Beneath the Surface

I have had no cause to decide otherwise on the point that the best yarn in the world is Berrocco (sp?) Cotton Twist Colors. It is still awesome stuff. I'm using a blend of colors called "Lingonberry" to make a cloth for the heathen altar, gorgeous mauve-to-deep-blue.

Still can't knit anything but rectangles, but that's cool too.

In other words, a happy mail day!

My back-order of Berroco Cotton Twist arrived, gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous pink/palepink/sagegreen shiny cotton yarn, yum! Yarn lust, indeed, this stuff is exquisite.

And the big fun, I ordered from Runa-Raven last week, and thus impressed with the service because it arrived today:

* The new edition of Thorsson's Book of Troth--we have a copy of the old one so I am looking forward to comparing--the author name is listed as simply "Edred," which is interesting if odd (joining him with the ranks of Cher and Madonna) and makes me wonder why he dropped the "Thorsson." My guess as to why would probably be wrong.

* The Nine Doors of Midgard, because everyone says you should read it and now I can. Sometime. Considering that I find even his more basic rune works somewhat thick, this one will be slow going when I get to it.

* And Alice Karlsdottir's Magic of the Norse Goddesses, which looks interesting and will be going to the top of my to-read stack now; it seems to feature those goddesses who don't happen to be Freyja (there are chapters on all of or at least most of Frigga's women). Since Frigga is a goddess I have not approached often (everyone says that she loves a clean house, and I think that has scared me off because mine is generally pretty cluttered--only half-kidding there, btw!) it should be an interesting read, I think.

Well, it's kinda-sorta winter, at least at the moment. I can say it's winter because I slipped on the snow and fell down the front stairs for the first time today :). Hurt my ankle, thought "eh, I don't use my left foot to drive really" and got in the car anyway. Yeah, now it hurts! Halloween candy, new plastic pumpkins for the kids (quite a color range they've got, elder daughter now has a black one and younger daughter a pink one).

And it being winter (or that's my excuse, um, I mean reason) I am going to knit. First time in probably ten years. Before you get all impressed, I am going to knit scarves and that is all. Marvelous yarns--black and red chenille, fuzzy multicolored wool blends. Very cool. Or, hopefully, warm.