More rain. Perhaps
the drought has broken.
I finished the
second sleeve of the second Evendoon, and have dealt with most of the ends. Don’t
get too excited: there’s still the neckband ribbing to do. I particularly enjoy
the rare instances when a project offers some actual knitting at the end, after the
tedious bit. Like finding a couple of swallows of wine in your glass after you’ve
had pudding. Although I know that this has happened before, I can’t think of an
actual example.
Thank you for all
your MCAL encouragement. It should be great fun, having you do it too,
Anonymous-just-north-of-Ann-Arbor (comment yesterday). Have you, too, ordered
yarn from Amsterdam? I got an email today from Anj at Meadow Yarn, a British dyer
with whom I sometimes deal. She has put together a number of possible packages
for the MKAL, some of them very tempting and all substantially cheaper than
Amsterdam. Too late now, for me. Nor do I regret my choice.
Wordle: Lisbon
seems to be having a strange effect. (I think they’re all still there until
tomorrow.) Rachel needed five today, Thomas six, Alexander and Ketki both failed. Which
is unheard of. Mark and I – neither of whom is in Portugal, as far as I know –
both got it in three. The Portuguese lot were mostly struggling for the first letter,
which one of my starter words had supplied. I was hard put to think of three
wrong words with the same last four letters. Rachel struggled for the middle
letter – which, again, one of my starters had supplied.
Judy (comment
yesterday) I do agree that repeated letters can be tricky (thinking of
yesterday’s WHOOP). It’s a trick I tend to look for, ever since the day we had
VIVID. I got the two I’s, proud of myself for solving the double -- so the pattern was *I*ID. I struggled mightily with
the remaining letters until an Angel of Understanding descended from heaven and
suggested a second duplication. Normally, like everybody else, I forget the
answer 20 minutes (or less) after solving the day’s puzzle, but I always
remember VIVID. KirstenM, you can’t always count on lightweight vocabulary.
Another one I don’t seem to forget was EPOXY.
The words seem to becoming odder and odder. I didnt get yesterday's at all but took 4 tries for today's.
ReplyDeleteI had the last four correctly placed letters for today's wordle and then chose almost every possible letter for the start of the word except the correct one. The answer was appropriate in the circumstances!
ReplyDeleteSame here — failed because I ran out of tries. And when I started, I thought I might get it in three. HAH. (The Other Kristen)
DeleteI had the second through fifth letters in the correct order after my third word. I tried h, v, and d -- all incorrect -- and failed entirely.
ReplyDeleteI also had the last 4 letters with my third. Who knew there were so many choices for 1st letter? My first failure!
ReplyDeleteI had the first letter and stumbled the second on my third attempt. I put it aside and didn't look at it until after reading todays blog, maybe that helped jostle some brain cells. I got it in five.
ReplyDeleteI wish some rain would come to Southern California.