Four days to the Annual Show

Or, "No Rest For The Rest Of The Week".

By spent Sat and Sun working like a fiend on his projects and a couple of set pieces (when all this is over, I get a big picnic table for the deck). Last night, he didn't head to bed until 1:30, and he's left for work before 7am.

He would have let me sleep, but one of the fur-children knocked a box of marbles off my dresser. It's no wonder I'm this way, with the cats knocking my marbles loose early in the morning and then playing with them. By the time I got the mess picked up, I was more or less awake.

We got to play taste-testers for Frank last night; he's doing the after-show dinner, and some nibbly things. Stuffed mushrooms, a dried-tomato and cream cheese spread, and very nice cupcakes. All very tasty. Frank managed to scurry out the door with his samples and catch By before he left the driveway this morning, so he's at work too. And that leaves me to clean up the kitchen *sigh*

Talked to Mom on the phone last night. She said her older brother is goign to try to talk to Grandma about selling the farm. Heaven knows she needs the money. (She needs out of that house, too, but that's a whole 'nother argument.) I guess Grandma has been holding on to the farm for the past 25 years because Mom's brother said he wanted to build there someday. Well, his plans have changed, but one of our cousins, who happens to own and live on the next section, does want it. And his family would take very good care of the place.

Mom also said that Grandma's not going to get the sight back in her left eye. The second surgery cleaned out the infection and it's healed, but all she's got is blurry in that eye. She's got glaucoma, and it's advanced that far. It's another reason why Mom wants Grandma to get out from under a house she can't take care of, even if it means moving in with Mom.

I was working on a research project for a friend yesterday, so I didn't get the knitting done that I'd wanted to do. I did decide on a finishing for the white kimono sweater, just a simple I-cord edge in blue,and I've started on it. It'd be nice to have to wear as comfy clothes after the show.

I haven't decided on a take-with me project. Something interruptable, certainly. Maybe I'll eyeball the novelty yarn at Walmart when I run errands later. I just started a moebius scarf, out of a strand of that superfine rayon I got last trip to Yarn Barn, and one of the fine wool singles from Myrna's stash. Problem is, both yarns are on 3-lb cones, so they're very bulky, and I"d rather not fuss with pounds of yarn.

Hey classics_cat

It looks like we may be at my mom's doing the family thing next Friday....how does Saturday sound for a Yarn Pilgrimmage? By's got to work the gallery on Saturday, and I could go, or not.

Shopping Unsupervised

Mostly, I was a responsible adult...drop off recycling, fetch more coffee for Byron, but I splurged on boy-cut lace undies and a garter belt that matches my new bra (which WAS on the shopping list). And the winter issue of Interweave Knits. And then, because Walmart has a lame craft department, I was forced to go to Hobby Lobby for a single button for that white kimono sweater. Just one button. I'd have been fine, if I hadn't carried my button selection back tothe yarn department to compare color of buttonwith color or yarn.....Oh well. It was all on clearance.