Biddeford visit
Combining missions: I wanted to visit my sister in southern Maine and also to give Sam an experiential gift (the best kind for him). So we went to visit and stayed overnight at The Lincoln. It’s a quirky and elegant hotel in Biddeford, just down the road from my sister’s place.
The hotel’s Christmas decorations were over the top. After a surfeit of fairy lights, I was charmed by this one, lit by the pale sun of a winter morning.
The weather has been – let’s say, interesting. One morning this week, the weather station read 0.7. That’s zero degrees. Inside, a warm 72 due to Sam’s obsession with the wood stove.
On our way to southern Maine on Monday, the temperature had risen and rain fell. It rained most of the day, washing away snow. We haven’t been out this morning yet, but I expect some icy spots as the temps are wintry again.
I’m working on knitting socks. These are shorties with a heel tab in a wool and linen blend. The directions for the toe baffled me at first as they were worked on only one needle. I’ve never done that before. Knitting is full of surprises.
Catherine~ What a lovely looking building with all of that brick! The sun on that arrangement is lovely, you’re right about that. We’ve had a lot of rain last night, today just cloud cover @ almost 60 degrees.
I love seeing how you created the socks. I think my mom knit and darned socks in her young years. Nothing I ever saw her do though. haha Your make me wish I was not allergic to wool, since they look so comfy. When I read ‘heel tab’ – I was reminded of the “peds” of my youth – tennis socks w/ little pom-poms at the heel. My mom loved those! Ah, thanks for the good memories.
I never wore peds so these are my first shorties. I love wool, the more wool the better. So should be interesting to see if I wear these since all my other socks are calf-length.