saturday night's all right with me

September 24, 2011

A beautiful fall day  high of 60 degrees and sunny with  a  bright blue sky.   the leaves are are  shaking off the  summer green  and slipping on the vibrant shades of yellow and red

On Thursday,  Kris came home with a  huge bag filled with goodies from General Mills products from the United Way Fund Drive. he also stopped at the farmer's market and picked up  potatoes, squash and flowers 

As  some you know  Ryan will be going to Afghanistan.   A friend  from the Ravelry's Mothers of Soldiers group  posted this photo  last week.   I thought I would share it with you.

tonight my  honey took me to see Contagion.   We enjoyed the story  and  the acting was fantastic.   Glenn strongly recommended the film.  He enjoyed that Minneapolis  was one of the featured cities in the movie.   Matt Damon and  Gwyneth Paltrow's characters  reside  in our metro area.  

Mitts dropping from my needles

September 16, 2011

Another  Friday  night   bringing us closer to winter  so   I'm happily working on fall fingerless mitts and slippers for my family.

I made four pairs so far this month  two for Pine Ridge , one for our nephew and one for Kris..

finished the first  mukluk  for kris

Alas it looks like  Ronald McDonald's foot.   

 It's   Friday night,  Kris is working out and I'm hanging around watching Pride and Prejudice while knitting Christmas gifts.

I was thinking  this week  how much has changed in the last 10 yrs.   Ten yrs ago   we had  a teen ager and near teenager in the house and a dog and a cat.  Two boys playing football and hockey.  We consumed 8  gallons of milk every week. drove 22,000 miles  a year, milk was more expensive   per  gallon than gas.  Now it's just the two of us  we use up 1 gallon of milk a week  drive 10,000 miles a year  and Gasoline is more Expensive than Milk..  Strange how things change.  Life  is calmer and quieter and I haven't seen the inside of hockey rink in   7 years  or sat in the  high school football stand in 6 years.