The daily pork report has moved into the living room. This guy is a very recent acquisition – he is a shooting range target and is made of cast iron. Last month I was at an antique show and there he was. It is the original paint and in the second picture you can see the dents made from the shots. Initially I thought he was more of a target in a carnival type game – something that would use bb guns. Boar inspected him and has informed me that some of those dents are made from a small calibre gun. Boar knows these things from his days spent on his high school’s rifle team.And here is a sock progress shot. So far so good. As you can see I am knitting these on two circulars rather than the dpn’s the pattern calls for. This required only one adaptation which I got straight from Cara who got it straight from Cookie, the designer. When knitting these on two circs, you may encounter the direction to do a yarn over right at the beginning of a needle. Don’t do the yarn over in the traiditonal way – this will make the holes a bit too big. Simply pick up the yarn over on your next round and that will leave you with a more attractive pattern. The sock does appear alarmingly narrow although it is quite stretchy, so my cankles have hope!

When I got home from work yesterday, there was a package bonanza on my porch! not one, but two boxes waiting for me. The first package was from Rachel (who doesn’t have a blog yet and we wonder what is taking so long?!) Rachel lives in Arizona and sent along a Javelina and yarn. If you click on that link you will read that the javelina is native to that area but is not officially consider part of the pig family. Well, I reject this. If it looks like a pig, it’s a pig! And this is one good looking pig; fierce yet adorable. The yarn is also apporpriately named sand and sun. Thank you so much Rachel!

My other gift is from Vicki. She sent it in honor of our quit smoking anniversary. Click on that second link and read the author inscription. How fabulous is she?! I haven’t started reading it yet, but the pictures are wonderful – love the smile on that girl’s face! Thank you so much Vicki!

so how do you like that? the perfect blog post – some pigs, some yarn and I didn’t have to do anything more than pick up packages on the front porch. it’s the sweet life I tell ya!

And they said it couldn’t be done; that I couldn’t spend an evening chatting and whooping it up with long lost girlfriends while simultaneously drinking and knitting Pomatomus socks. My progress is not an indication that these long lost girlfriends are boring but points toward my mad skillz with the needles and also my hollow leg.
Probably it’s really more about my hollow leg than anything else.

how about a little pork?

foyer pig wearing the sleigh bells that I forgot to put away from Christmas