Saturday9- Rawrrrrrr! and Saturday Komeekz

Welcome to Saturday: 9.

Saturday 9: Roar
(recommended by Cat)

(thanks Cat!)

If you're not familiar with today's song, you can hear it here.

 

1) The lyrics begin with Katy singing about when she used to "hold her tongue." Tell us about a time when you didn't speak up, but wish you had.  Many times I should have defended my kids from certain people, and didn't have the guts or position in the pecking order to do it. I wish I'd just been the Biotch, you know?  We all would have been better off for it.

2) The lyrics mention both lions and tigers. In addition to the big cats, the video shows a monkey and an elephant. If we were going to the zoo today, which animal would you want to see first?  I always want to see the Marmosets, Mere cats and Lemurs first. 

3) Lions and tigers are carnivores. If we were having steak for dinner, would you order it rare, medium or well done?  Medium.  Someone else can have the bloody meats. Brrr! 

Old Battery eating Riccoh

4) Lots of photos are snapped at the zoo. Did you take your last picture with a camera or with your phone?  Camera.  There is nothing like my cameras, which are old, though the newer phone is pretty awesome, too. 

5) The "Roar" video takes place in the jungle. The average temperature all year around in the rainforest is a humid 80º. The typical September day in Juneau is 49º, dry and sunny. Which sounds more comfortable?  We just watched Wild South America, or something like that.  I'd want to spend a couple of weeks there but then I'd head right to Juneau!

6) In her youth, Katy took dance lessons at the local recreation hall in Santa Barbara. Crazy Sam took tap dance lessons as a girl, too. What about you? Were you sent off to dance class? Music lessons? Art class?  I'm older, it was just after the war, and we were poor.  Mother danced with us when she wasn't too busy, she actually played with us sometimes.  She was my first art teacher.

7) Katy recently passed Justin Bieber as the most followed person on Twitter. What's the last message you re-tweeted?  Sorry, I just don't do Twitter.  I might be there but lost interest when I discovered "texting"!  Way more fun!

8) Congratulations! You just won the lottery! Do you want it in a lump sum, or would you prefer payments over the next 25 years?  Lump sum, at my age, I want to hand it all out to the next gen and to my many causes.  AC down, and paint and curtains to go, and we are done.



9) Did you get 8 hours sleep last night? Seven, actually less because the neighbors were banging around trash cans at 6 am.

What we've committed to our readers is that we will post 9 questions every Saturday. Sometimes the post will have a theme, and at other times the questions will be totally unrelated. Those weeks we do "random questions," so-to-speak. We encourage you to visit other participants posts and leave a comment. Because we don't have any rules, it is your choice. We hate rules. We love memes, however, and here is today's meme!


And now, Saturday Komeekz.  I feel for Pearl.  Well, I think her name is Pearl.  I love this cartoon!  Do you know that Brian Crane writes from funny things that have happened in his life, and of course, his Gen.  Go Brian!

This scenario played out recently at the Z habitat.   "nuf said", as a friend remarked on her blog about seven weeks of hospital drama.

friday5

Friday 5 for September 5: Swimmingly

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5! Please copy these questions to your webspace. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

1. Where and how did you learn to swim?  I would swim underwater, holding my breath across the pool or sometimes bobbing up in a lake.  But I knew it wasn't swimming.  One day, in a pool in the desert, I decided that I COULD stay on top across the whole length, and just took off.  I was 13 I think, and that was the first time I swam across the top of the water. 
2. How far away is the nearest swimmable body of fresh water, and how’s the swimming there?  If you mean a pool, it must be about a 3/4th of a mile away, and I've never been in it.  I did put a toe in the indoor pool at a local gym, and the water was so warm that I thought, "no thank you very much!"  I asked how warm it was and they said that it was 89°.  I thought, "No wonder it's loaded with chlorine."  If you mean lake, we haven't got any lakes that aren't reservoirs, and no one is allowed to swim in them at all.  Well, just the fish and the water birds.
3. How long has it been since you’ve been for a swim?  I haven't been swimming since before my knee replacement.  2010?  Part of my re-hab was to walk in a pool.  No thank you!
4. What’s the nearest community swimming pool like?  It's very small and only open, of course, in the summer and fall. 
5. What experience do you have with jumping off stuff and into water?  I can execute dives off all the springboards but could never get myself to dive off the Olympic 10 meter platform.  Brrrr! 

