Weebug Knits

I'm in a hurry, but then what else is new? One of my balls of hempathy has gone missing and I am afraid that I am going to have to make an emergency trip out to Village Yarn and Tea this evening to get another one. The catch will be traffic, since I need to be about three places at the same point in time to pull this off. I am not sure that it is going to happen. But I have to try since I am on the home stretch. The back of the tee is done, as are both sleeves. Just the front and putting it together to go.

One needs a bit of silliness occassionally. Good thing that I have kids for that. I love that my children don't give a whit about fashion. They wear what they want and they wear it proudly. Shannon actually left the house yesterday wearing this particular getup. The shirt? Size extra extra large. The vest? Worn inside out. Of course.

One also needs a bit of beauty. I love the richness of colour and the burst of pollen.

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I really don't know where I am going at the moment. The days seem to be full, with so many comings and goings that I am very apt to run smack dab into myself at any point in time. Saturday I worked, then we met with our architect. After so many months of planning and scheming, getting plans drawn up and having to start all over, I must say that this round of planning is much closer to what we actually were aiming for in the first place. Even though these plans have been drastically scaled back, I am happier. The original feel of the bungalow is being restored and as my brother so nicely put it:

"the space seems so well designed and engineered. Is this without raising the roof (the kids can do that on their own)? The plan seems to create space out of thin air.."

We won't have to raise the roof exactly, but to say that our lives are about to hit a new level in turmoil is most likely an understatement. Life changes things. Being able to roll with the punches and weather the storms is part of the life deal. I am not sure how we will handle it and although I feel that I have a slightly better grasp on my own reality these days, the changes ahead frighten me a bit. I imagine that is probably normal.

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There has been some knitting progress this week on the Wheat Tee:

I apologize for the lousy picture, but when one has to resort to the cell phone camera, the quality just isn't there. I am really enjoying this Hempathy yarn. I must say that I am rather surprised, I expected it to be more rough, like linen and it just isn't. I can't wait until I have this particular garment done!

In other news, we meet with our architect tomorrow to go over revised house plans and I am really hoping that this version will come closer to our budget. I am somewhat apprehensive about the whole process, but we definitely need the space. I have been gradually going through things, trying to weed out stuff ahead of time, but the whole process seems rather daunting.

Fiona gets home from soccer camp today. I am assuming that no news is good news and that she has had one fantastic adventrue after another!

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It is back to the usual routine of work today. I am glad to be away from the heat in the Portland, Oregon area and in the cooler environment of the Puget Sound. Fiona is off to soccer camp this week, so there are just three of us at home and it seems rather quiet without the regular interruption of sibling squabbles.

It will probably take a good chunk of time for me to get through the stockpile of work e-mails and a bit more time for me to figure out what has transpired in the week that I was away from my desk. It is also the first day that my best friend from work will not be there, he has moved on to a much better position and I shall miss my lunch-time walking buddy a great deal. The work atmosphere will be vastly different and although I am quite excited for my friend's fortunes, I am sad that he won't be there when I get there this morning.

Home where I grew up is such a beautiful place, quite different from the urban area where I now reside. Time seems to travel at a different pace there and I am greatful that I was able to spend almost a week just hanging out with my parents, watching baseball games with them on their television, patiently listening to what seemed like the same newscast over and over. Yet I am glad to be back with my own family and the quiet chaos that seems to reign around here.

The lavender at my folks house right was beautiful.

My current sock, just so that there is some knitting content around here.

Sigh, I am off to work. I have ride lined up for Shannon to gymnastics for today, I can't figure out how I am getting her back from gymnastics. Can the summer be over yet? I hate having to figure this stuff out on a daily basis.

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The plethora of wildlife at my folks never ceases to amaze me. Thursday night I looked out and saw this beauty:

She wandered around for awhile and delicately munched on several spots of greenery, then proceded to tramp up the hill and settle herself down for awhile. She was watching us and I was intently watching her, hoping that she would decide to come down a bit closer so that I could try taking a few more pictures. That didn't happen though.

Friday, Mom and I went to Portland to do some yarn shopping. First we stopped at Dublin Bay, where Jen and E were very helpful and gracious.

We then tried to go to the Naked Sheep, but we were a few minutes too late to go in because they closed early on Friday. We were quite bummed, but bravely faced the traffic to head over to Twisted.

I loved the way that they displayed the sock samples!

We had fun poking around both shops and were very hot and tired when we got home, our yarn stashes a bit enhanced and our pocketbooks a bit lighter.

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I was just about dead on for the time table for the nestlings to take flight. Last night when we got home from running errands, the occupancy of the nest was down to one.

This morning we were down to none. The nest looks quite a bit larger without a bunch of baby birds crammed into it. Come to think of it, my home looked much larger before we moved in as well. No wonder it seems so much more cramped these days.

It is so...well...empty! The little birds have taken off, and it was time for me to move on to a new project as well. After all, I am on vacation after all. I also have in my head that I might be able to finish this summer tee in time for my high school reunion in a couple of weeks.

What you see here is technically a sleeve, but in reality I used it for my swatch. And, true to the last couple of projects that I have done, I had to go up a needle size to get gauge. The pattern is the Wheat Tee by Rene Dickey, and I am knitting it in Hempathy yarn, a hemp, cotton and modal blend. I haven't a clue as to what modal is, but at the moment I am not going to worry about it over much.

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I am down at my parent's place in Washougal, Washington. A kind of sleepy little town most days, located at the mouth of the Columbia Gorge. It is warm and breezy, the sky is bright blue and it comes with a kind of lazy feeling that brings back memories of summer vacation when I was in grade school.

On the back stoop we have always hung various brooms, shovels, rakes and the like. This year we won't be using the push broom because of the current architect's construction:

There are three or four little nestlings crowded into the small space, I suspect that they aren't too far off from becoming fledglings and learing to fly.

It makes my little house seem quite spacious!

I love this rose. Papa says that it is called Desert Peace and no two blooms ever seem to be quite the same colour configuration. The bush is in full bloom and the colours mirror that of my first pair of Summer of Socks that I have completed.

See, I told you there would be some sort of knitting content. I love the way that these socks turned out, even though they were kind of boring to knit. Sometimes boring is just what is needed in our current state of flux.

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