John Letsch

John Letsch

John Letsch

John Letsch

Heather n I working at Hairrahs 1988ishRegina Thorpe

Oh yeah!Rima Feliciano

Lookie What I Found!

Internet, I love you.

Didja’ know that I knit?

Believe it or not, when I opened my first blogger account back in…..2002(?) 2003(?), it was meant to be a knitting blog. I had named it “knitwit” because, as you all know, I’m very clever. I was going to revolutionize blogging, imagine – a blog about knitting! Never mind that I had just picked up needles for the first time, I was going to share my painful journey as I learned to knit and was 100% sure that my audience would be enthralled. Really.

Alas, knitting requires money, of which I had none at the time. A knitting blog would also be kind of sucky unless you have some photographs to show what you are up to. I had a camera, but it wasn’t digital, and I did not bring my trusty ol’ scanner with me to Canada. So the blog just sat there sans posts for years until I renamed it and eventually moved it here.

I can’t say that I’m all that great a blogger in general, let alone a knitting blogger worthy of an audience. Oh well. The Harlot and Dooce can rest easy I guess.

However, I do knit, and since I am gainfully employed currently, I actually have the money now to pursue my various interests, of which knitting currently ranks quite high. So I thought I’d actually make a post about it for a change.

I am working on a couple of Top Secret projects which I won’t post about here, but I have finally discovered the amazingness that is known as elann.com, so I wanted to share. Yes, I know – what took me so long? Well, I didn’t realize they were a Canadian company for one, and I’ve been conservative in my online ordering due to the whole customs thing. I’ve been painfully dinged more than once with goods that cross the border, so that has made me a bit hesitant to order from down south. However, now with the US dollar being so weak, I’ve taken the plunge and have been pillaging etsy, ebay and other resources the past few months.

As I mentioned though, Elann.com is a Canadian company, so no border drama there. You have no idea how happy this has made me! They sell quality yarn at insanely low prices, and last week I finally placed my first order. My box finally arrived yesterday.

Arg! A monster is going to eat my yarn!

This yarn is called Incense, and it’s a blend of wool, silk, and bamboo. Very luxurious. And hard to photograph, but whatever.

I ordered it for a scarf named Serpentina. I have been eyeballing that pattern for quite some time. It was designed by a woman named Cyn (on Ravelry, at least), and it’s the first pattern that I can think of, where I wanted to make it in the exactly the same colour and exactly the same yarn as shown. That never happens!

So I cast it on some needles and knit a couple of repeats:

I absolutely can’t wait until it is finished! This is perfect knitting for me right now. The pattern is simple, but not boring. It is easily memorized, and if you happen to ignore it for a few weeks, you’ll have no problems picking right up where you left off.

Why I miss Shane

Remember my friend from the old post about the Buddy Holly Memorial Garden?

I got this email from him today:

Of course there is a story behind this, but it will have to wait.

Borrrrrring.

This has been the most boring weekend ever. It’s Victoria Day here in Canada, so we had a three day weekend which I was looking soooo forward to. At first we were thinking we’d go somewhere. Nowhere huge, just maybe to African Lion Safari, or even just have a picnic in a nice park. I was thinking brunch somewhere, then go to the boathouse for ice cream, then sort of laze around under the trees. Maybe knit a little, maybe catch a nap. You know – nice weekend stuff.

Too bad the weather didn’t cooperate. This is a picture taken of my backyard about a half hour ago. This is probably the nicest it’s been all weekend. It’s 5°C out.

And it wasn’t just the weather – oh no! Trinity decided to re-enact The Exorcist on both friday and Saturday nights, except it wasn’t pea soup, it was chocolate TimBits and macaroni and cheese. This meant we really didn’t want to tempt fate by dragging her around all over town.

However, we did need food. Badly. Naught but corned beef in the freezer and a can of fava beans in the pantry. Not very appetizing. Canada actually closes it’s stores on national holidays (unlike, say, NYC), but we have a 24 hour grocery store that is always open, so I wasn’t too worried when Sunday night came and I still couldn’t be arsed to get to the grocery store. We would just go to the Ultra, after all, the weather sucked for anything else anyhow.

So our big planned excursion for the holiday weekend turned out to be a family trip to the grocery store. We all got up and dressed and out and went across town to the 24 hour grocery store. The one that is open all the time, even on Easter Sunday. Even on Christmas.

But not on Victoria Day it seems. :-\

Yes, it was closed.

Trinity started wailing (for real, the kid loves shopping, don’t know why), so we figured since we had nothing to eat in the house, and no where to buy groceries to make anything with, we might as well go out for lunch. We went to a restaurant that was right in front of the closed grocery store. It was either called Casey’s or Kelsey’s, I don’t remember which. All those restaurant chains kind of meld together in my mind, they might as well all be TGI Fridays as far as I’m concerned.

Anyhow, I had an overdone burger, and Chris had some kind of Prime Rib sandwich that you dip in the au jus. I should have had that, my burger kind of sucked. The nachos were good though.

Here are some photos of our exciting afternoon. You can tell by the look on Chris’s face that he was having as much fun as I was.

That necklace that Trinity is wearing came from McDonalds a month or so ago and I’m having a hard time getting her to take it off. It’s magic you see, so she can’t just leave it lying about, it must be on her AT ALL TIMES.

I was impressed that the restaurant had sippy cups though. Points for that

It’s really hard to get a picture of Trinity lately where she ISN’T making a funny face.

Who has more fun than us?

Well, at least she was happy!

Oh, and this is what my living room looks like right now. Fun times.

I guess I should go down there and clean it up.