Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Moody blue eyes

I finished the first Moody Blues Monkey sock on Sunday afternoon whilst knitting with "the girls"! I heart this color...I might even have to splurge and buy another skein of the same color...just to have on hand...just in case I need a second pair of socks in...well, yes...the same color!! LOL!

And while at my yearly eye exam yesterday, I started this between being dilated, poked and prodded in the eyeballs for 2 hours:

I only dropped one stitch working the closure at the picot edge.

Things that make you go "hmmm": The eye technician checks the vision on my right eye, I struggle, but I seem to get it. She then checks the vision on the left eye. Using the same letter arrangement. I get it. She is amazed at the improvement in my left eye over the right. I explain that yes, my vision is better in my left eye, but I had the letters memorized from the previous exam and was able to more easily decide which letter was displayed because of it, AND that it wasn't a very well controlled exam. She then remarks on my great memory. It's only 5 letters...I'm not that far gone! Why don't they scramble the letter sequence so "learning" doesn't play a part in it? At any rate, I seemed to pass all the tests, including glamour shots of my optic nerve! 'Til next year!

What a perfect seque to this lovely pair of eyes

Happy Wednesday!!

11 comments:

Rani said...

Hi. Just catching up on your blog. That walk down the road looks like a little heaven on earth. Leave it to you to notice the small things. I love your posts!

Shannan said...

Your socks are gorgeous. I love that color and think I must procure some for myself soon.

Dave said...

Wow, what gorgeous photos -- all three of them!!

Anonymous said...

I swear the dragonfly is laughing!
I love how the purple flowers draw out the same shades in the socks!

Anonymous said...

Ha! Got a good chuckle out of your "memory test" comment.

Moody Blues is a gorgeous colorway! (...and the Sheep 2 Shoe version followed me home from BSG...)

cockeyed said...

...your photos continue to amaze me....

Unknown said...

Pretty! Carrie/Irishgirlieknits showed me pics of your sock yesterday. It is gorgeous!

Anonymous said...

The colours are incredible - and the detail in that last shot is just amazing!

hearthead said...

The socks are just beautiful! You are right, the dragonfly is smiling!!!!

IrishGirlieKnits said...

Wow! The dragonfly is amazing!! Incredible photo!

Hey, my right eye is worse than my left and I made quite similar comments when I had my eye exam two weeks ago!!

Love the moody blues! Very proud of you for maybe just maybe buying more than one skein of the same color!

Anonymous said...

oh, g! how in the heck did you get so close to that dragonfly? it looks like she's smiling at the camera.

missing you - hope to see you again soon.