Equinox

Oh, fall! How you make me suddenly yearn for that which I've been avoiding lo these many months - entanglement. Something more than pure recreation. In short, someone yummy to snuggle up with.

How you make the cat suddenly want to spend all her time curled up in the little treehouse I built for her (yes, I am a very nice witch to my little familiar). How you send the cold rain against the windows like soft percussion. How you make me glad I have Gore-Tex. How you turn metal grates and manhole covers into sheets of glass in the streets.

How you make me hear Phil Liggett's voice in my head narrating as I pick my way carefully between road hazards on the wet, rutted, slidey pavement.

How you send me running for the all-Malabrigo diet. Today's helping, pictured above:

At bottom, merino worsted in Tortuga. (Yes, the colour name had a bit to do with my purchase of it.)
Directly above that, merino & silk (!), in Smoke, slated to be long fingerless mittens for Special J, because she needs cheering up.
To the right, on the needles (now off them and soaking in Kookaburra), a birthday neckwarmer for another friend in merino worsted, Azul Profundo.

I was a bit blue earlier, feeling a distinct lack of snuggling and other boy-requiring pursuits, but a certain redhead managed to take my mind off it by flirting up a storm with me whilst adjusting this and that on my bike. Made me feel better, even though it was just talk and will only ever be talk, with him. Thanks, sweetie. I needed that.