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I got my Knitting Purls Indie Sock Yarn Club shipment. Twiggi Knits Wooly Sock yarn in patriotic colors. It came with a goody bag with Tootsie Rools in stars and stripes, a pattern and a stitch marker.

 

 

My edamame have all sprouted. Interesting that these are all GardenSoy varieties I got from the University of Illinois.

 

The basil plants are surviving, though they have been watered often this summer. This is Genovese.

The fig tree has itty bitty figgies all over.

 

Lastly, we have gratuitous puppy photos. I wanted some portrait type photos of Belvedere. He looks so different on each side. Poor puppy got sick from eating a corncob. The adult dogs just gnaw on them, and don't swallow them. Then he was starving, and drooling on the floor. He is prancing around, eating again, at least he was before he went back to sleep.

 

 

Hey, Actual Knitting

I have been working on the Siesta tee in Ella Rae Silkience, and have reached the join.

Today in my birthday-consider donating for the Komen Race for the Cure-on my left sidebar.I got some books from my sister and DH. I also made myself a chocolate pound cake from a Cooking Light recipe-I added cocoa to it.

This has mostly recipes

Wendy Johnson's Socks from the Toe Up book, and a China Bayles herbal mystery by Susan Wittig Albert.

My Saturday

My Saturday started off at around 5 am. Not usual for me. I was in the 5K Cave Spring Road Race in Cave Spring, GA, in a different time zone. I did not come in last. I also walked another three miles around the Cave Spring Arts Festival and running errands. I got a race t-shirt, a pancake breakfast, and a free pass for the arts festival admission. I did not knit in public, or see any knitters on Worldwide Knit in Public Day, though.

I finally got my cell phone picture of the spring where it comes out of the cave to my computer via e-mail, after a failed attempt at sending via Bluetooth.

I got a pottery soup mug from Byrd Mountain Pottery. It coordinates with the mug I got a couple years ago from them
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My other purchase, besides a diet Dr. Pepper, was a prostrate, or creeping,  rosemary.

 

Mr. Belvdere tries to stay out of DH's reach, so he can't put the pup in his lap, which Belvedere hates.

Hmmm

Your Word is "Think"

You see life as an amazing mix of possibilities, ideas, and fascinations. And sometimes you feel like you don't have enough time to take it all in. You love learning. Whether you're in school or not, you're probably immersed in several subjects right now. When you're not learning, you're busy reflecting. You think a lot about the people you know and the things you've experienced.

What's Your Word?

Santa Baby, It Won't Fit Down the Chimney

Our Christmas presents this year are a Panasonic plasma TV and a Samsung LCD TV. We watched Wheel of Fortune in high def tonight, over the air.

Sorry, doesn't show the Panasonic much, just the chocolate. .

Samsung, with snazzy red stripes, in the den. Now they can read the scores! Note the TV stand. $39.99, assembles with no tools. Not much can make DH go to Target in huge shopping center at Christmas time.

Six Things Meme

Carrie (Knit-Whit) tagged me for the six things meme. Good thing I looked at Bloglines today!

These are the rules:

1. Link to the person who tagged you.
2. Post the rules on your blog.
3. Write six random, arbitrary things about yourself.
4. Tag six people at the end of your post and link to them.
5. Let each person know they’ve been tagged and leave a comment on their blog.
6. Let the tagger know when your entry is up

1. I am driving my third Honda Accord
2. I have a little Christmas tree on my desk with crocheted wreath ornaments
3. I don't like multicolored Christmas lights
4. I have five or so Crock-pots and use them often
5. I am addicted to Bloglines
6. I am knitting my second cowl, so far.

I will tag Tricia, Jessi, Suzanne, Elizabeth, Chris and Tonni

Thanks, Darlene!

Darlene, of Yarn Collectors Anonymous, gave me an I Love Your Blog Award! That was sweet. Maybe I should stop enabling her to buy yarn... LOL. I love to see her kitties and sockies.

I am passing the award on to four people, in no particular order,  although there are lots more I could pick.

Elizabeth  who has lovely knitting and spinning and great photography.

Vera  who makes me want to crochet again (and visit Charleston again.) Also inspiring new projects.

Brenda for cute kitties (see a pattern here?) and tempting cards in her Etsy shop, and enabling inspiring me to start new projects

I love to see Katie's sewing projects and her models. Not because she just sent me yarn and a book for winning her blog contest. I have read her blog for a couple of years, in various forms, ever since I found it while searching for the Sitcom Chic sweater.

Prizes!

DH picked three names at random, and here are the prizes and winners.
3rd prize is a set of four hanks of wool sportweight yarn. Karen S won this. It is going all the way to Denmark. From eBay listing: 4  skeins of fine quality  sock 100% wool yarn. It will felt. Total weight is 7  ounces. Colors:   white, blush, pink and burgundy. Each color is one skein. Sport weight. Yardage is 1,350  yards per pound

Second prize is Andromeda silk/merino yarn, Turquoise Dreams, from Stitches Under the Sun on Etsy. The winner is Jen C

And, drum roll please, Lisa won first prize.
Here are the fabric choices for a sock bag sewn by me (also useful for other small projects)

Kittens and yarn

Cherry blossoms

Mary Engelbreit teapots

Tag, You're It

I was tagged by  Mary Beth with a meme. Here are the rules:

1. Pick up the nearest book of 123 or more pages. I picked up Debbie Macomber's 74 Seaside Avenue, and opened it. I happened to open on page 123

2. Open the book to page 123 and find the 5th sentence. "Dad?" Jolene cut into his musings.

3. Post the next 3 sentences.
"What?"
You're standing up but you're not going anywhere."
"I am?" He hadn't been aware that he was on his feet until Jolene pointed it out.

Well, there ya go.  It is a little more interesting than the 2008 Accord Owner' s Manual that was a little closer to hand.
If anyone in blogland has not done this, you are tagged. :)