Showing posts with label cowl. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cowl. Show all posts

Thursday, October 11, 2018

Bicycle Helmet Or No?




The comments generated past times these posts never appeal to me, because it either feels similar I'm listening to advice from an alcoholic cousin who throws caution to the wind, or I'm hearing from the most anxious moms on the planet.

Pros together with Cons

For the kickoff yr or together with then that Thaddeus together with I were bicycling, nosotros didn't article of apparel a helmet.

Most of the enquiry on wearing a helmet seems to betoken that at that spot is no discernible create goodness to wearing one, although at that spot is a lot of personal experiences indicating folks were glad they were wearing one.

Pros
- Protection against caput injuries
- Protects agains facial injuries
- Protects expensive eyewear
- Lightweight together with easy-fitting
- Helps repose worries for people who worry similar my mom

Cons
- Seems to live on a lilliputian to a greater extent than sweaty together with itchy than a cap
- Expensive
- Looks airheaded when I article of apparel it
- Potentially offers lilliputian or no protection
- Baseball cap offers to a greater extent than Sun glare protection
- Gives wearer a faux sense of security

Almost all of our bicycling is done on the canal towpath amongst really lilliputian endangerment of existence striking past times a motorcar or getting run off the road.  However, inside the final few months, they've unopen downwards a department of the towpath, requiring us to cycle on well-nigh a mile of route that has a actually bad shoulder.

Based on the novel route, I opted to start wearing a helmet...for a unlike reason, Thaddeus has decided to article of apparel i too.

Current Knitting

Two KAL's going on correct now.  The Finish The Dance Cowl to create goodness the LGBTQ homeless shelter, Lambert House:


And the North East Men's Fall Knitting Retreat Slipper Sock KAL:


Splitting my fourth dimension betwixt ii projects has made for somewhat slower progress, exactly I'm loving both projects, together with then I'm enjoying the extended knitting time.

Readers' Comments/Questions

In comments, IndigoB writes, "The post carriers I know are far from lazy fifty-fifty if they sometimes deliver less than stellar service. I'm distressing your experience has been different."

I concord completely amongst this assessment...our regular post carrier is actually really proficient together with the i that typically fills inwards for the regular guy is really proficient equally well.  This latest i seems to larn to great lengths to non larn to our doorway if the packages tin terminate live on jammed inwards the mailbox.  Lazy isn't actually accurate, because it's difficult function fifty-fifty amongst shortcuts.

Wednesday, October 10, 2018

Finishing The Trip The Calorie-Free Fantastic For Stanley



Stanley Almodovar III, a 23 twelvemonth former chemist's shop tech-in-training was 1 of 49 people killed at the Pulse massacre.

Finishing What He Can't

Stanley was inwards the bath when the shooting started, together with this immature hero ran toward the gunfire when he realized lives were inwards danger.  He pushed people out of the draw of piece of occupation of burn together with saved lives earlier taking a fatal gunshot himself.

June 6, 2018 marked the sec anniversary of the shootings that killed 49 people at the Pulse Nightclub inwards Orlando, FL. Kyle Kunnecke created The Finish the Dance cowl to celebrate the memories of these individuals, piece also working to enhance coin for Lambert House, a Seattle, WA based nonprofit that empowers lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, together with questioning youth through the evolution of leadership, social, together with life skills.

There is together with hence much almost this projection that touched me deeply.
The designing has a thumbnail photograph of each of the 49 who died inwards the tragedy
The designing also lists all 49 names
The initial kits for the cowl each had a numbered tag corresponding to the listing of names
The kits all used Skacel-donated yarnsThe kits came amongst a hand-sewn purse from Erin Lane BagsThe kits also included a unmarried bead to live on incorporated into the cowl representing the sparkling retention of the deceased
The designing repeats 49 times

The 49 kits sold out really quickly, together with honestly, it would possess got quite a chip of run to pose together the amounts of yarn that Kyle together with hence lovingly created assembled, exactly you lot tin purchase Kyle's designing here.  You tin also contribute to the Lambert House here.  Or, purchase all the HiKoo CoBaSi yarn summation plenty glittery white yarn (Karat) to brand the master copy of Kyle's designing together with back upward Skacel piece you're at it!  If anyone decides to purchase the six rainbow colors of CoBaSi yarn together with the Karat yarn, I'd live on glad to endeavor together with pose you lot inwards demeanour on amongst someone that volition purchase your leftovers for their ain cowl!

Current Knitting

As you lot tin guess, I was able to consummate the Finish The Dance Cowl project.



One of the suggestions for the KAL for this projection was that you lot lock inwards floats every other stitch, which I idea would possess got made for agency likewise much work.  But I'm glad I followed that advice...I improved my stranded knitting speed significantly, together with the dorsum looks almost wearable!


You'll uncovering at that spot were quite a few ends to weave inwards equally well, exactly I actually enjoyed making this projection together with volition scream back of Stanley oftentimes because of it.