This is going to be a picture-less post, but I just have to rave about the cleaning solution I used the other day.
(No, I'm NOT trying to sell you anything, I just have to pass on this cheap and easy thing that's going to make my life slightly easier.)
I'd been reading on Pinterest—an amazing time suck and fantastic inspiration, all wrapped up in one—about a cleaner for showers/tubs using just an equal portion of Dawn dish washing soap and hot vinegar. I'd seen enough people rave about it that I figured it would be worth a try, and I wouldn't be out anything since I already had that stuff on hand.
IT'S AMAZING. My shower hasn't been that clean for a long time, and I didn't have to expend anywhere near as much energy as I usually do.
I put 1 cup of vinegar in a spray bottle and microwaved it until it was hot (one minute in my microwave--I was kind of worried about melting the bottle but it was fine). Then I added one cup of blue Dawn dish washing soap and shook it. Then I sprayed it all over my shower and let it sit for a while. The smell of the vinegar kind of made me cough a bit, but it wasn't any worse than Scrubbing Bubbles or similar things.
After letting it sit, I scrubbed it with a scrub brush, but not as much as I normally do with other things like Soft Scrub. I let it sit for a little longer, then hosed it down with the shower head (YAY for removable shower heads!) and gave it one more pass with a scrub brush.
I'm so impressed with how shiny everything is!
I also used it on the sink faucet and it looks like new.
I think I'll be doing this every few weeks to keep things sparkly and clean. Cleaning the shower won't be an hour-plus project any more. Yay!
RECIPE:
Heat one part vinegar until just under boiling.
Pour into a spray bottle.
Add one part Dawn dish soap and shake.
Spray on surfaces to be cleaned and let them sit for a while (an hour is good).
Scrub, then rinse. Enjoy the shiny!
I used one cup of each and it was enough to do both the tub in the kids' bathroom and the shower stall in the master bath, plus the sinks/faucets in both bathrooms. Next time I might just do half a cup of each.
Tuesday, May 08, 2012
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Look out, it's a partial catch-up post...
How the heck have six months gone by without a blog post? Shesh!
While it seems like it's just been day-to-day life stuff going on, I have managed to get some creative projects finished. I've been doing a fair bit of quilting for others, but for this post I'm going to focus on things I've done for myself.
Starting with the most recent craft: weaving! My Mom gave me her Northfield Tia rigid heddle loom, and I've really been enjoying it. So far I've woven 11 washcloths (pathetically small, but it was great practice) using some hemp/cotton yarn that's been languishing in my stash. I also made a hounds tooth scarf that I'm ridiculously pleased with.
Earlier this month I pulled out my spinning wheel for my monthly hour or so of spinning. (I haven't been focusing on the wheel much, unfortunately!) This is some roving that I bought at least three years ago. I've got to spin up more of what I've got before Fiber Christmas in July, when I know at least a few new rovings will want to come home with me.
I've been fairly good about finishing knitting projects, so here's a roundup of the last six or so months, in no particular order.
I tested a neat crocheted headband pattern, and ended up with this lovely item:
The pattern is available here on Ravelry (it's not mine).
Also on the handspun front, I *finally* finished my Bono Kimono, using my hanspun and hand-dyed yarn:
I'm thinking about putting a zipper in it. We'll see. This is a project that sat for about a year and a half while I decided if I wanted to rip out about a third of it and re-do the sleeve/body proportions. I'm so glad I did! Instead of the sleeves and side triangles being the same size, I made the side triangles each 2" wider, which took 4" total from each sleeve.
The next finished item is this Whippoorwill Shawl (Ravelry link), using yarn that I dyed while we were in Idaho over the summer. The grey is KnitPicks non-superwash Bare fingering-weight yarn, dyed with Jacquard black (which broke just beautifully!). The orange is KnitPicks Gloss fingering-weight yarn in pumpkin, overdyed with black.
Here's another test knit, Blue Hour Gloves:
I dyed the pink and blue yarns. All of it is Palette from KnitPicks. I really enjoyed making these, which surprised me--last time I did partial-fingered gloves I thought they were incredibly fiddly. Of course the fingers *are* fiddly, but I'm so in love with these it's not even funny. I see more hand-knit gloves in my future.
Here's another quick test-knit that I did, Scally's Cap. Are you noticing a trend with test knitting? I love it because there's a deadline (which I've established that I desperately need or I get craft ADD) and I get the pattern for free.
