Briefly

I'm back home -- for three days, before heading off to Edmonton for a conference. I knit through the whole bus ride from Toronto to Montreal yesterday (about six and a half hours). As we were leaving Toronto, I was chain-stitching for the provisional cast-on for the right front piece of Grannie Smith, and as we were pulling into Montreal, I was doing armhole decreases. I probably could've finished the whole piece if I'd been able to sustain my knitting pace, but after a couple of hours of lace knitting with sock yarn, my fingers were a little fumbly. Still, it was a lot of knitting. And that's my last piece of Grannie Smith! I may start blocking the other pieces today while I work on my conference paper.

OK, back to work. Have a good weekend!

p.s., Mooky is fine! Sorry to leave you hanging. It turned out that his tongue was not punctured -- just missing the top layer of skin in one spot and a bit cut. The vet gave him an injection of antibiotics (to save me from having to get pills into his sore little mouth) and some anti-inflammatory medicine, and within a few days, the Mook had stopped drooling and started washing again. Whew!