The water was rough last night. We are up the hill from it, but as I stood on the front porch, overlooking the water, I could hear it beating on the shore. I love how the moonlight shines on the water before it gets dark. The colors are beautiful and sparkling.
I was able to do a lot of spinning yesterday. I’ve been wanting to try something different with my roving. I spun a thick single with my pink, and then plied it with a thin single that alternates between light and dark green. I don’t know what I was expecting, but this wasn’t it.
It isn’t bad, it’s just a bit strange. Now I wonder how it would look the other way around. I figure, I have a bunch of roving, I might as well play around and get familliar with what I can do, so when I have some fiber I’m really in love with, I’ll have a more educated approach to using it well.
Olivia is doing pretty well. Her foot seems much better. She has been finding ways to entertain herself…
Like bouncing on her bum. She wasn’t so inventive at the beach, where there are LOTS of things to do that don’t involve getting wet. She spent the whole time quite upset. We didn’t go down to the water until after dinner, so it was a bit cold. I was the only one really getting wet, as I was anxious to dive off the dock again. It feels SO good after a hot, sweaty day. But like I said, the water was rough. There was a bit of wind, and the swells were so large that they’d literally lift my body up and then drop me beneath the next swell, so keeping my head above water was a bit of a challenge at times. It’s protected water, so I wasn’t in any danger, but it made for choppy swimming. My point is that I was the only one really in the water, so I don’t know what her fuss was all about.
She did manage to get extra treats out of me when we were done. An opportunist to the last.
I’ve re-ripped the 8 rows of VCC, and have knit many more. I haven’t counted, but it’s moving along.
August 15th, 2005 at 10:20 pm
I just have to say…I have been reading your blog for quite some time now…I love that you post so often and your kids are adorable! You take some great pictures 🙂
August 16th, 2005 at 12:24 am
Glad that Olivia is doing better. When I was little and we were at the beach, the kids weren’t suppose to be going on the dock, but we did anyways. There was a loose board and we all knew about but I it just slip my mind as I went walked across the dock at our beach house. The board tip up when I stepped on it and I fell off the dock bc it basically knocked me from behind and knocked me in. THe tide was out and there was a lot of oysters in the mud. I ended up only cutting my pinky finger and I thought I had cut it off! But come to find out all the bleeding that made it look like I had cut it off was just a little cut. I was really lucky to not get cut all up, I don’t even know how I didn’t with all the shells down there. But it was a scary thing, so I can imagine how Olivia must have felt.
I also love the yarn. It’s so unique looking. I bet it would make a warm and cool scarf. Just an idea 😉
Have fun on the rest of your vacation!
August 16th, 2005 at 2:22 am
Beautiful picture…
I envy that you are on vacation right now – and am living vicariously through you!
I think your yarn looks great. Those colors are SO fun (some of my favorite colors together) and they would make a great scarf or hat or mittens… something along those lines.
I’m glad Olivia is finding *some* ways to entertain herself in spite of her owies… I remember the year my family took a vacation to Disneyland and I had just had surgery on my leg and was in a cast up to my hip – watching everyone else go on all the fun rides while I got to sit there, it was hard, but in the end there were some fun things that I got to do and my mom did make it fun for me – so it sounds like you’re doing a great job for Olivia and everything will turn out find in the end!