These beautiful cuffs are from a pattern by Sivia Harding. She came for a workshop with the knitting guild, and I had such a good time with her! She stayed with me and I'm happy to report that she's just as amazing in person as she seems on the internet. The cuffs below are her Aquitaine Cuffs, and I swear I wore them every day until the weather got warm enough that I couldn't stand to wear them any more. The yarn is 80% alpaca, 20% silk that I won at Fiber Christmas as least four years ago.
Here's (yet another) test knit:
Those are Scullers Socks, and as you can see the gusset decreases are on the bottom of the foot. These were fun to make!
Still another test knit, here's my Contrast and Complement shawl:
It's a big shawl, and I used acrylic yarn so that I can machine wash and dry it.
I didn't manage to get a finished project picture of this, but it was pretty spectacular and I'm going to have to make one for myself. The pattern is the Garter Stripe Squares bag on Ravelry.
I've got a LOT of pictures of this next project because I'm so darn pleased with it.
I won the roving from Woolgatherings during the 2010 Tour de Fleece on Ravelry.
I separated out the different colors and spun it up as a progression, then chain-plied the singles.
My lovely friend Calista bought me the pattern, Lazy Katy, and away I went! :-)
The color is really hard to capture, but that last picture is the most accurate. I re-designed the lace border since I didn't have quite enough of my handspun, and ended up with about 6 yards left over.
Both of the pictures blow were taken as it's blocking.
And to stop for the moment, here's a sock (I made a pair, just didn't photograph both) that I test knit. It's a mosaic pattern, which means you're never working with more than one color of yarn per round. It was quite fun!
One last picture! This is from the Gilcrease Museum gardens. When my parents were here in April, we went to the Gilcrease and the Philbrook, and of course since it was the first week in April all of the azaleas were absolutely spectacular. Don't you think?
While it seems like it's just been day-to-day life stuff going on, I have managed to get some creative projects finished. I've been doing a fair bit of quilting for others, but for this post I'm going to focus on things I've done for myself.
Starting with the most recent craft: weaving! My Mom gave me her Northfield Tia rigid heddle loom, and I've really been enjoying it. So far I've woven 11 washcloths (pathetically small, but it was great practice) using some hemp/cotton yarn that's been languishing in my stash. I also made a hounds tooth scarf that I'm ridiculously pleased with.
Earlier this month I pulled out my spinning wheel for my monthly hour or so of spinning. (I haven't been focusing on the wheel much, unfortunately!) This is some roving that I bought at least three years ago. I've got to spin up more of what I've got before Fiber Christmas in July, when I know at least a few new rovings will want to come home with me.
I've been fairly good about finishing knitting projects, so here's a roundup of the last six or so months, in no particular order.
I tested a neat crocheted headband pattern, and ended up with this lovely item:
Also on the handspun front, I *finally* finished my Bono Kimono, using my hanspun and hand-dyed yarn:
I'm thinking about putting a zipper in it. We'll see. This is a project that sat for about a year and a half while I decided if I wanted to rip out about a third of it and re-do the sleeve/body proportions. I'm so glad I did! Instead of the sleeves and side triangles being the same size, I made the side triangles each 2" wider, which took 4" total from each sleeve.
The next finished item is this Whippoorwill Shawl (Ravelry link), using yarn that I dyed while we were in Idaho over the summer. The grey is KnitPicks non-superwash Bare fingering-weight yarn, dyed with Jacquard black (which broke just beautifully!). The orange is KnitPicks Gloss fingering-weight yarn in pumpkin, overdyed with black.
Here's another test knit, Blue Hour Gloves:
Here's another quick test-knit that I did, Scally's Cap. Are you noticing a trend with test knitting? I love it because there's a deadline (which I've established that I desperately need or I get craft ADD) and I get the pattern for free.
These beautiful cuffs are from a pattern by Sivia Harding. She came for a workshop with the knitting guild, and I had such a good time with her! She stayed with me and I'm happy to report that she's just as amazing in person as she seems on the internet. The cuffs below are her Aquitaine Cuffs, and I swear I wore them every day until the weather got warm enough that I couldn't stand to wear them any more. The yarn is 80% alpaca, 20% silk that I won at Fiber Christmas as least four years ago.
Here's (yet another) test knit:
Still another test knit, here's my Contrast and Complement shawl:
I didn't manage to get a finished project picture of this, but it was pretty spectacular and I'm going to have to make one for myself. The pattern is the Garter Stripe Squares bag on Ravelry.
