packing is not fun
I am going to New York tomorrow. I will be gone a total of 37 hours and 35 minutes. 11+ hours of that is flying time. 55 minutes of that time will be spent delivering the presentation that I have been spending a couple of hours a day stressing over for the last 2 months. Another 4 hours, after the presentation and before I have to leave for the airport, will be spent checking out the new dinosaur exhibit at the Natural History Museum. Any other time that is left will be spent being a stress bomb worrying that I will lose my index cards (my most valuable and irreplaceable possession right now) or my mind.
I have just packed everything I think I need for those 37 hours in a single carry on bag. I just hope that I don't spill spaghetti on myself and have to wear a giant red spot the whole time. Note to self: eat and drink only clear liquids.
I have to leave the house for the airport at 4:00am. Don't you wish you were me?
Happy Memorial Day Weekend
I tried out the Vogue Knitting coverup with the alleged perfect yarn in my stash. Sadly it was not so perfect in reality. It's too floaty. Oh well. That just means I have something specific to shop for at the Memorial Day sale at Knitting Arts in Saratoga on Monday.
Is anyone besides me going to be watching the Indy 500 tomorrow? Mrow, mreow, mrew, mrow, mreeow! Those are race car noises, in case you couldn't tell....
SP5 Questionnaire
Here are my answers to the SP5 questionnaire. I love doing these kinds of things. They really make you think about yourself, and gosh, who doesn't love to think about themselves?
1. Are you a yarn snob (do you prefer higher quality and/or natural fibers)? Do you avoid Red Heart and Lion Brand? Or is it all the same to you?
It’s all the same to me. I pretty much just shop for something that catches my eye.
2. Do you spin? Crochet?
I crochet, but I don’t spin.
3. Do you have any allergies? (smoke, pets, fibers, perfume, etc.)
Codeine, shellfish, and dogs. The first two don’t really have anything to do with knitting, and since I have my own personal dog I take a lot of Claritin.
4. How long have you been knitting?
Since I was about 10 or 11.
5. Do you have an Amazon or other online wish list?
No, I don’t.
6. What's your favorite scent? (for candles, bath products etc.)
Things that smell like the ocean or something yummy baking in the oven.
7. Do you have a sweet tooth?
That would be a BIG YES!!!!
8. What other crafts or Do-It-Yourself things do you like to do?
Gardening and sewing.
9. What kind of music do you like? Can your computer/stereo play MP3s? (if your buddy wants to make you a CD)
I like lots of music. My car radio has presets for country, oldies, jazz, alternative, classic rock, and a "music of your life" station that plays stuff like Frank Sinatra, Barbara Streisand, Doris day, and Dean Martin. I can play mp3s on my computer and my ipod.
10. What's your favorite color? Or--do you have a color family/season/palette you prefer? Any colors you just can't stand?
Orange is my favorite. Mostly though I just like to look at orange, I don’t really wear it or decorate my house in orange. The colors I like best to live with are pinks, reds, chartreuse, and that vintage-y avocado green.
11. What is your family situation? Do you have any pets?
I have a roommate, 2 guinea pigs, and a miniature dachshund.
12. What are your life dreams? (really stretching it here, I know)
I don’t really have any- I am happy with my life now. Good friends, good family, good pets, a job I love, and I live close to the beach. For me this is heaven.
13. What is/are your favorite yarn/s to knit with?
I don’t really have a favorite. There’s nothing I really hate either, except ribbon yarns. And those I go back and forth on. Sometimes I adore them, other times I get a restraining order put on them.
14. What fibers do you absolutely *not* like?
Nothing, really. Unless it’s really itchy or something.
15. What is/are your current knitting obsession/s?
Oh, that’s easy. Cardigans. I have about 400 cardigan pictures that I have saved from magazines (knitting, fashion, and otherwise), websites, and catalogs that I think I will make someday.
16. What is/are your favorite item/s to knit?
Skirts. I’ve knitted a bunch of them, and anytime I can’t think of what to wear for a given event I will dig through my stash and whip up a little knitted mini skirt in an afternoon. I knit them in the round with my tried and true inc and dec pattern (written in black ink on a fluorescent green index card and stashed in a pocket of my project bag for handy reference). I’ve got a dozen or so in all sorts of colors and yarns. I even have a few I knitted from fun fur that look great with boots. Some people like to knit a scarf from their leftovers, I like to knit a skirt.
