broken afternoon

I just had to go off and get Jamie's glasses fixed again. He was in the high chair eating lunch, and I got a phone call from patgund, and I guess he got bored. Totally bent out of shape, one lens missing, unwearable. So, another 50 mile round trip to Southlake. Next pair MUST be from a closer optician.

And while prepping for this trip, I came out of the bathroom to see Maggie in the kitchen. "I'm sweeping!" she chirped. I started to say "oh, okay", but I'd just stepped on the kitchen floor - and fallen badly. She'd once again dipped her toy broom into the cats' water to pretend to mop. She has been repeatedly told she's not allowed to do that, because it makes the floor slippery and dangerous. I didn't break anything, but I hurt in many places. Suffice it to say Maggie no longer has access to the broom.

Now they've both been put down for naps, I'm going to try to finally get myself some proper lunch, and hope it gets better from here.

spiral socks

The fancy cabled socks are on hold until I find a good smaller cable needle.

Instead I've cast on some variegated blue Trekking yarn, and am making a spiral rib sock. I remember someone at the monthly knitting get-together last month (I missed this month for a gaming session) was doing something like this, and I may or may not have correctly remembered what she was doing, but this will work out.

The two questions I still need to answer are a) do I continue the spiral rib pattern down the top of the foot? I usually do continue patterns on the top of the foot, not sure how it will work with this one, and b) when I make the second sock, do I make it an identical twin with a shift-left spiral, or do I make it a mirror twin and do a shift-right spiral?