Five Minute Friday: Whisper

The button that takes you to the rules, there are only a couple, and the prompt word for the week is in the side bar.  It's pretty, and you can't miss it.

We write, Flat out and no stopping for grammar, punctuation, or spelling, flat out for five minutes using the prompt word for inspiration. 

Whisper:

Our doggie doesn't like it when we whisper.  He gets nervous.  It's probably something in the distant and painful past of his first five years.  We think that it's partly because the dog catchers couldn't get their hands on him until he was asleep but he always got away so the ended up sneaking and whispering around him for a long time, until he was literally starving to death.  So, we do avoid whispering around him.  It must be terrifying to him.  He has post traumatic stress syndrome, since every nervous system in a mammal is hypersensitive to stress over time.

Some people say that feathers are whisper soft along the edge.  Some are, but some feathers can cut.  Also, Owls have special edges on their flight feathers that makes their flight totally silent!  An owl flew right over my head one twilight evening as I sat on a long, sloping hill, and I didn't even see it until it's silhouetted shape appeared in the dusk in front of my head. 

Sometimes I think I hear whispers in the wind.  I love that sort of wind.  It reminds me that God is closer than breath.   Listening is the key word for this year, so I listen for whispers.  In the desert, it is so quiet that you can hear the wind gusts coming from some distance.  They also sound like whispers.  I'm sure that is why the prophets went out into the desert to commune with God.

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List of remaining Ten very inspiring blogs:: UPDATED

1. Thank and link the amazing person who nominated you.
2. List the rules and display the award.
3. Share seven facts about yourself.
4. Nominate 15 other amazing blogs and comment on their posts to let them know they have been nominated.
5. Optional: Proudly display the award logo on your blog and follow the blogger who nominated you.

Seven things about me:
 1. I like pink things and wish there were pink trees mixed in with the green ones in forests
2. I like to draw and to make things and get bored if I can't.
3. I'm a knitter and seamstress.
4. I play the ukulele for fun
5. I like to swim in the ocean but wish it was warmer.
6. A want more dogs, like three tiny new ones.
7.  I want to see the whole Western and Eastern coasts lines of America.


My list of ten more blogs for Very Inspiring Blogger Award

1 Cranium Bolts.  http://craniumbolts.blogspot.com/
2 Rhonda's Blog  http://rhondabuss.blogspot.com/
3 Ann's Blog  http://everythingsewing.blogspot.com/
4 Techknitting  http://techknitting.blogspot.com
5 Golden Apples blog  http://golden-apples.blogspot.com
6 How's Rob?  http://howsrobb.blogspot.com/
7 Mary's Blog  http://oneperfectbite.blogspot.com/
8 Indrani's blog http://indisnapshots.blogspot.com/
9 LarjMarj's blog http://larjmarj4u.wordpress.com/
10 Beck's Blog:  http://applecroft.blogspot.com/


There are at least 300 other blogs I read, but I picked out ones that are from all of my areas of interest: photography, gardening, sewing, knitting, recipes and even a political one. I left out art because it's just beyond me to pick a favorite, but Indani's is photographic art and very inspiring to me.

 I have not notified any of the blog owners yet of the award as I am dashing off to my sister's house very soon!  EEEEEEEE!

These are mostly technical or in the one case, sort of political, so please know that I read all my feeds but didn't want to leave anyone out so the list would contain every single one of you.  This is my most honest statement.  I read and am inspired, and helped more than you will ever know, by your writings and what you share daily.

Got to go! 

Today's Drawing

The pens all seem to be functional which is a great boon!   This started out with a contorted shape which eventually became a head.  The Dragon look may be because I am reading a book about China which includes some very ancient references.
I'm getting the hang of this sort of drawing.  I love it, it's very relaxing.  In a way, a little mystical but it deserves some better paper.  Or at least it's own piece of paper and not just along the edge of a crossword. 

Tuesday Tails, a Sort of, Maybe, Abstract Drawing, and Witchcraft with a Watermelon.

And God said, Let there be Light....

Ok, I tend to draw and then name.   What I did is started in the middle with that random little C like thing.  I find that this is very comforting, this sort of drawing, though I do like realism the best.  Abstract sketching does have aspects or perhaps, qualities, that reach a little deeper into the subconscious mind.

