Pumpkin Sunrise

Hello!  I am nearing the completion of my cardigan .  So so so very close to being finished.  I'm on the buttonband and all that is left is the buttonhole band and buttons.  I cannot wait for this knit to be off the needles and done. My pebble shawl  continues to make slow and steady progress.  Since I'm focusing on the cardigan, my time with this shawl is limited, however that limited time is pure bliss. I'm thoroughly enjoying Baker Towers.   I love that the setting is in Pennsylvania and there are references to Polish food (I'm Polish!).  So far the novel is a captivating read.  Phew!  I think I picked this book up in Cambridge, Massachusetts when we were visiting our son last fall. What are you knitting and reading this week? Joining Ginny and Frontier Dreams

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. How was your weekend?  Oh, I do hope it was a nice weekend.  My weekend was great because the weather is warming up, the sun was out more than usual, the birds are singing and well, the days are feeling like early springtime.  Snowdrops are in full bloom and the daffodils are sprouting! My weekend contained: :: lazing on the sofa, reading and knitting, sometimes at the same time :: my husband making curry :: crossword puzzles and sudokus :: phone calls from the kids :: marathon watching Merlin :: leftover cupcakes :: thinking and planning when my daughter visits next next week (whoop!!) :: confusion on what to wear during these transitory weather days :: How was your weekend?

We celebrated my husband's birthday this week and so there were cupcakes.  I splurged and bought them from a bakery.  I love the made from scratch clean taste - this is the same bakery that did the wedding cake.  YUM. I've upped my exercise routine this week and I'm faced with how limited I am with my RA and yet I'm kind of excited with all I can do.  I can feel my muscles, kind of achy in a good way I guess. Of course, I'm still doing my daily walks and my daily yoga. I've been reading slowly the plant based diet book and writing notes and learning.  My grandfather was a big believer in "never stop learning" and you can learn anything from a book!  He would have loved the internet.  All that information. My sweater is on the second sleeve, yay!  I try to give this sweater some time during the day, at least one hour if not two hours.  I daydream of a sweater that will fit perfectly :) Yesterday while catching up on blog reading

New book and new knitting, both quite exciting if you ask me.  I started reading  Barker Towers last night and it's way too early to opine.  I also started reading Stephen King's book On Writing.   My daughter has read it several times and highly recommends the memoir. My adult children and nephew are doing a reading competition, I think I am participating and I think I'm losing, but hey, it's only the beginning of March. My knitting, sigh, it is heavenly!  Since many of you gave such wonderful suggestions on this post  on what to knit with my "ginny yarn" and repeatedly the Pebble Beach shawl was mentioned.  So I cast on and am blissfully knitting a shawl for ME.  It's been a while and I'm happy to be engrossed in an indulgent knit. So far I am beyond impressed with how the yarn feels and knits up.  I adore how the wool silk blend takes the dye differently and adds a beautiful depth to the fibers. Oh, I started and finished a sweet little bo

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. How was your weekend?  Mine was electric (pun definitely intended..)  I enjoyed your comments and your experiences with living the hard life without comforts.  I was humbled by how some of you went weeks!!  Ugh!  Every morning when I wake up I say to my husband "guess what?"  He is sleepy and slightly grumpy in the mornings so he says "what?" muffled and dazed.   I reply "I love my ELECTRICITY." Now you can imagine maybe an eyeroll from him or maybe a nod.  I kid you not.  I know one day I will get over the loss of electricity but it's still real.  We lost four days from Hurricane Sandy. Funny that this last 24 hour jaunt is the nudge we needed to get a generator.  Yes, a generator, finally. I'm too old for the no electricity life.  So t

