Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Eileen school pics





This was one of Eileen's school pictures from this year. She is 3 years old!

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Shawl done!



Here is a shawl I was working on for several weeks. The yarn is from Serenity Stitches a lovely Cashmere silk mix. The shiny or blurry things are class beads. Yes. All of them. Anyway, I have worked on this and on 4 pair of socks and a hat since I have been here. But, I think the move slow down has finally lifted and I will be sprinting through knit projects again soon. Eileen will be in school 5 days a week and I will continue to have at least two projects at once.

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Living somewhere in the weather extremes

Well, hail stayed most of the day on the ground. Temperatures were in the 50s. Yesterday, 90+ degree weather. I just cannot even imagine (though I know it to be true) that people who have no local relatives somehow dreamed of living here. The winds today were bad enough that I couldn't let Eileen open the car door (though same was true on Friday - with a wildfire within a mile of our house) for fear that it would be slammed on her by mother nature.