More Bits n Pieces and an FO !!

According to various official astrophysics and solar research labs around the world, something very, very strange is going on in our solar system. A partial list includes the following:

•Recent solar activity highest in 8000 years
•Sun's magnetic field has decreased in size by 25%
•300% increase in galactic dust entering our solar system
•Mercury’s magnetosphere experiencing significant increases
•Venus exhibiting a 2500% increase in its “green glow”
•Mars showing a rapid appearance of clouds and ozone
•Mars observations reveal up to 50% erosion of its ice features within a 12-month period
•Jupiter plasma torus increasing; its moon Io exhibiting the same changes
•A 200% increase in the density of Io's plasma torus
•Jupiter's Disappearance of White Ovals since 1997 - recent increase in storms
•Io's ionosphere is 1000% higher
•Jupiter’s moon Europa much brighter than scientists expected
•Jupiter’s moon Gannymede is 200% brighter
•Saturn's plasma torus is 1000% more dense
•Aurorae first seen in Saturn's polar regions in recent years
•Uranus was featureless in 1996 - exhibiting huge storms since 1999
•Uranus in 2004 was also markedly brighter than in 1999
•Neptune is 40% brighter in the near-infrared range based on observations from 1996 - 2002
•Pluto observations reveal a 300% increase in atmospheric pressure
from: The Omega Letter, The Day The Grid Stands Still, Friday, September 17, 2010, Jack Kinsella - Omega Letter Editor

The above article was written almost 8 months ago. More 'signs in the heavens' have been happening since then. I wish I could go out at night and just watch the night sky. But alas, I cannot do that here in Ukraine.



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Just looked at some of the recent stats on my blog. Yesterday's post, A Walk on the Wild Side, had a lot of hits. Ha ha ha! I wonder what people were looking for? The 3 names I chose for the 3 cats? The title (wild side)? Or something else. Too funny. I bet that post wasn't what any of them were looking for.



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Rain, rain, yea! It started raining last night sometime just before midnight. I could hear it while sitting here reading facebook posts before going to bed. Rained off and on throughout the night, and then fairly heavy rain this morning. Now, there are still rain drops on some of the leaves, but there is a breeze and no rain falling.

Opps - spoke too soon - it actually started raining again as I was writing this!

haha - what a funny kind of day I'm having.



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So! I finished the scarf around noon today. I finished the weaving last night and cut if off the loom just before I went to bed.

I really like the way this verigated yarn turned out, using it as the weft. I used a lavendar and white warp, and a verigated and white weft, alternating the two both times (lwlwlw and vwvwvw).

This pattern is a variation of the Flower Garden Scarf, Bee Scarf and Lipstick Scarf that I did before.

It took a little bit more time to weave because I had to change the weft pattern every 6 rows. I quickly got into the rythm, though, and it went quicker and quicker as the scarf grew longer.

I like this pattern a lot and will probably do more scarves in it - or maybe even a shawl some day. However, I've already chosen my next project and it entails a completely different process in weaving the weft. :-) Will explore some color combinations and see what I come up with before I write any more about it.

I'm also planning a couple scarves from now in trying a double-weave, where the scarf will be twice as wide as I can make on the loom. I need to study it out some more and think it through some more, and then choose color(s). When I do that one, I'm planning on making two alike and then sewing them together somehow and making a shawl out of it. Thus all the need for thinking and planning before I attempt it.

I like this weaving stuff. A lot!!


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Ok, I need to go get busy with some other things. I have company coming again tonight. We'll eat a light dinner and then talk about Sunday School next fall, and then Lyena will have a zillion questions for Mel about what she's been reading in her Bible. I love these Thursday evening meetings. :-)