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.   

Take me out to the Ball Game

August  26, 2011

Kris worked very hard on a work project this week.   TPTB  decided to reward him with two tickets to the Twins Game.   Very  good seats  with passes for the champions club.   Awesome food,  great service,
a wonderful time was had by all.    Twins lost.  

I started a new project.  Fall is coming and we must put vegetable hats on the babies.

other events this week   include a short visit to the Mercy"Spa"   I've removed the work hospital from my vocabulary and am  replacing it with the word Spa.    Doesn't it sound so much better to say spa  than hospital.   Yeah ,  I think so too.  

Glenn's home

Glenn got home  and we've been bumming around with him.   He's been reading and sleeping in late.
My Mom and Dad came to visit  on Tuesday afternoon.   Supper at Outback during a major rainstorm.
Wednesday we went to the Mn History Center  and for a stroll along  Minnehaha Falls

Mom  and Dad

Glenn

Kris and I at the Falls
We took the scenic tour home    then   home for  homemade Chicken Enchiladas.  

Thursday  Mom , Dad, Glenn and I went shopping.  The guys went off to Borders to snag a deal at Border's. Mom and I found cute sweaters for Fall at Christopher& Banks  and  CJ Banks.
Lunch at Dickie's.    Then   Kris, Glenn and Dad went to the Twins game.   Mom and I went to dinner and to see the Help. 

Mom and Dad headed home on Friday.    Glenn leaves tomorrow.   We will miss him  so much.

Finishing up projects

it's been a week of finishing up projects.

the lace shawl is done

the muklukks for  the women's shelter are done.

my odd ball short socks are done:

I did have to frog two projects this week  my smoke scarf and a bleck and white scarf  which is tricky to knit. 

Lace

Saturday  July 30, 2011

Knitting is a joy for me,  I've done pretty well learning new things   however lace has present more of a challeng than I expected.    I'm working on  an "easy" rated shawl  pattern  I downloaded from Ravelry. 
I'm really glad I used really good workhorse  yarn for  this project because  I think I've knit and ripped back  and reknit almost every row.   This is how far I have gotten

I found a new yarn for scarves.   Garter  stitch pattern very simple knitting.   Soothing after the rigors of lace knitting.   I think it knits up rather pretty

Kris and I went to see Cowboys and Aliens.   Alien ships,  cowboys,  James Bond and Indiana Jones.   What more can one ask from a summer movie?   Pure Fun!

TGIF

Friday July,29, 2011

The heatwave continues.  I've been hanging at home working on knitting projects.

the blaze scarf is done.    and so are the Pine Ridge Reservation  dishcloths

I'm working on a lace shawlette.    I'm through the first 17  rows .  There has been  frogging.
I keep wondering why I felt the need  to knit this project in dark yarn.   I'm hoping   it'll get better as I work on it.