Waving Hi!

Well we had to come into town to take care of some business, so here's a peek on the goings on of the last week.

RAIN, a 4-letter word, I'm quite familiar with. (checks hair for moss that could be growing there!) We still got out and about and the 4th parade and fireworks still happened.


The rainy bridge in Bucksport as we're getting closer to picking up my son.


My cousin and her son at the parade.


Tiny cars brought to you by the Shriners


The point next to us.

There is some knitting going on and some reading as well! (on book 5 of the Sookie Stackhouse books)

sockage


Start of a shawl. February Lady is almost done a sleeve, no blocking or pics here of it as it would take forever to dry with no sun and no iron...

Off to enjoy my last 4 days!

My sunset picture from Sunday nite looking from our campsite!

Miss you all, weird to be out of touch so to speak, but so very relaxing at the same time. We're recharged and ready to go now! :)

Waving Bye!

Evening time looking at Blueberry Hill!


borrowed from the camp's online brochure!

Take care everyone!

Wee bugs....Lady that is!

Too cute huh!

When possible, I love to help out fellow Etsy sellers.

I first saw this one via Plurk , and so did another Plurker first. Well lucky for me, she liked the yellow one!

Very well made and reversible too. Although I think it'll get more action with the wee bugs on the outside.

What's inside you ask? Sock Candy in Lapis which will become Cotty Socks for our STR Q3 KAL. (plus they count for SOS09, SAM8) It starts on July 1st (join in!) and since it's a great easy pattern, will be good hanging around knitting (read, not much of pattern reading/energy needed LOL!)

See, all ready to go..darn where's my needles???

You can get your own at Oliviaknits (I hear she's been sewing, so I'm sure she'll have more soon!)

What's going on Wednesday

Yep, still Wednesday in there parts :)

The Lady, she's getting her sleeves! Hoping to finish and have an FO shot by the lake.

What lake you ask? Well, one of these! Hard to believe almost 20 yrs ago, I lived there! 4...more days and I'll be there! :)

Summer of Socks 09 has started and I started a new sock to celebrate. (sshhh yes I know I have a few in progress, but I needed an easy, no reading a pattern knit for the car!)

Sportweight toe up socks with a gusset by Wendyknits. Yarntini self-striping in Luxury. So soft!

Finally finished No purl Berry Monkey #1. Yeah...it's done, not too thrilled with the colorway and pattern. I may just knit a plain sock to match as you so can't tell anything is there!

Anyhow! That's about it for my knitting I'll admit to! I've basically packed my knitting for the trip...although I worry, am I bringing enough...of all the things to worry about, huh ;)

Whoooopie!!!!!

Pies, that is! A favorite from my youth and well, not so youth! I haven't made this in a long time as I've not felt like baking much and I truthfully don't need the sweets in the house!

So, my father-in-law loves baked/homemade goodies for gifts. Yes, he's easy! I mean what do you give a man who can buy whatever he wants to...One of his treats from home! Yes, he's a Mainer too, or should I say an Exile like myself.

Here they are in their naked glory, cooling off before being slathered with filling. Making these amuses me, as you never know how many you'll get, or the size. Matching them up is fun, kinda like one of those kiddie puzzles. I usually have a lone one, but not today :)

As you can see, they are darker than the above picture.

These are for me and my friends. Dad got a bagfull for himself.

Bezzie! This one's for you!

Yummy!!!

I used a different recipe today. I like it in that I finally have found the darker cookie. Maybe it was the amount or brand of cocoa. The filling is different, as I'm used to the raw egg whites for the filling, and buttermilk (although I usually make sour milk) for the cookies. I suppose I could use the powdered stuff for the egg whites. I just don't like to use raw eggs anymore in things that aren't baked.

They still taste good and better be out of my house soon! This is the closest recipe to my Mom's, sadly I lost the index card with her writing on it :( .

YPF-Fiber edition

Heh, you all knew this was coming ;) If you would have asked me 1 month ago, would I be aquiring fiber and have a wheel, I'd have told you absolutely not! Funny how life turns out sometimes. I'm enjoying hanging out in the living room spinning while hubby reads. He's enjoying being through with school and reading for pleasure now.

Now onto the fiber!
A lovely gift from a local spinner who has her own farm. She has angora bunnies and sheep and not sure what else. My other spinning enabler buddy, the gal who let me know very quickly the wheel was for sale. I'm thinking cause she wanted another person to enable with fiber...yep that's her!

This is a mixed breed wool fiber....


I call it soft and 10 oz...hope I can do it justice!


So very soft too! It's called Licorice and Fluff, well that's my name for it!

I'm going to wait until I can spin this to a lovely worsted I think. I'm told the colors can spin up in a few different ways. Will be interesting to see just how! Stay tuned.......

Pink, Pink, Gray

Hey, remember that game in kindergarten? Duck, Duck, Goose...hehe I used to love that game. The bigger the circle you had to run around the better! Ok...onto some stuff ;)

Another set of....

Oh So Soft Baby Washcloths in Cottontots Very Berry, Strawberry, and white.

A bit o'spinning going on!


And the gray...boring I know after my pink one, but she died (ipod mini), she lived long and survived a few treadmill incidents. Here's hoping Mr. Grey doesn't get treated that way ;)