Presenting Ishbel the Third. I think this might be the prettiest of the Ishbel trio, but we won't know for sure until next year when my friends and I gather in Los Angeles and show them off. Meantime, this white Ishbel will wing to Australia, and the Blue Skies Ishbel will journey to Kansas, with my love and friendship for the recipients.
I thought I would easily finish this Friday afternoon during open knitting at Nana's, but I stupidly miscounted my chart progression and suddenly realized I had a whole 'nother chart to knit. As lace knitters know, those last rows are always killers because they take a billionty times longer than you think they will. And I had 8 more than planned. Do the math, and this took eight billionty times longer to finish than I thought it would. And there went my fond and foolish plan to finish it Friday afternoon. Good thing I like knitting, eh.
So after the horrendous storm killed Chicago for a few hours, and after it was safe to drive home from Nana's (dodging tree branches and cursing broken traffic signals the whole way), I came back here, popped a Poirot video into the DVD player, and watched it almost twice through as I finished the shawl.
Which brings me to a question. Do any of you watch these Poirot movies? What do we think of them? This is my first exposure, and I'm ambivalent. It was fun -- the look of the series is beautiful, the acting was good, and it moved quickly enough on the first watching to slide right over all my objections at the leaps in logic. But on the second watching, I started analyzing the script -- a dangerous occupation -- and found myself calling out, "Objection!" to every bit of hearsay or other bad evidence. (Proving once again, you can take the litigator out of the courtroom, but you can never really take the courtroom out of the litigator. I haven't tried a case in 9 years, but I tried the crap out of that movie.)
That might be a personal problem. What do you all think? Thumbs up or down on Poirot?
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