Our household has seen quite a bit of change since the holidays this winter. December 29th, my youngest stepson packed a backpack of approved items and took himself off to Army basic training. His goal is to join the Infantry and make the Army his career. Thus far, he seems to be doing well, having been made squad leader in his platoon, and being happy despite the hardships necessary in Basic.
It’ll be interesting to see what physical and mental changes have been made in him when he graduates the program sometime in I think April.
Meanwhile, his older brother, who turned 19 a week ago, moves out this weekend. That’s been quite the drama roller coaster, but hopefully everything will turn out fine and he’ll land on his feet. (his current plans include storing most of his stuff and hitting the Appalachian trail from Shenandoah, VA to Georgia.)
I’ve been knitting on this and that, a few rows per project with little progress to show for it. I stalled out on the Beck sweater in favor of SSB’s wedding shawl. I’ve since stalled out on the wedding shawl because the yarn is proving too fine to pre-string the beads, so I await the delivery of some staggeringly tiny crochet hooks ordered yesterday before I can rip that back and start over. Lady Eleanor stalled due to lack of interest sometime after Thanksgiving, and sits on a bit of scrap yarn right now so I could use the needles on Beck.
And so it goes.
I leave you, then, with Brutus Maximus Glorianus: (hmm. I wonder if he is a chosen Scion of Kushiel? 
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