Home Tour, because Mindi's holding me to it

Mindi asked me to show pictures of the house and I gave in and said I would, even though it seems like there's a lot to finish. I am a perfectionist, and will put off doing something if I can't do it "perfectly." Oh well..I'll live, and if you all were here, I'd let you see it anyway, right? So here's the upstairs bathroom that we painted and papered last weekend. We love it-hope you, do, too.

Looking into the mirror over the sink.

Same wall from a different view.

Detail of the border. It's fun to look at.

We had extra "tree" so put this one here. I plan to hang old boards over the pictured ones and mount hooks to them for wash clothes and towels.

I've been a busy knitter lately

Below are some of the items I've been knitting lately. Waaay fun!



These little booties are for a friend's baby boy, number 9 for her! They are always so cute! This is a Fiber Trends pattern.

Love the little tails!
Thsi set is for Matt's cousin's baby boy, number 1 for her. These patterns are from Elizabeth Zimmerman-she was a genious knitter. The sweater is a Baby Surprise jacket, and the pants are Baby Longies.

This sweater is for whoever i find that it will fit. I think it's about a 12-18 mo. It is from the Wonderful Wallaby pattern from Cottage Creations. I made it to test the pattern, and I will be making more (albeit bigger)sweaters from this pattern.

Storm pictures from another view

These are pictures of the other day's storm-looking across the road. I guess that would be.....north-ish......

Summer storm

This hot weather is spawning frequent afternoon thunderstorms. I watched from the deck as this one approached while 4-5 hummingbirds whizzed around me going back and forth to the feeder. Later I'll post photos of another view.

Firday Funnies

I am starting a new blog feature: Friday Funnies. Here is the first entry.
This is from about 2 miles down the road from us. No lie.

When Matt asked someone about it, they told him the church was named after the road.

It's like "Which one came first, the church or the road?"


Which ever came first, they've been here a long time. Who knows where the "Barbecue" part came from.

Don't eat someone else's food!

Amy's threat--I just died laughing.

(in case it isn't clear-it's a knife on the stick guy's throat!)

Hurry!

It will be 64* in Bangalore on Saturday. I fwe leave now, we'll just make it.

Oh, and ps....There's a sibling group of three waiting there for a family. Gosh, I'd go for that even if it was 102*

The Weather is ....

HOT as blazes here and last night in Creston, at 12:15 am, it was 86* according to my time and temperature friend. Guess we'll have to go to India to cool off--it was only 83* in Bangalore and Pune today :~)))