April may be the cruelest month, what with its penchant for breeding lilacs out of the dead land and all. But March decided to get in one last dig before it left.

Last night at 4AM I was yanked from a sound sleep by a clap of thunder which felt like it was about 20 feet over my head. The storm continued for about half an hour, and was followed by an inch of pelting hail.

Brady is unimpressed. Also, a little skittish.

I finished Dashing this weekend! I guess fourth time’s the charm.

Incidentally, I have to retract my complaint about the cable pattern. I was contacted by the designer, who confirmed that the pattern is correct as written.

This is what your needle looks like before you start cabling:

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You slip the first four (red) knit stitches to a cable needle. Then you knit the next four stitches, and purl one. This pushes the second (blue) column of knit stitches over by one, and pops the (green) purl over to the left:

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P K K K K P K K K K

You then insert the held-back (red) knit stitches between the two purl stitches at the end:

P K K K K P K K K K
P K K K K K K K K P K K K K

In order to preserve the stitch pattern, the the first (green) purl stitch switches places.

Or you can, you know. Just slip that purl stitch onto the cable needle along with the knit stitches, and proceed as usual.

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I spent Earth Hour sketching piggies by candlelight. (I had just finished watching a special about piggies pigs on the National Geographic Channel.)

We didn’t get much warning about Earth Hour, did we? I only heard about it that morning on NPR. Ah well, I’ve made a note of the date for next year. In my Notebooks of Doom.

I had been pretty compulsive about note-taking and project-recording, keeping everything in a three-ring binder. Then I ran across this article and realized that I was an amateur. Amateur!

Ever since, I’ve been using one notebook per month, numbered pages, one page per day from front to back, and one page per topic from back to front. Soon I will rule the world! With my spiral-bound notebooks.

Anyway, I’ve made a note of it, and next year I’ll mention it sooner, I promise! It was fun.

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Let me tell you something: if I wanted snow in March, I WOULD MOVE BACK TO ALASKA.

Speaking of climate change (and I believe we were…) tonight is Earth Hour. Lights out between 8 and 9PM!

(When I first heard about the Lights Out America program, I sent them an email saying “Hey, you should also hold a Lights Out Blogland!” They sent me an email saying basically “Wha?”

I explained that there could be a Lights Out Blogland, just as there’s a Lights Out Seattle, Lights Out San Francisco, and so forth. Bloggers could post the banners, and pledge to turn out their lights for an hour at 8PM, wherever they happen to be located.

I never heard back from them. I don’t think they grasped the concept.)

(Note also that I would have notified you about Lights Out sooner, but I was relying on their RSS feed to keep me informed… Silly me…)

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