walking along country roads with my boar

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dearest Ones,

You might think that I had expended my weekend fun quotient on Friday with my trip into the city. Yukking it up with Cara, Kay, Bakerina, Wendy and all the other yarn chicks. As luck would have it, I did not. (don’t hate me because I lead such an exciting life – hate me because I’m beautiful…)

The Boar and I were carefree this weekend with D#2 away on a weekend school trip. On Saturday, we hopped into Onslow and went motoring around LI due east. We meandered. We held hands. We were reminded that we really do enjoy each other’s company. And don’t even hint around about wild sex. My daughters sometimes read this site! Suffice to say, those two didn’t fall from the sky, they got here the old fashioned way! ; )

We ended up in Greenport. As if a romantic day with the Boar wasn’t enough perfection, I managed some fiber purchases! Greenport is home to Now and Zen which has been on my radar as a shop I wanted to check out. Here’s a look at what I bought …..

We also stopped at a Claudio’s for dinner. It is a great restaurant with pretty views of the harbor. Can you guess what Boar ordered?

so Ann, how was your day in the City?

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I must say that Cara has done an excellent job detailing our adventures. Go over and read her post and then come back here.

Okay, so we really did have a great day walking all over the place and laughing it up. But here are a Few things I would like to say on the subject:

She left out the part about all of us trying to find each other in Penn Station. Even with cell phones fully functioning, it was a bit tricky. Particularly funny and creepy was Cara sneaking up behind me and ~~really~~ sort of freaking me out and then the both of us having the damnedest time finding Kay. She’s wily, that one.
I do not walk slowly. Cara told everyone that walking with me was “dude, like when you are driving 85 mph and then get stuck behind someone going 60 mph and if feels like you are going 20 mph.” In her analogy, I am the one going 60 mph. This is NOT slow. It is just not freakishly fast.
I had no idea where we were for most of the day. We went to Purl, I thought we were at the Point. My discombobulation was so great I didn’t know we were lost in the rain in SoHo until I read about it on Cara’s site this morning.
I only sort of called her squares crap. When you’re looking at beach pictures on her site with 43 year old eyes, you might wonder out loud what that crap hanging from the beach umbrella is. You might also be on the phone with the beach goer when these words spring forth from your mouth. When you get a better look at these squares you will agree that they are most definitely not crap, not some kind of weird seaweed that has attached itself to her beach umbrella.
I would also like to restate for the record how great it was to hang out with fellow knitters and bloggers! I got to meet Bakerina (yay!!) who is even better in real life than she is on her blog, I chatted on the phone with Snow who has a deeper voice than I had imagined. I also met Katy a new-to-me blogger and her fabulous sweater. That girl can knit. And of course the Belle of the Ball, Wendy herself!

another girl who can knit!

would you like to see some more pictures from the day? Sure you would! I have a few right here …

kissy faces with Bruce

the look you will get when you
pick the best brownie on the plate

bad city bunnies

I is for ……

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Irish Diamond Shawl which I Intend to knit. And look what conveniently arrived in yesterday’s mail, just in time for my “i” …….

That is Jaggerspun Zephyr in a color called Basil. I got it on Ebay and I will say that the color on the ebay site is much more true that my picture. I took that snapshot yesterday and maybe it was too sunny. Although I took it in a shady spot exactly as instructed (by someone who knows more about this type of thing than I do)!

I is also for Invitation!
Care to come sit & knit?

fun things are planned for this evening ….. I am meeting Cara & Kay and we are heading to The Point for Wendy’s book signing!

**It has just occurred to me – I don’t know if I ever did my H! gah, I am screwing up the ABC Along. Perhaps mine could be the Dyslexic ABC Along?

***Nevermind. I just checked – my H was homebody. Go back to your regularly scheduled blog reading.

he’s my number one!

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D#2 had a band concert last night. First on the line up was Star Wars Imperial March – Darth Vader’s Theme. I turned to Boar (who is a fan of all things outerspacy) and said, “wow hon, look what they’re playing – are you going to get up and dance?”

He turns to me with great Trekkie disdain and says, “It’s not the Cantina Song.”

he’s all pointy ears and nanu-nanu,

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The Trellis Scarf is coming along nicely. I had a moment where I thought I was almost finished and was so happy and pleased to be nearing the end. I was mentally congratulating myself on my return to lace (I have knit lace patterns, but they were pre-blog) I even seemed to be knitting faster. And then I realized I had miscounted and I was nearing the halfway point!! That was a bit deflating. I am now 7 pattern repeats away from the end border pattern – so the end is in sight! I get loads of compliments on this – how about a closer look?

ps. I tried to take a picture of my vest swatch, but have failed miserably. Will give it another go – maybe when I finished the swatch.