Sunday 30 September 2012

July 29th: Beach life

I took this a few blocks from where we ate breakfast (and I satisfied my initial bagel cravings). 


Kate's the beat up legs (she falls down stairs and stuff, I don't).
Mine are the blue-white ones (we had no summer in Scandiland). 


Kate was not prepared for the wave, I was timing my photo to it. Hee. 


Trying to keep my dress from getting wet, and forgetting I wear leggings. Win. 

The traditional Feet-And-The-Sea photo. 



This was taken at a Walmart. Most of it was closed off in this way. For our safety. We might shop, otherwise.
(Sunday in NJ)
Since the original plan (to head out sunday noon-ish) crashed when the car crashed (which was the reason for the missing Kate), we got bonus days in NJ/NY. Luckily Mike could offer us a place to crash and happily (?) chauffeured us around. He seemed to live vicariously through our mishaps. (That's OK.)

Sunday was spent at the beach (most of my photos are however corrupt now :( ), and then trying to figure out insurance + rental car. Seeing Mike get a fat wad (50+ of them) of $1 bills for change for $100 was another thing I should have documented.. I was too busy laughing.

Saturday 29 September 2012

Bonus photo: Dragonfly

From Sarah P. Duke Gardens, NC - end of August.

July 28th, Clouds & Greenland

I was woken up super early by someone chanting and singing praise to their god in the yard outside my apartment - at 0330 this was not appreciated and if the person had been within visual range I would have attempted throwing something at him/her.

I lugged all my stuff to the airport (and lifted 90lbs of STUFF aboard the airport transit bus all at once, a feat of strength on my part but I am slightly embarrassed at the amount of things. In my defense I didn't know when I would be able to do laundry and I still ran out of clean clothes in a bit over a week.)

On the flight I had the chatty company of Mrs. Pleasant, who was also a knitter; and I wound up teaching her and her grand-daughter the basics of lace knitting as well as linen stitch. Little time was thus spent sleeping or listening to music or actually knitting...

Here's some photos from the flight for your enjoyment, if you can muster any. I tend to be rather enthusiastic about looking at the ground, and clouds, and.. I enjoy flying, but I don't enjoy commercial sardine can flights.











When I arrived at JFK, there was a conspicuous lack of Kate, and lack of communication from Kate. 12 hours there was not amusing, I was tired after almost no sleep and a long flight and an extended day, and the guards kept telling me to go somewhere else, they didn't appreciate me napping at the airport. I wound up sitting at the curb outside taking a nap by the pickup area, because those guards cared less. After 12 hours Kate's cousin Dave and his wife rescued me, since Kate was still lost in transit. Somehow I have no photos from visiting them, not even of their dog. I blame my tiredness and the general confusion.

Sunday 23 September 2012

SNS (Sunday Night Swatching)

My back/hip is inexplicably hurting (probably arthritis related), I am drinking tequila to banish the pain, and swatching entrelac. Proof:




Also, I have about ten ongoing projects, even after unravelling some that I decided will never be worked on again.

 This is recreating my trigger finger mittens from two years back, hedgehog style:


And I actually finished two things. One is a pair of green mittens which I will have to come back to, 'cause I haven't taken a picture as of yet, the other were these, which were gifted to my nice coworker Bettan:



Thursday 13 September 2012