All posts by Sherry

Afghan

Knit & Crochet

I adapted this pattern from one of Mum’s afghan patterns. I wasn’t able to manage the stitch used in the pattern but I used the pattern as a reference for colour changes. Since I didn’t have enough yarn for the changes the pattern called for I substituted a few colours into the scheme.

I made another afghan using this shell stitch pattern (which I kept for myself). The note on the pattern listed a number of stitches to use but this is much narrower than the one I made for myself; I probably didn’t update the note when I finished mine.

However, the piece is still a good size and I don’t think I’d have been able to managed the colours and rows as well had it been wider.

This will be a donation in honour of Mum’s birthday in November.

Station Eleven

Books

Author: Emily St. John Mandel

I’m noticing a theme to Dylan’s English class – the end of the world as we know it.

This book was published in 2014 but what it describes is a more severe case of the pandemic that was caused by Covid. This end-of-the-world scenario has been caused by the Georgian Flu, out of Russia. Small communities of people have survived; some are welcoming to strangers, others not so much.

The story starts with the on-stage death of a well-known actor who suffers a heart attack. The characters in the book are all related in some way to that event – ex-wives, friends, fellow actors, the paramedic who tried to help Arthur. There is also a group of people, called the Travelling Symphony, who go from community to community performing Shakespeare plays and symphonic music. No solution to the crisis is found but after twenty years many people have accepted their new way of life.

Goodreads Rating: * * * *

Moon of the Turning Leaves

Books

Author: Waubgeshig Rice

This is a sequel to Moon of the Crusted Snow.

Ten years have passed since a group have moved from the reserve into the bush. It is 13 years since the power went out and everything changed.

A small group have decided to head out to see what has happened to the rest of the world. They are headed for the ancestral lands of the elders; others who went in search in the past never returned. There are hardships along the way. Some of the small communities they find are hostile to newcomers but some are welcoming. By the end of the story another ten years have passed and the small bush community is back on the land of their ancestors.

Goodreads Rating: * * * *

Snowbound

Journal

Sunday, March 3, 2024

Plans changed for today when the snow arrived. We’ve had snow on and off for the past couple of days but it started coming down quite heavily this morning. As we watched out the window the city bus didn’t make it up the hill and had to back down, very slowly. The roads weren’t at all clear although the plows and salters/sanders had been out.

We decided that we would skip the afternoon movie today. Our roads weren’t good and there was no way of telling what the roads would be like in the townsite. Fortunately we were able to watch a good curling game from the Brier, although there was also a Jays game on that would have entertained us.

The snow has stopped now, the sun is shining and everything is dripping. I expect we’ll be able to safely head out for the evening movie.