The Fish Knits

I love that I have a ton of pictures on my little pocket camera that I had completely forgotten about since I had misplaced the cable for my camera. Photos kept coming, but I couldn’t get them onto the computer. In light of this, today’s post is going to be sort of on the random side…

Let’s start with some knitting, since this is supposed to be a knitting blog, right?

Last week I went to Point Pelee to do some birding with a group from work. It was a lot of fun, and the drive meant lots of knitting time! My travel knitting at the moment is a pair of Knee High to a Grasshopper socks from the 2007 Rockin’ Sock Club. I found there was a little mistake in the chart for the calf increases, but once I got that sorted out (after getting frustrated with it, of course- tough to read long hand directions in a moving vehicle) it was smooth sailing.

The weekend just before the Pelee trip was a holiday, so Andrew and I took off to climb at the Montagne D’Argent, not far from Mont Tremblant in the Laurentians of Quebec. Anyone else find it cold?

The temperature dipped to 3ºC that night, after raining all the previous day. Which meant…

Wet rock!! Not a whole lot of fun when your feet slip and your hands get wet and cold and crampy. As usual, when you’re having a bunch of fun actually climbing, there’s no one to take photos of the good stuff! When you’re on the ground getting ready to climb though, and the black flies are feasting on your ankles, it’s picture time!