Moving Right Along...

I am not 1/2 way done on my next project - if I find the time (maybe at the soccer game tomorrow pm) I can get it done by the weekend. It is a really cool scarf. I even ordered more yarn for another one - I have special people in mind for each of them.

They are pretty quick and oh so cute and the yarn is a wool bamboo blend that is wonderful!
I am happy to have another project moving right along -- I was talking to friends who knit and they all think my 40 projects was a bit crazy -- hey about a week after pulling that number out of the air I agreed with that. But I will be so happy with any number now that I am over 20 for the year.

Over Halfway There!!!

PROJECT # 21

It is a lap blanket for my mom's neighbor Dorothy. She broke her hip a few weeks back.

I hope she likes it! She has been cold.

This is #21! I really can't believe that!

A First for Me

Knitting at a band competition.

Here are the Shamrock Pride doing their thing today.

It was the first competition I could make it to.

My girl is somewhere in the middle of this.

Here she is 2nd from the left!

This is just a small part of the whole band.

They did great and sounded really good.

I knitted while the other 5 bands in her category preformed.

Feels like Friday

Since the kids have no school tomorrow -- the homecoming parade was today! There has not been a "real" homecoming parade in our town for quite awhile.
Here is the beginning of the parade. Sadly for my youngest we were near the end of the route and the parade participants were out of candy.
Here is the marching band! When they were playing (right before this photo was taken) they sounded great!
Here are the Flag guys -- I believe they have a real name -- I just don't know it. There were about 5 floats and the football team was on 3 different flatbeds. It was the perfect evening for a parade. I have the whole weekend off (3 days!!). I plan to catch up around here and go to the big game tomorrow. I am told that these guys are called ROCKS boys-- I knew there was a special name.

Attitude Adjustment

I know my post yesterday was entitled happy knitter - and that I am/was. But man today I went to work - also worked last night - and I have to say that I think I need some serious attitude adjusting at work!! So the rest of the week I am going to keep this little yellow dude in mind when I am at work. I am usually a cheerful person but something is pulling against me and I am going to change that. I am pushing back - with a happy, positive attitude -- if it kills me!

Happy Knitting

Today my friend Roxanne joined Jill, Rosanna & I at the knit store for some laughs and some knitting and as always a good lunch at Kelties.

What a fun beautiful fall day with friends. Everybody got a little something done on their projects and had a good time in the process.

I'm lucky to have a nice place to hang with friends and knit. I really like Tuesdays!

Here is the Proof - -

I am alive. Just really busy. For the last week I have had a

taste of single parenting - I am not strong enough to pull it off.

Jim has been up north helping his mom - her basement flooded.

And not just a little.

I am just worn out by keeping the 3 kids on track and on time.

Saturday was crazy but here is some of what went on.

This is Mara (#4) playing in her 2nd game with her team.

They looked really good.

There was also a very large cross country meet.

Joe was not feeling well but this picture is at the end of the 5K

and he looks better than I would.

These are some of his teammates after the meet - the course is nearby and really it was a nice place to spend some of my morning - then the boys and girls parents did a pitch-in lunch.

This plane did 3 or 4 fly overs getting a good view of the runners on the course.

I would have had band contest pictures from Saturday night for the other kid -- but lightening and a long rain delay kept me at home.

Jim arrives home tomorrow -- we are all ready for dad to get back. And I am going to be happy when the older 2 can drive and I do not have to be in 2 places at once.

I barely knit -- just some here and there to keep me sane.