"Whoops, I did it again!" or "A Tale of Two Ponchos"

Here I go again.  Starting another project!  First, let me say that it wasn't my idea!  At least, not at first.  It all started when I got the Fall issue of Knitter's magazine.  I had it at work looking it over at lunch when I saw the poncho/cape on page 63.  I commented on how pretty it was, and that I would like to knit it sometime. A couple of other knitters in the group also expressed an interest in it.  Suddenly, a knit-a-long was planned!  I don't know how it happened -- honest!  In my defense, I must say that I am using yarn that I already had in my stash.  I am using Homespun in the color Navajo, a pretty wine, navy, and tan mix.  Megan's poncho is still coming along, as are the hats for the cancer center.  There hasn't been as much knitting as I would like lately for 2 reasons.  First, I just seem to be so busy lately that I come home too tired to do much knitting, or reading or anything else for that matter.  And second is the return of the humid, tropical weather.  We were spoiled by that all too brief taste of fall where the humidity and temperatures were low. Now the humidity is back again, no doubt prompted by the weather patterns that keep pushing the hurricanes along their all too familiar path through Florida and on up into the Carolinas and Virginia. What's left of Jeanne is forecast to dump from 2 to 4 inches on us tonight and tomorrow.  The wind has already started to pick up and it has begun to rain. As miserable as all this is here, I simply cannot imagine what all those poor people in Florida are going through right now!  But this weather can't last forever, and soon will be the cool, crisp, knitting-friendly weather of fall.  I am ready!