In the interim we bring you a gratuitous cat photo:
You know the dude with no fur in the front - my under-the-halogen space is getting tighter since Ms. Blue also figured out it's warm there. I have daily rolicking cat fights under that lamp now.
So, I started off today mad at the mailman, but he made it up to me by noon. For the last 4 or so packages I've received, I've noticed some oddnesses with the delivery timing. My first RSC shipment delivery notice showed up on a Monday - but I noticed the card was dated for the Friday before and said I would have been able to pick it up Friday. Two other online purchases in the interim wandered... I was tracking them on-line, and saw twice that delivery attempts were made - yet I got no delivery notices. The first of those I picked up when the online system said it was at the post office - and the delivery card for it got to me a full week later. I thought it was the card for my NEXT expected package, so was most confused when I went to the PO to be told they didn't have a package and had no idea why I got a delivery slip - until we realized it was the slip for the package I got a week ago. For the 3rd one, I found it online, at a DIFFERENT (though closer) post office, and I never did get the delivery slip.
This morning, I got an online notice saying my Pick-Up Sticks Sock Club HAD BEEN SUCCESSFULLY DELIVERED, YESTERDAY. It was not. I wasn't home, and there was no package left, and no delivery notice. I was about to phone Canada post and yell, as I'd opened a ticket after the last few oddities, but I decided to go home and check at lunch. And I caught the postie red-handed! He was in the mailroom, door open, and I popped my head in and asked about packages. He said "Oh, yeah, I tried you yesterday and you weren't home, so I left the packages here. I put them by your door today" - which he usually doesn't do, but someone must've let him in for something else.
So, mystery semi-solved. I think I've found my local postie leaves stuff in our mailroom - which I can't get to, of course - and makes a second try. Ironically this delays me getting stuff, because it's locked up away from me but if he took it to the local PO across the road right away, I'd get it that night. Oh well.
So, today's packages and the spoilers!!! Check this out, the April RSC package:
I don't know how readable that is, but this is not just a new colour of our much-loved Socks That Rock - it's a whole new yarn! The Blue Moon Ladies found a merino-silk twist blend, and the silk ply in it takes the dye a bit differently, so there's this wonderful barberpole stripe to it. It is named Silkie Socks That Rock, colour as we knew is "Walk on the Wild Tide", pattern is "Knee High To A Grasshopper". And it's SOOOOOoooo squishyable. I let it sit beside me at dinner. I am resisting, forcing myself to finish Monsoons the Second and Sunset V2.2 (which is now lookin' lots more fitting, but still a slow knit). I have also heard rumour that Blue Moon may make additional lots of this yarn available, as they've teased us terribly by sending a pattern that includes a knee sock length but only 1 skein of yarn for the shorter version. I will have to ponder whether to splurge for more if they do that.
Here was the second package, the one I actually saw the notice for:
Also much yummyness. Connie's Pick-Up Sticks business is a small online shop specializing pretty much in small-production artisan-dyed sock and lace yarns. Her sock club is a little different than BMFA, so we don't get yarn she produces, we get "proprietor's choice" of those she supplies, this one is Zen Yarn Garden merino dyed in a just-for-Pick-Up-Sticks custom colourway. While the spring pastels wouldn't be my first choice, they're very cute, the yarn is also plushy if a bit finer than Blue Moon, and the pattern looks like a fun challenge. If I don't like 'em, they'll make a great gift anyway.
I'll be off for the weekend if anyone is looking for me, or at least until Sunday. I'm booked for The Yoga Show and conference in Toronto and am treating myself to 2.5 days of Yoga workshops and some evenings with friends in town. I'm taking the projects-in-progress, not the new yarn-pets, to try and get them stitched up and off the needles, and we'll see about the new kits when I'm back.
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