The week has been flying by hasn’t it? Well at least for me. I went through most of yesterday convinced that it was Tuesday. (Yeah, I’m good, it takes a special talent to be like me) First things first, I received my second Summer Of Love Yarn swap. from the best partner ever. This person actually went through my queue and picked out, printed (In color no less!) some patters that I had in there, bought me one I’ve been dieing to knit & then comforted me on my alarmingly large queue 
Here be the spoils.
Click the picture for all the details! There are MANY!!! But can we just focus on the fish for a minute? Yeah, it’s completely fabulous. I wouldn’t call it quite an “ugly” fish compared to some of my others, but upon inspection I noticed that the pupils are pointing completely different directions which gave me the biggest giggle fit. The yarn is Classic Elite Alpaca and is calling out to be a cowl sometime in the near future. Swap Partner you are AWESOMELY FANTASTIC Thank you SO MUCH!
Ah yes, berry season in California. If you think you have good berries, well you need to spend the summer in CA. It is unparalleled.
Heaven forbid if you think we only have blueberries though.
This tart lasted only 2 days. Which was 2 days more than the strawberry rhubarb pie I made. (Which was excellent and was devoured before pictures could be taken!)
Other things that have been going on is the complete demo of any sort of vine plant living in our yard. The previous occupent had morning glories, she planted them 10 years ago. I think that’s when she stopped gardening or mowing, or um, anything at all.
That’s the MR there. I would like to say that he is almost done, but honestly, this is about 15 feet worth of work. Just for reference, the Mr is 6’5″ and is standing in the pile. I would also like to say that this pile is not any bigger, but it’s now honestly about 7′ tall.
What’s that? You’d like some UFO’s? Well I think I can do that!
I’m cooking right along on Lady Eleanor. I thought this project was going to take a whole lot more time than it really is. Guess that’s always the case isn’t it? I would have picked a much guadier color of noro (as is my reputation) but was told by my knitting sisters that this was beautiful. It IS beautiful. I just wish that there was more green & blue. The darkest colors here aren’t actually blue, they are black, but it was just about sunset when I took this picture.
My garter lover sweater is coming along. Finished the body up to the underarms & now have almost finished one sleeve.
Do all knitters come full circle like this? You learn garter stitch, then you hate garter stitch and do anything BUT garter stitch. Then you come and realize the simple beautiful elegance of garter stitch again? This is about where I’m at. Plus Beaverslide calls and prays and begs to be knit in garter stitch all the time, who am I to deny it? This sweater has designed itself. I don’t know if there is a design to tell you the truth. All of the sudden something will pop in my head & then appear on the needles. This will most likely end up one of my most wearable sweaters too because of it. I know I’ve knit a lot of beaverslide lately, and this will not be the last, but for now, this is the end of my stashed (except for another skien of star gazer that will be a cowl I think?)
I can handle it & not whine to much, but enough already! Lowe’s double charged us for a stove we bought this weekend. They don’t believe they double charged us and have to “start an investigation and give me a response in 24 hours”. We have our bank statement showing that they pulled out over a grand from us. If I had bought a thousand dollar stove that would be different. But I didn’t. *sigh* Matt’s going right now with bank statement and receipt in hand to prove that they double charged us and to cancel the order. Obviously if they couldn’t figure out how to charge us properly in the first place why would I want any of their products?
We both agree that it is comparable with anything in the REAL little Italy. Also, peaches in tripple sec? THERE IS A GOD! 
