Summer Has Arrived

With temps in the 90's, it feels like summer! The dogs are exhausted and bark at yard intruders from a laying down position rather than jumping to their feet as usual.

Saturday, Jeff and I attended the wedding of a couple of his co-workers. It was really lovely, with the vows exchanged at a park on the ocean. The 'chapel' there is outdoors, just the seating and an alter suggesting the layout of a chapel and an arbor for the bride to start her walk down the aisle. It was very sunny, but there was shade for some relief too. I snapped this picture as Jeff and walked across some of the open parkland to the ceremony.

The reception was at a local country club, also on the water. The theme of the wedding was 'seaside' with the colors being blue and white and lots of shells on the tables and even on the wedding cake. The cake and table was even sprinkled with brown sugar a little to resemble sand. Very pretty! I only took a couple of pics, but this one came out ok of the happy couple.

Jeff and I danced a little, something we don't do that often and he only stepped on my toes once ;)

Today, Sunday, is even hotter, so I'm planning to sit somewhere cool and knit and do the chores later when the sun goes down a bit.

Weigela In Full Bloom

I think Saffy likes these blooms as much as I do. She sniffs them each year and sits under the flower heavy branches.

This is the pale pink one. It's taller than me, perhaps 7 feet high.

The others are two tone, dark and light pink.

Just camera phone pics, I'm afraid, but you can still get a sense of the splendor!

FO: Branching Out Scarf

I finished knitting the Branching Out scarf tonight. It still needs blocking though. It's about 74 inches long, but will get a little wider and shorter from the blocking. The color of the yarn is just impossible to photograph accurately. Here it is with a pair of new shoes. I think it looks nice in person and photographs aren't doing it any justice, though it's probably best to stick to one color yarn for this pattern if you can.

Jeff and I went shopping for shoes at Rockport today armed with a 50% off total purchase coupon. Woohoo!! I got two pairs and really like the rattan heels on the sandals.

Jeff got four(!) pairs and is tempted to go back for one more!

They had a lot of nice styles.



These are so Newport.

It's been a real week of shopping. We also stopped at Brooks Brothers today for Jeff to get some new stuff to wear to an outdoor wedding this weekend. I went to Ann Taylor Loft earlier in the week and a few other shops and did pretty well. I actually bought summer knitted tops. Shouldn't I really make them myself? I have issues with the yarn and the construction of them, but still bought them. I know I could make something better, but it takes me so long! Sometimes it's nice to just have something to wear right away.

FO: Rose's Wrist Warmers

You can tell how much I like the wrist warmers in this scene...

...as I've already finished up a pair of my own!


Yarn and needles details are on Ravelry.

I did the same increase stitches for both thumbs, so they are not exactly mirrored, but I wasn't sure how to do the left one differently and it hardly matters anyway! Though, I think I will try to look it up sometime.

Now, I have to wait for cool weather to be able to wear them.

I really want to see season 4, but I will have to wait for the DVDs. I still have some extras to watch on the Dr. Who 1-3 DVDs. Jeff and I have started watching MI-5 as well! Wow! It's intense and very good!

Rose's Wrist Warmers

Thanks for all the nice wishes on our anniversary! Jeff and I had a dinner out and then stopped at the bookstore for a treat, the Dr. Who season 1 boxed set, the 2005 one. We've both been wanting to see it for ages and loved it! I'm a little embarrassed to say how many episodes I've seen already, but we watched all of season 1 and had to go get season 2 late on Sunday. We needed to get season 3 on Wednesday...

I am so hooked! How will I wait for season 4 on DVD??? And I've read online that season 5 won't be filmed until 2010???

(I have had a cold this week, so I've been watching more TV than I would ordinarily have time for...but even if I was healthy I'm pretty sure I'd watch them back to back.)

There are some knits in the series and I loved Rose's wrist warmers shown here in a BBC pic.

I grabbed some yarn from the stash and started planning out a pattern using cable directions in one of the Walker books I have. Well, then it occurred to me someone else must have already done this! Yes, there is a pattern.

As you can see, I skipped the ribbing and changed one set of cables on the right to aim away from the central motif. I started with size 7 needles for the first diamond, changed to size 6 for the next two diamonds and changed to size 5 for the rest. This tapered the warmer to fit my arm nicely and is a good fit on my palm. When I finish the second one, I'll be sure to take a pic that shows the thumb better as that came out well too.

One's done and I'm anxious to get started on the mate for it! Unfortunately I can't knit at the same time as watching the episodes as I don't want to be distracted from the show!!

10 Years!

Jeff and I eloped 10 years ago today and married at Sand Beach in Acadia National Park, Maine. Here are some snaps from the big day, collaged together for you to see.

Random Weekend Pics

At one point on Saturday, I looked out the window and saw turkeys in the neighbors yard!

They were not very wary of me taking pics and slowly strolled across the lawn.

Bandit always loves to be brushed, but especially this time of year when he's shedding a bit more.

He even likes his tummy brushed.

We got a new collar for Silas and I think the green looks nice on him.

The dogs also got a new rope toy which Saffy wanted me to stand on so she could tug on it.

She still kept an eye on Jeff. He had a crinkly bag that she hoped held dog cookies, but was actually just some grass seed for the area that used to be under the brush pile we burned.

The apple trees are in bloom and the scent is lovely.

It was good to relax and enjoy the flowers and pets over the weekend. I didn't get much knitting done, only a bit more work done on the Noni flowers.

Sunday, I did get a couple of new knitting mags including the summer Interweave Knits and Verena, which is new here.