Odds and Ends

The Pfeiffer Falls aka New Mama Scarf is coming along nicely, although I think I'm going to have to add at least two or three more repeats on each side of the scarf body to get it to the length I want. I'm working on the second half of the scarf part, so I'll probably have to go back and add more length to the other half before I graft them together. I feel like I should have more done since I've been sick with a terrible cold all weekend, stayed home from work and had plenty of time to knit, but pretty much just slept on the couch and watched bad TV. Today, I felt much better, but I spent most of the day tidying up the house which had somehow degenerated into a wreck over the three days I was couch-bound and finally taking down my Christmas tree, which was a huge relief.

The bigger news today is that we got a new pellet stove for our living room. It's a beautiful restored stove that looks like a woodstove, except no chimney. I'm so excited because we don't have central heat, so we had to use very ineffective and expensive space heaters to try to heat the house, but mostly we were just freezing because we didn't ant a ginormous electric bill. However, I really wanted to find an effective heating solution before the baby's born. The hearth we built is still only plywood; we're going to tile it after the wood we used to build it completely dries, so I didn't take any pictures. But it is certainly nice to have a warm place to curl up and knit.