Monday Monday

I finally finished Last Night in Twisted River.  I love John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meaney is one of my all time favorites, but this one was a different story.  Sorry John but it dragged on and on.  I liked the story, but I think it could have used a few less words.

I started the Upstairs Shawl in my Lorna's Laces Helen's Lace in Sumatra.  I love the pattern but the color of the yarn might not go with it.  It's looking a little tiger stripey at the moment.  I will keep going and see what happens, I really don't want to frog this yarn again.

As usual, I seem to have forgotten that I own a camera, so no pictures today, but there will be some with the next post.

Saturday

I've finished Citron.  It's been a while since I've finished something and it feels good to have accomplished something.

A couple of close ups...

I immediately cast on for a Moss Grid Hand Towel.  I'm hoping to have a set of nice towels for guest towels, I already have one done in a different stitch pattern.

I've also finished a couple of books.  Bossy Pants by Tina Fey and Deadly Decisions by Kathy Reichs.  I liked Bossy Pants, I didn't love it.  It wasn't as entertaining as I thought it would be.  Deadly Decisions makes me want to read more from Kathy Reichs and I'm going to get the next in the series.

I'm in the middle of The Last Child by John Hart and omg I love it so far.  I'm at the end of Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving, and just started Stories I Only Tell My Friends by Rob Lowe.  Lots of reading going on this summer.  I had forgotten how much I love books.  

Bit of a break

after falling out of the kayak and having to wait for my camera to fully dry out.  Camera lived, my pride did not.  I'm pretty sure the story of watching me flip the kayak will be told by my neighbors all summer.

Here's what it looked like before I went over:

Today I spent a bit of time outside knitting working on my Citron.  I was all comfy in my chair when I heard rustling coming from the plants next to me.

Apparently it's the best stalking spot ever and I was disturbing someone.

Then when I walked over to go in the house I heard more rustling from the other side of the plants.

There's the other big game hunter.  

In other knitting news, I've finished piecing together a super secret project which I can't post pictures of lest someone actually is reading my blog and it ruins the surprise for a friend.