pigs,

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Work continues on the Baby Surprise jacket. I feel the need to have a finished object and so I will press on with this project despite the fact that I received the yarn necessary to finish my % sweater and the other fact of Pomatomus socks in progress. It is actually knitting up rather quickly and I am enjoying the yarn.

I have had very few FO’s indeed for ’07 and have to turn that around. Not that there’s a race or anything, but still a girl has to have something to show for her efforts!

Here’s a recommendation for you – a friend and I went to the movies yesterday. We saw The Namesake. And we both loved it! If it is playing anywhere near where you are, go and see it. It is definitely worth the time and money.

From a cultural high to a canine low ……. Mr. Poe has developed a wicked case of gas. Nothing has changed – not his food, not his routine – nothing. The strange thing is, it only happens in the evening …… help! he’s killing us.

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cute but stinky!

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This past weekend the Boar and I took to the friendly skies. We traveled to Rochester to visit my Brother and SiL. While we were there, we drove to hear D#1 sing in a choir concert at college. Now I have proven that I can knit Pomatomus while visiting, but even I doubted my ability to remain in pattern while in motion. With that in mind, I cast on for EZ’s baby surprise jacket.

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I am using Blue Sky dyed cotton and loving it. This yarn is so soft and none of the hand cramps that sometimes go along with working with cotton. I didn’t think to order another color to add some stripes to the jacket. And I am not wild about unrelieved garter stitch. For now I am thinking I shall add some embroidery or other embellishment to the finished sweater.

The pig of the day comes from Rochester and is now residing in my living room. We went to an antique mall on Saturday and Sil spied this guy …..

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the little lidded hen pot was also found there. My pig collection has spilled over into a touch of roosters/hens, but let’s not talk about it.

ready …. aim ….. fire!

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The daily pork report has moved into the living room. This guy is a very recent acquisition – he is a shooting range target and is made of cast iron. Last month I was at an antique show and there he was. It is the original paint and in the second picture you can see the dents made from the shots. Initially I thought he was more of a target in a carnival type game – something that would use bb guns. Boar inspected him and has informed me that some of those dents are made from a small calibre gun. Boar knows these things from his days spent on his high school’s rifle team.And here is a sock progress shot. So far so good. As you can see I am knitting these on two circulars rather than the dpn’s the pattern calls for. This required only one adaptation which I got straight from Cara who got it straight from Cookie, the designer. When knitting these on two circs, you may encounter the direction to do a yarn over right at the beginning of a needle. Don’t do the yarn over in the traiditonal way – this will make the holes a bit too big. Simply pick up the yarn over on your next round and that will leave you with a more attractive pattern. The sock does appear alarmingly narrow although it is quite stretchy, so my cankles have hope!

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prezzies!

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When I got home from work yesterday, there was a package bonanza on my porch! not one, but two boxes waiting for me. The first package was from Rachel (who doesn’t have a blog yet and we wonder what is taking so long?!) Rachel lives in Arizona and sent along a Javelina and yarn. If you click on that link you will read that the javelina is native to that area but is not officially consider part of the pig family. Well, I reject this. If it looks like a pig, it’s a pig! And this is one good looking pig; fierce yet adorable. The yarn is also apporpriately named sand and sun. Thank you so much Rachel!

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My other gift is from Vicki. She sent it in honor of our quit smoking anniversary. Click on that second link and read the author inscription. How fabulous is she?! I haven’t started reading it yet, but the pictures are wonderful – love the smile on that girl’s face! Thank you so much Vicki!

so how do you like that? the perfect blog post – some pigs, some yarn and I didn’t have to do anything more than pick up packages on the front porch. it’s the sweet life I tell ya!