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05.25.2006 :: Forgive me knitters, for I have sinned. It has been 5 days since my last blog entry.
Since you last heard from me, I've been knitting. Remember? This is the knitting pure and simple v neck cardigan in Green Mountain Spinnery Mountain Mohair colorway Moss (Say THAT 3 times fast!) Love it. It is just what I need right now with a crazy life in tow. And what is "IT" that I need? Plain vanilla. Stockinette, baby! Knit and think. Or knit and don't think. Either way, it soothes the ragged soul. Just thinking about following a stitch pattern gives me the willies right now.
The lilacs are sadly coming to a close for the year. This makes me sad. I did not get to enjoy their fragrance pouring in my windows because of the hurricaney flooding rain we got during the blooming time this year. These are the last lilacs to bloom in my yard. I will enjoy them while they last!
Wave goodbye to the pretty flowers!
But honestly, there is always this:
Who can resisit enjoying blue sky like that? I haven't done this for a while, in fact, I may be knocked off my sky queen throne. Can't have that happening. So, how's your sky? Look up and see.
This weekend:
~A long weekend, which is always appreciated
~the start of a huge, long awaited kitchen cabinet/new sink project. Can I get a whoo and a hoo!
~I am dye dreaming. It's Dave's fault. He had some orangey yarn that I fell in love with. LERVE, I tell ya. It sold, of course, before I could get my grubby little hands into the pot. So, I believe I will try my hand at an orange hand dyed yarn as I still have some skeins and kool aid left from Terri!
~I will (sadly) not be going to the Massachusetts Sheep and Wool. I know. Try to carry on without me.
Posted by Sandy on 05.25.2006 AT 04:28 PM
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Have a great weekend Sandy. Think I'll take some sky pics tomorrow. It is going to be a gorgeous weekend.
Posted by: Maureen on 05.26.2006 AT 10:45 PM
Just had to share this sky picture with you:
http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/pod/pictures/sm_wallpaper/06093_22.jpg
Posted by: Nicole on 05.26.2006 AT 10:56 AM
Wow ... all that blue! Now I want to go find some blue sock yarn for June's Project Spectrum socks.
Posted by: Ruth on 05.26.2006 AT 08:17 AM
I know what you mean about the lilacs. I watched them droop out of misty, droplet covered windows, and hoped to see them next year. And smell them next year. Last year, rain washed out the tree peonies in one day flat.
Will miss you at MA Sheepie Wool. Have a wonderful KoolAidey weekend.
Posted by: Laurie on 05.26.2006 AT 08:09 AM
Whoo AND hoo!
You will always be Sky Queen to me. :-)
Posted by: Wendy on 05.26.2006 AT 07:38 AM
Our lilacs have been gone for a couple weeks now. We have one bush, which my sister gave my Mom for Mother's Day I forget how many years ago, but we never trim the blooms and bring them inside--pretty as they look and smell, they make our allergies go wild! So we enjoy them "in situ," as it were. But, as I say, they've been gone for a couple of weeks.
I have, though, been taking a lot of sky pictures lately!
Posted by: --Deb on 05.25.2006 AT 09:53 PM
Dye dreaming - I love it! Almost as much as I love that sky picture. Ahhhh...
Posted by: Chris on 05.25.2006 AT 07:11 PM
Mass Sheep and Wool won't be the same without you and Norma, the hotties.
Posted by: Carole on 05.25.2006 AT 06:24 PM
Oh, has it been that long since you posted?
Loving the lilacs.
I won't be going to the sheepy thing, either. Maybe those of us in eastern Mass can do something woolish instead? Something to think about.
Posted by: Dave Daniels on 05.25.2006 AT 05:42 PM
Your pure blue sky is fabulous! We seem to have a few little clouds floating around most of the time.
Our lilacs are LONG gone...yours are so pretty I can almost smell them. I'm coming to Rhinebeck sweety...you MUST be there! (Of course I'll be in Marblehead before and after;-))
Posted by: margene on 05.25.2006 AT 05:22 PM
I'm sad about the lilacs, too. This was my first year living in a house with my own lilacs in the yard, and every time I thought about going out and cutting some, the skies would open and it would POUR. Very disappointing.
I had totally forgotten that Moss cardigan! It does sound like the perfect project for an ultra-busy time of year.
Posted by: Beth S. on 05.25.2006 AT 05:04 PM
THAT is some serious blue-sky action. Or it's a blue paint chip from the paint store. One or the other.
Posted by: Norma on 05.25.2006 AT 04:44 PM
Nah, we wouldn't dethrone you as the sky queen - you de leader!
We don't have lilacs here, so it's fun to see what you have.
Happy anniversary too, belatedly!
Posted by: Cathy on 05.27.2006 AT 12:40 PM