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My Cardi Shrug is moving along now.  Thanks to Meredith's inspiration at Mereknits.   The image in the middle has the truest color shown. I changed needles during this knit up.  I had to go to my addi turbos awhile back. I was using my favorite plastic needles, but they would snag the stitches at the needle/wire join. It was driving me crazy to tug all those stitches along each row.   The addi's that I have are not a particularly sharp tip but this yarn is not lace or sock weight, so it doesn't ' matter all that much.   Fun fact for today: The Kitchener Stitch was named after the Famous Lord Kitchener.  American's copied his YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU style poster,  substituting Uncle Sam for Lord K's image. Why don't we play a little THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND THIS LAND IS MY LAND game : just tell me what State you in live in for today's comment.  I"ll start. ....  .

I don't have any knitting to show you because I ripped out the lace scarf yesterday.  Yup. Done. Undone.  The mistake was bugging me.  Thanks for the permission to rip! It's Daisy and Coneflower time around these here parts. Helo and Al. . What can I say? Working on my Cardi Shrug.  Pictures tomorrow. It was movie night at Camp HOMEIFYOUCANSTANDIT. Al made me watch Bridesmaids.  I laughed my butt off. If this heat keeps up, I know the cure: Go to a Wave Pool. What's your cure for intense heat?

 Rosalyn wanted some face time....She thinks she loves the chair Al cannot take with her to Virginia Beach.  However, it is MY chair now.  Nice try Rozzy, very nice try.  I hope she loves the cat that Al cannot take with her to Virgina Beach as much as she loves the chair.......more on Helo's arrival later. So I should say NIGHT 4 of Staycation because it is really all about sleeping normally for 14 nights. Fourteen delicious nights of getting under my sheets when it is dark out.  Real dark delicious sleep.   Drool on the pillow kind of sleep.  Go to bed when you are tired, sleep.  Sleep is not underrated.  Sleep is awesome.  Sleep is mine for 10 more nights.... Staycation yesterday involved more ONE ROW lace knitting.  This is the spongey softest yarn I have ever worked with.  It is a sock yarn and I lost the label. ( Happy toes?  Happy Feet?  Big Foot? Hodag.... I can't think of it right now) I made a mistake...

 Wouldn't it be great if I was knitting the Summer Flies Shawl I'm showing you today?  Ha ha.  Nope you know me too well.  Karen has cast on another and look at her fly!  I will show you MY knitting tomorrow. We ate dinner at the public golf course last night.  It was a perfect temperature outside.  Fireman and I had fun watching the golfers tee off on the 10th hole.  We were the only ones there for a good while.  I call this our "Elvis and Priscilla" routine.  We tend to go to places when others are working and we get the whole place to ourselves.  Elvis had to rent out places for him and Priscilla to enjoy their privacy. We were not wearing blue suede golf shoes..... Staycation events of yesterday included * a very indulgent 90 minute massage.  I found a great deal at our Massage Envy location and jumped on it. *a bittersweet goodbye to Babka and Puddy as they went back to the shelter.   This group was a ton ...

Last night just before Sunset I went to the only farm in our county and found beautiful light.  It is funny because in winter, I won't leave my warm cozy house after about 4 pm.  In summer, I will go out and about until all hours.  All of the cows were tucked in, save for one. Staycation Rules that Apply To Me: (your Staycation rules are your very own!) *No cooking if you don't really want to. Last night:  Don't gag.  I tried the veggie burger at Burger King.  It was delish.   I am not a vegetarian but I am trying very hard to minimize meats for awhile.   *Invited my neighbors over to see the kittens at noon.  This left my afternoon free afterwards for a good nap.  Invited another friend for coffee at 4 on the porch.  Part of my staycation planning means, STAYing at home. I love staying at home.  If someone is late arriving at my house, I am less crabby about it than if I am waiting for them at a coffee shop. *Swatc...

Karen finished her Summer Flies Shawl yesterday.  That woman is a Phenom, I tell you.  I love the color of the shawl and they way it bends so beautifully round and round. I took the image of the thorny thing last night.  I think it is thistle... The downy middle is what birds like goldfinches put in their nests.  Nature amazes me time and time again. Winner winner chicken dinner: Channon won the lace fair and square.  Number generator is easy fast and fun to use.  Channon the blue lace is headed to Virginia.....how appropriate....maybe I'll have Al deliver it. I've started my Staycation.  Staycation is awesome.  I have lots planned and nothing planned all at the same time.  If I want to do things I will, if I don't I won't.  Some perks to stay cation: *I don't have to pack.... ANYTHING.  Not underwear, not makeup, not yarn even! *I don't have to wonder if the bed I'm sleeping in is really clean.....it's mine! *I do...

Because it is getting so hot this summer I am walking down the Lace Road.  The road that normally eats me alive.  I've had very few successful lace knit ups finished.  Yet, I'm looking at patterns again.  I need a simpleton Easy One Row Lace scarf.  I know they are out there.  Maybe 2 or 4 rows MAX. (suggestions so very welcome) I used to knit with the finished product as my goal.  I just wanted the joy of the finish.  Lately I want to enjoy the knitting itself, from the yarn chosen to the pattern to the actual sit and knit.   Sure I want the outcome to be beautiful, but I want to love the knitting process as they say.  Process vs product.  The same old question. I was reading some other knitters thoughts on the debate. Then this occurred to me, what if ALONG the way you discovered some joy.  Joy as in loving the cookie dough as much or more as the cookie. I love the sightseeing along the way to a destination. I love ...