Hubby flew out early yesterday morning so of course I heard a mouse last night! Isn't that always the way? The mouse-catching partner flits off - okay he's working his butt off in the very far-north of the state where it's rather warm - and leaves the non-mouse-catching partner (ie lily-livered great big chicken) home alone, unprotected, with two small children to care for. Luckily I have the best neighbours in the whole entire world and when the mouse in question (at least I'm hoping there's only one) was safely shut into the nice humane trap I'd set in the bottom of the pantry my chicken-ness kicked into high gear and I called for Mr-across-the-road to come dispose of it. He laughed at me but lived up to his 'best neighbour' tag and disposed of said mouse. I've reset the trap because I don't entirely trust that there was only one mouse. If you hear yelling from this end of the world it'll be me or the mouse scaring each other silly.

In other news, I'm learning how to knit. Actually I'm teaching myself. From the internet. So far I've undone my casting on four times. I can't get the tension even so it's a little sloppy but I'm getting there. I picked up a pattern today and am starting with a nice easy scarf - I grabbed an 'intermediate' pattern by mistake so I've trawled through the net finding sites that provide lots of diagrams for slip knots, casting on, knit and purl and I'm off to find out how to add in a second ball of yarn in a different colour. Here's what I've got so far...

I'll give you an update when I'm a little further along.