17. What are you knitting right now?
I am actively working on Kyoto from knitty and a sweater for my dog. I’ll be starting the coverup in Vogue Knitting sometime this weekend, just for a little variety. I have a couple of UFOs that need some TLC, but I am ignoring them for the time being.
18. What do you think about ponchos?
They aren’t for me. I knitted one and then I only wore it once. I couldn’t get home to take it off fast enough. I recycled the yarn into some other projects. I love shrugs though!
19. Do you prefer straight or circular needles?
Depends on the project. I use circulars for most everything whether it needs it or not, mostly because they are so protable. For smaller projects, casting on, or really lightweight yarns I like to use a straight needle.
20. Bamboo, aluminum, plastic?
For straights I don’t really care as long as it is smooth and doesn't have one of those wierd convex tips (this hatred of the wierd tip was identified as one of the symptoms of the tight knitter in the current knitty). For circulars I like metal or plastic.
21. Are you a sock knitter?
Nope.
22. How did you learn to knit?
A lady that lives in my parents neighborhood taught me when I was a little girl. She actually had a job making knitting patterns for Leisure Arts. Isn’t that cool? I need to ask my mom if Mrs. James is still doing that. One of my grandmothers also taught me some “advanced” knitting stitches, and how to crochet too. She also gets all the credit for my yarn-holding technique.
23. How old is your oldest UFO?
6 months or so.
24. What is your favorite animated character or a favorite animal/bird?
Dachshunds!
25. What is your favorite holiday?
My birthday. It’s October 28, but I celebrate it the whole month of Kactober.
26. Is there anything that you collect?
Stamps, white matte Haeger pottery, and yarn!
27. What knitting magazine subscriptions do you have?
None, I just buy the ones that look yummy at the bookstore/ LYS. And I get lots of ideas for things I want to make from Lucky Magazine. It’s not a knitting magazine, but they have oodles of cute tops and things that I just know I could make if I ever got over my ADHD and could focus long enough to work out the pattern, go get the yarn, and make the silly thing.
28. Any books out there you are dying to get your hands on?
Rowan Magazine 37 is the current thing I am dying for.
What's going on today
Secret Pal!!!Today I got my first email from my Secret Pal for SP5! How exciting is that? Very very very exciting if you ask me! Speaking of my Secret Pal, I am working on my questionnaire to post. I am most of the way through with it, and with any luck it will be done tonight. It's not a difficult set of questions, it's just that I am actually planting a tomato plant right now and I came inside for drink of water and got distracted by Vogue Knitting, and then I had to piddle with knitting things for a minute or two and then I thought I needed to blog, and here I am, 45 minutes later... The tomato is still not finished. In other words, I've got an attention span problem that is being fed by the lovely weather.
I haven't gotten my secret pal assignment yet, but I bet it will be very very soon...
WIP Updates: Turbo's Sweater I finished up the underpanel of Turbo's sweater and I am stitching the two pieces together. I've noticed however, that the head opening is not quite as large as turbo's head, nor is it likely to stretch that far. Is this a reason to panic? Nope. As I learned in Sally Melville's knitting emergencies and disasters class, this is an opportunity to make a design element out of the problem area. So, rather than rip out that ribbing with the dastardly increases to add a little more width, I am going to leave the top inch or so open and use a button and loop or something cute to close it up. I don't know what it will be yet, but I know it will be quite lovely. I am actually quite excited about it, and can't wait to go scrubbing through my ridiculously large stash of buttons to find something cute.
The only sad thing about the sweater is that it is really heavy. Turbie won't be able to wear it until the fall without having a heatstroke. Oh well. I had such a fun time knitting it I will make another sweater for her, this time in a lighter weight yarn. I'm sure I've got something in my stash that will be just perfect.
KyotoIn other news, I made a little progress on Kyoto today. The sleeve is about an inch longer.
