Hello
All,
How
are you on this gloomy (in Eastern PA) Tuesday?
Somehow the weekend got away from me and work is continuing to be busier
than usual. Yesterday was a mess! When I got home last night at 9 after yoga, I
finally looked at some blogs on my phone.
Reading Dee's Blog blog, I realized I have done NOTHING for the I ♥ Fall KAL – NOTHING!! Well, I did
pick out my yarn, and I know I’m knitting Nutkin, but nothing else. Like Dee, I will be pulling together a little
give-away for those participating, but for now that will have to be a secret
(even from me – lol).
Despite
the weekend zooming by, I did manage to get a couple of items started. First up the Close to You shawl:
But
then last night (again after yoga when I was really too tired to see), I pulled
it out and started knitting and this is what happened:
I
had wound the yarn into a center pull ball and a HUGE knot came out. So now I have to spend time trying to
separate that mess and then I will re-wind the yarn into just a ball (no center
pull). I hope I can do this. I am loving the yarn (so soft! Gorgeous color!), and now that I’ve switched
to my wooden circular needle, the shawl is much easier to knit.
Friday
night I made a start on the other socks I will be knitting – Charade.
This
is the Scottish wool my friend got at a yard sale and the color is Blue
Tweed. It is looking like a dark
speckled yarn and I am loving it. I have
enough yarn that I will be making these socks much longer than normal, but the
pattern is an easy one to memorize and quick to knit. Hopefully they won’t take me all Fall to
complete!
Our
shish kabob dinner with Colin and Mailing on Saturday was great and the
strawberry shortcake was yummy. It was
cool enough that we had another fire in the pit and I actually had a sweatshirt
on! It was chilly. Sunday I made gazpacho with garden tomatoes,
cukes, onions, peppers and garlic. We
added cold shrimp to it:
Sunday
I snuck in another walk along the canal.
There were a ton of people out and about – both on the trail (running,
biking, walking) and on both the river and canal (kayaking, canoeing, paddle
boarding, rafting, fishing). It was a
crowded place! I was having a terrible
time on my way back to the car – nose running and eyes watering – there had to
be something in the air. I saw a lot of
gold finches feeding on seeds from wild flowers and then came across this bird
on the other side of the canal:
At
first I thought it was a cormorant (which would have been weird in our area),
but I’m not sure. I wasn’t able to see
his/her feet. The picture isn’t the
greatest – hard to do a distant shot with my phone. But look at that beak!
So,
that’s it for moi. I’ve got a very busy
week at work and am looking forward to a nice, long weekend with (hopefully)
lots of knitting. Colin and Mailing are
going away, so Fletch and I will be on cat duty – going up to their place twice
a day to feed and play with Marcel and Talbot.
What
are you all up to?
