High Fiber—Busy Days and Nights.
My head is still spinning from the week's activities! However, I had lots of time to work on the Dogwood Blossoms cardigan:
In the center at the top, you can see where I bound off for the armholes and cast on sts for the steek (look for the green st marker). The front "opening" (another steek) is to the right. If you're new to my blog, I should tell you that both sleeves are done, so I'm sort of coming down the home stretch. I'm hoping to get to wear it this winter!
On the bathroom remodeling front, the sheetrock has gone in and we're texturing the walls today! We will be doing the painting ourselves, probably on Wednesday. We have the color picked out. The photo shows the master-bath section of the remodel. The doorway leads to the new closet hall, which used to be just a closet. We used to joke that we were visiting Narnia when we went into the master bath. Also in the photo, to the left of the doorway, is the vanity/sink area, which will have two medicine cabinets. You can see the space for one of them. The dark area to the right is the wall of the shower, which is backlit, so hard to see.
It's getting fun now, because we're starting to see what it will look like finished!
With the construction, we haven't been able to run the upstairs furnace, so it's a little chilly. DH has been chopping wood for the fireplace, which has been in use for the past couple of nights. We're sleeping in the downstairs guest room, though, and it's toasty there.
If you're wondering why I had so much knitting time in spite of a busy week, I made another trip to Colorado to register voters and canvass. We took my car this time, but I conned my passengers into taking turns driving, so I only had to drive a couple of hours out of the entire 12-hr. round trip!
This was the most fun of all the trips (five so far)! We always have great hosts to stay with, but this time we got a couple who have had a B&B. They treated us like paying guests! What fun we had with them! We also encountered some delightful people while canvassing, as usual. It's interesting as well to see the variety of neighborhoods in Grand Junction.
In one of the neighborhoods we spotted this sign in front of a church. Love it!
I did have to miss church, because we drove back on Sunday.
Other interesting events of the week included the appearance of this guy in our neighborhood on Thursday:
What's on my wheel: Still the languishing Full Circle Roving in "Pidgeon." I found a new spinning buddy while phone banking, though, so I may be meeting with some spinners soon, which will get me to spin up the rest of the fiber. I'm so close!)
What's on my iPad: Still Dean Koontz's Odd Apocalypse. I'm looking forward to being able to just listen to the rest of it soon!
What's in my wine glass: Fisheye Shiraz 2010, in the big bottle. I think I deserve a couple of glasses after this busy week!
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Comment by Peggy Stuart on October 20, 2012 at 6:17am -
Wendy, I've made some progress since this photo. I'll take a photo tomorrow.
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Comment by wendy on October 19, 2012 at 4:45pm -
Oh my goodness, I love the picture of Soren! He is too stinkin' cute! Your week sounds crazy busy, but very interesting too. Your sweater is oh so lovely, makes me want to put everything else aside and work on my Philosopher's Wool sweater. And the colors of it remind me of what I've been looking at out of my back porch windows the past few weeks.
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Comment by Peggy Stuart on October 12, 2012 at 12:39pm
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Then I guess you will have to reach out and pat Soren's hair virtually, not in real life, LOL!
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Comment by Beverly Roberts on October 12, 2012 at 7:25am -
Peggy, I've only been out of my county a handful of times in the last 6 years...Oregon would be quite a trip and an adventure for me :)) Laundry chute...a very good thing!
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Comment by Peggy Stuart on October 11, 2012 at 1:29pm
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Cheryl, that is what we have a contractor for! He's putting in our laundry chute today.
Buffy, congrats on the new nephew/niece!
Beverly, if you can get to Beaverton, OR, it can be arranged! :-}
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Comment by Beverly Roberts on October 11, 2012 at 12:26pm
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Don't know where to start...can never get too much of the Dogwood Blossoms :)) Moose is frightening! And Soren...oh, he's just so cute with his Paddington Bear :)) Wish I could reach out and pat his hair.
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Comment by Buffy Joseph on October 11, 2012 at 10:43am -
Great pictures, as usual! I love the pictures of the moose, and ADORE the new picture of Soren.
My sister is due in 5.5 weeks, so it's getting close. I saw her (& my parents) last weekend, and she looks great!
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Comment by cherylbwaters on October 11, 2012 at 8:33am -
I'm so glad you will have at least the 3 little ones for Christmas.
It sounds like the remodeling is moving along and will be completed before the holidays. I think it took us, umm.... 4 years to complete our kitchen.
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Comment by Peggy Stuart on October 11, 2012 at 8:10am
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It does sound like that, but we were doing the painting before the tile work and cabinets go in, so we don't have to worry about spills. The tile guys will be here tomorrow or Monday. We're still about 1 1/2 - 2 weeks from completion. It's good. We're doing the painting ourselves to save $$$, so this will give us time to get it all done. The changes to the walls affected one wall in the bedroom and one in the hall, so those will have to be repainted, too.
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Comment by Susan the Blue Lake Knitter on October 10, 2012 at 6:19pm -
Painting is good... sounds like it is nearing completion.
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