I drew this while avoiding interaction (viewing, While throwing verbal barbs- unlike what they were throwing at the fish) with a fishing show about Blue Fin Tuna fishermen on the East Coast.  I like the red crab guys a whole lot better.  Blue Fin Tuna is about to disappear off the radar of species.  I don't WANT to make any emotional attachments to the fishermen who are stripping them out of the oceans.

Sorry, that's just me.  My blog, my opinions. 

Tuesday Tails...well, you got all them yesterday when I went insane and post three - THREE - 3 bloody times!  I can't blame the heat anymore but I can blame Elonis!

This 15 minute segment is the first part of how to cut a watermelon into a beautiful Arty thinga that's also good to eat!  There are a ton of these on YouTube, and I am going to watch the carrot ones next.  Life has a lot to offer if you can keep your eyes peeled for it, eh?  (No pun intended) Have fun going through all of them.  These are almost better than the cat videos, just slower paced.   



It's not the heart one.  You have to figure that out yourself.  Happy Tuesday!

Visiting sister tomorrow, and getting directions for the wreath made from a book.  Stay tuned...  I'll make one with you, Paula, if you like.

Music Monday. A Labor Day Special from ellen's Corner...

I shamelessly stole this from Ellen's 



We are a labor family.  We've walked the picket lines!  A people united can never be defeated.  I think we have forgotten this! 

And I'm adding this:

Pet Seeger singing, "We shall not be Moved"



Just like a tree that's standing by the water
We shall not be moved. 

Something Beautiful on Monday, Tort, Knitting,and Organizing Reports.

Talk about gorgeous stuff!   The last time I saw this sort of carving was at Cabrillo College at the Saturday Farmer's Market.

From  HERE which I just found!
This carved melon is just one of the many Objet d'Art that are at this gorgeous site!

I found color pens yesterday, a whole box of them.  Some are actually still good- So Shocking to find that they are!  Usually they die within weeks of being purchased!

Elle, I will start making some sort of art with them. There is so little I can sketch quickly that's just laying around; perhaps I'll sketch clothes pins or something -Bottles of Bleach, Dish Detergent?  Maybe your Dad?  Anyway,  I've been so indoctrinated into realism that it's terribly hard for me to do the beautiful things that come out of your imagination, though I have in the past done semi-abstract oils.  In another life, that is.

*Sighs and looks into the distance.*  I regret nothing; I just see the income stream flowing away from me. hehehe

Organizing report:  Today I mean to get down some storage bins, each stuffed with snippets of sorted-by-color fabrics for quilt making.  I cannot fit more things into that room but still want to put away and organize the waxworks - a costco flat box of the stuff I make wax hearts and fire starters with. Getting that little eyesore stowed away - but plainly labeled - will give my self esteem a big boost! 

Knitting Report:  I got out the sweaters and shook out the moths.  Just kidding!  There are none.  Happily this is true - so far.  The Manly Sweater is through up to the shoulder shaping on two needles, which I fear.  I don't know what to do if the twists for the multitudinous blasted CABLES fall the the wrong side.  I'm suffering agonies over trying to insure that THAT can of worms does not pop open on me.  The little pink silk sweater for Elle should give me no problems.  I know, I'm asking for trouble just saying this!

Tort report:  Speaking of Watermelon:  The babies, Milagro and Dusty,  were introduced to watermelon, and do they love it.  Their parents, Poko Ono and Churchy, and their big brother, Lucky, all chase us down in hopes of having more, more, more! 

The big torts have had some rinds nearly every summer since we've had them around.   We got another melon the other day, and they will, indeed, get more before summer is through.  This time I'll get pictures of chowtime with the Torts.  Otherwise all of them subsist on grasses, dried grasses, and elm leaves from "The Tree That Will Not Die", a root of an Elm we once enjoyed the shade of.  We've kept said root around just for the torts, a healthy big sprout near the fence that bursts forth every spring with long, willowy stems filled with leaf buds. 

Elm leaves are better than lettuce to the torts.  We do, however, keep all tortoises out of range of the tomato plants which have a habit of languidly reaching down over the giant tub and tempting passing herbivores.  Well, our herbivores cannot eat them without going toe up.  So, tomato plants are a no no, tomatoes they CAN eat.  In fact, sometimes the adults mistake my painted nails for tomatoes.

