Snowbound!

Oh man! The things you need to see to believe! I would have never guessed the south did not have salt, sand, and plows for snow.  By now, I'll assume everyone in the US has heard about the snow that shut down the south.  I was at work when the first flakes fell and honestly, I thought nothing of the falling flakes except that it was the first snow! Yay First Snow!!! I love the first snow of every year to the point of giddiness. Now I know; snow in the south is to be feared! Tuesday, I left work about 2:30 grabbed the Things and headed to a co-worker's place to crash for the night. The gentleman's house that we crashed at ended up holding 17 people; 4 of which was his family. Generous people and I cannot thank them enough. Instead of staying roughly 24 hours, the Things and I stayed 48 hours. It was taking roughly 4-6 hours to make the 1 hour drive for the other co-workers to drive home. Instead, the extra day allowed 95% of the abandoned cars to be moved off the highways.

You would think that the days off of work would result in a little more knitting time for me. Wrong! I was concerned about the Things destroying the co-worker's home and running out of knitting. The nagging voice in the back of my head warned me to take DH's sweater along with me to work but I was just going to go home to work on it. Instead, I took the socks, you know, the ones that were almost out of yarn. Thankfully I managed to knit slowly enough to keep the yarn lasting through the snowed in period. I cast off the night before we left and was hoping the hook from the Rainbow Loom would work to tuck the tails. Nope. Since I asked, the wife wears the same size shoe as me, so the socks that were for me are now hers. I took them home to tuck the tails and wash them. I hope she likes the socks and knows how much I appreciate them taking in a dozen stranded travelers.

After finishing the socks while stranded away from home, I dedicated myself to finishing the body of DH's Flax sweater body.  The underarm length to hem length is supposed to be 18.5" for DH's size. Instead, he wants 21" for the perfect length in his mind. FOREVER knitting! Only it didn't take as long as I thought it would. I finished the body bind off at 10:45 PM Sunday night. Go me! Naturally any time I finish anything or any part of something, I must try it on. For scale, the underarm length hits me at mid-thigh. However, it's almost perfect on him! DH is one of those tall people who have a hard time finding the perfect length shirts so I'm glad he's happy even though it could be dress for me!