happy monday!
Aug. 18th, 2008 07:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
2eclipsethis weekend was full of good things and cleaning and reading.
but not much reading.
i am making mad progress on the clapotis that i am knitting for my sister in law. i was surprised at how soon you start dropping the stitches! that has been fun. it's also nice that i can watch movies while i knit because the pattern repeat is so easy to memorize/do.
saturday i met heather and a bunch of other spinners at black bear crossing cafe for spinning group. there was a couple practicing frank sinatra songs on the stage. selkieb thought she recognized the guy as a lounge singer from deep space nine. i never watched the show enough to have any memory of him. it could be.
then i went over to shawn and thistle's with canning supplies....and was there on the wrong day. so i went home and read and knit and was invited back later to hang out and have dinner with them. we wrangled the children and phoenix had some of what i suspect were early teething issues. thistle and shawn seemed to think i was helping, but i don't recall helping.
sunday was the actual canning day. i got some cleaning done at our place before going over there, which was badly needed. got to see jon and tessa briefly and meet sara and re-meet svee, a couple of shawn and thistle's less-familiar-to-me friends. very plus people. i liked them a lot. we made 2 or 3 dozen jars of dilly beans and 2 dozen jars of relish. shawn's family descended en masse and when the canning was complete we all went out to blue nile (ethiopian food) for dinner. which was wonderful in just about every way. i managed to get a bite of something that was too spicy even for me, which is REALLY unusual.
shawn loaned me about 5 comic books so i am going to have a lot to keep me busy this week.
today is awesome because i am at work early and i will leave early and go play with ross and the rest of the sound department out on the lake. it doesn't really feel like a monday in a bad way because i know i'm checking out early. good stuff.
but not much reading.
i am making mad progress on the clapotis that i am knitting for my sister in law. i was surprised at how soon you start dropping the stitches! that has been fun. it's also nice that i can watch movies while i knit because the pattern repeat is so easy to memorize/do.
saturday i met heather and a bunch of other spinners at black bear crossing cafe for spinning group. there was a couple practicing frank sinatra songs on the stage. selkieb thought she recognized the guy as a lounge singer from deep space nine. i never watched the show enough to have any memory of him. it could be.
then i went over to shawn and thistle's with canning supplies....and was there on the wrong day. so i went home and read and knit and was invited back later to hang out and have dinner with them. we wrangled the children and phoenix had some of what i suspect were early teething issues. thistle and shawn seemed to think i was helping, but i don't recall helping.
sunday was the actual canning day. i got some cleaning done at our place before going over there, which was badly needed. got to see jon and tessa briefly and meet sara and re-meet svee, a couple of shawn and thistle's less-familiar-to-me friends. very plus people. i liked them a lot. we made 2 or 3 dozen jars of dilly beans and 2 dozen jars of relish. shawn's family descended en masse and when the canning was complete we all went out to blue nile (ethiopian food) for dinner. which was wonderful in just about every way. i managed to get a bite of something that was too spicy even for me, which is REALLY unusual.
shawn loaned me about 5 comic books so i am going to have a lot to keep me busy this week.
today is awesome because i am at work early and i will leave early and go play with ross and the rest of the sound department out on the lake. it doesn't really feel like a monday in a bad way because i know i'm checking out early. good stuff.