I've got a LOT of pictures of this next project because I'm so darn pleased with it.
I won the roving from Woolgatherings during the 2010 Tour de Fleece on Ravelry.
I separated out the different colors and spun it up as a progression, then chain-plied the singles.
The color is really hard to capture, but that last picture is the most accurate. I re-designed the lace border since I didn't have quite enough of my handspun, and ended up with about 6 yards left over.
Both of the pictures blow were taken as it's blocking.
One last picture! This is from the Gilcrease Museum gardens. When my parents were here in April, we went to the Gilcrease and the Philbrook, and of course since it was the first week in April all of the azaleas were absolutely spectacular. Don't you think?
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Painting, working, and remodeling (another catch-all post)
Once again I have neglected my poor blog.
I've been working at the Tulsa City-County Libraries, though, so I have a good excuse! I've also been busy quilting, and the kids have been home sick a LOT in the past two weeks (which means I get very, very little done).
I've been volunteering at the South Broken Arrow library for around three years now, I think. Over the summer I trained as a substitute, and I've had an absolute blast going between the two Broken Arrow libraries. They've called me a few times for some of the other ones but I'm very intimidated by Hardesty so I've turned those down. It's a huge regional library and I'm not quite confident enough of my knowledge to tackle that one, but I will once I get a little more experience.
The bad part is that my stack of books to read is now almost three feet tall. That's not a bad thing except that I'm frantically trying to catch up on my quilting. I'm about six months behind on posting customer quilt pictures, but hopefully I'll get my act together soon.
Last weekend we decided to finally tackle the utility room, which has bugged us since we moved in seven years ago.
Here's how it looked after we moved the washer and dryer out and Greg took out the baseboards. (They'd been butted together instead of installed properly, so that had to go!)
Yes, the walls really WERE that dark. They'd been painted with a flat paint that came off when rubbed with a damp paper towel, so that was pretty bad.
Greg repaired some damage and sprayed a new texture, and then Gillian and I sanded it down and she vacuumed. Greg got a drywall mud that claimed to be less dusty, and I think it actually was--more seemed to end up on the floor than in the air, which is a very good thing.
Here's Gillian, being a HUGE help:
The previous owners have done all kinds of head-scratch-worthy things, such as painting the smoke detector in place, as well as just painting the wallpaper. Sigh.
Luckily the wall paper was only on one wall and seems to be *very* well adhered, so we went ahead and put the texture on over it.
Here (below) you can see Greg taking off the trim around the door--it had been installed rather horribly and had all kinds of caulk in the corners--the top was sucked into the wall while the sides weren't, so there was about a 1/8" depth difference among the three pieces. It looks SO much better now.
And you have to notice the wallpaper that's underneath the current stuff (be sure to enlarge so you can see it in all its glory):
We've been talking about redoing parts of the kitchen (taking out the drop ceiling, among other things) but knowing that there's *another* layer of wallpaper is a little disheartening.
Back to the good stuff. Here's the final paint on the walls:
Doesn't that color look so much better than the old, dark color? It's absolutely amazing what a difference new texture and color have made in that space.
At this point I'm incredibly behind on my quilting, especially since I've spent the last 11 hours in bed, shivering and trying not to throw up. I'd *so* hoped that what the kids had was going to pass me by, but no such luck.
My family is coming here for Thanksgiving, and I need to finish ALL of my customer quilts before they get here since we're putting my sister in the quilt room. I hope I'm over this illness in the morning so that I can quilt like a mad woman over the next six days!
I hope all of you are having a great weekend, and be sure to wash your hands properly and often! There's lots of icky stuff going around.
I've been working at the Tulsa City-County Libraries, though, so I have a good excuse! I've also been busy quilting, and the kids have been home sick a LOT in the past two weeks (which means I get very, very little done).
I've been volunteering at the South Broken Arrow library for around three years now, I think. Over the summer I trained as a substitute, and I've had an absolute blast going between the two Broken Arrow libraries. They've called me a few times for some of the other ones but I'm very intimidated by Hardesty so I've turned those down. It's a huge regional library and I'm not quite confident enough of my knowledge to tackle that one, but I will once I get a little more experience.
The bad part is that my stack of books to read is now almost three feet tall. That's not a bad thing except that I'm frantically trying to catch up on my quilting. I'm about six months behind on posting customer quilt pictures, but hopefully I'll get my act together soon.
Last weekend we decided to finally tackle the utility room, which has bugged us since we moved in seven years ago.
