Any brilliant ideas on what to name our Christmas Stocking-along? I haven’t had any. And Nate hasn’t made a button. But I’m wanting to get this party started, so comment to this entry to tell me if you’re in. Even if you’ve told me already, comment again (please?). It keeps it tidy for me, and I don’t have to worry about stupidly missing someone. I have emails spread out over the last few months from people that want to participate, and even if I go looking, I’ll miss somebody.

Wool of the Andes from Knitpicks seems really nice. Thank you to Jen for suggesting it. It hadn’t even occurred to me. You rock.

Sunday night, while laying in bed, we heard loud crackling sounds on the deck, so we got out the flashlight and went down to the basement to chase off the raccoons.

They’re still stinking cute.

There were four of them. I think they’ve gotten a bit bigger since we saw them last. We shined the big light on them from inside the house, they retreated a little bit and stared at us, waiting for us to go away, which we didn’t because they were around my pond. Three of them laid their little chins on a flat rock, side by side and I couldn’t believe how cute they were, considering they’re vermin.

Happily, I still have all of my fish, so I don’t hate them yet.

As for the swatch, I don’t like the ribbing or the garter stitch, so I’ll probably do a rolled, stockinette top. I still need to measure the swatch and work out a basic pattern. I’m thinking that most of them will be stripes within our color palette, with a duplicate stitch design added after it’s done. That way, Olivia can help with the knitting. But I still like the idea of Nate’s and mine being argyle.

Clark didn’t sleep too well last night, and at 4:30 this morning, he was done sleeping and kicked and clawed me until I lost all hope of going back to sleep myself. So I’m going to do some laundry now.