Feels Better

I don't know what it is. But it feels like the earth moved closer to the sun today, and the warm sunlight melted a little bit of that snow that had gotten me so down. Instead of being full of drudgery, suddenly my world seems full of possibility. I have no explanation for it. I noticed too, today, that for all the stair climbing I've been doing over the past six weeks, that suddenly my knees don't hurt as much. I would have expected the opposite. At the Lucky Penny headquarters, the squirrel appears to have been working on a little nest in that nook between the window and air conditioner. I've decided not to disturb it. As long as the squirrels don't come in the apartment. That's all I ask, little creatures!
Finally some finished socks. It's a Three Trails Handknit Designs pattern, done in Mountain Colors Weavers Wool Quarters (one of my sock favorites!), color Ruby River. It's not the first time I've knit this design, and not likely to be the last.