Here's how it looked after we moved the washer and dryer out and Greg took out the baseboards. (They'd been butted together instead of installed properly, so that had to go!)
Yes, the walls really WERE that dark. They'd been painted with a flat paint that came off when rubbed with a damp paper towel, so that was pretty bad.
Greg repaired some damage and sprayed a new texture, and then Gillian and I sanded it down and she vacuumed. Greg got a drywall mud that claimed to be less dusty, and I think it actually was--more seemed to end up on the floor than in the air, which is a very good thing.
Here's Gillian, being a HUGE help:
The previous owners have done all kinds of head-scratch-worthy things, such as painting the smoke detector in place, as well as just painting the wallpaper. Sigh.
Luckily the wall paper was only on one wall and seems to be *very* well adhered, so we went ahead and put the texture on over it.
Here (below) you can see Greg taking off the trim around the door--it had been installed rather horribly and had all kinds of caulk in the corners--the top was sucked into the wall while the sides weren't, so there was about a 1/8" depth difference among the three pieces. It looks SO much better now.
And you have to notice the wallpaper that's underneath the current stuff (be sure to enlarge so you can see it in all its glory):
We've been talking about redoing parts of the kitchen (taking out the drop ceiling, among other things) but knowing that there's *another* layer of wallpaper is a little disheartening.
Back to the good stuff. Here's the final paint on the walls:
Doesn't that color look so much better than the old, dark color? It's absolutely amazing what a difference new texture and color have made in that space.
At this point I'm incredibly behind on my quilting, especially since I've spent the last 11 hours in bed, shivering and trying not to throw up. I'd *so* hoped that what the kids had was going to pass me by, but no such luck.
My family is coming here for Thanksgiving, and I need to finish ALL of my customer quilts before they get here since we're putting my sister in the quilt room. I hope I'm over this illness in the morning so that I can quilt like a mad woman over the next six days!
I hope all of you are having a great weekend, and be sure to wash your hands properly and often! There's lots of icky stuff going around.
Saturday, September 03, 2011
I'm back!
Back to blogging, that is. :-)
I have no excuse, really, for neglecting my blog, other than catching up becomes overwhelming after a while and then inertia takes hold and, well, no blog posts.
Since my last post it's been five months. School ended, it got really, horribly, nastily hot, and my enthusiasm for most things went out the window. I don't like heat. But life goes on, and I've managed to get a few things done.
The biggest thing I've done lately is converting my Roman Maze quilt pattern to PDF and listing it on Etsy! I took a new picture of the quilt, since it's been a few years and digital cameras have improved quite a bit since I took the original picture.
Here's the new cover pic:
I've had quite a few requests over the years for a PDF version, but the stars hadn't aligned in the proper formation until I realized that Etsy would be MUCH easier than trying to coordinate things through my web site. Now the challenge is going to be converting my other patterns and getting a new pattern out (I designed it back in 2003, but then we moved, Ryan was born, and the hard drive died, so it's been on the back burner until now).
Let's see, on the knitting/crocheting/spinning front, I've managed to finish a few things.
I participated in the Tour de Fleece but only managed to finish ONE skein during the tour:
That's a fingering-weight merino two-ply yarn, and it's actually plied from stuff I'd spun a few years ago but hadn't ever plied. I had 8 ounces to begin with and it was early enough in my spinning career that I hadn't done a great job and put it aside. I managed to spin up the rest of it and chain plied it for this gorgeous bulky skein:
It's fun to see the effect of the two different plying methods on the same roving. (The colors are nicer in person on the chain-plied skein.)
So that's my one skein I started AND finished during the tour. I did spin on other things, as you can see in this collage.
About halfway through the tour the kids and I went to Idaho. I did get some roving—quite a lot, actually—while we were there, but I didn't get any spinning done. (Pictures of Idaho to come.)
I crocheted a necklace/bracelet with pearls:
I wear it as a necklace sometimes, or as a bracelet wrapped around my wrist six times.
My first crocheted sweater, a Butterfly Cardigan, using yarn left over from a sweater I knit for Greg about five years ago:
I finished a small shawl using my handspun:
The roving is from Dawning Dreams, and it yelled at me from across the room at Fiber Christmas in July a few years ago. The pattern is Holden Shawlette.
I started a pi shawl and my plan is to put sleeves in it to make a cardigan:
I'm a lot further along on this project than in that picture, but it looks like one big messy pile of yarn at this point so I'm not taking a pic until it's blocked.
