updates...all around
so there's going to be a little baby girl here in about 6 1/2 weeks!!!! yep, grand-baby #2.
how exciting is that! so.....in knitting news i'm about 1/3 of the way done with a little baby girl blanket knit in a natural, multi-color, cotton yarn. (have a few other things i'd like done before she arrives...we'll keep our fingers crossed that i get my work done).
12 days and counting until the end of my school year and my summer break starts. i'm ready for that... with the "to do" lists on the refrig.
in cicada news
....they're bad. we are a few days from "peak" i'm told. on the evening walk with the dog i now wear my "wellies" because i can't risk them getting on my sandaled feet and it's too dark to see. we offically have the wood-chip look around our trees and the grass moves if you stand still and watch. the seagulls have started to arrive in the hundreds, as we were told they would, to eat the shells and the dead carcasses that don't make it up in the trees. so as much as we all dislike seagulls i guess it's a blessing because there is starting to be a smell in certain areas. there must be 300 birds hanging out the last two days at the local high school for some strange reason. i drive by there on my way to work, looks like something out of the movie "The Birds". oh, and last night the dog waited a few minutes before digging into his evening meal as he usually does. i think he was a bit full from his little cicada snack that afternoon, he just can't leave them alone.
in other crafting news...i was at the bookstore today. and don't worry, i'm not "going to the other side" or anything. at least i don't think so. but i looked through...quite seriously, a new book: Teva Durham's Crochet, 25 Designs for Crocheters (and knitters taking up the hook). i have her knitting book and love her designs and her pattern writing. this one really has me thinking!!!!!
