Finito!

 I have finished the cute top and have mailed it off to Florida.  Huzzah!

What Marjorie doesn't know is that I put a new green skirt like the one she made in the package also.  I am looking forward to her reaction! (hopefully she's excited about it...)

Now that the top is done, I can move on to completing the socks for Smallest that I started a while ago.  I should probably also work on some other things that are waiting, but the socks are great for carrying around.

Other things I know... Smallest has an African Violet army at her apartment and when she went back to Florida at the end of she summer, she left a bunch of baby plants that she had grown from cuttings.  I have now repotted them and they are living in my office at work because we don't have good window space at our house.  Hopefully I won't kill them.  I tend to have a brown or black thumb when it comes to plants.

We are heading to see Lauren in California this weekend.  She has an internship at Cake Bread Cellars learning about the wine business this fall.  Jeff's birthday is coming up, and I know he likes to see his girls, so this seemed like a great opportunity!  I've never been to the Napa area, so it will be fun.

I'm still doing PT for my ankle.  It is getting better, but this week's session was not enjoyable.  I'm hoping that next week will be an improvement.  There was needling this week, it was not what I was expecting.

That's about what I know.  I'll post a sock progress shot after the trip.  Lots of knitting on planes and in cars!

Margie

Moisture from the sky!

We had the most exciting thing happen yesterday, it was brief, but so satisfying.  It rained!  It's been a while.  Houston has started regulating when you can water, so we can water our crispy grass on Thursday evenings and Sunday evenings.  

Several years ago, we had the hose running in the back yard to do something and we asked The Boy to turn it off on his way to his room, which is by the door to the yard.  He did so, but then we discovered the next day that he had actually turned it all the way on instead of off and it flooded our neighbor's yard.  Oops.  It was a sad yard, so no harm was done (except to our water bill).  Well, on Sunday night, we had watered the yard and Jeff went to turn off the sprinkler before going to bed.  On Monday morning, I went to put some sourdough outside to proof and noticed the sprinkler was still running!  This time Jeff is the one who turned it all the way on instead of off.  Alas.  The grass looks happy though.

I had a good weekend of project-ing.  I have almost finished a two skirts for Smallest.  I mentioned these in the previous post.  I finished the one she bought the fabric for - and I made it reversible!  I need to get elastic for the waist, but it's otherwise done.  I am very pleased with it.  I made a video to show her, I'll see if I can post it. (and I did fix that pinch on the waist)

I've almost finished the remake of the first skirt as well.  That fabric is a pain to work with, so I'm please it's gone as well as it has.  I just need to finish the hem and put in the elastic.  So close!  I'm hoping to get the elastic today, but it might be tomorrow.

The top is coming together also.  I need to do an I-cord around the edges, but it's otherwise good.  I found a mistake in a bad place (messed up buttonhole 3 of 4) and while I fixed it, it's not perfect.  I would have to undo all the straps to really fix it perfectly.  Alas.

Other than that, I don't know much else.  We're going to see Lauren in a couple of weeks.  We went to a place called Puttshack with The Boy on Labor Day and had a good time.  

I'm trying to keep up with the Vuelta bike race, I'll have to see how much we can see on Peacock.  Exciting to have someone from CO in the lead!

Here is Ginny as a Purrito, just for fun.

Margie