My knitting mojo is still MIA. I hope it's somewhere nice. Hawaii or maybe Tahiti. I also have run out of reading material, so I'm in double trouble. If you're looking for knitting, you'd probably be better off elsewhere!

So, in light of the fact that there is no knitting to blog about on this knitting blog, lets go all random, which is where my head space is right now.
Who am I kidding? That's where my headspace always is. I have no idea how I manage to knit anything, seeing as I'm usually doing two things at once, and thinking about at least three things at a time. And talking at ridiculous speeds.
My first father-in-law used to remind me to breathe at regular intervals when I was talking. Anyway, the randomness.
Today is the last day of the school holidays. That's good news and bad. I'm way behind on anything resembling housework, and today I am supposed to be doing that and sewing instead of wasting time on the 'net. I have already done 4 loads of laundry. May I remind you all that there is only three of us. Well, four, but the rabbit doesn't require much in the way of laundry. Sweeping and vacuuming, on the other hand...
Then again, I've never been in the running for best housewife!
Of course, back to school means getting up at ridiculous hours of the morning, and it's getting colder now. It also means back to dancing after school, back to canteen duty, and back to homework.
The more I think about it, I think I'd rather have the holidays!
Maybe I'll start homeschooling.
Nah!

Lots of sad news in Australia this week.
We lost our first soldier in Iraq. Not in actual fighting, but due to an accident with a gun.
Sad news. What's worse is there has been some kind of ridiculous stuff up in transporting his body home, and the wrong body arrived yesterday.
How traumatic for his poor family. I cannot imagine the pain and devastation they must be feeling.

There's been a mining accident in Tasmania. Three miners were trapped after a rock fall three days ago. They've been trying to find them, and have located and retrieved one man's body, but still don't know if the other two are alive or not, and now they're saying that it could take up to three days to dig another tunnel down to where they think the miners are.
More pain and devastation. How horrible to be waiting, to not know if your loved one is alive or dead, and you can't do anything but wait.
My prayers are with them all.

It's been getting colder over the last week or two, but today is quite nice. Twinkie is outside enjoying the last of the warm days.
I tried to get a picture, but this is the only view she would give me.

Then I told her she had an audience, and she played pretty.

Happy weekend!
And if I owe anyone emails, I'm sorry, I'm behind on that, too!

Update:
Don't get me wrong, I didn't intend to be ranty today, just some random observations that have occured to me.

Okay, maybe I'm ranty about the poor miners and the family of the soldier.