Tonight’s Agenda

Kitchenering armholes and weaving in ends!  Woo Hoo!   Do you recognize this long-lost project?

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Feeling Random

Socks, drying on the line

Guess who turned a year old this month?  Yes… the cutest dog in the world…

and an FO I have absolutely no use for.  I don’t Yoga.  I just wanted to make them )

Pattern:  made up, 60 stitches, 2×2 rib
Yarn:  Regia Design Line, Kaffe Fassett, colorway4255
Needles:  Knit Picks Harmony DPN, size [...]

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The Best Things Never Change

Our adventure weekend was perfect.  We spent the weekend just driving wherever we pleased, stopping whenever we saw something interesting, and spent most of the time on back roads and dirt roads.  Like we did when we first met in college and couldn’t afford to do anything else )
As promised, we headed off Northwest [...]

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Adventure time

This is how Layla feels about all the kids leaving for school…

“Why you want to leeeeeave me??”
The hubby and I are also taking off… just for the weekend.  It kind of played out like this:
(last week)
Hubby, to the kids:  You’re mom are getting away next weekend.  I feel a road trip coming on.”
Me:  We are?  [...]

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I’m not a lady of leisure…

… but I play one in my mind.

The kids went back to school today!  (OK, college, but it still counts)

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Olympic Knitting… aka my Gloria Damsel Cowl

….not to be confused with knitting of Olympic proportions, which this certainly is not.  For me, Olympic knitting has to be very simple, so that I can stop and cheer. 
Kaity and I take our Olympic cheering seriously.  Especially when it comes to swimming.   And, we know how to pick ‘em.  If there’s no [...]

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So…..

When I last checked in, I was going to do a daily update of my “time alone.”  Well, after Day 2, the whole rest of the week went by and I never even checked in with you.  Turns out… I was so busy I didn’t even have time to be lonely.  I hung out with [...]

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T.G.E., Day Two

Alone.  I’ve never lived alone.  I lived at home, I moved to a dorm, I moved back home, I got married.   Maybe that’s why I have a fascination with being alone.  I don’t really want to be alone, I just wonder what it’s like.
It’s okay, for a few days (mind you, this is only Day [...]

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The Grand Experiment, Day 1

Can you see me there?  Yep, just me, myself, and I.
That’s all there is this week.  Well, the hubby’s here, but he’s at work all day.., and soon he leaves me too, on Thursday, but just for a few days.
This never happens.  Everyone is gone this week.  All the kids- off on summer adventures, however [...]

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