Thanksgiving!

I totally forgot to bring my camera... but don't worry, Harland's mom always makes sure someone is taking pictures.

Here is a picture of the people who sat at the kids table. I think the youngest is Teresa (23) and the oldest might be me (29). Anyway you look at it - it's a pretty old average for a kids table.

In the back row (left to right) is Eric, Hubby, Eric, Kyle, Jed(?) in the front (left to right) Teresa, Me, Serena, Eugenia, and CoGene.

So that is that. They're all good people.

Well gotta run to eat dinner.

I have been knitting, I swear

Okay so I have not posted in forever, but it isn't because I haven't been knitting.
Here are some of my recently finished objects!! They are all Holiday presents and it is taking me all my energy not to tell you who each one belongs to, but I am trying to actually keep a surprise or two this season.

Here is a hat, It is really navy blue but you know how it is when there is a flash.
It kinda looks like the ribbing is messed up at the top, but that was just me not lying it flat before shooting the photo.

Here is a picture of a scarf. I folded it, in case you are wondering. It's knit in bias, so it looks pretty cool and diagionally when unfolded.

Here are my pride and joy - mittens. They took a long time and the thumbs were intimidating but I finally finished them yesterday. The top one is folded back (it is not really pointy). They do not entirely match up (stupid self striping yarn not being the same length each time) but they are pretty close. I can hardly wait for Christmas to be over to make myself a pair.


And I finished a quilt wall hanging that I started in Auburn when I took quilting lessons.

Honey, did this shrink?

So one little fact you may or may not already know about Harland and I - is that Harland does most of the laundry. I don't know where my hatred of doing laundry began, but it is pretty present in my heart. So Harland throws the laundry in the washer and the dryer and then I come out of the woodwork to fold. Every once and a while I wish I was the one who did the laundry.

This is one of those cases.

So I have completed ONE pair of hand knit socks. I have one sock for Susan that is lonely for a partner, I have another sock that was started and abandoned because I messed it up and do not have the heart to unravel it. So I have, or um, had one pair of orange socks.

Then I hear these words "Honey, did this shrink?" as my delightful husband was holding up an bright orange piece of wool...


Yes, Harland that shrunk. He is now the wiser that I did not knit socks out of cotton as he for whatever reason thought (even though he does indeed remember me hand washing my socks in the sink a few weeks ago). So rest in peace my dear socks.

Also, I made homemade pretzels from Rebecca's recipe that her parents used to make them for use from. YUM!!


Also - we have two great new plants. The little one's name is Silverstar and the other one's name is Salazaar. When I have time and energy I'll explain why - but it is almost bed time.

Two things...

number 1 - go out and vote tomorrow, do it!!

number 2 - Sometimes I like public transit for what you overhear, today there were kids on my commute home (why anyone would want to take kids traveling around DC at RUSH HOUR is beyond me) but when we got to Ballston station the one girl said to her Mom "Boston, you mean we're all the way in Massachusetts?"

too cute.

Much better when I was on a bus in Camp Casey when a soldier said "Yeah I like to lick my wife's eyeball (yes, he said eyeball) when I'm (beep)ing her, although you can't do it too many times or they'll try and divorce you." (I would hope so!!)

Yeah, kids are a lot cuter than drunk infantry GIs. Most of the time.