Future WIPs and UFOsI also read Vogue Knitting and found two things I want to knit. This is one:
And this is the other:
I've got the perfect yarn for it in my stash, and wonder of wonders, I have enough of the perfect yarn too! It's this groovy slightly metallic Karabella yarn I got on sale before Christmas. I am not planning to make that little flappy deal in the front though. I'm not sure what that is about, but it doesn't have my name written on it. No offense to anyone out there who loves that flappy deal. It's just not my thing is all.
birds
I got two new birdfeeders. One's for hummingbirds, and the other is a seed feeder. I put them up on Sunday and they have been very popular. The hummer feeder is definitely the more popular of the two. I thought that maybe the nectar was just leaking out because the level of the liquid was getting lower and lower. I watched it for a while though, and it really is attracting a regular stream of customers!
hmmm
Ok, you know how the other day I was all slow in the brain and couldn't work the k1p1 ribbing increase thing faster than about 1 row per hour? Well, today I whipped out the last 2 repeats of the pattern in about a minute and a half. I don't know what the difference is, but whatever it was I am glad I am over the hump. I should be through with this sweater soon.
I would also like to report that my yard work was very productive. I didn't finish painting the chairs due to continued windy conditions, but by the time it got dark last night I got my new lawn furniture put together and put out on the patio, I cleared up a bunch of debris behind the shed, and generally made the place look presentable. I had coffee on the patio this morning, and dinner on the patio tonight. Yeah!
Painting progress
Well, all I can say is that I suck at spray painting. I am working on my chairs and I have a ton of runs and blobs all over the place. Fortunately most of them are in areas that will be covered by cushions, but some of the larger ones are in conspicuous areas. It's gotten really windy out so I had to call it a day, and I will just have to work on it again tomorrow hopefully. Here are the before shots. I'll post the afters when they are all done. It's kind of hard to tell, but they are all dark green. The two chairs and the table will end up a brighter green and the lounge will be black.
Now I will go get in the tub. I have a lot of work to do to clean myself up. I made a bad judgement call earlier today that will take 6 or 7 hours to fix. Namely, I decided that painting barefoot would be better than painting in junky old shoes. Take a look at the bottom of my foot. The other foot looks just like it, as does most of my left leg. Too bad the paint on the chairs didn't go on as smoothly and evenly.
Interestingly enough there isn't even the teeniest little spatter on my clothing.
Turbo's sweater
Today my roommate went to see the new Star Wars movie at noon matinee. Tonight we watched the original Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back. I swear I haven't seen either of those movies in years, but somehow or other I was pretty much able to recite both movies right along with Luke, Han, and Leia. God knows how I can recall that kind of stuff but I can't remember where I put my car keys or if my meeting tomorrow is at 9 or at 2. Sheesh.
While the movies were on I worked on Turbo's sweater. I whipped through the last of the back during the first movie, about 6" x 8" worth of fabric. I bound it off during the opening credits of The Empire Strikes Back and started the chest panel. I figured I have it all done in no time flat and get it all blocked tonight. WRONG! I am such a dope that it took me the whole 2 hours to do just the tiny little triangle swatch you see in the top of the picture. I had such a hard time figuring out how to inc the first and last stitch every 3rd row of k1 p1 knitting.
Conceptually speaking it was not a problem, I can picture the activity and the movements and the stitches in my head clear as day. Execution of said stuff was a totally different thing. I am very knitting dyslexic. I can't remember if I worked two rows or one, or if I already upped my stitch counter for that row, and every inc that came up I had to re-figure out how to increase k1 p1, and then p1 k1, and golly gee whiz having to figure out if that row needed a k1 start or a p1 start was a thrill. I actually think if I was using the multicolored stripes the pattern specified it would be easier than the dark grey I am using, just because I could see where I am and what I need to be doing a little better. But whatever.
I only have 2 more sets of the inc to go, which I will finish tomorrow. I am exhausted right now and I need to do some work too. So off I go, but before I do,here's a picture of my little smoochie poochie. She's worth every bit off effort I'm putting into this, that is for sure. I am glad that she's just an itty bitty weenie dog though. It'd take me a long long long time to finish this up if she was a big ol' german shepherd or lab.
Knitting by the fire
A couple of friends came over tonight and we sat in the backyard and
visited around a fire in our groovy burn barrel. Basically it's a 55
gallon drum cut in half, and some decoratively shaped holes were welded
into it at a welding workshop my roommate went to one afternoon. One of
the great things about northern California is that its sweater weather
at night year round. And there's just something swell about knitting by
the fire....
What I am up to today
Today was one of those days that flew by in about 3.5 minutes. I got up, started working at 6am, took a break about 10:00 for coffee with a friend, then got back to work about 11:30. I worked pretty steadily till about 2:30 or so then I took another break and this is where the story starts to get good.
