment by DebbieR 11.16.22 @ 8:16 am



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