There are a few other things I've been working on but I'll post pics of those another time.
In other domestic news, I got into making my own yogurt:
It's really good and really easy! I use this recipe, except that I use the crock from my crockpot, and I use the insulated cover that it came with and put the whole thing in the oven, and I don't strain it any more.
I'm woefully behind on posting pictures of customer quilts but hopefully I'll get my act together on that soon, now that the kids are back in school again. (YAY!!!!)
Happy Labor Day to my U.S.-ian friends, and everyone else, I hope you're having a great weekend!
I have no excuse, really, for neglecting my blog, other than catching up becomes overwhelming after a while and then inertia takes hold and, well, no blog posts.
Since my last post it's been five months. School ended, it got really, horribly, nastily hot, and my enthusiasm for most things went out the window. I don't like heat. But life goes on, and I've managed to get a few things done.
The biggest thing I've done lately is converting my Roman Maze quilt pattern to PDF and listing it on Etsy! I took a new picture of the quilt, since it's been a few years and digital cameras have improved quite a bit since I took the original picture.
Here's the new cover pic:
I've had quite a few requests over the years for a PDF version, but the stars hadn't aligned in the proper formation until I realized that Etsy would be MUCH easier than trying to coordinate things through my web site. Now the challenge is going to be converting my other patterns and getting a new pattern out (I designed it back in 2003, but then we moved, Ryan was born, and the hard drive died, so it's been on the back burner until now).
Let's see, on the knitting/crocheting/spinning front, I've managed to finish a few things.
I participated in the Tour de Fleece but only managed to finish ONE skein during the tour:
That's a fingering-weight merino two-ply yarn, and it's actually plied from stuff I'd spun a few years ago but hadn't ever plied. I had 8 ounces to begin with and it was early enough in my spinning career that I hadn't done a great job and put it aside. I managed to spin up the rest of it and chain plied it for this gorgeous bulky skein:
It's fun to see the effect of the two different plying methods on the same roving. (The colors are nicer in person on the chain-plied skein.)
So that's my one skein I started AND finished during the tour. I did spin on other things, as you can see in this collage.
About halfway through the tour the kids and I went to Idaho. I did get some roving—quite a lot, actually—while we were there, but I didn't get any spinning done. (Pictures of Idaho to come.)
I crocheted a necklace/bracelet with pearls:
I wear it as a necklace sometimes, or as a bracelet wrapped around my wrist six times.
My first crocheted sweater, a Butterfly Cardigan, using yarn left over from a sweater I knit for Greg about five years ago:
I finished a small shawl using my handspun:
The roving is from Dawning Dreams, and it yelled at me from across the room at Fiber Christmas in July a few years ago. The pattern is Holden Shawlette.
I started a pi shawl and my plan is to put sleeves in it to make a cardigan:
I'm a lot further along on this project than in that picture, but it looks like one big messy pile of yarn at this point so I'm not taking a pic until it's blocked.
There are a few other things I've been working on but I'll post pics of those another time.
In other domestic news, I got into making my own yogurt:
It's really good and really easy! I use this recipe, except that I use the crock from my crockpot, and I use the insulated cover that it came with and put the whole thing in the oven, and I don't strain it any more.
I'm woefully behind on posting pictures of customer quilts but hopefully I'll get my act together on that soon, now that the kids are back in school again. (YAY!!!!)
Happy Labor Day to my U.S.-ian friends, and everyone else, I hope you're having a great weekend!
Saturday, April 09, 2011
SPRING! (ish)
Oh my poor blog, how I've neglected you.
I've got excuses.
Good excuses, even.
Family life is busy, especially with all of Gillian's activities (and we won't mention mine, all right?), and then we all got sick.
I spent 10 days being totally, utterly worthless. I got the coughing illness that was going around, and *of course* it turned into a sinus infection. And of course I waited too long to go to the doctor (I get delusional that I can kick it without outside intervention, and it NEVER happens). So by the time I saw the doc, my left cheek was making this "crackle" sound and then a pain would shoot down the back of my neck. That's something new for me. I'm totally O.K. with it never happening again.
They X-rayed my face and pronounced my left sinus to be "severely impacted." Normally she'll push on my face a little to gauge the pain, but she didn't even come near me this time. It's not good when you impress the doc. Two steroid shots and a heavy-duty antiobiotic later, I'm feeling a million times better.
