Pledge drive, sock yarn and gardening.

I'm feeling better... more or less. Pledge drive started Friday so I'm a little tired. No pitching today so I'm all alone, scrounging for leftovers. I was hoping for sandwiches, but they're gone and all that's left are breakfast sandwiches from Sonic (from yesterday morning, ick) and 3 dozen Krispy Kreme.
Even I can resist those leftovers. Well, I may have had a Krispy Kreme.
The drive is going well so far... and Carla and I rocked the pledge breaks yesterday. We were on FIRE. Usually we don't get calls in the middle of the afternoon on a Saturday and we had the phones ringing fairly regularly. It was a good feeling.

I may have accidentally ordered some more yarn. On Ebay. Ebay is bad. Some Lorna's Laces and some Opal sock yarn. Oops. There may be one more auction that I'm currently winning for some Trekking XXL.
I'm knitting away on my socks for Bean and I still need to knit my second monsoon sock. Looking at the pictures posted on other sites I have totally screwed up the cables, but I don't care. I'm not going to re-knit the sock, it's just going to have to be odd.
I'm going to have to have a sock yarn (bragging session) (confessional) pictorial post. The first step is admitting I have a problem. But I just figured out how to use the magic loop method and I'm SOOOOO close (thanks to Cookie) to getting the figure 8 cast on.

I'm also getting ready to learn to garden. Maybe. We have this flower bed in front of our porch that is empty and (as my mother said) any idiot can plant flowers. Sure, but can any idiot keep them alive?? I have already killed three plants from the funeral and there are two more hanging on. Barely. And the kitties aren't helping. But yesterday on The Splendid Table she interviewed Katherine Whiteside who made vegetable gardens sound easy enough... and talked about rhubarb margaritas... so I ordered her book from Zooba and am thinking about a little raised gardening. We'll see. The idea of composting appeals to me - I remember when my grandmother was still alive I used to be the one to take the compost out to the pile and I thought it was so cool that eggshells and coffee grounds and watermelon rinds could make her flowers grow so well.

We just happen to have this flat bit of back yard that would fit a raised garden and could be good for composting. Maybe.

Hmmmmm. Rhubarbarita.....