Monday, Monday

Today is the girls' last full day of school. It is raining and cool. My life is falling apart.

I'd love to type a light and photo filled post today but I just don't have it in me. I'm also not going to go into dark ugly detail, some things just need to be worked on in the privacy of a family first.

Crafty update:
I haven't touched the fair isle socks in weeks. I think now that I've conquered the basic idea, I have little to no desire to finish them. I'm sure I'll get bored and want something to "just do" and I'll pick them up and finish them off in a day at some point.

I sewed some rocking chair cushions for my friend Blogless Carla this weekend. I didn't take any pics, visualize plainish blue 2" cushions for the back of nice teak front porch rockers. I delivered them Saturday night, she loved them. It made me happy to make someone else happy.

The Lily of the Valley shawl is giving a bit of a challenge. I'm typically not a ripper. If I find a mistake I usually choose to overlook it if it isn't too egregious. But after a repeat and a half of the Nupp-filled-wonder that is the lily of the valley pattern, I realized that I had made a few too many miscalculations in the first section even for me. So last night I let the sucker rip and restarted from stitch one. I'm glad I did. I think the other half of the equation is that I'm doing this with a class. Healthy competition can be a good thing.

I have fabric and a pattern to make Mini-Me a couple sundresses for her upcoming trip to NYC. She leaves Saturday very early so I'd better get cracking. I was going to make her a shrug to wear with them but I chose a bright red cotton and she nixed that idea. She'd prefer black. I don't have black and really don't know if I'll have time to go get black, knit it and finish the dresses too all before Friday.

Non-craft projects:
I've been in an ongoing battle with my pool water for a week now. On Saturday morning of Memorial Day weekend we awoke to the damn thing clouding up. I've tested, added some of this, some of that, aerated, filled, blah, blah, blah for days. At one point I accidentally over-corrected the alkilinity and had to recorrect. In the middle of my acid trip over the pool chemicals, a pipe connection burst to the cleaner pump. The equipment is in our basement so I had about 50 gallons of pool water filling my basement. I'm happy to say that as of this morning it is finally clear and balanced.

Now we can have an end of the school year party and screw it all up again with pissing kids and dog hair.

I do have some ideas for this week's podcast. I just hope I have time to get to it.
Also related to the podcast; come join us on Skype for the virtual SnB that the gals at SSK have set up. We got a good size group together last Thursday night and had a great time. If you just want to chat or IM via Skype you can find me as "Snarkdog"

Also, don't forget to come on over to the message board and see what is going on or get something started. It's been pretty quiet, we need more action.