the good, the bad, and the way too exciting
september first.......
means a lot of different things; falls is in the air here. over the last few days we have had some cooler, wet weather. don't think it is really here to stay but don't really mind the welcomed weather break. wore lightweight long sleeves and some socks for the first time in a long time.
let's take a bit of a look back over the summer.
FOOD....tried lots of new recipes, went out to eat lots, had slow mornings with coffee, did some baking, watched a lot of the food network, enjoyed new and old favs from Trader Joe's, now i'm enjoying late summer/early fall bounty. have a row of garden tomatoes on my kitchen window sill now from the neighbor!!!
READING....probably only read 3 or 4 books this summer (that's a very small # for me) but polished off piles of magazines. that's just the way it was this year. probably one of my fav books was The Alchemist's Daughter and i'm really enjoying the one i'm reading now, it's listed down and over on my sidebar.
KNITTING....of course there was plenty of knitting. i continued my teaching/knitting schedule at Art 4 Soul and it was as busy as ever. i condensed things a bit to every-other Thurs, instead of weekly and that seemed to work. we had a "fullhouse" each time. i also offered some ongoing Saturday Topdown Sweater Classes throughout the summer and those were a great hit. the classes filled and many knitters are on their 2nd sweaters!!! who sayes you don't knit in the summer?
personally in knitting.....i'm heading back to school with a new caplet, shrug, and sweater, a pair of fingerless mittens(they're not unfinished they're suppose to be fingerless), a nice, long cotton scarf. also knitted this summer: a cotton sweater for the grandson, 2 market day bags (to steal tomatoes with!), a striped felted bag,(that still needs to be felted),2 pillow covers, and 1 sock. unless i get the other sock done by Labor Day, which i won't, it will have to be consider for a fall project.
TIME W/ FAMILY....had fun times with family. my parents visited here very early spring (infact it wasn't truly summer yet). had time with my sister and her little ones who live close by. had time back and forth to Michigan to see the kids and my little, too cute, grandson. a fun long weekend in NYC. a weekend a day trips with hubby. and plenty of personal little field trips for me.
BACK TO SCHOOL....well i started back to school yesterday. i did not purchase "hard-hats" as i mentioned in a post earlier but that was not so far fetched. we were in our new building for planning the past 2 days and the students come on Tues. let me just say a few things: it will be amazingly beautiful when it is done, there are more construction workers there than teachers, we will have a fire marshal on post in the building for at least the first 2 weeks because we have a sprinkler system, and fire alarms, but no direct lines to the fire dept to send them any signal in the event of of a fire and the alarms do go off, we have no phones now but by Tues they are suppose to have 2 in the office, and on, and on, and on,..... oh! and did i mention that on Tues. morning at 7:30, 21 buses....with 800 Jr. High students will be pulling up!
i'll be stopping at Starbuck's for a Venti first, i've never ordered a Venti.
Welcome Fall!
