I'm almost done with Mom's crocodile socks. Another 1/2 inch or so and I can start the toe decreases.

They "need" me this morning for jury duty (at 9 am). I've got two books (one complex, one less-so) and my Dance cotton (with the "hippy bag" pattern on the label) and size 11 dpns. I figure the books are for if it's really quiet or if they tell me I can't knit. I'm juror #44, so I figure I have only slightly better than a 1 in 4 chance of being chosen (I think they only have one case running at a time - only one courtroom).

I'm sort of looking forward to it - I might learn something - but sort of not. I don't know the laws of this town in detail (I generally figure using common sense means you won't be breaking any laws), I've never served on a jury before. And there's always the chance of getting on a rape trial or something else nasty.

Looks like more storms today, so if I'm released from needing to serve today I guess I can't go to the garden center like I was thinking (every gardener knows - if there are bare spots in the garden it is almost actively painful until you fill them with plants).

In other news, I'm thinking about doing more crocheting again and started looking for pages of crocheted toys. There's some really interesting and distinctive things out there.

Like Bu and the Duck Click on each toy for a "description". (I like the pig who is professorial but still "kept his boyish good looks"). I love it when little personality descriptions like that are given, makes me want to buy the thing. (Which is why, I am sure, people write them).

There is a free kitty and free snake pattern to crochet at Joyful Toys.A hacky-sack pattern is free at Bev's Country Cottage.

but you know? A lot of the sites that come up are sites dedicated to selling stuff available at other sites, or popup-ad-loaded sites that don't really have anything I could see to do with crochet. It looks like some of the sites were built by people who thought "hey, let's use a term people might search on and then give them no content but a bunch of crummy ads". Well, probably they said "money-making" instead of "crummy" but you get the point.

maybe I need to find a new search engine to use. Increasingly it seems that google brings up adfilled sites.