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I wasn’t planning to go public with this, always trying to keep this blog all about the knitting, spinning, and other yarny activities, and not get too heavy on you all. Sometimes, though, writing can be helpful and I’m really not in the mood to play with yarn tonight. Mr. MmmYarn, truly the love and light of my life, passed away early this morning at Stanford Hospital after fighting leukemia since October 4, the night we got back from our last vacation together. He turned 33 last month and next month would have been our 3rd wedding anniversary. Matt, I love you dearly and I will miss you always.

Due to a file fix gone horribly awry last Sunday evening, I was without my computer for a full week. Augh! It’s odd how dependent a lot of us are on our electronic friends and it turns out I’m one of them. The worst part was that I had not backed up my data in a month. I’m usually better than that. But after finding a roundabout way to recover my data using extra computer equipment at work and being forced to reinstall Windows afresh, I found my computer still had all my data. Go figure. Had I known that, I could have had it back the same day it went down. I backed up right away and now I am able to share this with you (pardon the drying rack again):

O, Christmas Tree…

The Kneedler knew we couldn’t have a real tree in the house this year, so she knitted, felted, and decorated a lovely substitute for us. Pretty, huh? I’m certain this is her handspun yarn, too. One of the packages a relative sent Mr. MmmYarn had some fluffy fabric fake snow so I put that under the tree and it looks pretty.

Our local TV station started carrying Knitting Daily TV a few weeks ago and this week I got to see my Famous Shawl, the one I shipped to them back in July, on TV. If you’re looking for it, it’s toward the end of the “Oh-So-Fine” episode.

2008 is winding down and I am still weaving in ends on the Apres Surf Hoodie (nearly every ball of yarn had a knot in it). I really want to finish this in 2008 and I just might make it but you’ll need to wait until 2009 for glamour photos. I also unraveled my Rockstar socks that went on our vacation with us (cuff too big, foot too small); sock #1 is at the heel already. And I recovered all the photos we took of Mystery Stole 4 so I’ll try to reveal those this week, time permitting. It’s going to be a busy week, even with 3 days off work.

Back to catching up on some blog reading.

We have been back from vacation for a week but life handed us a doozy and the Mmm… Yarn household has been thrown into complete upheaval. This means the blog is on hold for a while. I may be posting even more irregularly than usual but more likely not at all.

I try to limit the blog to knitting content but today I need to wax a little philosophical:

- Hug your loved ones.
- Appreciate the good things you have in life. Even if it doesn’t seem like too much is good right now.
- Knit a chemo cap or some other charitable item once in a while.
- If you qualify, donate blood or platelets.
- And, of course, “Knit on, with confidence and hope, through all crises.” — Elizabeth Zimmermann

While it has cooled to a mere 78 degrees outside, inside the apartment it is still 91 degrees after more than 2 hours of running fans with the windows open. My alpaca scarf knitting project and merino sliver spinning project both sit here on my desk, but I cannot work on them today. Much, much too hot to do anything wooly, or anything cotton-y, for that matter. San Francisco doesn’t have many heat waves, but when it does, it’s a doozy. I think I’ll go read the Yarn Harlot’s new book tonight while I fan myself. What a delicate flower I have become.

I taught myself to knit over the Christmas holidays in 1994 and haven’t stopped since.