Just add a week and a day or so to whenever I told you I would be back.

Shawl

Ok, first off, this is for Lee Ann. I still have not quite finished the fringe, but it is so close. What happened is that (1) this type of fringe is a third of the knitting, and the yarn, all on it's own. So finishing the second skein of yarn, I felt like I was almost there. Not quite. (2) is that I hardly ever seem to knit at home anymore - I have become an on-the-go knitter, particularly while working graveyard, so once a project becomes a little to bulky to carry around effficiently it gets left home and I take something easier to fit in my backpack. I could finish this tonight still. Hubby is out of town, and I don't have to be at work early (in fact, I work graveyard tomorrow so it's in my best interest to stay up late and sleep in so that I can adjust my internal clocks). Maybe I will. Here we are the last time I took a picture, anyway:

Ok, it's a lot farther than that. There is just a little bit of the tip left to do. I like this fringe, even though it is more time-consuming than the regular cut-yarn fringe. It won't ravel or get ratty, since it is actually knitted (cast on 5, bind off 6, until all the stitches are bound off - or change the numbers to make longer or shorter fringe so long as you cast off one more than you bind off, or 2 more if you want more space in between - you get the idea. or you can cast on this way - cast on one more than you bind off.)

More Portable Knitting

I've been into socks. Not just any old socks. The have to have character.

Those, as you can see, are done, and the next pair are wild too. The yarn is wild random colors - white, red, green, blue, pink. One sock is done and I'm half way between the heel placement and starting to shape the toe. Trying out a peasant heel this time just because I haven't before. I don't know why - waste-yarn was a scary concept - but it's really not bad at all. Sorry, I haven't got a picture yet.

Way Overdue

Arwen is a LaGora baby. La Mancha x Angora, that is. Elf ears, wattles, and white fluffy hair. Isn't she just adorable? She was born just a day or two after Jitterbug's triplets, and she is much bigger now.

And I don't seem to have a current picture. Sorry about that - I'll get there.

Mountains and Trees and Stuff

Cedar City has some pretty cool views nearby. I don't think that I've lived this close to Joshua trees since I was born (at Edwards AFB, California). These are along the highway between here and St. George. Cedar City isn't warm enough, but if you go down to the lower elevations to the South, it is there.

I never knew that they were this green in the Spring. I think they are the weirdest trees! The canyons and mountains are beautiful too.

That's in Kolob Canyon. Wanna see more? Kolob Canyon 1

Kolob Canyon 2 Kolob Canyon 3 Kolob Canyon 4

As usual, I feel bad about not updating in so long. Sometime this week - (was it Tuesday?) - I uploaded my camera and edited a bunch of pictures, which I have not uploaded to my server yet. That takes all of 5 minutes, so I ought to just do it. Maybe tomorrow, ok? I have tomorrow off. I don't know what happens to my weeks. Well, right now I'm just coming off of the intense part of the week. I had 6 hours off out of the last 24, at the time when I got off tonight. Usually it's Thursdays that are like that, but this week Saturday was too. And there was extra stuff going on Friday. It was all great, and I was glad I was there, but I look forward to days that might have enough free time that maybe I could get a nap. One of the girls asked me this morning when I sleep, and I said, "Sleep, what's that?" The strange thing is I'm not really tired now though.

I've been knitting, and I've been taking pictures, and I have plenty of material. I'll get to it. Eventually. Maybe even tomorrow (I've learned not to promise though because you wouldn't believe me anyway, with reason). But soon. In the mean time, do you need the inside of your screen cleaned? Click here for screencleaner. I thought it was cute.

Well, I could at least share one of the last bunch of pics that I uploaded, since I'm here.

See what I put up with? Our buck would not respect the fences no matter what we did. He's found a new home now. The rest of them stay in without Scout to lead them out all the time.

I also changed my Aortal link, finally, and added a new link. I checked on my site, and saw one of my recent referring site was "Who links to me - for the ultimate narcissist in you." I thought that was interesting, so I clicked on it to check it out, and it lists the various sites on the web that link to mine. There are a few more than I thought. So I had to add the link (sidebar along with the others) just for kicks. I'm impressed with someone's programming skills as much as anything. I guess all it really does is show the various search engines results that pull up my site - but it's cool.