Knitting Obsession

Members of my knitting group just watched this video.
Here's their response:



"She reminds me of Jackie for so many reasons - obsessive knitting, knitting wherever she is, she's literally on the edge, she's determined (read stubborn)and I've even seen Jackie's hair look like hers!"

I haven't decided yet if this is good or bad.

Just When I Think Life Couldn't Get Any Crazier

Laugh of the day.

I carpool to work most days which gives me the luxury of knitting while Beth drives. This morning I got in the car like normal and about 1/4 mile down the road picked up the socks that are almost finished, but something felt wrong. Why was the yarn heading out the car door?

Sure enough the socks were in the car, but the baggie with yarn in it was somewhere out in the road.

Thank goodness I was almost finished with the socks and not just beginning. Otherwise I would have had a trail of yarn going all the way back home. Hopefully this is not an omen.

50 MPG

This weekend I had to drive to Danville, so I decided to just play around and experiment with how I drive. I filled up the car before I left, drove to Danville, watched a concert (KMEA District Honors Band, but more on that later) and drove home.

When I got back into town I filled up again. There was 75 miles on the odometer and it took 1.5 gallons to refill. 50 MPG in my old Camry with 265,000 miles on it. YES!

It has a manual transmission and all I did was clutch and coast the hills and anywhere else I could possibly coast. At 45-50mph I let off the clutch and gave it gas, but at times going down hills my speed drifted up to 60.

Now to try it on normal town and country driving to see how good I can get. Not as many hills, but I think that just by watching how I drive more carefully I can greatly increase my MPG.

Since I am totally unmechanical I don't know what kind of effect this driving style would have on my car, specifically my clutch. If anyone does know, please let me know.