Jose Cuervo

What's a girl to do?

I am minding my own business, mowing the lawn and edging the front beds, when my neighbor Julie shows up with Jose Cuervo and marguarita mix. We got the blender a whirling, and now I am sitting here unable to knit. I'm a good friend..... Yes???

some knitting finally...

finally finished these socks while traveling to Arkansas and sitting in classes during the conference.

Making some good progress on the Central Park Hoodie. I don't plan on making the hood part, as I'm just not a hood kind of gal. My daughter makes a great model doesn't she? I'm using Vermont Rambouille that I learned about from Norma. (my first link! I did it!) It is wonderfully soft and beautiful yarn. I hate scratchy wool.

I'm saving eggs and cucumbers as Norma and I plan to meet up in Burlington next week when I drop my daughter off at college. I feel like I will be meeting a celebrity! What can I say, I lead a sheltered life.

What a fabulous day! The first time I have been in my pool all summer for a bit of floating. I hit the garden first thing this am before it got too hot, and picked and picked and picked. I have been gone to R-Kansas for a few days, so the cucumbers and beans were waiting for me. I picked 20 cukes, and a bucket of beans. Luckily, my neighbors enjoyed the harvest as much as I did. For dinner tonight, we had green beans, potatoes grilled with green pepper and garlic and of course cucumbers. ALL from my garden. I love that! I then hit the woods and picked 8 cups of blackberries and made a marvelous blackberry cobbler for dessert. Hot from the oven with vanilla ice cream. Yummy.

My SIL is in port for a few days, and is able to call my daughter and talk to her. She misses him terribly, and is always happy to be able to be in contact with him. Our men in the military sacrifice so much. Being on a submarine is tough. No phone calls, mail etc. Anthony is such a great guy!

R-Kansas

Well, here I am in R-Kansas. I have to say this is not my favorite place that I have ever visited. There is NOTHING to do here and I mean nothing. Some of the girls went to Wal-Mart yesterday. Wal-Mart!!

Susan and I have been having a ball practicing our southern accents. She is hysterically funny and was the hit at dinner tonight. Dinner was at The Whole Hog, which has won several awards for their BBQ. I have to say it was pretty good, although the choice for wine, Ernest Gallo in small individual bottles was not impressive. And I am not a wine snob, but come on.

The hotel has a free shuttle to the convention center, unfortunately, it is never available and you can't reserve it.

I did see 2 old friends from San Diego that I haven't seen since 1988. My first boss in LTC. That was fun.

I attended 2 good classes and 2 bad ones, so I got to finish a pair of socks that I had been working on for a few months. Luckily, I brought some more sock yarn so will start another pair tonight to work on if I get another dud tomorrow.

All in all, I can't recommend Arkansas for a travel destination. Not at all.