The week in review....

So far this week has been a disaster. Follow along -

About 12:30 - 1:00 Sunday night/Monday morning I hear a weird noise outside. Figuring it's a poorly maintained car I don't think too much about it. After about 5 minutes I look out to see what it is. The water main outside has broken. Again. In the same spot as three years ago. Because my entry is below ground level, guess where the water is going. Did you get it in one? DS and I started moving things out immediately. Then we started bailing, and the neighbors started bailing. At the highest I had eight inches of water and mud. We were fortunate to only lose things that for the most part we had planned to send to Goodwill. DS did lose a tote of kids books and VHS tapes but we're inventorying and I'm sure eventually we can replace them. The bad part here is that my utility room is also on that level. Including the furnace, water heater, freezer, washer and dryer. Water heater and freezer seem to be working. Furnace probably needs a new circuit board. Washer and dryer - I haven't gone there yet.....

So we worked from 1am through to 9pm on Monday. While I was waiting for them to repair the main I sat down to eat a granola bar. Bit into a cherry pit that had been kindly left by the manufacturer and broke off a tooth.

Tuesday I thought all was going well. Things seemed to be drying well and I went to shut the garage door. The cable from the door opener broke and the pulley bashed me in the nose. Fortunately I don't think it's broken.

Today. Today also a treat. It rained in Detroit. And I mean RAINED. The drain in front of the garage is still apparently blocked because it backed up into my garage again. SEVERAL frantic phone calls later the township sent a truck to suck it out again. And the dentist - yeah, let's just leave it at I'll be spending some quality time there for the next few months.....

Hope everyone else is doing better.......

Summer of Socks

Bad blogger. Bad joiner. Lately I am just bad, bad, bad.

Case in point - Anni's May Day socks. Loved the pattern once I found yarn I didn't hate. Sock one is in toe decreases. Still no hope of a sock 2.

Anni's River Valley June socks. I just cast them on tonight. Now - Fate must be on my side with this one. I just cast it on. See the title of this post - Summer of Socks. Summer of socks kicked off on June 21.....YAHOO! I may be able to kill 2 birds with this one pair of socks. Assuming I can finish them.

I am hoping that with DS out of school and my bedroom nearing completion (yes, the painting and re-organization that started Easter weekend is almost done). I have however along with the re-org decided that I need to purchase no more fiber. Major fiber diet. I have an appalling number of UFO's and fiber for more projects than I may ever finish. And we won't discuss the amount of sock yarn that includes.

Hi everyone, my name is Barb and I'm officially a fiber junkie......and obviously unable to finish anything.

Hope everyone is having a good end to their weekend and have a great week!

Bad Blogger....

I am SUCH a bad blogger. I was so excited to get this set up and I cannot seem to find the 15 minutes (yes, 15 really not that much time) to keep anyone who may be reading this up to date. So here we go -

School is out. I cannot explain my joy. What does this mean? DS will no longer have those last minute requests. This year those requests have included - bake me a cake for German class, what can you make for our party in English class, I need for , tennis practice/banquet/matches - and so on. We're really just down to fencing and hopefully him getting a job.

Job - I have one. Good news as it allows me to buy yarn and pay the bills so I have some where to keep it.

Yeah. That's really the news. Not much.

The brighter side - The next Socks that Rock club package is on it's way. Summer of Socks starts on Tuesday. The June sock pattern from Anni is lovely.

Then there's Threadbear. A lovely yarn shop in Lansing MI. It is fantastic. Not that I don't love Heritage Spinning and Weaving (my "home" shop) but Threadbear is a lovely, lovely shop. We have planned a trip to the fiber tasting they have scheduled for July 28. It sounds like a lot of fun. This shop just has a bunch of fun things that they sponsor.

Vacation plans - none really. We'll be making a trip to Erie PA to view Penn State Erie in the next couple of weeks....now Erie PA is 8 hours from Manchester, NH and the same weekend is the Knit and Crochet show. I want to go. It is calling me. Will I go? Really need to make that decision so I can make reservations somewhere......