Weekends Weekdays

    Knitting in Public! Check out her sexy glasses combo (she pointed them out). Darn I didn't go back and see if she was on Ravelry, I was standing in a VERY long line for tickets and getting texted to hurry up and come claim my seat. The ferry was PACKED Saturday before last. I was hoping SF would be deserted due to Bay Bridge being closed but oddly enough, no. It was fun wandering the Ferry Building and the Farmer's Market but it was warmer than I expected. I go to the City for the cold. Well. Among other things.

The rest of the weekend was spent in a haze of knitting and reading. I'm reading Anthony Levi's Cardinal Richelieu: The Making of France and jeepers creepers, he never ran across a name he couldn't mention. Not to mention that France was worse than England when it comes to name changes. Cardinal Richelieu started out as Armand Jean du Plessis. Not a startling name change but it just struck me as.....well, I'd never thought of him having any name other than "Cardinal Richelieu". I'm deep like that.  He was named after his two grandfathers.

The knitting haze was almost finishing the sleeves on Dad's cardigan. Behold! Evidence of how two needles become one and an unknittable moebius strip at that. It's not like I did that once or twice either. Staggering regularity.  (It's hidden a bit by the yarn crossing.) That's the sleeve to Dad's cardigan, it's more baby blue IRL and the wonky brocade stitch will block out.

After a week of 90-100+ weather, it cooled down and RAINED over last weekend. YES! Mom and I went to a dollhouse show sponsored by CHAMPS benefiting Children's Hospital of Oakland (where I had several surgeries as a kid) - the dollhouse show was so much fun. It was like knitters with minatures. Vendors, exhibitors, all immersed in their craft and happy to point out details or explain. And I managed to take ONE picture. Argh. But she's knitting! And he's reading!

I have to go to Monterey for a tax class this week. Don't you feel sorry for me?

  Hez, hopping onto the bench covered by the progress to date on the  Curve of Pursuit. The optical illusion bit threw her off at first but now she's leaping with abandon. Oh! And Purling Oaks sent her catnip in plastic bags that I've rubbed on toys but you know what she does? Roots out the plastic bag and starts playing with it! It's hilarious.

Hez sez "I can't stand to even look at you. You're not done with anyone else's project and you're casting on TWO projects for yourself, you selfish chit."

 

Comments

[Cookie]

Yes, but did you try the bacon maple coffee?

I love that kitty butt.

xo

[Stacey]

Yes, do tell about the coffee. :D I see Hez hair on the blanket! :D

[Monika]

Yeah, I feel sorry for you! When you are done with your dad's cardigan, would you like to finish mine?

[Elspeth]

Poor, poor you. Yes, taxes are boring, but Monterey is beautiful!

[Julia]

My, Hez is opinionated about your knitting! Have a fab time in Monterey, and make sure to take some extra time to relax and have fun there in addition to learning everything there is to know about keeping us all out of tax trouble!

[Sonya]

Well, at least it's Monterey. Can you knit during the classes?

Do the doll collectors have stars like knitters do? Is there a Barbara Walker of doll collecting?

[Angie]

Oh, what a horrible place for a tax class? ;)

Funny Hez!

Yeah, what about my sweater? Heh!

[Bookfool, aka Nancy]

Hez needs her mouth washed out with soap, but I know you're far too nice to do that.

Great cat butt photo. My sister has some Du Plessis inlaws, althought I'm not sure the name is spelled the same way.

[kmkat]

We should search out a tax class in, say, Denver (half-way between us), and plan to take it together. Not that I could justify flying to Denver for a tax class, but still -- wouldn't it be fun?

[Gale]

Bacon maple coffee? I want some.

[knitnana]

She's knitting and he's reading! HA!
Love.It.
and Hez's backsides...
Have fun in class...
(((hugs)))

[puttermeister]

I can't tell whether your response to the Richelieu book is a positive or not. Let me know when you've overcome your ambivalence.

; )

Ah, SF. I go there for the cold, too. It's almost always sweater and scarf weather there (sigh).

[Miss T]

Tax class? I'm so jealous. :o)

[deb]

Monteray + Tax Class = not fair!!

[Brigitte]

Ah, lucky you...tax class! So...in the accounting world, is that a good thing? But Monterey! Maybe you can knit in class?!

So, what are these projects you've started...?!!

[opal]

even though you only took the one picture, that one picture is a gem!

[Jocelyn]

I never thought of him as anything but Cardinal Richelieu, either, if it makes you feel any better. Also, a tax class? That doesn't sound nearly as cool as "a weekend in Monterey" :)

[Birdsong]

Monterey should be perfect right about now! Have a great time... I love the photo of the knitter and the one of the bay.

[Chris]

Hmm. Tax class. How lucky are you? ;)

[Lorraine]

Carrie- Tax class. Can you stand the excitement?

[mary lou]

Do you suppose he is a forbearer of Francine
DuPlessix Grey? I figured his last name was Richelieu. It made it easier for the 3 musketeers to say it on every page that way...

[CarolyninAlaska]

Monterey sounds like fun, but not the tax class.
Rain in September... now that's unusual!

[Rachel]

Is it too much to wish you had 'fun' in Monterey? I had the chance to go there this week for a conference but didn't want to do another 14 hour drive! Tell Hez she doesn't know what she's talking about...it's okay to be selfish in knitting. What did you cast on by the way?