Monthly Archives: May 2008

My Hero

My hero recovered the lost photos from the camera’s memory card, he is so good to me, isn’t he?

Now I can show you our visitors:

A Quail family visiting our front yard

Click to enlarge as I had to keep the photo quite large for you to be able to see the little ones! I love the way Mom and Dad Quail take care of their little ones, one day I will manage to catch them walking in their straight arrangement: a parent in the lead and the other one on guard at the end, they are so cute. By the time we got to the camera this time they moved from the paved part to the gravel and there the line dispersed.

I can also show you photos that show my Argosy better:

Argosy Scarf Isn’t that nice?

Argosy flying mid air Another view of the flying Argosy

Weird

The weather is weird – after a few really hot days (around 43 C at the peak) it became very windy and it really cooled off yesterday and even rained in the late evening. Today it is still quite cold for May and grey and the rain keep coming to visit – I am so happy!

The weirdest thing just happened – I downloaded a bunch of photos I took earlier of the Argosy Scarf I knitted for Sam. I saw them in the folder and wanted to delete one that was really fuzzy, I chose it and clicked the delete and all the photos I downloaded disappeared, I can’t find them anywhere, that piss me off, the scarf is on its way to Toronto so I can’t take other photos,,, oy oy oy!

Did you ever knit while you sleep? No, not in your dreams, really knit? I think I did it last night. I woke up on the sofa with my knitting in my hands, I finished the row I was working on and turned the work around and as I have to do decreases every other row, I checked where I am and I can swear I should have been at the end of the previous row! My conclusion – I was knitting and sleeping at the same time! Today when I picked up my knitting and start working I noticed I knitted many stitches into the yarn – just another proof I was indeed asleep while I knitted these stitches! – I think this should be entitled the weirdest but the previous sentence doesn’t go well with weirder so I think I will have 2 weirdest if you don’t mind!

To entertain you, here are some photos taken during our camping trip last weekend:

Knitting in the Morning Knitting on the Edge Better look at the view at the ridge of the Mogollon Rim, Arizona I am such a serious knitter

In them you can glimpse my Argosy, I knitted it in Lucia of Posh Yarn in the colour: Chorus Line – I enjoyed this yarn so much I knitted it three times before I finally decided I like the Argosy well enough to let the yarn stay in it.

Nothing Too Important

This morning we took off in a different direction than our regular morning routes and about mid way Joe said: Do you need something from the grocery store, we are close enough to include it in this walk. So we did it. The second BAT/KAT trip this week, aren’t we good?

Now he is talking about walking to Sprouts, poor me! The Fry’s/Safeway junction we went to this morning is about 1.5 miles from home, Sprouts is about 3.5 according to Google Maps but we can make it shorter walking, we guess about 3.0 miles or so,,, in nice weather it is not too hard but they promise 3 digit temps here pretty soon, we will see.

After swatching the colorful yarn I showed here the other day, I think it is too fat for a small baby when knitted in garter stitch. This made me visit my stash. I found nice things. I think I will try a Mountain Colors Bearfoot yarn I found there. I bought 2 skeins in preparation to knit my first sock ever and the lady in the lovely shop Windsor Button, told me that maybe I should take 2 skeins to be on the safe side. I finished the socks with a little leftover from the first skein. I am not sure I have enough yarn though, I will know better when I finish the first BSJ soon.

I saw in my stash some lovely sock yarns, I will need to knit those soon. I saw a sweater worth of cotton that I intended to knit last summer. I found some lovely cotton that want to be knitted into something summery – who said the only place we can have fun with yarn are yarn stores or the internet?

Oh and about this Boston wonder – I stumbled upon it by accident walking in Boston while we went with Sam to a college tour in the Northeast in March 2006, so I can’t really tell you what I saw there. The only thing I remember is wondering between shelves full of yarns and finding more and more wonderful corners full of fiberly delights, just what a good yarnoholic looks for in a yarn store in a new city.