... read me a story.....

... aaaah how long has it been since someone actually read you a story? well i am having stories read to me now, in the car, while i am working, while i sit and knit, aaaahhh...

so i am late to yet another party - audio books. i was actually brought round to them by the sound of someone's voice reading poetry. Moved from that to that same person reading excerpts from Ted Hughes' letters... and now onto audio books. it is an amazingly peaceful process. and it makes you listen to the characterizations and accents and thoughts as they pour out of a person's HEAD and not just their mouths -- because even when it isn't dialogue, it is. and your mind can process that as speech and not just as the written word. Lord knows i do enough with the written word - but this is just comforting....

Netherfield socks are moving along quickly - they are a quick knit in an easy pattern to remember from More Sensational Knitted socks by Charlene Schurch - will post a photo momentarily i hope.

i got yarn today on the way home from morrie to make handfast mittens for Kristin and Charlie. that will be a nice Christmas gift i hope. Oh yes and a hat for beth....

off to the races - watch for me at the finish line.