(Blogger greeted me this evening with the message: "Unable to create new post". Then it relented. What's going on?)
A night’s sleep
has somewhat restored me. It’s still cold (cold, but vernal) but Daniela
managed to propel me around the garden. I am particularly fond of the two post-equinoctial,
pre-summer-solstice months which have 31 days, namely March and May. It seems
like a bonus, those two "extra" days, especially May 31.
Knitting went
well. Kirsten (comment yesterday) I hope you like those needles, but I must
emphasize that my recommendation is for small-gauge colour knitting. I am
looking forward to a reversion to dps for the final legwarmer ribbing as I
might look forward to a draught of cold water after a hike through the desert.
And it shouldn’t be long now. At my current pace, I could finish the current
leg in as little as two more days. I’ve finished Chart B and moved on to Chart
C:ankle. I don’t normally suffer from second-sock syndrome, so I would say that
things are looking good. Especially considering that I was prepared to abandon the pattern a few days ago.
Wordle
Today’s word is on
the difficult side, but not in a league with NYMPH or EPOXY. Today was the
opposite to the usual Wordle situation: I had the last four letters and went
back and forth through the alphabet without finding anything for that empty
first position which yielded an intelligible English word. Then I found it.
Ketki’s grid looks as if she had much the same struggle. Old-friend-Mark is
today’s star: he got it in three. Alexander needed all six – that doesn’t often
happen.
I have decided to
forbid myself the further use of Jean-words. Henceforth everything, after my
two starters, must be a legitimate guess, using any greens (of course); all
browns, each in a new position; and only letters which haven’t already been
eliminated.