I went to
OSH to look at a patio furniture set I've been fantasizing about since Saturday. I visited it a couple of times over the weekend and couldn't get it out of my head so I took the plunge and got it today. It comes Some Assembly Required, and it is still in the car-sized box, awaiting Some Assembly or else I would take a picture. My goal is to have my currently very messy patio put into having-people-over-for-a-BBQ shape by the end of the weekend. Right now it is a bomb blast site of plants being re-potted/un-potted/rehabilitated, random bits of gardening equipment, and some other patio furniture. Realistically, it will take me 3 or 4 more weekends to get this place ship shape, but a girl can dream can't she?
There are three fairly distinct patio seating areas in the back, and the new furniture will take up one of them. The pre-existing furniture will take up the other two. Some of the old furniture needs help, lots of help. And while I was at OSH I got some of the help that is needed, namely 8 cans of primer and spray paint. I am going to prime and re-paint a green metal table and two chairs that are starting to show signs of rust. I am also going to try out this new spray paint that Krylon makes called Fusion that is designed for painting plastics, with no sanding or priming required. Somehow it melts to the plastic and won't peel off. Between the new paint and some new cushions, my back yard is going to be a spiffier place to be very shortly.
I also got some groovy glass-balls-on-a-stick to put into some flower pots. And a Diet Coke with Lime (but not the Splenda kind. I am not sure I like the Splenda kind, it isn't as sweet as Nutra Sweet and I really like the super-saccharine-sweet aspartame-laced Diet Coke. I guess I will have to get used to the Splenda stuff though. But I digress).
The last thing I got was the final selection of paint colors for the playhouse in the back yard. The current playhouse (aka the dollhouse) will be scraped, sanded, primed, and converted into a garden shed/ backyard bar over the next few weeks. I've got pics of all the before crap and I will be thrilling you with the those and the after pics as I get all this done. All in the name of a better place to knit and drink cocktails. In fact, I think I will have the mother of all Stitch n' Bitches sometime this summer. You are all invited, and I will post the relevant details up here when they are known.
Ok, so all that took me up to about 3:15 or so and then I went back to work for another couple of hours. Tonight I watched Alien vs. Predator with my roommate and I had to ask a million questions all during the movie because I am such a girl that I couldn't keep up with all the stuff I was seeing. I was hoping that the predator and the chick would somehow hook up at the end, or that she'd ride off into the sunset with the predator's body and the rest of the predator crew as the heir to the dead predator's estate, but the movie was clearly not written by or intended for the chick flick demographic.
I didn't knit a thing today, but I did hold Turbo's sweater UFO in my lap while watching the movie. I thought I could finsh the last few rows of the back but the drama on-screen was so compelling (and I am so easily confused by lasers and other-worldly martial arts weaponry) that I was unable to pick up anything other than a few handfuls of M&Ms. Oh, speaking of M&Ms, did you know that you can
customize your M&M's?
Time for beddy-by. All the excitement of the furniture and the aliens and predators battling has worn me out. G'night ya'll!
I am so tired!
I haven't knitted in a couple of days. Since Saturday morning, I think. I've been doing a little work in the yard and getting ready for this big presentation that I am doing in a couple of weeks. Half the time I'm sitting around thinking about the presentation I'm wishing it was on a different topic. The other half of the time I think about how great it will be when it is over and I can fret over something new. I have a short attention span. I've been dealing with this presentation for roughly as long as I've been dealing with Kyoto and I do hope that the final results for both are something that can be spoken of, not something to hide in the back of the closet...
For what it is worth I did manage to get to the gym and work out tonight.
Melissa, if you are reading this, I will post the rest of pictures of our big weekend in New Orleans when I am not so sleepy.
Ladies who lunch
Here's my best-est friend in the universe, Melissa. We've been friends for 23 years- since 9th grade! Last Friday was Melissa's birthday, and that was the reason I went to New Orleans. Here we are, somewhere in the middle of a 3-hour long celebratory lunch. A handful of Melissa's friends took the afternoon off from work and joined us. We had a terrific time, and ate, drank, and laughed ourselves silly.
It's confirmed- I am a tight knitter
I'm slowly working my way through all the articles on the new knitty. Tonight I read
Loosen Up, and gosh darn it, but I have every single one of the symptoms of the tight knitter. I always suspected I was a tight knitter, but now I for sure that I am. I dunno what I am going to do about it, but at least I know!
