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I woke up on Sunday with my house shaking around me like a leaf. The next thing I know the power went out. Other then the fact that I didn’t have power until around midnight, I suffered no damage to my property or to my family. So I realize how very lucky I am as reports from the Big Island have not been nearly so good. For those who don’t know, I live on Oahu in a suburb of Honolulu and the Big Island is about 150 miles south of us. At least I think it is, please correct me if I got that wrong. :-)
Since there was a storm system moving over the island, I didn’t have much light to work with, but I did manage to work on the Hidcote Garden. I’m sorry the picture doesn’t have much detail, but like I said, the lighting wasn’t very good and I’ve been too lazy busy to take another one.
I’m really enjoying this pattern. It’s easy to follow and easy to memorize. I’ve eschewed the use of stitch markers as they usually end up being more of a nuisance since they end up having to be moved to accomadate double decreases.
Unfortunately, I have to put the Hidcote Garden away now that the power is back on and work on the Shaped Triangle again. I’m using a dark navy blue yarn for that one, which is why I didn’t work on it during the power outage. But it was great company for me while I tried to find out more about what was going on. For some reason I could only catch Maui stations for most of the day and when I finally got an Oahu station they didn’t have much news.
But through it all I was reminded that none of it really mattered, since all my loved ones were safe and sound.
P.S. Thank you for all the voicemails, emails, and comments. I appreciate all the outpouring of concern you all showed for me! Thank you so much!
