Some ideas for the Cherry Tree Hill Christmas present socks:

Aran Braid Socks for Teri

Basketcase Socks

and the Sock Calculator.

Some sleeper dimensions:
Crate and Barrel’s Troy Queen Sofa Sleeper: 78″x36″x29″h ($1399.00 + $225 s&h (up to $1600))
Crate and Barrel’s Bayside Full Sleeper (w/washable slipcover): 78″x37″x31″h ($1799.00)

I’m in the mood for socks. I’ve been looking at Nona’s pattern for spiral socks, and didn’t have much of anything to play around with (some nasty yellow nylon, and about 75 yds of red Fortissima), so I stopped at Cass Street Yarn Depot, my lys, and bought a skein of Cherry Tree Hill Supersock. I would have brought it to work with me, even, except that I bought it about 30 minutes before I had to be at work, and clearly didn’t have time to wind it off the skein or anything. But I’m still really anxious to get started with it.

What kills me is that while I still have a couple of other things going (as you’ll notice if you look at my projects page), some of them not insubstantial, I still feel the need to start a new project. So this post started out being about my very short attention span. I would argue, though, that one could see this as a question of having a long attention span — knowing that these other projects are substantial, I’m finding smaller, more portable things that will keep my attention fresh on the larger ones, and keep the quality of my work up. Sure, that’s it…

To find out more about what hands our house has gone through (not having an abstract), we should do a title search at the County Recorder’s office. We can probably trace a chain of title, which would lead us to deed information.

One thing we’ve learned in the last couple of weeks is that our new house is very condusive to having people over. Brunch for 8? No problem. Cast party for 18? Also no problem (except that we didn’t have a towel and soap in the downstairs half-bath yet, but that’s easily fixed).

We’ve said we want to entertain more, and the thing that we thought was holding us back was our lack of space for it. We’ll see now if that’s the case, or if we’re just not very good about actually inviting people over.

I read it too fast. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince? I read it too fast, scanning along to get from one plot point to the next, instead of slowing down and letting it really sink in. And still, by the penultimate chapter, I was certainly crying. How long do we have to wait for the next one?

I had to do some major catch-up on the blog reading today, what with all the house craziness and whatnot. At any rate, over on the blue blog, Alison is working on a new felted
Sophie Bag for herself — I think I might give it a try sometime.

Our house (the lovely new house we closed on yesterday!) is in Fort Wayne’s West Central Historic District, which means that anything we wish to do to the exterior of the home needs to be cleared for maintaining the historic character of the building. For example, if we want to put in an exhaust fan for the bathroom, and also move the washer and dryer to the second floor closet, we need to have a vent to the outside. I don’t know for sure yet, but I’m thinking we probably need to run it by them first, just to make sure it doesn’t get anyone all bothered.

Don Orban, in the City Planning Department Preservation Office, is apparently the guy to talk to about these sorts of things. He can be reached at 427-1140 or 427-2160. It’s also worth looking at the preservation guidelines.