Nice weather we're having!
I'm just about head outside for my lunch and do a little knitting in the sun with Turbo. I'm taking a Kyoto Break and working on a sweater for my little buddy. Here's the pattern I am using. It's the April sweater on the
Craft Yarn Council Dog Days 2005 Calendar.
I'm doing it in some grey acrylic yarn I picked up at the Walgreens (Turbo is not only not a fiber snob, she's also quite messy and needs something that can be machine washed and dried). I think I'll duplicate stitch a cherry or a strawberry on the back in pink or red when it's done.
Sweet recovery
I was still feeling like crap this morning when I got up, so I wasn't
able to do the 9:50 flight I was booked on. I was able to hit the 12:25
though, and what a difference 3 hours makes. I tell you what, somewhere
in the last hour I actually forgot I was dog sick yesterday.
I actually started a kyoto sleeve on the flight, and I can't tell you
how irritating it is to tell everyone that "YES!!! You can bring
knitting needles on a plane." I need a sign that says it so I don't
have to keep repeating it. The first two or three people it was ok, but
the last 567 was a bit much. And interestingly enough it has only been
men asking me. I guess all the chicks already know what crafty supplies
are TSA approved.
At the moment I am on a layover in Los Angeles, and I am only an hour
from home! Yeah! I need to pick up my dog Turbo from the spa (aka the
vet's office) where she's been staying while I've been gone. Once that
is done I am homeward-bound! I can't wait.
Oh, I got my confirmation for Secret Pals 5 this morning. Yeah! I
can't wait till it starts!
+kac
Oh god I am dying
Two words: tummy funk. I am so queasy I can hardly type. I am also so
bored I am about to go crazy. I was supposed to go home this morning
but I was too sick to fly. I am still sick, but now I am empty. Too
much info I know, but its good news for me. There is very little left
in the way of enamel on my teeth. I also think there is very little
left in the way of hope for me getting on the flight I am booked on 12
hours and 27 minutes from now. Think good non-nauseous thoughts for me.
There are no increases or decreases!
I just read the kyoto instructions. There are no inc or dec in the
sleeves. Oh well. I guess I will just have to deal with the monotony.
+kac
It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood
I am still in New Orleans, and it hasn't gotten blazing hot yet today.
I worked on kyoto for a while yesterday, and I am almost finished with
my first whole ball of yarn. I am going to start working on a sleeve on
a new set of needles when I finish this ball. Too much st st is not
good for the sanity, and I think a sleeve will give me a bit more
variety, what with increases and decreases and all. I will go back to
the back when the sleeve is done.
It is looking like my 15 ball calculation was wrong, but my stitch
calculation was right. I need to do better estimates of yardage. I
think that the 3 extra balls will be too many, but I have decided that I
will make a matching purse with it. Only I don't plan to carry the
purse and wear kyoto simultaneously, because I don't care much for the
matchy-matchy outfit look on my own personal body. On other people it
is great, but I prefer to wear more of the clashing-colors-and-textures
type outfits myself. For what that is worth to you, anyway.
It's hot in New Orleans
It's a zillion degrees here. And humid. Whew!
I went to a yarn shop just a second ago, and it was ALL novelty yarns.
There were millions and millions of fuzzy furry sparkly yarns there.
And not a single plain wool, cotton, or mohair in the bunch. Don't
people in this town want to knit anything besides scarves or ponchos?
God knows it's too hot to wear a scarf or a ponch here anyway...
Yawn!
I'm tired. I've got to get up early in the morning to head to New Orleans for a few days. I haven't packed, my hair is still in rollers under the dryer, I've got a list of stuff as long as my arm to remember to bring. Bitch bitch bitch, moan moan moan, whine whine whine. I'd probably be a lot further along in the process if I hadn't spent so much time tonight working on my darling Kyoto. We are having a second honeymoon right now. So far I am about 4 inches into the back, and as far as I can tell I have about 8 more inches to go before I have any real opportunity to screw anything up...
