Tonight as we were picking up the kids from school, we noticed bright lights in the sky, near the moon. On the car radio, we quickly learned that for at least a couple hours this evening, Jupiter and Venus would be visible next to the moon. None of us in this house had ever seen anything like it, so we all agreed this must be something special. My camera doesn’t know how to focus on objects that twinkle in the sky, but the video function did much better. My DH was able to capture this quick little clip so we’ll always remember what we saw.
Not much knitting today. I got a couple more rows done on Diana’s hat. Hopefully tomorrow morning before I start telecommuting I can knock out the rest of the body and start the ribbing. I can’t wait!
It’s a typical Monday after a holiday around here. Which means the little one is a homework refusnik and the older one called in the afternoon, complaining of a “headache” and wondering if we could pick her up early. Nope, kid, go back to class. Ugh. Better sign off for now and reel the little one back in. Wish me luck, and hopefully there will be a knitting update tomorrow.
It came! It came! I finally received the Andean Chullo Hat Kit from Knit Picks today:
Andean Chullo Hat Kit
I can’t wait to make this, but I do have a couple of other things to work on first. But I wanted to go ahead and get the kit now, because it seems that Knit Picks doesn’t keep it available all the time so I had to wait a while to get it. The kit includes 9 balls of Palette and a pattern, which I can’t recall whether it’s similar to a pattern that I bought several years ago but I’ll have to try to find that one and see. This one does appear to be more detailed, if I remember right.
Also in the box today were two hanks of WoTA Bulky in Blackberry:
Wool of the Andes Bulky Yarn
I thought I might use this in my afghan of domino squares, which is an ongoing, long term project. There were also some size 0 needles in the box, in about every cable length size available, because I recently learned how easily one of those toothpick-thin things can snap. There was also a book, but more on that at another time.
On the Home Front…
We had a glorious weekend with my DH’s family. They were here for Thanksgiving Dinner, which was a rare treat indeed. The last time all of my DH’s siblings were together for a Holiday, my now 12-year-old daughter was in preschool. (We were all together for a weekend in January of 2006, but there was another addition to the family shortly thereafter that some others in the family hadn’t even met!) So, it was a good time. Mostly the cousins all had fun playing together. The youngest, now two and a half, really enjoyed playing on my son’s train table. It was better than just about anything to him, except he did say last night that he wanted to sleep in his own bed.
Tonight he did get to do just that, because everybody parted ways this afternoon. Who knows when we’ll all be together again? I do hope it’s sooner than three years from now!
Before they left, though, the cousins all got together for a “grandchildren portrait” that my mother-in-law wanted. All of the kids did great! My DH and I decided that since we were taking our kids to the studio that we would dress up and have our own portrait updated:
Family Portrait, 2008
It seems strange to me that my little girl had to bend over so far to be near my head. Where does the time go, that she should be so grown up?
Today is Kristen and Mike’s wedding day. While I am very sad to be anywhere but there, circumstances prevented my attending. Still, that didn’t mean I was going to stay home and feel sorry for myself, even if in my heart of hearts that’s what I most wanted to do. So instead of heading to Western Maryland for the big event of the day, I instead went with my family to my boss’s annual fall chili party at her family’s horse farm.
As you can see in the video, there was this one horse who was very, very friendly. Let me tell you, you’ve not yet lived until you’ve been licked behind your ears by a horse! I rather felt like Fred Flinstone when Dino greets him at the end of the workday.
Here are some other shots from our time on the farm:
parrot
Steven rides the pony
Steven rides the pony with Diana leading
brown horse peeking out of stall
white horse
white horse
Trish and Steven petting horse
woolly bear caterpillar
As usual, please click the thumbnail to see a bigger version of the photo and read the caption.
All in all, it was a great day! Perfect weather. Yummy chili. And an excellent way to spend an Autumn afternoon.
