Busy weekend. I graded a set of student papers, a set of exams, and made up some lectures on clay minerals for soils. I also got my starter seeds planted, finally. I'm going to try growing tomatoes this year. I have some heirloom seeds called "Cherokee Purple" which are supposedly from a variety traditionally used by the Cherokee. As long as it was a variety they have used in the past 150 years or so (while they have been in Oklahoma), the plants should do well here.

I also knit some but not a great deal. My new goal is to get the second Latvian sock finished. I've done one of the seven lace repeats on the top of the sock so it will still be a while.

Next week I get spring break - I will be traveling to visit family in Illinois. I've already decided on what projects to take (that's the mark of a die-hard knitter). I'm taking the WIPS (the Spanish Shawl, the Latvian socks, and the mini-Ringel socks). I think I'm also going to take a ball of Regia jacquard (in color "Wien" or Vienna, one of the new jacquard colors) or maybe plot out my braid-fronted worsted-weight socks and take those. I don't want to run out of projects.

The great thing about socks - especially sockweight yarn socks - is that it's easy to tuck the supplies for making them in the corner of a bag. I always travel with more sockyarn than I wind up using, but that's because I never know when I may be stranded somewhere (it happened two Christmases ago - there was a derailment ahead of the train I was on and we just SAT on the tracks for 6 hours).