Any Sock KAL 2

[jess_hawk]

Thanks everybody - yes, I really do love what I'm doing, it's so exciting! There are parts don't care for: cleaning mews and pigeon coops is really gross, as is prepping raptor food. I had to prep a rabbit who looked just like my brother's old pet, and I just about started bawling, but those things have to be done, and the rest of the stuff I do totally makes up for it.
Yesterday I got bitten by a red shouldered hawk from rehab. He's known as Elmer, because he fell into a vat of some kind of glue/plastic/polymer stuff and ruined all of his feathers and destroyed his talons. He is being released tomorrow, so we took him out to a field to creance him, which is where you tie the bird to a drag line so that it can fly but not too far. I was taking off the temporary anklets, so I wasn't wearing gloves (he was restrained by one of the volunteers) and he managed to stick his head out far enough to get ahold of my hand. Still, it was a fun, new thing to do. He's definitely ready to be out of here!
Also, everyone seems pleased with the work I'm doing. I made a comment today that it seems like in almost 3 weeks I should have picked up more than I have, but if I remind myself that I've only been at the ETC three days, it isn't so bad. Jen (my boss at the ETC) replied that in 3 days I've shown more initiative than the summer interns showed in their three months.
I'm so happy to hear that Christine is continuing to improve!
Dustina: I might suggest offering a "fixing mistakes" class seperately: there are several different types of mistakes that are easily fixed, and I could see that segment being a whole class on its own, and of interest to people of all levels. You could include lifelines in that class, too.
You could also do the two-handed, double knitting, and other techniques (lace, intarsia, etc.) as a special techniques class, maybe one night per technique making blocks of different styles that could be combined as a scarf, blanket, pillows, etc. People could register seperately for each technique so they could do only the ones they are interested in, or register for the whole sequence.
Hope everyone is having a great week - I'm going to a "Knit in" tomorrow night at the LYS!

[jberry16]

Dustina I really dont have anything to add to your class list. Jess already brought up the intarsia & lace.
Maybe teach them about the different weights of yarn and what needle sizes are usually suitable.

I am still fighting a dang head cold. The week my sister was here, 2 weeks ago, the kids came down with it, then last week when Dh was on vacation he had it and now it's my turn. Dang it! The worst part is the scratchy throat, if it was just my nose bugging me I'd be able to deal with that lots better. but it's both. And I really thought I had it beat but then the monthly curse showed up & that's when it hit hard.

We're realizing that 'summer' is over and draining the pool, started yesterday morning and it's still draining. But at least we're able to use it to water the plants in the yard, there wasn't any chlorene left in it.

OK y'all gotta go eat dinner so I'll talk toyou maybe tomorrow? Bailey has 2 cavities, both on 2 of her eye teeth & one covers 2 surfaces and the other covers 4 surfaces; she'll get those fixed tomorrow morning, this should be interesting.

[jberry16]

OK I'll blame the cold meds, Bailey's dental appointment isn't till next Thursday.
I slept in till 8 this morning! wow! that hasn't happened in years.