Baby Surprise ~

I finished the baby blanket and it looks wonderful!

I love the way it knit up with the happy colors and the ripple pattern.

A perfect knit for the baby and new parents!

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Happy Anniversary ~

Hurrah! 22 years ~ Happy Anniversary ~




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"To Do" list ~

I have a long "To Do" list for knitting, do you?

1) Cast on a hat from my own hand spun yarn


2) get busy on my green sweater...even if it is the slogging part, get busy!!! (Geez, I don't even have a recent picture of my progress - BAD!!!)

3) turn the heels on my alpaca socks that I keep in the car for "waiting" knitting that I don't have to think about (as I DO have to think about heel turns, so my Happy Birthday socks are now in the car)

4) do more spinning of the merino/tussah silk fiber.....


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Look what I found ~

Remember when I mentioned that I was finishing my Whidbey Island scarf, and it seemed to be short....and I thought I would try to block it in such a way that it would be longer and skinny... and I hadn't blocked it yet, when I found this with another current project...

Yup, another ball of this great yarn.....I really thought I'd only bought one skein ~ the last one at the yarn store...but here is another one... so I'll need to undo the cast off, and keep knitting....How crazy is that?

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Special Presentation ~

I didn't knit tonight as we were at sweetie H's special presentation night of reflections.

Her presentation went very well, as she was poised and expressive ~ plus she surprised her uncle by describing him as her person of influence as he helps her with sports and coaching and lots of love and support! Bravo!!
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More Tonka Toy Joy ~

The earth work of our front yard is almost done. The big dump truck is gone, and now the back hoe is all that is moving our dirt around. The big concrete cap is over our septic tank lid ~ lovely, eh?


Here's the view from our second floor.


Here's the view from the street. We will plant fruit trees in the three green bins next year, as we haven't put in irrigation yet for this year's planting... so that will wait until next year...


perhaps we'll plant pumpkins in there this year...wouldn't that be fun!
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Sunday at Starbucks ~

Bonus day today, as sweetie E and I ended up at the Starbucks in our area that is open latter than 6:00 PM. Lucky us, as I was able to knit another wave on the Multnomah Shawl while sitting with sweetie E.


I am making great progress and I think the lace wave is working well, plus I think I have enough yarn...it is taking more that I originally thought. I'm getting excited to finish this shawl so I can see what it looks like when blocked!
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