The “Pineapple Express” arrived in the Pacific Northwest this past weekend. It made for a wet trip to Portland – the roads and passes weren’t bad, but it just rained down in buckets. We arrived in good shape late Thursday, delivered and set up the headboard for a very happy customer, and then spent 2 nights with our friends who own The Real Mother Goose Gallery of fine American craft in Portland, OR. Friday was a fun day spent wandering around Portland, finding Christmas gifts for the little great-grandkids, going to Powell’s Bookstore, etc. Also it didn’t really rain on Friday, so we could actually walk around town without getting soaked.
We headed up to Seattle on Saturday in another complete downpour, all the way up I-5. We are listening to “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest” on audiobook in the car, and the reader is really good, so that helped a bit.
Yesterday I went to my knitting group with my friend Carol. I hadn’t seen my Seattle knitting buddies since the first of November, so this was a good thing. I have been working on a couple of hats using a pattern I bought years ago at Weaving Works in Seattle. Here is the designer’s Ravelry page: Triangle Topped Hat by Ellen Christensen.
My first one, done last week, used a long discontinued Filatura di Crosa yarn (wool and rayon) plus Rowan Kid Classic left over from my “Come Together” Sweater:
The second one was knit mainly in the car this weekend, and finished about an hour ago. I used two Mirasol yarns bought at the Ashford Gallery in Winthrop: the brown one is “Miski” (100% baby llama) and the red one is “Akapana” (65% baby llama, 25% merino wool and 10% Donegal, which are the color flecks).
This is a really fun pattern, knit all in one piece (very few ends to darn in!) but there were a few challenges in interpreting the pattern. I am probably going to make a couple more.
But back to the Pineapple Express. We left Seattle about 2:30 and went over Stevens Pass. The rivers were muddy, raging and very high – it looked like Sultan was on the way to being underwater! But Highway 2 was open and the drive wasn’t bad except for lots and lots of rain on the west side. Our housesitter had told us we had gotten 2 feet of snow at the house the night before. TWO FEET – yes, you read that right.
Our snow-plower had cleared out the driveway, but Rick is out there digging out the truck:
the camping trailer and the utility trailer:
and they are clearing off the carport roof, since the metal roofing is supposed to be delivered today:
Dec 13, 2010 - after the big snowfall
Twisp of Fate 
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