Saturday Sky #7

May 3, 2008

Saturday Sky #7

Saturday Sky~Southern California 5/3/08

It's a beautiful morning here. The skies are blue with just a few wispy clouds here and there. The heat will be mild today, maybe in the 70's.

We have lots to do around the house today, I have some laundry to do. I need to soak and block a scarf and pair of socks and block them. I'm getting ready to finish my clapotis and then I'll need to block that too. And I'm also working on a crochet skirt that I was asked to make. I haven't crocheted in awhile, so it's kind of interesting. I'm enjoying this project so far. It's crocheted squares that I will piece together. Should be cute.

We plan to take my brother to the Farmers Market today and we also may go to the movies. Busy, busy!

Saturday Sky #6

April 19, 2008

Saturday Sky #6

The skies are grey and cloudy today. I still think it's beautiful. We may get some rain today. We're having a dinner party so that is OK, we can stay inside and visit, that isn't a problem. Have a lot of preparation we need to do, but this time I'll try to take pictures of the food. Our last dinner party I just didn't think of taking pics of the food. Here's our dinner menu.

Martini Bar
Bleu Cheese Dip and Crudites
Caprese Salad
Beef Wellingtons with Demiglace
Mashed Potatoes
Roasted Asparagus with Parmesan
Homemade Yeast Dinner Rolls
Coconut Cheesecake

My cousin was in surgery just over 7 hours but the good news is, no cancer!! Woohoo!! I'm going to go see her tomorrow.

Have a great weekend!

Saturday Sky #5, etc.

April 12, 2008

Saturday Sky #5, etc.

Isn't it beautiful today in Southern California! Clear blue skies. And it's going to be a hot one too. We may hit 90 degrees today.


Mamacita asked me to cut this beautiful bloom. It's long stemmed and she calls the rose Brandy. It is glorious and now it will be admired in our kitchen window.
And here is the pic of the Peace rose previously posted in bud, by the next day it had opened up to this. I love the colors.

Saturday Sky #4

April 5, 2008

Saturday Sky #4

Um, notice how lately my pics have that weird color stripe on the top? Mamacita accidentally dropped the digital camera. Perhaps we will have to get it looked at. This Saturday Sky is a cloudy one again. We've had some clouds and light rain this week, but the clouds this morning are surprising. I think it'll clear. I hope so because my friend is having a yard sale today and I'd hate for her to get rained on.

I woke up at 4:30 this a.m. because of someones snoring.... and then I got up and had a coughing fit and I guess I woke my Auntie. And I'm quite disappointed that I'm on day 7 since feeling the sore throat and I'm still this sick.

My Auntie doesn't want to go to dinner tonight, which I'm not disappointed with because of how I feel. So we're ordering our favorite pizza tonight.

I hope my 3rd skein of Malabrigo comes today because I'm almost done knitting the 2nd skein on my Clapotis.

Enjoy your Saturday!

Saturday Sky #3

March 29, 2008

Saturday Sky #3

It's overcast today and it feels like rain which I love! I hear we may get a real storm tonight. I have an Aunt visiting from MN, so I'd like the weather to be nice for her. She probably likes it because it's still warm.



We've had a tragedy hit our neighborhood, a neighbor lost their grandson last week. He was hit by a car while on a skateboard, it was late at night. 12:45 a.m. The 14 year old boy's Father is someone I'm close to. We're close to that whole side of the family. Anyway, the hit and run driver turned himself in after 5 days. I think he may have been drunk but I guess that would be hard to prove now. I hope his parents are ashamed at his behavior and what they raised. He should have stayed and dealt with the consequences, drunk or not. The driver is 24 years old, has had trouble with the law and many driving offenses. And now he's impacted many family members, for the rest of their lives and ruined his own life. He's a felon now. And I hope there is worldly justice for him.

I'll get off my soapbox, it's just upsetting to me how a large part of society has this attitude that they don't have to take personal responsibility. Oh, don't get me started...

I wanted to mention that I haven't had a headache in about 4, maybe 5 days now! I love Zyrtec, the OTC for allergies. It's really helped me.

Saturday Sky #2

March 22, 2008

Saturday Sky #2

Saturday Sky
It's another beautiful sunny day in So. CA! I was a little surprised the beautiful blue came thru in the pic because it's a little overcast this a.m. Some would say it's hazy I guess. And it's suppose to be hot today, we may hit 80 today and expected to hit 90 tomorrow on Easter Sunday!

I don't know what's wrong with me, but I ended up with a duplicate issue of Knitscene, so I am offering this issue to one of you. I'll be happy to send it to you. I was thinking of making you work for it, but I don't like that. I was thinking of asking you to tell me what you'd like to see on this blog, what would entice people to not just pass by but post a comment and say hello. So do that if you like, because I'd like to know,but really, anyone who emails me that they'd like the issue, I'll send it to the 7th person who emails me. Why the 7th? Because I like the number 7.
I received a special package in the mail yesterday! All the way from the Netherlands. It's my La Digitessa sock kit from Yarnissima! I came home half day yesterday with a horrible migraine so when the mail came and my kit was there, well it made me feel a little better. It was so exciting to open it! Marjan does such a nice job of making her kits special. She sent some candy and packaged the pattern separately. And the yarn....oh my Lord! It is so gorgeous! See! It was hard for me to get an accurate pic of the color. I heard it described as dark cherries. My skein in cherries to deep black cherries, you know that gorgeous burgundy color, or wine. The colors are all descriptive with food of course! This is a very special Wollmeise yarn that was hand dyed especially for this kit, and so we all got a slightly different version, but I'm thrilled with my yarn. I cannot wait to cast on. I am trying to finish my current socks before I start this lovely pattern because it's quite involved. It doesn't look difficult so much as just involved.

Oh, before I forget, I wanted to let my Pay It Forward ladies, Molly, Penelope Anne and Jeannine know that I have not forgot you!! No, no, I will try to not make it to the end of my commitment and wait until 365 days, but I will get a package off to you. Just wanted to let you know I didn't forget you!

Happy Easter to all of you!

Saturday Sky #1

March 15, 2008

Saturday Sky #1

This is my first time joining in for the Saturday Sky Meme. But I think today's sky is just glorious. It's one of those days that if I was a child or if I didn't care if the neighbors thought I was loony, I'd go lay out a blanket on the front lawn and just watch the sky. And then I'd find different shapes and figures constantly changing in the clouds. So here you go ~ Enjoy!