All you readers out there who have read this far, thank you!  I hope that you have a calm, reflective, and restorative week of evenings, days,  and "walking with beauty all around you"  moments.  May your happiest memories flood into your mind and give you Peace.    Blessings!

It's an ice blue Monday, with Socks and no music.

Yesterday, I finished Jane's Hedgerows.  The color is ice blue, barely blue.  I love them.  Twins!  I left the umbilical cords on so you could appreciate the newness of them!

I put my favorite YouTube of Kitchener stitch up in the side bar.  I had lost it during a blog cleaning.

How about that blogging? Sunday Stealing

Look for the linkie to this fun meme on the sidebar.  It's called Sunday Stealing.

August 30, 2014
Blogging Meme
Welcome back to Sunday Stealing which originated on WTIT: The Blog authored by Bud Weiser. Here we will steal all types of memes from every corner of the blogosphere. Our promise to you is that we will work hard to find the most interesting and intelligent memes. You may have heard of the expression, “honor amongst thieves”. In that age-old tradition, we try to credit the blog that we stole it from. We also provide a link to the victim's meme in our "Previous Victims" widget. (It's our way of saying "Thanks!") Sometimes we edit the original meme, to make it more relevant to our global players, to challenge our players, to select the best questions, or simply to make it less repetitive from this new meme or recently asked questions from a previously featured meme.
Let's go!!!

From FYeahSurveys

  Blogging Meme

What kind of blog do you have? My blog started out as a knitting record, but since I've got a dozen full blown obsessions with political outrage and arts and crafts, as well as having been a seamstress for a while (for real money!) it grew like topsy!

How many posts do you have? Not sure but I I'll go look.  It's 3,453, and this one will make 3,454, had to go check.... In the first month I posted ONCE!  Lol!  That's a little over 10 years.

How many blogs do you follow? I follow right around 250 blogs.

How many followers do you have? 56 that I know of.  I know there are other readers from other feeds, like Feedly and Feed Burner and others.

How often do you change your theme? Well, my header changes seasonally, and sometimes just for a big Hols like Christmas, Easter,  or Thanksgiving.  Always for Valentine's Day.  This did start out as a knitter's blog but soon branched out in a most alarming way, and now flowers and interesting things we've done with our friends and family gets included, as well as some bare knuckle stuff but that's in the past for me.  

How often do you change your icon? I've probably changed it twice; the first was a tine frog on a pot, but now it's that black and white kitty holding hearts.

Do you have any favorite blogs? I literally have 250 favorites.  Every one of them that I read, to be honest.  Blogs are my hobby reading.  Yes, Wendy, I am still compiling a list of ten more blogs, having four more - so far - after the initial five.  It's getting there!  I'll post them all under the button in the side bar for easy access.  I'm trying to get people from every corner who inspire me, from quilting to outdoorsmen to butterfly sites.  Smorgasbord!

Do you ever send anonymous messages to other people? Usually no.  In fact, I created a Wordpress blog in order to be able to comment on WP friends' blogs.  But I did read a bunch of exchanges in Woodworker's Magazine that were political and that one burnt my ears.  Whoooo!  Those guys know how to fight!

Do you ever get anon hate? 
 Oh yes, during the big to do about managed care I was a very outspoken proponent of Universal Healthcare.  During that time I acquired a troll whom I had to put on ignore.  He claimed to be a doctor but I'm sure he was just a hired gun.  Those DC Lobby Money Bags attacked any blogger, no matter how small, willing to make a peep!   I had a great time blandly restating the facts he was ignoring.  It was fun while it lasted.  Good the Irish up, Y'know?  ;o)


Have you made any friends through your blog? Yes, I have many people that I feel are my friends through blogging, and have met about three of them.  Well, it's not about three; it is three.  duh... it's late m'friends!

What’s your favorite thing about blogging? I love the feeling of being part of what is sometimes called The Family of Man that goes on in blogging.  People from all over the world are into blogging and you can talk to them about shared interests and all.  It's GRAND!

