Weeks 40-44

again with the forgetting about the blog.... All of October...

Disney with Trixie was the biggest thing we did. Coronation of Cam and Rachel always fun.
Read some books
Knitted some hats (for Trey's girls (Punkin hats))
Finished a Shawl for Nola and Mom.
kinda same old stuff.

Weeks 35-39

Apparently I forgot this exsisted during the month of September.

We did make it to 2 events (Mid Summer Knight's Dream and War of the Pearls), we went to Indiana to see Sarah Rose and family, and actually got to stay home one weekend.

Oh and Dragon con was in there somewhere. That was fun Alex, Nikki, and Simon went too. We've made our reservation for next year already, just in case we want to go back.

I finished the baby blanket and it was a big hit, I wore my shawl for the first time to the church, and mom says she wants one too.

I'm working on the DK hat still and am finally past the design part and into the decreases.

I'm a good ways into a wrap for steve's grandmother that I hope she will like.

I just started a new hat last night that will look like a viking helmet with horns and all.

The sweaters are back in stock in the thrift stores, so I've bought a couple each week and started pulling them apart for the yarn.

I read the advice of someone to just knit from the sweater panels and it saves so much time. not quite as pretty I guess (no organized balls or hanks to admire), but it is convenient and the sweater blanks take up less room than balls and hanks.

I'm reading Forever Odd, and have picked up the next 2 in that series as well at thrift stores.

Week 33

Cadron Creek in Arkansas was the destination for this weekend. We had a ball. Steve and I rented kayak's and did the rapids in those. I think I can see their appeal. Maybe something to do again in the future.

Still knitting on the baby blanket (have 3 weeks to finish it now) and the hat. I did a really quicky scarf at the D&D table the other night and will prolly do a couple of more of those before Christmas.

Reading So Your dog is not Lassie. There is some really good information in there!

Week 32

BEACH!!!





we went to Orange Beach with the -ic's and the Arkansas Angels.





We had a blast, got a little sunburned, made way too much food, visited the "Toy store", drank to excess (some of us), and had a ball.



This was the picture I made from the weekend. Camric had his flag flying and I paired it with a sandcastle in phtoshop. Worked out pretty good.

Someone turned me onto "the Guild" as an online video show. I love it!!! just too funny.

We are going to Arkansas this weekend for canoeing, last trip of the year I guess, but it should be fun!

Reading: Realityland - Story about WDW it's creation and running.

Started a Double Knit hat with a fair isle pattern of a celtic spiral. I am enjoying doing it. It is made out of the yarn that erin gave me for my Birthday.

I'm taking a large bag of quilting fabrics to Trixie this weekend, I hope she likes them.

Happy Birthday to Me!!! (week 31)

So Steve came home early from Pennsic which was great for me. He brought me yarn, 2 t-shirts, a bag, and a new whiskey cup.

We decided to do something simple on Saturday and just invited folks over to grill out and play games. At the end of the e-mail steve mentioned it was my birthday, and everybody brought presents. It was nice but unexpected.

Erin brought yarn and a cake, Alex and Nikki brought 4 kinds of icecream from cold stone, Lindsey gave me a book on how to make corsets, a Six pack of pear cider from Boogie, a gift certificate from Dietrich and Rena. Way more than I deserved really. My friends like me I guess, makes me feel good to know. :)

Lindsey and Kenneth are leaving next week and we unfortunatly won't be around to help them pack and move, gonna hit the beach with the braziers. I do hate to see them go, but they will prolly enjoy themselves in DC. Maybe we'll get to go see them someday.

Still working on the baby blanket. I ordered some knitting needles (zephyr interchangables) for my B'day. So maybe will start another project to go with this one soon. (Hopefully will be delivered today.

Reading Realityland right now... Behind the scenes story of Disney World.

end of June - July

Grand Canyon trip was great it was a fun trip with beautiful sights to see, and a long road to travel.

It's a really big hole in the ground, but worth every mile of going out there to see it.

On July 4 we went over with Jon and Sonya to visit Steve's folks, Moe got to go too and he always enjoys running around out there.

Sonya is going to have a baby in February and Steve's mom is VERY excited. She'd bought it several outfits already and I'm sure has plans for more. We rode around and looked at drill sites for a while and had a wonderful fried fish dinner.

Baseball camp went alright this year, no real huge issues. Setting them up was a pita, but once that got done they did run alright.

Someone suggested an Animal Summer camp party earlier in the year, so I decided to take the inititive and plan somethi

ng. I found a location, picked a date and sent out information, but only 3 people said they were interested at all, so I cancelled it and planned a Canoe trip instead. We floated the Bogue Chitto with B&P, S&L, A&N, Trixie & Eric. It was a beautiful day!

The last weekend of July we were supposed to go Canoeing up in Tishamingo, but decided instead to go to Mobile and visit Steve's mom's family at her request. I impressed his Uncle Charlie by putting together little puzzles most of the day, and he brought out some of the "toys" he'd made to entertain the kids when Steve was little. Terribly clever mechanical creations with ball bearings and tracks all very "rube goldburg". Since we'd already taken off on Monday we went over to New Orleans and walked around the quarter ending the night with drinks at Pat-O's with Ricky.

Trey's 2nd daughter Sarah Rose was born July 29. Came fast and easy. Mom and Dad are still up in Evansville helping everyone adjust.

Caillin left July 31 going to Pennsic and should be home on Friday just in time for my Birthday. I went to the performing arts event in Jackson and stayed with Sam and Mike and the kids. They are cute and always on the move.

I've knitted a lot and read a lot in this month. That's what all this travel is good for.

right now I'm reading "Practical Demonkeeping" and knitting a baby blanket for Sarah.

weeks 21-22

Took off 2 weeks from traveling, but leaving tomorrow to go to the Grand Canyon so that ought to make up for it.

We went to Eric's house for the Knight's retreat. (well steve did that I went shopping with Rhonda. ) we had a good time.

Working on a lace shawl with some hand dyed yarn harvested from a sweater.

Our quilt guild had a garage sale /auction I got rid of a box full of stuff and made $20 in the process. :)

Lynne is staying at our house for a while working in Starkville, she will be watching Moe for us while we are gone to the Grand Canyon.

We've bought the tickets for the Europe trip this Christmas. The prices were starting to creep up just like the gas costs... so we decided to just go on and buy them while they weren't too bad hoping they don't get worse or too much better.

Finishing up Kushiels Dart will start Practical Demonkeeping next.

Jon and Sonja have announced that they are pregnant.... I'm excited for them and wonder how drasticly it will change their lives. They talked about the idea on the cruise, but I wasn't sure they were serious. Guess so.