På bærtur

På bærtur ("on a berry trip") is one of my favorite expressions in Norwegian. It is the rough equivalent of "barking up the wrong tree" in English. At any rate, I really was on a berry trip today, but only in our yard. We have about a half acre that used to be wooded. A lot of it is still "undeveloped" and much to my delight there are quite a few types of wild berries. We have wild strawberries, wild raspberries, a few wild blueberries, and two or three different types of wild cherries. None of them produce all that much, and the fruit is quite small, but it's still pretty darned cool to be able to graze like a denizen of the bronze age in one's own little territory.

Still slow going on the eyelet cardigan. I'm almost to the point were I can divide for the fronts and back. The bottom edge is driving me crazy because it flips up. I've never quite understood why some edges do that and some don't. I think it has something to do with the number of rows of whatever edging you're using (in this case garter stitch). This is such slow knitting that I have no plans to rip this out and re-do it, so it will just have to be that way. Very irritating!

I stained the piece of furniture that we used to have the tv on, and was thus able to free what will be my desk from the living room, where it had been serving as a temporary tv stand. The stained dresser looks okay, though I'm not totally excited about it (but it will certainly do for a good long while). This morning KE very sweetly moved the desk into my little work room, so I can finally get started on setting that up!

Not much going on here as yet. I'm still combing www.finn.no for used book cases with glass doors, but haven't found any yet. There's a lot of stuff that needs to be stored, but I'm really hoping to avoid going the IKEA-route yet again...