What do we do at the end of summer?

County Fair! Ms. L and I drove to Tonganoxie to enter our knitting in the county fair. Due to some road work, it was a longer trip then I thought it would be, but it was fun driving with someone else. I'm not sure what Ms. L entered - I saw a hat - and I entered my dishwashing gloves, a pair of socks that I made for Big J, and an Emma Peel dress for Little G. I don't have pictures, but I'll put some up after I pick up the items on Friday. (friday? saturday? not sure....)

I'm also thinking that I should take the family to see the fair. Either the kiddos during the week, or everybody including Big J after he gets off of work one day. We'll see!

Well, it's definitely summer!

With 95-100 degree days every day, yep, it's defintely summer. And, we're getting school supplies (it's a little early, but WalMart still has them in stock at this point), so that's another good argument in favor of summer.

While I was wandering around WalMart, waiting for the tire department to tell me they couldn't fix my tire, I found this:

Very squidy, no? I snapped a pic to share with a group on ravelry. We're doing a steampunk swap, and it seems that to some, octopi are very steampunk. Maybe it's because of Jules Verne? i dunna. Hopefully, i can get my knitting and other projects done for this swap...i need to sit down and write out exactly what I'm sending. I'm a little scared, as there's only a bit more than a month yet...we shall see.

Is it summer yet?

it certainly seemed like it this weekend. And today? Someone told me that it was 93 degrees outside, which even for Kansas, is unusual in May.

Mother's Day was nice. Jay gave me the afternoon off, while he cleaned house, and Little V and I went shopping. Well, window shopping, mostly, but it was nice to have the time to just browse. I did pick up a cheap stroller at WalMart. I didn't want pink or blue, or a disney character, so we now have a stroller with Winnie the Pooh Bear on it (Winifred the Pooh-Ba?)(wait, Pooh Bear is licensed by Disney, isn't it? darn.) Then we went to the outdoor mall. There's a large fountain there, and, of course, there were kids playing in it. Little V just watched and watched...

Ms. L came over to visit today. Jaiden really really wanted to aske her to play, but he was good about not badgering guests, and only showed off his fire minis. Now, Rama, the cat was not being so good. He tried eating Ms. L's bag, and then her keys! If we didn't love him so much, that cat would be a fur rug by now. We chatted about the Sampler Festival over the weekend, and other stuff, until I had to pack up the little kids to fetch LittleSister from at school.

In knitting news, I'm almost done with the latest Fuzzy Shawl (it's not knitted though, it's crocheted) for my friend Fleur. I'm making it with 4 skeins of homespun instead of 2, but it's still taking me longer than it should have. But it is almost done! Then, I've signed up for a swap through Ravelry. The theme for that is 'Bento', Japanese lunchboxes, and I'm brainstorming for a cool knitted gift to send along with my package. heh, i may have to finally make a trip to one of the local (relatively) yarn stores to find presents for the swap.

Happy Easter!

marigo's photostream on Flickr.

Our Easter dinner was Chicken Satay and sticky rice (and veggies and EasterEggs). No, not quite traditional, but it's what the little kids wanted to eat. I love the chicken satay from one of my thai cookbooks, it has ginger and honey, garlic and soy sauce in the marinade. yum, yum, yumm! Tommorrow is a more (or less) traditional dinner, roast pork, baked sweet potato, bread rolls, more veggies, apple pie...

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mea culpa! mea culpa!

I've been reading, lots. I read a stack by Kelley Armstrong, and right now I'm reading everything the library has by Laurie R. King. It's what I feel like right now. And there's been several anthologies in there as well.

I had a wonderful moment today. I stepped out of the front door, and a little bird, a house finch, was singing at me. He was sitting in the tree right outside. He let me whistle back to him, and we talked back and forth for a little while.

thanks to "The Kansas School Naturalist", 42:2, for the picture of a house finch.