Just Saturday

Nothing exciting going on around here....just another Saturday morning. We didn't get any grand kids this weekend because there is stuff around here that needs to be done that is hard to do when little ones are running around wanting your attention.

First order of business is to fix fence posts so the fur-kids don't get out of the yard! The big winds we had this week broke several posts off at the ground and the fence is leaning and close to falling over! We are going to replace them...and gradually all the rest.... with steel posts this time around! We live on a really busy corner and I'm petrified that one of the boys will get out of the yard and get mashed!

I've got some running around to do as well. Pass Your Plate is having a freezer sale today and I'm going to go stock up on pre-prepared entrees. With the sale prices they are having today, I can have a freezer full of meals ready to pop in the oven for the same amount, or less, than I can go to the grocery store and buy ingredients for......and still have to do the preparation on....so why not?

Today is the Gourmet Yarn Knit-In too! I missed last month so I'm really looking forward to going. It is always so much fun and I get to see people that I don't see any other time.

I have made some progress this week on knitting. I am almost through the first color chart on the Modern Log Cabin Wrap. I knew I shouldn't have started it.....I got all into it and haven't touched Savy's Polkadot Jacket since I cast the wrap on! I am definitely going to focus on that jacket and knock it out after I get the wrap done...... honestly........discipline will prevail....lol!!!

I also got side-tracked on a quick little project last night. I'm going to wrap these up and send them to Mel when I get them done...probably will finish the second one tonight at the Knit-In...they go really fast!

I'm also excited about another project I have planned for her and the new wee-one! It's funny....I noticed the pattern several weeks ago (before we got the news) while looking through the Folk Style book. I commented on now neat I thought it was but.....at the time....had no reason to make one so decided not to buy the book! I had already gotten the Log Cabin wrap pattern off of the Knitting Daily site so thought I didn't need it. Anyway, it is the Tribal Baby Sling. It is so awesome! And now that my DD is expecting....I have a good reason to buy that book after all...lol!

I also joined the Six-Sox KAL group last month. The very first pattern I'm getting turns out to be based off of the Upstream Sock in Cat Bordhi's new book.....so I guess I'm going to have to get that book too....I mean I'll need it for reference to do the pattern, right?

Isn't it funny how things just happen that necessitate the acquisition of knitterly things that we want but decide we don't really "need"? I think it's called "justification"...lol!