There's Hope For My Garden!

Look, I made a tomato!

I cannot tell you how awesome this is for me since I killed everything in my garden last year (well, so did the solid week of 110 degree weather, but I probably could have saved them).

It was very yummy. One tomato doesn't go very far on a salad, but it was a very ceremonious (is that a word?) experience.

So last night I dragged Matt to two different craft stores looking for the yarn to make this:

It is the Glorious Colors Afghan from a Lion Brand Catalog I got awhile back. I recently picked it up again and fell in mad, mad love. So much so that I basically designed the spare bedroom/craft room around it. The yarn is Jiffy, knit doubled on size 17 needles. The perfect project for a 100-degree F-No summer.

However I'd like to give Lion a swift kick in the gnads because apparently 1/2 the colors required are not available in store and I cannot take advantage of Joann's $1.99 sale.

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Speaking of the house, internal walls are up!

3-Day Weekend Hangover

I love/hate 3-day weekends. They give you enough time to totally veg out and relax, but that makes getting up at 5:50am for work the next day THAT MUCH HARDER. Seriously. I'm still sleeping with my eyes open.






We were up in Yosemite for my semi-but-not-legally-but-someday-might-be-step-brother's wedding. Despite living an hour away and having a cabin 1 mile from the entrance to the park, I haven't made it up to Glacier Point in about 4 years. So Matt and I took a drive and did the usual Memorial-Day tourist thing. Living this close and having the mountains so prominent in my life, I forget that people travel from all over the country and the world to see Yosemite. We probably heard 7 different languages and saw cars from 10 states in the brief time we were there.

Lots of wine was drank, good food was made, and sleeping was done.

However I didn't do a lot of knitting because my dumb ass did this. There's been copious amounts of cross-stitch going on instead.

Headed For The Hills

This afternoon Matt, Viva, and I are heading for the hills again. I just CANNOT wait to get out of here. Work hasn't been particularly demanding, but I just need to mentally and physically check out for a few days.

Hope you have a stellar weekend full of knitting, sunshine, mojitos; and don't forget to remember what we are celebrating.

See ya'll Tuesday.