What’s your least favorite thing about blogging?I'd have to say that it's the way that Google has changed Blogspot.  This thing about intergrating the google+ blog comments to this blog is a nightmare.  I just can't figure it out, and this is on top of some other changed that meddled with my ailerons.   I like a smooth flight!

What is your least favorite thing about blogging?  
Finding that some of my favorites have been pulled down.  It could be for any number of reasons but it makes me worry about the blogger.
Have a great Sunday Everyone.  This will post at midnight to stop mass confusion among my readers. 

Saturday9 "And what were you doing in the 60's Mommie?"

Welcome to Saturday: 9. What we've committed to our readers is that we will post 9 questions every Saturday. Sometimes the post will have a theme, and at other times the questions will be totally unrelated. Those weeks we do "random questions," so-to-speak. We encourage you to visit other participants posts and leave a comment. Because we don't have any rules, it is your choice. We hate rules. We love memes, however, and here is today's meme!

OK folks.  If you would like to join in, and this is always a lot of fun, please use the link to 9ers in the side bar.

Saturday 9: All Night Long (All Night)
(because Lia asked for an 80s song)

If you're not familiar with today's song, you can hear it here.

1) This music video was produced by Mike Nesmith of The Monkees. Can you name a Monkees song?
Did they have any original songs?  I remember them singing "I'll be True to You."

2) The song includes the foreign sounding phrases, "Oh jambali Tom bo li d, say de moi ya," and "Oh, Jambo Jumbo!" Mr. Richie meant to include language indigenous to the Caribbean, but was writing the song under deadline and simply made those phrases up instead. Tell about the most recent time you cheated or "cut corners." 
I've cut a few corners trying to finish a sock.  I am SO sick of this pair, the foot anyway, that I'm even thinking of running the yarn through the last few stitches and tying it off!

3) Richie was a frat boy at college. Kappa Kappa Psi, to be exact. Were you a member of a fraternity or sorority?  I was "rushed" but never had the honor.  I guess I just wasn't posh enough maybe?  In view of what happened a few years later, I was more IN than they thought!

4) When this song topped the charts (September 1983), Vanessa Williams became the first African American to be crowned as Miss America. Do you watch beauty pageants?  No, but I do think that Miss Congeniality deserved an Oscar for just about everything in it!  Vanessa Williams is a gorgeous gal!  She deserved to win it that pageant, not to say that other African American women hadn't already deserved to.

5) Since it's Labor Day weekend, that holiday established to celebrate the American worker, let's talk about the workplace. Tellers work in a bank, actors work on a stage or a set, auto workers work on an assembly line. How would you describe your workplace?  I used to work on a self imposed production line.  I made things to sell at shows.  I'm crooked and agéd now so only do things for the DDs, special favors, and sometimes for gifts.

6) An estimated 40% of us have dated a coworker. Have you ever had an office romance?
I could be mysterious and tease Mr. Z. with something but, no, he was my first and only boyfriend and, though we worked in the same building, we didn't meet at work. 

7) Labor Day is a big weekend for travel. How did you book your last vacation? (Online, through a travel agent, over the phone ...)
We live in a place full of beautiful beaches so we stay put for this holiday.  When I think of Labor, I never think about hourly wage earners anymore.  ;o)


 

 8) Mother Winters won't wear white again now until next Memorial Day. Sam thinks that's just crazy. Where do you fall in this heated mother/daughter debate?
Twaddle!  I say, "Wear what looks good on you, and if it's white, wear it all the time if you want to."  Colors, some of them, used to be reserved for royalty, and a person could have a jail sentence -or worse - for wearing them at all. 

9) When you look at back on Summer 2014, what will you remember?
I will remember that this is the summer the AC went on.  I can breathe again!


Thanks so much for joining us again at Saturday: 9. As always, feel free to come back, see who has participated and comment on their posts. In fact sometimes, if you want to read & comment on everyone's responses, you might want to check back again tomorrow. But it is not a rule. We haven’t any rules here. Join us on next Saturday for another version of Saturday: 9, "Just A Silly Meme on a Saturday!" Enjoy your weekend.

Saturday Horror Flick.. "Humans Need Not Apply", Saturday Komeekz.. it's been quite a week.

Thanks to Bee.  *does a little dance!*  This is fun!  This is where the Robot who made this lives.
Just kidding!  Honest!  Please don't hunt me down and unbolt my head, please?