Yarnfinder.com
I don't really have anything exciting to tell you today. I worked on Kyoto for a couple of hours and realized based on my 3rd version of math that I need more yarn (tehcnically it's the first version of math that I did based on my 4x4 swatch that I worked, blocked, counted, and calculated but immediately discarded as flawed because I thought I couldn't possibly need that much yarn because I am a bit on the petite side so there's no way I'd need 15 balls of anything. I worked the math a 2nd time and jumped right in to the sash. Naturally when I ripped apart the mobius strip I realized that my 2nd round of math was horribly wrong, and discovered that it actually proved my 1st round of math was scientifically accurate to within .0005%). I need two more balls of the green yarn and 1 more of the pink.
I know I got every last skein at the Yarn Place in Santa Cruz in the same dye lots, so I jumped on yarnfinder.com and signed up for a dye lot search. Here's hoping that someone somewhere has this stuff. Anybody ever tried this service, by any chance? They'll search their affiliate stores for free and for $3.99 they'll search a bunch of other stores too. I signed up for the $3.99 deal. I figure it's worth $3.99 to be able to finish the project with the yarn I've already bought and had wound into balls and thus can not return or exchange....
In other news my allergies are so bad the last couple of days (from playing with the tiller no doubt) I've been popping benadryl like M&M's. My nose is peely from me wiping it constantly and my lips are literally scabby from the drying effects of breathing through my mouth. Don't I sound like one hot mama? Add to that lovely combo the impressive zit that's taken up residence just below my bottom lip and looks like a freakishly large cold sore and I could take first place in the Skank Queen pagent. At least the top half of my face looks pretty- I got my eyebrows done on Friday and they lend a certain glamour to the mess going on down below.
Oh hey, I have a question about the Ribby Cardi- anyone out there know how true to size the pattern runs?
Kyoto update
I'm just motoring along with Kyoto now. Kind of like I was before I discovered I'd knitted a mobius strip. Yeah! Here's what I've gotten done so far- this is the back, BTW:
Isn't that the most beautiful upholstery you have ever seen (snicker, snicker)? I don't know if you can make out the giant threadbare spot right in the main sitting zone. I have two of the *most* comfortable chairs in the universe covered in this not-so-appealing-to-me fabric. Normally they hide under a white matelesse bedspread and a pink and white chenille bespread that I got on ebay for less than $10. I've staged many a blog-post photoshoot on the seat of my chairs with those bedspreads as the backdrop, so you've seen them before. Today both of the bedspreads-as-slipcovers are in the laundry because I got them rather dirty (ok, filthy) by sitting in them right after tilling the yard. Not that you asked or anything.
I love circulars because they are so easy to pack and travel with and use in cramped spaces, like the train I take to work. And they make it easier for me to see what the project looks like or to sort of fit it to me since they are flexible. I use them on darn near everything even if I don't need them. But the thing is I always have a leverage problem working the first few rows of knitting because everything is so tight and doesn't have much wiggle room till a few rows in. It's particularly difficult on circulars, but with straight needles I can just jam one end under my arm and manhandle it (or girlhandle it, as the case may be) into submission. And using the bigger needles for the CO row means I don't have to stretch everything so much when I start knitting, and I don't end up with a ruffly, scallopy edge. Plus there's a tad more room to work when I need to pick up and knit a binding or seam the CO edge to something.
So here's what I've sort of figured out that gives me a much better result for really long stretches of knitting (anything over 8 wide"). I CO on a straight needle one size larger than I need, then work the CO row onto straight needles of the correct size and work another 3 or 4 rows on those same straight needles. Once the fabric is about 3/4" long I'll trasfer everything over to circulars.
Ok, I gotta run. I just found out a new LYS opened up in Los Gatos this weekend and I want to check it out. Can you believe it? Two new yarn shops in a week, and dang it all if they aren't both in the immediate vicinity of places where I used to live. Of course, my accountant (aka me) will appreciate the fact that I don't live walking distance from a place that I can spend a lot of money on stuff that I don't have a real need for and I'm quickly running out of space to store. The place in Los Gatos is just down the street from the place I moved from in January. It's called The Yarndogs (326 Village Lane, Los Gatos PH: 408-399-1909). Right behind Pedro's, if you know where that is.
And in addition to wanting to check that out, I want to work on Kyoto a little more, and get my tiller out into the front border and put a half dozen rozes in the ground. And the fact that it is noon and I am still in my pajama's is a scary thing (in my defense I was sitting on the patio enjoying the nice weather most of the morning). I guess I need to get to it!
Later gators!
