Spotted at Ann's yesterday…
…and at the hardware store, where I was buying a couple of replacement GRILLING TOOLS!
The signs are getting hard to miss. 🌱
Month: April 2023
Unraveled Wednesday
I'm joining Kat & the Unravelers today for Unraveled Wednesday!
KNITTING:
The 7th row is underway! I love that it's all knit together and I won't have to sew 35 squares together to make a blanket. The downside is that I don't have the option to move things around, which I'd really like to do. It is what it is and sometimes there are flaws we just have to live with. The most important thing is that there's love in every stitch!
READING:
I finished A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life by George Saunders on my way home from work last night. That took way longer than it should have. I don't know what's next in my listening queue but I have plenty to choose from.
What We Wish Were True by Tallu Schuyler Quinn is still the book on my nightstand.
Tulips are coming up outside the back door! Everything is wet… we had thunderous sleet/hail last evening and some heavy rain passed through overnight, along with thunder & lightning. There's a dusting of snow ahead in the near forecast, but I spy a couple of 70F days next week! It's a rollercoaster!
Mom, does this still fit me?
Ali sent me this photo yesterday with the title of this post as caption:
What do you think?
I finished that little cardigan in September 2016 for a 4-month-old Ginny and, well, kudos to a 5-year-old Malina for even managing to get it on! haha.
I remember that being a super-fun knit — Elwood, by Jenny Wiebe (Rav) — using a Sweet Georgia "Party of Five" mini-skeins set, along with some of my own hand-dyed yarn. And the ladybug buttons! So cute.
Also, I love that Malina's still wearing those adorable unicorn sunglasses (and it was sunny yesterday!).
And Davy's legs are getting so looooong and skinny!
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I have an exciting update to one of the items from my last post…
Excited about… all the girls being home again this summer! Kate will be arriving in just a month-and-a-half and will be here until the middle of July not be returning to Scotland!
A move back to Wisconsin has been bubbling for a while and recently solidified a bit more as "the plan." A recent change in her employment landscape contributed to her doing it in spring rather than fall — not to mention that she is now working for US-based companies (also still smarting from the income tax situation). Her friend Claire will be visiting in a couple of weeks and will be bringing an additional large suitcase to schlep some stuff back here. She'll be staying in the guest room for a bit while she gets on her feet (and a car). I don't know how many alerts she has set on the various real estate websites — enough that I get a potential house or three shared with me every week — so that's the eventual plan. As you might imagine, now I'm SUPER EXCITED!!