Winter in Toronto

Aaaahhh... our first snow storm of the season. This was the beginning of it -- look at the car in the background:

This was the same car a few hours later:

And a bit later still:

And this is the way it looks this morning:

Why am I so fascinated by this car, might you ask? Because it's my son's car, who was "too tired" yesterday to help us shovel the crapload of snow we had to shovel yesterday for several hours. Do you know how much help he will get from us to get his car out of this mess? As much help as we got yesterday from him. I wish him lots of luck...

Moka was a bit horrified by all the white stuff, but she did spend a few minutes outside with us. She didn't even need a leash, as she couldn't exactly run away, since the snow was higher than she is:

She did try to help by peeing on the snow to make it melt:

And look at that puzzled expression on her face:

Today, there is a pale sun shining; I do hope it will help melt a bit of the snow on top of the solarium:

A good day for knitting, an area where I am slowly but surely developing ADD. I have so many projects I have just started, and I can't stop casting new ones. I have the Jane Slicer-Smith jacket on the needles, I cast on the Hyacinth shawl, and two days ago, I cast on the Refined Aran Jacket, from Interweave Knits Winter 2007, with some Filatura Zara yarn I had in my stash. Here is the pattern:

Of course, I don't have enough yarn to knit the whole sweater, so now I have to find 3 more balls of Zara in colour 1466. Today, the traffic is too iffy to go to Romni Wools, but I will try to make the trek tomorrow. I know, I am an idiot to start a project without knowing whether I will be able to get enough yarn for it (I had enough yarn in the same yarn in white, but no, that would have been too easy).

I have already finished counting my sock yarn stash. I won't post numbers here, because I am sure to be told off by people who think (rightly so) that I ought to spend my money on more worthy causes. But it makes me happy to see all this yarn. This inventory counting has also prompted me to stop buying sock yarn (at least for a while), as I have established that I have enough to knit socks continuously for the next 10 years. I think I need an intervention... Here are photos of a part only of my stash:

I'll send a skein of Socks That Rock to the person who can guess within 15 skeins of the total. If you look at the storage bins on the photos, there are three of these stacked with sock yarn, plus two more smaller ones -- about a third the size of the clear ones. So, to the two or three readers of my blog out there, here's your chance to get a skein of STR!