I often wonder if the soundtrack of the urchins’ childhood will be the shrill beep of the smoke detector. That thing goes off an awful lot in our house. I also wonder if the tract home kitchen designer responsible for it’s placement has ever cooked anything. Oh, well. 2009? Can you believe it? I love the new year. A clean slate, a new start, and all that. I also really like the quiet stillness of January. A fire in the fireplace in the late afternoon while we wait for Papa to return from work.
Yesterday I dumped my yarn stash on the floor to see what I have. I’m planning to knit through Elizabeth Zimmermann’s Knitter’s Almanac this year and first up is an aran sweater. A bag of red tweedy wool ought to be good for that and who knows, maybe I’ll even keep the sweater for myself in the end. I have lots more ideas and plans zipping around in my mind but for now, I’m going to stick with just this.
In our previous house the smoke detector was in the dining room which was adjacent to the kitchen where the oven was really close to the door.
Every time I opened the oven door to take a baked item out the thing would go off. REALLY obnoxious!
I LOVE Aran, although the only thing I’ve knitted was that darn sweater Sydney refuses to wear. (You can see it in my January 1st post.)
i love the new year, too. here’s to the stillness of january. i’m ready for it!
I need to dump my yarn stash and take stock as well. I’m thinking I may knit up a bunch of the wool fibers into pieces to be felted. Then, use them for various felt projects… Should be easy enough to work on while watching 24 this season! I really need to destash!
I love the knitters almanac. I was just thinking I should read it again -it’s like a novel.
I look forward to seeing your progress.
The smoke detector goes off all the time here…someone (nameless!) put it near the stove. I’ll never do that again! I need to get my hands on EZ’s book…it it worth buying or is it a good one to get from the library?
Ours use to go off almost every day while we were cooking dinner. A new range hood with a stronger fan solved the problem. Thank God. I think I was losing my hearing…