Just FYI, my daily routine includes a steroid nasal spray and a neti pot. I'm also a huge fan of Mucinex, and most of the time I can fight off sinus pain.
For those of you in my Facebook friends (those who haven't blocked me, anyway), I apologize. Apparently when I'm running a fever my whine filter becomes non-operational.
So, enough of that. On to spring!
We actually haven't had much spring around here. We've gone from winter to two days of "oh, spring is here!" then right back to winter for a week, and now we've slammed straight into summer. Like high 80s. And LOTS of wind.
:-(
I don't like wind. Or heat.
On the bright side, we have some absolutely gorgeous flowers:
Greg's woodworking project has been building a box for Ryan's toys. Ryan needed no encouragement to get in the box.
Here it is after the pre-stain, from the back.
Yesterday Greg mowed the lawn, and his shadow needed to help, so Greg let him steer. (I have no idea why Ryan is making this face, but I couldn't resist.)
Of course Gillian had to get in the action, and she actually pushed the pedals, too!
Things around here are really dry, but we're starting our garden. (That would be the royal "we" as I have almost nothing to do with it. I can't rake or till, so I'm not much help.)
Tonight we went shoe shopping, and I came home with these AWESOME shoes:
Greg is mystified, but he bought them for me anyway. :-) I love how steampunk-ish they are, and they're surprisingly comfortable! It's not often when I can find shoes like this that fit my huge, wide, Hobbit-shaped feet so I'm pretty thrilled. The cap on my bottle of happiness is that they were half off!!! There's no way I'd pay $80 for a pair of shoes, but $40 was totally do-able.
Greg keeps asking where in the world I'm going to wear them. My response: "where WON'T I wear them?" LOL! They zip up the inside of the foot, so they're fast to get into and out of.
That's it for my catch-up-post-of-randomness. I hope you're all having a great weekend!
I've got excuses.
Good excuses, even.
Family life is busy, especially with all of Gillian's activities (and we won't mention mine, all right?), and then we all got sick.
I spent 10 days being totally, utterly worthless. I got the coughing illness that was going around, and *of course* it turned into a sinus infection. And of course I waited too long to go to the doctor (I get delusional that I can kick it without outside intervention, and it NEVER happens). So by the time I saw the doc, my left cheek was making this "crackle" sound and then a pain would shoot down the back of my neck. That's something new for me. I'm totally O.K. with it never happening again.
They X-rayed my face and pronounced my left sinus to be "severely impacted." Normally she'll push on my face a little to gauge the pain, but she didn't even come near me this time. It's not good when you impress the doc. Two steroid shots and a heavy-duty antiobiotic later, I'm feeling a million times better.
Just FYI, my daily routine includes a steroid nasal spray and a neti pot. I'm also a huge fan of Mucinex, and most of the time I can fight off sinus pain.
For those of you in my Facebook friends (those who haven't blocked me, anyway), I apologize. Apparently when I'm running a fever my whine filter becomes non-operational.
So, enough of that. On to spring!
We actually haven't had much spring around here. We've gone from winter to two days of "oh, spring is here!" then right back to winter for a week, and now we've slammed straight into summer. Like high 80s. And LOTS of wind.
:-(
I don't like wind. Or heat.
On the bright side, we have some absolutely gorgeous flowers:
Greg's woodworking project has been building a box for Ryan's toys. Ryan needed no encouragement to get in the box.
Here it is after the pre-stain, from the back.
Yesterday Greg mowed the lawn, and his shadow needed to help, so Greg let him steer. (I have no idea why Ryan is making this face, but I couldn't resist.)
Of course Gillian had to get in the action, and she actually pushed the pedals, too!
Things around here are really dry, but we're starting our garden. (That would be the royal "we" as I have almost nothing to do with it. I can't rake or till, so I'm not much help.)
Tonight we went shoe shopping, and I came home with these AWESOME shoes:
Greg is mystified, but he bought them for me anyway. :-) I love how steampunk-ish they are, and they're surprisingly comfortable! It's not often when I can find shoes like this that fit my huge, wide, Hobbit-shaped feet so I'm pretty thrilled. The cap on my bottle of happiness is that they were half off!!! There's no way I'd pay $80 for a pair of shoes, but $40 was totally do-able.
Greg keeps asking where in the world I'm going to wear them. My response: "where WON'T I wear them?" LOL! They zip up the inside of the foot, so they're fast to get into and out of.
That's it for my catch-up-post-of-randomness. I hope you're all having a great weekend!
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