May Day come and gone

and not a word from me. Things are busy chez kmbrknits. I am in the middle of painting the boys' bedroom, which unfortunately has to start with a good tsp scour and then a prime coat to protect the new paint from god knows what the previous owner used on the walls. If it doesn't slide off in the first year, I'll consider it a success. There turns out to be a layer (or more) of wallpaper on one of the walls, under the mystery paint. We've decided it makes a great insulation at this point, so its staying till the next go-round, or to be someone else's problem.

I've applied magnet paint to strategic areas of this papered wall, hoping against hope that the "strong" magnets recommended won't give the paper that last little bit of incentive to delaminate from itself or the wall or whatever. I wish I could be like the boneheads that painted the house before we bought it, and think nothing of painting over spiderwebs and dust boogers.

Sigh. That peace of mind is never to be mine.

I am currently knitting up a light pullover from the rest of the Madil Eden print that I bought for the fundraiser scarf. Its coming along apace, being mostly stockinette with shaping. Yay!