First steps and more

A new day, a new blog. Seems eons ago I was a newbie on the 'net and posting on P*'s bulletin board looking for friends. Nine years and a husband later, I'm a newbie again. So anyway... On the needles: socks, of course. A lovely brown Opal for DH whose birthday is rapidly approaching. Also, scarf for said DH. A design fuddle. I'll be taking it off the needles and rethinking. Just off the needles: a baby blanket after the fashion of First Lady Hoover (pattern from Knitty.com). Admittedly, I messed this one up -- but it may be all right in the end. More on that, and a pic, later. I hope. :) And words -- well, I'm as far as the introduction of Founding Mothers by Cokie Roberts. Not that I didn't want to read more, but these people I live with demand to be fed. Also started Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal. This was a find at the local library sale (thanks, Dad -- you'll get it as soon as I'm done). Interesting reading, but I've got to be awake for this one. And last, but not least, the kids and I are reading Five Children and It by E. Nesbit. What a delight! None of us can get enough. :)