Vacation over, two more weeks of school

The Mighty Hunter should return sometime today. I suspect late in the evening as he is loathe to depart hunting camp until the last minute. He really loves hunting! I hope he brings home some venison this trip. It would be a huge bonus to our nearly depleted freezer (he wanted me to keep it that way in anticipation of a deer or two.) If not, at least he had a good time and got away from the stress at work and home.

I got most of the house cleaned. Well...tidied. It will take a more herculean effort to make it really clean. Still...better than it was. The two area rugs in the living room make a huge difference. I am battling the cat who seems to think it's his room-sized scratching post, however. The carpet is similar to what is on his actual scratching post. Fortunately Professor barks and goes after him when he does scratch on the carpet. The little tattle-tale.

I didn't make it to church today, sadly. I was awake at 4 a.m. and just couldn't face the battle of staying awake during church. Not that it is boring in the least, but 3 hours of sleep won't keep me awake even during an exciting event, let alone a somber, liturgical one.

My dad made a comment today about my "no different from Catholic" church today. Ah, well. He speaks out of his ignorance about anything not Baptist. He's not being mean or disrespectful. He just doesn't know what it's all about. And he would be horrified if he were to know that, during my extensive spiritual battle, I found more grounding in the Book of Common Prayer than the Bible. The BCP is what kept me near to God. Not the Bible. It's still hard for me to read the Bible because all I can see through is the fundamentalist lens. I do hope someday I will be able to read it with a discerning eye for the fallibility of man rather than the inerrancy I was raised to believe. Until then...the BCP keeps me where I need to be.

I did want to see the beauty of the liturgical colors though. I might slip into church this week to pray and enjoy it. We're having a silent "retreat" type event on Tuesdays during Advent where the chapel will be lit with candles but as we have two more weeks of school yet, I won't be able to do that for a while.

I finished one Fletching mitt and started on the other. As usual I had to adapt a bit. I followed the pattern and it seemed my gauge was okay but the mitt ended just midway up my palm and not at the fingers so I ripped back and made the modification. Much better. And it looks so nice. The second will go faster since I won't have to rip back. I hope.

I need to get back to the cardigan and my mother told me my aunt has requested two pairs of socks. I'll email her to get the specifics: color, size, etc and then get the yarn this week. I never pass up an opportunity for socks. Plus she's going to pay me for them. Which reminds me...I need to get my sister's socks in the mail as well. And I need to be more consistent with my kick spindle spinning. I'm not even close to finishing up my pound of Welsh Top yet.

Off to finish up the kitchen. I had mopped it and need to put everything back in there.

No Masterpiece Theater tonight and I finished up Supernatural so I might do a Pirates of the Caribbean marathon to keep me occupied while I knit away.

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TTFN