On Wednesday night during a windy rainy thunderstorm, our electricity went out.  OH MY.  I dug through the junk drawer (I have three in the kitchen) for the flashlights.  Out of four, one worked.  Phew.  Every time the power is out, I am beside myself with anger, disbelief and doubt. Those beautiful woods that surround me also isolate me from multiple sources of power lines.  There is only one and when it goes, well I'm in the dark.  The house is all electric so there is no heat, no water and obviously no electricity.  We were without power for 24 hours.  The frig food was tossed.  According to the internet my freezer food is okay.  I'm going on faith. So as I grumbled, scowled and froze my $## off in my house, I give to you the gratitude list: -for the crewmen who work crazy hours round the clock giving back electricity.  They are angels and I'm grateful (I'm not grateful for the electric company who doesn't hire enough crewmen and made me wait....) -for

I am on a sleeve!!  Oh the bliss of knowing I am getting close to the end of the sweater knitting.  Some people dislike sleeve knitting but I don't mind at all.  I find it fast and fun.  How about you?  Are you a sleeve lover or hater?  Just wondering. Oh and I finished the baby sweater and posted yesterday all about it.  I love the red buttons too! I wound up my " Ginny yarn " yesterday but have yet to cast on a shawl.  I'm still contemplating which pattern to use.  I've narrowed my selection down to three....I think.  But I just might do one more search on ravelry.  I want crescent top down shaping, no cabling and well, something that looks like fun. I am STILL reading the same two books as last week.  Both are kind of long so I'll blame the books and not my slow reading skills.   Carry On is chugging along with an interesting plot line overall.  I have no idea what is going to happen.  I haven't read reviews or a plot summary and so far I haven

You can never have too much yarn in your stash nor can you have too many buttons.  I had great fun digging through the button jar, the button box and yet a button container.  Sometimes I wish I had more buttons but today, well, I had plenty to choose from. I love how the red buttons make this sweet little sweater POP with color.  So cheerful.  Now that this cardigan is finished I have one more skein in left and I'm toying with knitting a bonnet to match the sweater.  What do you think?  I really don't want to make booties in cotton....my hands!! Ravelry notes 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 step mom made the crocheted eggs, my sister made the felted eggs My weekend was good! How was yours?  I hope good as well.  Friday found me out in thrift stores with my son, just looking about.  He adopted the first four books in the Outlander series (wow!!) and I found two books that I could not pass up.  I do not need more books... So, of course on Saturday I was in a Barnes and Nobles....Oh, that is a blissful place.  I hopped about from area to area, browsing and reading flaps.  I flipped through some more cookbooks and then perused the magazines.  I did buy two books, Writing with Quiet Hands and The Plant Powered Diet  and two magazines.  (not that I need those either!) We had dinner out and then a quiet evening reading our new books. Today, I went to Mass and laund

My mom used to say during sometime in February that she had "the winter pissies".  I love winter and I am enjoying the cold.  However, I think of her often and how she would one day state her doneness with winter, she was quite dramatic about it. After her declaration she seemed happy and content just acknowledging her state of mind.  I work hard at holding onto positive thinking and sometimes it eludes me.  The winter is not causing this (or so I think) but there needs to be an adjustment in my thought processes.  My expectations of others and of myself. So today I pulled out pen and paper.  Writing lists are a clear way to discern my path.  Exercise also helps and yesterday I was out walking and felt so much better after a week of crazy weather that held me indoors for too long.  How about you?  How do you regroup?  How do you refocus?  I'm curious.   Our son is visiting for the second half of his first spring break (he has two of them).  Unfortunately, his

Well well well.  I am back to my cardigan approaching quickly to the garter stitch edging.  I'm thrilled to be finished with the baby blanket and posted about it yesterday .  Soon, very very soon, I will be making something for me.  But first I want to finish knitting the baby sweater I started earlier this week.  Oh babies, they are speedy projects to knit for :) My reading is the same (and I think I said that last week.....).  I'm slowly sinking into a fast paced novel, Carry On.   I have The Song of the Lark on my kindle but haven't read much this week so far. What are you knitting and reading this week? Joining Ginny and Frontier Dreams