About power
In the various conversations with neighbors and friends this past week the word electricity was never used.
We all said “Is your power back?”, “We are still without power.” and so on. And truly we felt powerless after a windstorm with winds up to 100 mph fell trees and power lines causing major problems in the Glendale/Pasadena area. Our house was without power for three days and three nights, and I know that those of you on the east coast who went as long as a week a while back in much harsher weather conditions know something about it. We were actually very lucky that our next-door neighbor, who is connected to a different grid
and got his power back within eight hours, let us string a cable from his house to ours so we could hook up one thing at a time. Mostly we hooked up the computer so Ben could work and then a little space heater, but we still we had to throw out all the food in our fridge and freezer and it was cold (I know, I know… Southern California cold). All my pasteis de nata, all the croissants and baguettes, the shrimp… It was sad.
My eagerly awaited package from Sweden
Wild Apple pullover kit
Bethany
Oh no! I’m sorry to hear your power was out for so long. It’s funny how even though we are in such a modern age, something so seemingly insignificant can throw us for a loop as far as simple things like working (on our laptops) or eating (fridge thawing out), or bathing (my least favorite: no hot water!).
The Bohus kit is beautiful, though. I hope you enjoy knitting it. I haven’t seen a real one in person, but a Swedish raveler sent me some yarn ends so I could shop for a similar yarn in the states, and it’s just breath-taking. There isn’t anything at all like it.
I hope that you are able to knit the beautiful kit now that you are on the mend and the electrical wires outside have decided to behave themselves. :)
Lorette
Pretty colors! That should take the grey right out of your winter!
Lydia
Sounds perfect! I was just going to check in with you and find out if you’d fallen-off the face of Earth, or something. Those type of power outages are nasty; we had something like that in Dec. ’06, and with so many down trees power crews had a hard time resorting power for over a week for many. Glad you have a helpful neighbor. Can’t wait to see what your sweater looks like.
Alyssa
So happy you’re okay! At least you had that rainbow of colors to brighten things up a little until the lights came back on.
Annie
Helloooooo … so glad you’re back :D
That kit knits up amazingly … happy Wild Apple knitting (crumbs, it even sounds divine!).
Carolyn
Ooooh, pretty! I look forward to watching this progress. Just remember … no snipping apart and grafting in those multi-colored rows!