Shocking all friends & relations, Mr. Boar and I took a vacation. We spent a week in the Adirondacks:

while this was our only fight ....

We did have our moments ….

Boar, unsuccessful at drowning me in Lake George

Me, resisting many opportunities to give him a little push

lots of hiking!

and hiking .....

other peoples' kids make me nervous!

a flight of Nerve Tonic

So, it hasn’t been all fancy nail art around here.  There has been some knitting going on, but it is all shop samples!  Since I already post them on The Village Knitter Facebook page, I wasn’t sure if I would have a re-do here on Ye Olde Blogge.  All that hemming and hawing was wearing me out and since I need to feed the blog, here goes.

We have been working on The Great American Aran Afghan.  It is a monthly class where we work on a square – a lot of fun and laughs and a very low pressure way to tackle a somewhat intimidating, large project!  Here are two of my contributions.  I actually knit the spider one twice while test knitting a yarn …..

 

Janet Martin Fish Square

Judy Summer Spider & Bugs Square