Our favorite Midnight Knitter has started an online yarn shop!  The Knitpixie button is a link to the shop – so give it a click and check it out.

I have a hunch/hope that this will be a slow day here at Chez Swine. I had some bad mojo yesterday. 

It all began in the early afternoon and involved a mad dash to a saddlery in Elmont to pick up a special eye goggle thingamajig for our horse Spencer.  A few weeks ago he cut his eyelid and needed stitches – now they are healing and getting itchy and Mr. Spen is rubbing his face in his stall – not good.  The vet came yesterday and confirmed that he has scratched his cornea.  ergh! He looks a bit kooky wearing his goggle, but fortunately he’s not vain! 

For those of you not familiar with Long Island — Elmont is not close to where I live and this trip was made at the height of rush hour on the LIE.  I also was not familiar with the territory and this heightens my stress level.  From the saddlery, I had to run to the barn to put said protective wear on the beast.  Then it was home, throw some dinner in the pressure cooker, throw daughter #2 in Onslow for trip to flute lesson and then back home again.

• trip to saddlery/barn/home = 3.5 hours
• dinner in pressure cooker   = 9 minutes
• flute lesson                     = 1.25 hours
• can you see why I love my pressure cooker?   

just when I am starting to relax and put the day behind me, a friend calls to tell me her son was in a car accident.  Thankfully everyone emerged unscathed – but she is rattled, he is rattled, I’m rattled!  This young man is the same age as daughter #1 and it is scary as hell when these things happen!!

Hopefully today will be less eventful — my goal is to mop the floor.  Seems do-able? (yes I know, I dream big!)