More of Winston

julie & chien, originally uploaded by leclerc_jk.

This blog seems to be more about Winston than knitting lately, but he is just so lovable...

I was sitting on the sofa reading when he randomly walked over, sighed and fell onto my lap in this position. Nicole and my mom thought it was amusing and took a picture. He looks so depressed here. It's a hard life, Winston, a hard life indeed.

Socks, sisters and apples.

This is the pair of socks that I started two years ago and finally finished a couple weeks ago. These socks did some travelling while I worked on them. They have been on the CCGS Hudson on the Grand Banks and well as on the CCGS Matthew surveying the Swiss Air crash site. They were also the project that I brought the very first time I every came to KOL. I think they will make very nice work socks. Oh yes, they are Patons Kroy socks yarn on 2.25 mm needles.

This is my sister and her dog showing off the nursery for the new baby. They got it all set up while I was visiting them a few weeks ago. I don't think Winston is going to enjoy the lack of attention he will get once the new addition to the household comes!


And this is my most recent addition to my household. A 2.0GHz 17" iMac. I got it on friday. I am still trying playing around the OS. It's been a long time since I have used a mac, but so far it's pretty cool. They are a lot of neat little apps and it's very pretty. I am still having internet connection problems though. Not only if my connection as slow as mollasses (sometimes as low as 50kbps) but it drops out SEVERAL times a day especially during peak hours. I have called Aliant a few times and they are incredibly useless, especially since I know much more about this sort of thing than those silly call centre agents do. (At least I like to think that I do) If this doesn't get sorted out soon I may switch to Eastlink. Does anybody have any comments on the Aliant/Eastlink situation?

A baby is on the way...

Winston1, originally uploaded by leclerc_jk.

No, this is not said baby. Even though Winston is quite whiney. The pic is dark because he doesn't like the flash,
My trip to Ontario went pretty well despite the horrendous driving (and my terrible spelling). Of course we had to hit snow on the way there and the way back.

My dad got the nursery painted and the crib assembled, and we went shopping for baby things and stuff. My sister also had her first ultrasound while I was there and since her husband is fighting in Afghanistan right now, I got to go in with her and watch. My little niece appears to be quite healthy.

So, now that we are 95% sure it's girl, I can start more knitting and not have to make everything green or yellow! Yippee!

I will have more knitting posts once I get around to unpacking my camera and whatnot.