so, late this past week...

A large padded envelope showed up at our apartment building. Turned out it was for me. In it was an absolutely wonderful set of wristwarmers, royal blue with an almost star-shaped curly cable design in a greeny-grey yarn that's close enough to match the matte surface of my grey-ace pride ring to be noticed as such. I imagine that was as close as the knitter could get without going for metallic yarn, which is, as I understand it, pretty distinct in texture. I was, and still am, thrilled! :D

To the knitter, who's also been a joy to correspond with, and to the mods over at fandomlovespuertorico, thank you! :) These are perfect for a night's DXing, because I can avoid freezing but still have my fingers free for manipulating radio dials/antennae/switches/straight keys, or reading logs after I write them out if I bring a slate and stylus along to do things the old-fashioned way, as I tend to when working QRP. And they're darn close to my color pair!


You really do tend to treasure the little things when they're your decision, and yours alone. At least, I do. This feels not like reclamation, but that much more of a straight-up claim, on my own identity. I really do owe that crafter one. :)