Pumpkin Sunrise

Weekends are for memory making,  relaxing and enjoying quiet moments of our days.   If you would like, please share your weekend moments  in the comment section with a link to your blog. These summer days have only just begun and I've decided to embrace the beauty that is local to my area.  I'd like to explore more of what could be a day trip.  This weekend was one of those days, however this stop was not planned.  We were driving yesterday in the country and I saw a covered bridge.  Lucky for me, my husband was just as eager to stop and look about. Unfortunately, I did not read and memorize the details of when the covered bridge was built.  I was all into that arced beam spanning the bridge wondering how they constructed it and assembled it.  I want to be a "stop and look" person instead of a "oh that is interesting, maybe one day I'll stop" person. My weekend also contained: -green bean buying, locally and organically grown -zucch

We are in summer mode full swing!  I'm still waking up early in the morning but there is a slow beat to the start of the day.  I love when the sun is out at 5:40 a.m., just glorious!  Frodo wakes and then proceeds to sleep some more on the couch.  He is not a morning person, err, dog.  He wakes up around 11 a.m.  So far we haven't seen a rabbit inside the fenced in area.  Phew! On Thursday I spent some time in my studio balling up my yarn winnings.  Not one single tangle, so that was impressive.  I still live my knitting life without a swift.  It's how I live on the edge of life.  This weekend will be the start of a simple sock cast on. I've found my rhythm for cooking for three people instead of two people.  I do miss the two people cooking because there are more leftovers and less cooking (that means more knitting).  Even though we are in the midst of summer living, I've started looking at the fall calendar and scheduling out some mini trips.  Checking t

I've been diligently working on the same two projects, the ten stitch blanket and the red rock canyon shawl .  To be honest, I haven't had much time to knit this past week.  I guess with summer in full swing I am doing other summery tasks.  I also think with my son home, my knitting is interrupted frequently--I'm  not complaining one single bit.  That soon will end when he moves to his new apartment to start a Phd program.  Changes! I finished Tinkers !!!  And I didn't like it very much....I think it echoed that stream of conscious writing that I'm not terribly fond of reading.  I did find the story about his dad's life interesting but the main character (who is in the process of dying) was not captivating for me at all.  In the photo is The Interestings  novel that I bought solely on the cover art.  This book was supposed to be my beach read but David Copperfield  horned in on that goal.  I am happy to say that I have started and look forward to t

I completed this lovely green beauty before the beach, and then forgot to share it all with you!  I loved how the scarf turned out.  Simple, easy and a somewhat quick knit.  Ravelry notes are here .

Weekends are for memory making,  relaxing and enjoying quiet moments of our days.   If you would like, please share your weekend moments  in the comment section with a link to your blog. My weekend started with dinner at a friend's house.  Grilled chicken, corn, pineapple slices served with a spinach pasta salad.  I brought some brownies.  Definitely a very good start to the weekend. Yesterday was a morning of garage sales where I bought absolutely nothing and everyone else did (even the daughter who isn't here scored some Anne McCaffery  books that I spied in a tucked away box).  I had a quick lunch at home then spent the whole afternoon sitting on the patio knitting and listening to podcasts.  The weather was perfect, not too hot, not too cold--just right. Today is church and laundry, menu planning and grocery list making, more knitting and podcast listening, and hopefully some reading. How was your weekend?

I've been thinking about how we create good habits.  What makes us choose them and execute the steps to create them.  For me, everything starts out with a list.  When you write down what you want to achieve, seeing the goal on paper makes it real. Years ago, I wanted to pray more, start a journal, and incorporate exercise into my daily life.  The spiritual goal was quite easy.  I just started.  I had some prayer books and picked out what I wanted to read.  Over the years, I've added more prayers, readings and feel that I've met my goal that I set out so long ago. I have a list of people and intentions that are in my prayers. The journal writing was a bit trickier.  I used to journal when I was a teen and young adult.  I don't know why I quit.  I wanted to start up again and something stopped me.  Maybe I wanted perfection?  Maybe I thought my writing would be boring.  I really don't know.  I do remember though buying the perfect journal and the perfect

My knitting has been sparse.  I think that when summer is here and the kids are here off and on (the son is home for the summer).  I don't have as much knitting time.  Well, I guess I have to make an effort to have the knitting time!  My scrap blanket is slowly growing, I'm enjoying the process and this will be a very long project.  I haven't even knit through the first bag of left over bits!  My shawl  is a delightful knit and again, loving every stitch.  But this knit requires my full attention, hence the minimal progress. Did you see?  Are you surprised?  I finished David Copperfield  after a marathon reading session that lasted two days.  I just could not face another post saying "I'm still reading, blah blah blah"  So really I did it all for you my dear readers.  I sacrifice. Anyways, once the DC book was finished and yes, I did enjoy the book immensely, I picked out a book that was the thinnest with a pretty big font just so I could breeze throug