The Animals love the Mo...

Oh yes they do!

I needed a quick fix project and I found one. This easy mohair shawl, I'm going to keep going until I run out of mo... that's it. If, that is, I can get Simba and Ginger to leave it alone! Now if it would just stop raining so I can go canoeing.

Someone's getting a prezzie...

Because she knew Tom Waits sings "Red Shoes". The X and I use to listen to a lot of Tom Waits.... being artsy types and all y' know... we knew it might have gotten a little out of hand when we were driving around with the boy in his car seat--all of about 4-years-old-- and we can hear him singing in the back seat, "T'ain't no sin to take off your skin and dance around in your bones..." the weird little bit that William S Burroughs Sings on "The Black Rider"... a little creepy.

Other than that, my 10-sticth blanket is coming along. It's a good TV knitting/visiting project. Not too taxing. I frogged a bunch of Prairie Rose, back to the life line. Couldn't live with the error, couldn't figure out how to fix it. Worked some more on Mara... I need to be done this one... love the pattern but the border is killing me!

Oooh, and I jioned the Calgary Canoe Club, a steal of a deal, $125 and you can take kayaks and canoes out on the Glemore Reservoir from May 1st to October 31st. Wonderful!

she wore red shoes by the news stand...

I have a serious case of stuff love going on... these are a few of MY favourite things...

my red shoes...

 my bike...

 my red Namaste circ case...

 my specs... I lurv both the glasses AND the case they came in!

 my spring coat...

 my purple bra... mmmm purpley goodness.








PM me on Ravelry if you know the singer/songwriter responsible for the title of this post... tell me your favourite colour... you've got nothin' to loose.

so meet me tonight by the drugstore
we're goin' out tonight
wear your red shoes...

What to Do...

When you have a three day weekend... every weekend SCORE! I've gone down to a 4 day work week for the Summer at least. It's perfect, LOVE it. I never quite seem to be on top of all the things I love to/have to do. Usually it's the HAVE TOs that suffer most. I really don't HAVE TO have a clean fridge... do I? Do I HAVE TO mow the lawn EVERY week? I will have to make some minor financial cut backs to do this/fewer fancy coffees, fewer pizza nights. but that's easy, one day of work less a week=one less latte, & one more night I can make a scratch dinner, one less magazine purchase/one more day I can go to the library instead. But the idea of a whole extra day... heaven.

And here's some more heaven: Prairie Rose, I can't get over how well written this is... I'm use to being totally confuzzled by lace but I seriously love this!

Last Saturday, I took a course and started this: ten stitch blanket. Sorted out my corner issues at home. My secret to all difficult tasks in life is if I can draw it... I can do it. I even got the top mark in high school geometry (and I was some kind of hopeless at Math) simply because I could draw it. The corner issues were simply sorted with a diagram 1st half of corner: SIIIIIIIIW Wrap towards the Slip 2nd half of corner: SWIIIIIIII Wrap Away from the Slip. I draw this when I do a corner and check off the knit stitches as I wrap them. SO EASY!!

And finally a question: does this happen when you knit? I sit, critter's descend on me.

The dog and cat are waging a cold war but they appear to have achieved detente as long as they don't look at each other, they can share a chair and nobody needs to die.