If you watch the news you may have seen stories about the fires in southern California. There are 12 according to the news today. Last night as my daughter and I were coming home from Target we saw smoke that seemed relatively close and then we saw flames. When we got home we told DH and we took off to see what was going on. We stopped in a parking lot with at least a hundred, probably more, other people and got out of the car to watch the fire creep down a hill and spread off in the distance. It's quite a sight. And yes, we stayed well out of the way. The area we were in was fine and probably a couple miles away from the actual fire.

I woke this morning to a fine layer of ash and the strange and eerie sky that comes with fire and smoke, but we are in no danger here. The fire in Orange County (my neck of the woods) was arson I heard this morning, too. The winds have been blowing off and on here, but howling in the fire areas with gust of up to 90mpg. The humidity is in the single digits. Yikes!

So that is what is going on today here..other than some knitting.

Here's the start of my socks for the sock class. No, they don't match. I thought I'd let the colors fall where they may and see what happens. ;) I've got both tops down in wait for Wednesdays class.

So you all don't think I'm not knitting... I did make something recently, but mums the word because it's a possible gift.



I also started my socks on two circular needles class at The Yarn Lady. I have made a few pairs of socks on DPNs (double pointed needles), but wanted to learn a new technique. It's possible when you know what you're doing to knit two socks at once..how cool would that be!?

So I started the sock, but the fabric was too loose for my taste and it felt like it might be too small. I frogged it and started on smaller needles (size 1) and added a few rib repeats. I'll let you know how it goes. :)