It has nothing to do with knitting.  The knitting has been going very well.  I finished the first part of the Secret of the Stole with no problems, like what I see so far and downloaded the charts for the second part this morning.  The entrelac shawl is also progressing nicely and I’ve been able to put in some time on it the last couple of evenings so I’m into the first red line of blocks and am seriously loving how these colors play together.  I have yet to cast on for the second Endless Knot sock, but will before long.  I’m seriously tempted to try a different heel on this one :) I mean, who’s going to know?  Heheh…

The weather here has been rainy all week - which is why there are no pictures today.  I’m not a great photographer under the best of circumstances and without some natural light to help me along, well, it’s almost not worth doing.  So the weather is making me cranky - I’m dying for some sunshine!

Another thing that’s irritating me is that while I love autumn, I hate October.  October is (as you know if you’ve even stepped a foot out of the house) National Breast Cancer month.  Which means that I can’t even go shopping without being clouted over the head with a bazillion pink ribbons adorning everything from cosmetics to Thomas’ English Muffins.  I know I have breast cancer.  All the reminders are a little depressing.  More than that though, I begin to feel that in the boardrooms of some of these companies, some sharp person has figured out what a clever marketing technique this bandwagon can be.

See?  We support breast cancer research!  We’re good guys :) You can be a good guy too - just buy our product!

The other thing that bothers me about all this is that while breast cancer gets all the press, the other forms and types of cancer get no notice at all.  How does a sufferer from pancreatic cancer or leukemia or prostate cancer feel when they walk into a store to be bombarded by breast cancer advertising?  A little neglected, maybe?

Sigh…

I did a little dyeing yesterday to test a new “blue”.  I had hoped to be able to show it to you today but it isn’t dry yet so it will have to wait for Monday.

Grump, grump :)

Chatters is on tomorrow night at the usual time!

Have a great weekend everyone :)