The great "they." You know them, the ones with all those sayings. You know what they say…fill in the blank.
Last week I was eating my lunch on the parking lot roof of the mall in which my office is located. I look at the sky. Take note, Sandy (she’s knitting blogland’s most famous sky observer). The sky, the one in British Columbia, the province in which I live, is totally blue. Not a cloud to be seen. Anywhere. This is most unusual, if not miraculous. I call my darling husband of almost 25 years. I instruct him to look up.
"What do you see?’
"Nothing," he replies."
"That’s right, it’s totally blue. How often do you see a totally blue sky in BC?"
"You called me for that?"
All together now, THEY SAY… something like "the things that annoy you in your mature relationship are the things that attracted the two of you to begin with." Trust me. I do have a Master’s in counselling and this theory holds true. He used to love my spontaneity. We laughed about this at dinner that night, lovingly listing as many mature relationship paradoxes as we could come up with, and then some,
Another example, not quite the same, but a memory from my early career, working in a methadone clinic. Two of the guys who were in a long term committed relationship, awaiting their Tang cocktails, one says to the other, "Girl, look at you bustin’ out of those jeans." The other replied, "You used to like my jeans tight." Different circumstances, same thing.
Oh, this is a knitting blog. That methadone clinic is where I knit my first sweater. I guess that doesn’t count. Although I have no business starting a new project, here is the beginning of my Seville Jacket, in Tahki New Tweed. I discovered this yarn while shopping with Sandy, and it is a pleasure to work with. The pattern requires you to knit a long cabled piece, eventually sewn onto the body of the jacket.
Life's a Stitch 
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