It's been a while, I know, and I really hate that I haven't really had much to blog about, but as usual my education is getting in the way of my craft. I haven't really been knitting as much as I would like, but what I have been working on is pretty freakin' cool! I've been knitting the
Sleepy Monkey blanket, as the last post said, but I'm *almost* done. I'm working on the border (side one is done, I'm working on side two before the join) and it's coming out so sweet! I've also decided to join the
Tour de Fleece! I'm down to one summer class, as I've finished two of the three already, and the one that is left is not that demanding so I should have the time to spin, take pictures of the progress, and blog about it. It'll be my first year doing this spin-a-long so I'm a bit psyched about it. I've got some awesomely soft, fluffy, and just overall yummy alpaca fiber that I need to spin up, on top of all the roving I have from the roving club I was a part of and haven't been able to catch up, so I thought this would be a good way to catch up with it all.
On top of school, there has been other things going on. My house was hit by lightening, which blew up my laptop. This means, of course, that I had to buy a new laptop, so I totally upgraded, got a 17" HP that does
everything I could ever think of! It's a fabulous machine, and looks so pretty too.
That was me and it at work while I was working and getting everything I needed installed on it, since installing things is loads of waiting anyways, I figured I could load and work. Isn't it pretty!? I love it! It's shiny, and the HP symbol on the back of it lights up like a Mac (didn't get a picture of it but will do so). So, for the millions of questions I've gotten, we rent the house, it's not ours, therefore insurance doesn't cover because we don't have renters insurance, and in truth, if we did have renters insurance, I could have purchased about 300 of these laptops for what I would pay monthly for the off chance that something like this happens. What I am going to do is part off the parts of the old laptop that does work on eBay to make up for the purchase of the new laptop.
I wanted to save the best for last. Get ready for über cuteness. We found a tiny, itty, bitty kitten in our backyard. She was so tiny she fit in the palm of my hand. She's a little bigger now, but still über, über cute. We first thought it was a boy, so I was all for naming her Ernest Hemingway. I have a reason for this. She was found in the wheel well of the boat, and she's a tuxedo cat with a mostly black face and white whiskers, so she looked like an old man. I thought old man, boat.....Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway! But then we found out that she was a girl, and the man vetoed Ernest Hemingway and named her Socks. So here she is! This picture is from when we first brought her in...
Cocoa and Onyx were super weirded out at first, but now they're dealing. Cocoa and her are actually becoming fairly good friends. They spend the day together, playing together. I get home and they're both waiting by the door for me. I open the bedroom door in the morning and they both run in together, and then I caught them doing this one day,
This was a clear indication that they were becoming friends, because before Cocoa wanted nothing to do with Socks. Nothing. Socks would walk by and she was snarl and swat at her, but now they wrestle and play.
Once Tour de Fleece starts, I should be blogging on a more regular basis, and I'm going to try and start blogging a little more regularly anyways, so stay tuned!
