Robin Melanson and I went to Stitch and Pitch tonight: Baltimore Orioles vs. the Toronto Blue Jays. Blue Jays won resoundingly (8 - 2, I think). It was a great game for all the good baseball reasons (Jeff proposed to Kim on the Jumbotron and she accepted-- congratulations, you two!-- and there were a couple of great Toronto dingers and some great plays-- and Rachel H was on the Jumbotron too-- and it was a lovely, clear, breezy, summer night-- and did I mention that we won?).

But mostly it was just nice to be out, to chat with local knitting friends whom I hardly ever get to see because I'm in front of a computer all the time. What a great city Toronto is, and how beautiful to walk around in downtown late at night. Took the subway there and back; easy and clean and safe. No G20 strife, no outrageous humidity, no miscreants. Just us millions of people on our own turf, out of an evening and civil and enjoying ourselves.

Oh, and for the record: Robin was working on a cool new hat out of Veronik Avery's Boreale, and I started some fingerless mitts (my own mindless ribby all-purpose pattern) out of an Aran-weight alpaca/silk blend from Lindenhof Wool Mill-- alas, no longer around. If current knitting time trends hold, they should be finished next year sometime.