Ok, Snowflakes, er, Fellow Humans, you are in for a surprise.....

We have more and more people every year, and someone wants us unemployed.  We costs too much to hire us, even at minimum wage!  By the way, if you think the voice sounds a little like a Bot, it just might be! lol This is long (15 minutes) but very interesting.

A personal aside: I have already been operated on by a surgeon using a robot.  GAH!

Here we go!  Meet Baxter, Watson, and Emily Howell:



I think it's something to think about, but there are still many other jobs that will be left to the Meat Puppets!  I don't think war correspondents will be left out in the cold.  Maybe the bot soldiers in the robotic armies will find themselves being dismantled by something as simple as a hand grenade or barb wire entangling loops throw out from dozens of barn roofs.  Little things like that might save the Meat Puppets, right?  Or how about old fashioned trip wires?  After all, we little humans have seen StarWars.... Does this qualify this as a Saturday Matinee post?

Saturday Komeekz... see the sign about paying for or taking prescriptions?  hehehe

friday5...or... "and what will madam have this evening?"

Here it is.  The long running and excellent "friday5" meme!

 Friday 5 for August 29:

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5! Please copy these questions to your webspace. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

Sorry I’m late today. The week just got away from me!

What’s the last thing you experienced that could be called a reunion?
 Late last year when our Rockhound group got together at the holidays.  It was very fun! 

When you spend time out with friends, how does your group handle the bill?
We each pick up our own tabs.

What are you picky about when you order something in a restaurant?
No dairy, no wheat.  It's a little hard but there are things I can eat, and anyway, it's about the experience and the company, even if only a dinner out for two.

When did you last spill a drink on yourself?
I've never done that, and happily, so far, no one else has either.  There was a funny incident when the family took Mr. Z's mama out for her birthday.  He was talking and gesturing with his hands and knocked over a whole glass of Red.  He was agast but his darling youngest sister popped up and started helping him wipe it up saying, "You can't help it, we're part Italian!" meaning of course, that they gesture with their hands while talking.  I love that Gal.

When dining out, what’s your approach to dessert? 
There is nothing I can partake of, so I just don't look at them.  It's not so important like it used to be! 

Thanks for participating, and have a yummy weekend!

Reach for it, but don't break a leg...Five Minute Friday.

The button in the side bar takes you to the new Website that is hosting Five Minute Friday.  There is actually only one rule and it is gentle, in keeping with the whole idea of having people trust others with their raw writings.  The web site explains the paramount rule, read and comment on at least one other blogger's post, to encourage other writers by reading their offering, in five minute of flat out, no worries, and no holds barred, writing.  Raw Writing.

The prompt word is, Reach. 

"Don't let your reach exceed your grasp!"  This is something we hear from early childhood.  We also hear, "You can do this!  Try harder!"

But what if people never tried to extend their grasp?  How would you ever know what you are capable of?  So, you fall on your face trying to ride that horse, that motor bike that river rapid.  So what?  You tried and you learned a few things.  That's what reaching is, It's going out and t rying to become every thing you want to be in life, it doesn't matter if you fail, it's that you will learn it might be something you don't want so much after awhile, like that million dollars, or that fame that comes with being the first to do something out of the ordinary.  You, now, that "Look Ma, no Hands" thing.  I don't know if ability plays the bigger part of achievement or pure stubbornness does.  I think you have to keep reaching til you take your last breath.  It's the way that we are, humans, and hopefully we don't kill ourselves before we really get to understand that the best things in life involve other people, not as competitors, but as companions on a journey.  Companions on this Rotting Ball of Rock we call home.  Reach across and give someone a pat on the hand or shoulder when they fail or flail around.  That's the best part of reach.

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Thankful Thursday....

I am thankful for being able to laugh out loud! 

And for the Ted Talk... This is now one of my favorites. There are a whole lot of  "suits" in the audience, and it looks like they are wondering if they got into the right auditorium!  I think they are in shock. LOL!



Thank you, Bee!

Finally the sock toe is nearly finished and I will be moving on to the pink silk and cotton stardust sweater for Elle.  I want to have it finished when we next see her.  I'll post the socks at Ravelry, which is going to be coming back into my life.  Can you imagine it?  I just saw a whole project of baby birds nests that I missed out on!

Thank God tomorrow is Friday!