Bueller?…Bueller?…Bueller?

Hey blog, did ya miss me? It’s been one heck of a summer. 3 whole months have passed since I blogged last (oh no, someone’s gonna yell at me)! I’m surprised you’re still here! I’ll use the excuse of an unbelievably busy summer, as opposed to the alternate explanation, which is I’m just lazy and a bad blogger. I might be a bad blogger, but I definitely was not lazy this summer. So much went on I have no idea where to start.

When we last saw each other, I had just gotten a haircut (which I started to dislike soon after I posted that pic) and have since gotten another, similar haircut (trying to fix the first one), which I like only slightly better. But, it’s just hair, it grows back, and it’s never really been one of my strongest features anyways.

Anyways, I made a list of everything we did this summer and, man, I don’t think I’m going to get it all blogged about! My three youngest brothers were here while my parents went to the Bahamas, and then two of them stayed for most of the summer to work. Aaron went on a few motorcycle and fishing trips, although not as many as he would have like to. We watched hours and hours of the Olympics and went on a bunch of trips. I didn’t get much crafting done, but I hope to get a lot done this fall. I have a bunch of projects planned out, including two half done sweaters that I’d really like to be able to wear during the very short California “sweater season.”

I’m hoping to get pictures posted and more details up in the next couple weeks. I haven’t even started looking through what we’ve taken this summer. I’m a notoriously bad photo taker, so we’ll have to see if there are even any good ones.

 

Getting a little warm in here

So it’s getting a little hot here in So Cal. Not that this isn’t a normal yearly occurrence. We just have never dealt with a southern California summer without an air conditioner before. We’ve been pretty blessed to have what seems like a pretty mild spring – lots of rain, cool temperatures, nice breezes, etc. We were feeling pretty confident about our ability to deal with the heat “when it came.” Well, it came all right.

This was in our living room. I’ve been feeling like a fried egg since the middle of last week. We do have a whole house fan and some ceiling fans, which do help out, but right at about five o’clock, I’m feeling pretty miserable. Thank goodness it’s starting to cool down a little.

With all this heat, It’s a good thing we have so many good ice cream and frozen yogurt places around. I am a total frozen treat junkie. My current favorite is Pinkberry frozen yogurt.

This stuff is go-o-od. I’m a fan of the original (plain flavor) with strawberries, bananas, and almonds. The pomegranate arils are also pretty good. We used to live close enough to ride our bikes if we felt like it, but now the closest one is ten minutes away.  Bummer.  I did make the drive to get some last week while Aaron was gone, though.  It was totally worth it.

 

No camera + wind

I was planning on doing a little updating and realized Aaron took the camera on his fishing trip this weekend.  When he gets back I’ll snag it back from him.  We really do need two cameras.  It’s actually kind of a good thing because I feel pretty yucky right now and just want to go lay down on the couch and read.  It’s windy and hot here right now and we don’t have an air conditioner.  Blah.  I can deal with the heat, just not the wind.  Its super drying and stirs up all kinds of junk that gets in my system, which makes my head feel like its in a vice.  Anyways, better blog fodder later, hopefully.  Hope y’all have a good day.

-T

 

What the heck!?

So I was taking all these pictures to post about my Valentine’s Day project and decided I should take some knitting pictures as well. I took a picture of the dishcloth I made my Grandma Sharon for her birthday.

(I actually took many, but this is the only one that I could get to turn out). I took a picture of the Falling in Love scarf I’m knitting.

I’m loving it. First time knitting with Lorna’s Laces and its soooo squishy. It makes me happy. Then I went to take a picture of the right front of the Slouchy Cardigan (from this book).

As I was pulling it into place to show the little pointy bit at the bottom corner, it started to unravel.

What the heck! I pulled a little more and some more unraveled.

Finally, I ended up pulling out the whole second bind off section. I have no idea what I did. Maybe I dropped a stitch. Maybe I did the bind off incorrectly. Whatever, now I have to frog the entire six inches and start over. Great. Next post will be happy Valentine’s stuff, not bitter, ranting, knitting stuff.  Freakin’ knitting.

 

Bad yarn, no biscuit

I’m having a hard time getting into the swing of this blog thing. I don’t have much going on in my life right now to post about. I do have knitting updates, though.

First off, a Koolhaas update. This

will be frogged. I hate how it is turning out, all stripey and stuff. It is not what I imagined at all. This yarn is driving me crazy. I think I’m going to set it aside for a while and maybe find a scarf pattern that will work for it later.

On a happier note.

This is the beginning of my first sock. I’m taking a class at Unraveled and I’m pretty excited. I’ve wanted to learn for a long time but haven’t been able to work out a class until now. Oh yeah, apparently knitting Koolhaas made me forget how to knit normally because I am now having a hard time not knitting through the back loops.

While I was at Unraveled I dug through their new Koigu shipment to find yarn for the Chevron scarf. I bought the purple and the pink from a fellow Raveler but didn’t like how they looked together.

I’m hoping these work. I’m also hoping I start thinking of better things to write in the blog. I’ve never been good at writing in my journal and I’m hoping this will help me chill out and just write what’s in my head (which may not be a good thing!). We’ll see.

Man, my pictures are looking funny. I’ll fix those later.

ETA: Pictures fixed, but still too big.