I Don’t Get It
Published October 11, 2006 by CabledSheep
It’s a gorgeous fall day today. I replaced the grass in my (tiny) front yard with water-wise perennials in the spring, and made sure to include plants that would give lots of color late in the year. And they’re certainly doing that! It’s much more interesting than the grass was.
I picked up a lovely hank of Fino by Alpaca With a Twist today, that will hopefully someday become the lovely Icaraus shawl, designed by Utah’s own very talented Miriam. It’s a beautiful deep red called “ruby slippers”. Mmmmmm… nice and soft.
But there’s something I just don’t get. The guy renting the house across the street is almost always sitting on the front steps. All day. All evening. All the time. Not doing anything, just sitting. He seems young and healthy. So what’s the deal? Now I could understand it in the summer when it was blazingly hot. He has no air conditioning, so it was probably much more comfortable to be out on the porch. Like the people down the street - also renters with no air conditioning. The whole family spent the summer sitting out on the lawn under a big tree. We called them the “tree people”. But summer has passed, the tree people have gone inside, and still this guy just sits. I can’t understand how anyone could just sit on a porch for hours and hours doing nothing. Day after day. Isn’t there something to do? The beautiful city library is only a couple of blocks away, and has lots of comfortable sitting areas. How about reading? Or at least looking at the pictures in the magazines? How about taking a walk around Liberty Park, or a hike up City Creek Canyon? Volunteer work? Some kind of hobby? I definitely don’t get it. All of that time wasted, when he could be knitting.
Filed under I don't get it, Random Thoughts, Garden, Knitting
Cabled Sheep lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she enjoys knitting and munching veggies out of the garden.
I don’t get it either! Maybe he’s sick and you just can’t see it. Oh well, at least you know what to do with your time. I saw that Fino yesterday! It’s lovely, lovely yarn.