It was a glorious success.
We stayed in a little (4 bedroom) cottage in Southwestern Michigan. This is the view of the woods from the dining room. The view from the other rooms looks basically the same. And yet we are only a short walk down a private road to a lovely private beach on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan.
This has been a very wet summer we can remember in the 15 years we've been staying here, and almost all of the woodlands around us are back-dune wetlands at the present time. The mosquitoes are worse they have ever been. And water seems to have gotten into the phone lines, giving all communication and very loud crackle and preventing even the most rudimentary (i.e. dial up) internet connection.
This was difficult for me. I discovered that a laundromat in town (5 miles) offered free wifi. You could see me at odd hours, parked outside the laundromat, checking my e-mail on my laptop. That presented its own problems, since apparently my laptop battery only holds 10 minutes worth of power now. As Roseanne Roseannadana would say, "If it isn't one thing, it's another."
I'M IN! I'M IN! I'M IN!
Just call me LaceWeightGuy.
My Ravelry invitation came in the mail whilst I was away. Thank Bob! I thought it would never arrive. But it has, and it is absolutely everything I had hoped. And almost none of the things I had feared! I've already identified several lovely projects I can't wait to start!
If you are already in Ravelry, will you be my friend?
Has anyone knit the Kiri shawl? I can't, for the life of me, understand the cast on and setup instructions. I'd be much obliged.
NOW I DUCK OUT AGAIN.
I am cooking the food for the bat mitzvah of a dear friend/neighbor next Saturday. They are expecting 200 people, and I'm not exactly what you would call prepared. Oh, and I forgot to get help, and most of the people who assist with prep are out of town. So I probably won't have time to blog/knit/read/sleep or do anything else until after the bat mitzvah. And then, after a day of solid sleeping, I expect to be back to normal.
3 comments:
The vacation sounds great even with the mosquitos!
If you're still stuck on the Kiri set up, there is a KAL here http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0geu6wCk95GgDcBty9XNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTE5MDJqZ2o4BHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMgRjb2xvA2FjMgR2dGlkA0Y4MjRfMTExBGwDV1Mx/SIG=11uri9kcg/EXP=1189078146/**http%3a//groups.yahoo.com/group/Kirishawlkal
Sorry but I don't know how to shorten links yet (techno numpty)
or have you seen the pattern for the Birch Shawl by Sharon Miller which was in a Rowan Mag, the same leaf design but knitted downwards from a massive cast on, one of my fav shawls, once you get past the first ball, the rest just whizzes away as you decrease down.
Hey, where in SW Michigan? I grew up in Holland but my mom now lives in the much better Glenn (a few miles north of South Haven). We spent August there. I thought the mosquitos weren't as bad as usual this year, actually...
And welcome to ravelry!!!! It is the Black Hole of Lost Time, but I love it. Just friended you!
We were in Sawyer, on the lake side. Near the blueberry patch, if you know the area.
And the nasty little blood sucking vampires were thick as curtains by us!
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