We’ve been having great Olympic knitting weather here in Springfield. It snowed a couple inches over the weekend — here’s the view off my back porch. I especially like the snow on the big magnolia tree in my neighbor’s yard. It just seems so contradictory — I usually don’t associate snow and magnolias.

I managed to finish both "fronts" of my Cutaway cardign Sunday afternoon.  I really felt a sense of accomplishment for finishing the "main" part of the sweater, then I started contemplating how long sleeves really are.  And there are two of them.

The last thing I want on my first sweater for myself is two different length sleeves.  So I decided to cast on for both of them on one long needle and knit them simultaneously.

I’ve got about 11 inches of each sleeve knitted right now.  The good thing about this project is that it is so boring, I am learning to knit without looking at my work.  Usually I don’t mind knitting and just listening to the TV, but the Olympics is more of a visual thing.  I’m getting sick of ice dancing (3 nights of competition, really?!?) but I am loving the ski racing events (Bode – you suck! Go Austrians!).  Tonight I was especially impressed with the Aerial Freestyle skiing event — as my husband said, it’s like diving on snow.  Basically, the skiiers ski off a ski jump that sends them directly into the air, then they do a ridiculous number of spins and dips before trying not to land on their butts.  Seriously — I think almost all of them slid down the hill a little bit before standing up to ski off the hill.  The finals of this event are still coming up, so you have a chance to see it if you missed it the first time.  I hope they add skiboarding to this event in future years – I would love the see what kind of tricks they could come up with. 

 All right, that’s enough Olympic nerdiness for one night.  Tomorrow I might take a break and watch a little of my favorite embarrasing TV show — American idol!  (The audition shows are over now, so it should be a lot better.)