Winding Down
Aug 26th, 2010 by Deb
This morning, very early (i.e. 5:30am) I was lying awake in bed. While lying there, I heard a noise – a horn of sorts, perhaps a fog horn. Shortly after, I heard the same noise, but a bit louder. And then again, even louder still. Even in my semi-sleepy state, I realized this noise was a large ship coming into Halifax harbour. I got out of bed and wiggled behind the curtains so as not to wake Mike. Our hotel room faces out onto the water.
It was raining heavily and extremely foggy, so foggy that I couldn’t really see anything in the water – whether a big ship or not. I watched and listened as the noise was still happening at somewhat regular intervals and it was still getting louder. And then I saw it – a light, and then more lights in a straight, horizontal line, and then a group of lights at the end of the line of lights. Yes, there was a big ship coming into the harbour but the only thing visible were some very faint lights – very eerie!
It did rain today. But by noon, most of the rain was over. There were occasional showers and a bit of misting afterward. But we were able to walk around for another day.
We went to the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic today and wandered around the waterfront. I got to have a cup of tea and visit with long time knitting buddy and mentor, Lucy Neatby. I bought this little gem:

This will be my first double knit project (I don’t mean double knit as the yarn weight, I mean double knit as a knitting technique). I won’t tell you how absolutely touchable that yarn is (the light one is a silk/merino and the coloured one is cashmere/merino/nylon). It has been purring around me like an affection-starved cat all evening. Any guesses as to how long it takes before this stuff is on the needles?












