I will start out with what I purchased at Stitches. Yes I know it was a couple of weeks ago. But things in my life have been crazy. So here goes - I got to meet a lady in one of my Yahoo groups. She is just as sweet in person as she is online. She is basically a neighbor living about a hour west of me. Near where my maternal grandparents are buried. I bought some Noro Kureyon in a fabulous varigated color. #214 for the Noro fans out there. I'm just finishing the bag I decided to make with it. I also bought some sock yarn. Regia I don't have what kind right in front of me as I'm at work. I love the color and can't wait to get "going" on those. I also bought some Cascade 220 in Orange and a funky fall tweed color. I want to make some felted pumpkins and I didn't want to buy green and brown so I got this lovely color that is a mix. Got home to find it is exactly the color called for in the pattern I have. :) Pennie and I had a blast she took a class and it filled up before I could get signed up so I sat and knit at Project Linus and waited for her. Met some lovely ladies from Ohio and Virginia. All I can say is either bring lots of cash or prepare to have your credit cards smoke because the I've never seen more yarn in one place in my life! It was like a mall of yarn stores. All the online stores I've ever heard of and more in one place. That is the best way to describe it for anyone who has never gone. Every kind of yarn imaginable. Demonstrations on many different things. I dyed my own yarn - that is the strand kinda draped over every thing in the photo. Beads are big also. Adding beads to your knitting. Pennie is a Bead Instructor so she was really interested in that. I did what I set out to do tho. Purchase yarn I can't find at home. I can't wait for next year!! Starting to save for more yarn. Working on using up the stuff I bought too.
The boys have started school. Lil dude survived his 7th b-day and is anxiously awaiting going to the Peoria Chiefs baseball game next weekend. We tried last weekend (a week ago) but the rain kept us away. Little did we know it wasn't raining down there and we would've been fine. Oh well gives Hubby a chance to go buy a new cubs hat so he can get Ryan Sandbergs autograph. More on that later. He is enjoying the first grade and is proud to be the only one he knows with the Chicago Cubs backpack!
We had more rain then I can ever remember in this last week. My basement lost it's carpeting but that is the worst that happened to us. Thank goodness. My parents were in MN and came home to a glowing thermostat. The HVAC guy that came and replaced it at 11pm saturday night said he had never seen that before. Mom says the dvd doesn't work either so we are thinking that is from one of the many storms that came roaring thru. Glad nothing else was wrong. Easy to replace items. With their move a couple weeks away they really didn't want to have to replace anything major. My brother got 8 inches of water in his basement and he has his house up for sale. They had luckily moved everything out of the basement about a month ago so they are just cleaning up the mess.
Saturday night that same brother and I headed North to WI to Alpine Valley to see The Dave Matthews Band! Once we got there it was great! With all the rain that had gone thru everything was mud. The parking lot, the "lawn" you name it - covered in mud. We left home at 2 pm arrived in Lake Geneva at 4:15 had a great dinner at a little place right on the lake. Great view, excellent food. We left and was on the road again by 5:20 started heading north on this back road DB said he likes to take o.k. Well I guess everyone found his "backway" because we sat in traffic for over 3 1/2 hours. We finally got into the concert about 9:00 we found out we missed only 4 DMB songs and the opening band. I didn't care at that point we got there and we had fun. We had pavillion seats (thank god) and right before the encore I asked DB is up the hill (over the so called lawn) the only way out of here?? He said yes. I said you are going to have to help me up the hill. As I thought it was solid mud so it was a joke trying to get up it. Lost my sandel at one point which he hurried and grabbed. Thank go dhe wasn't afraid to hold his big sisters hand! After that I went shoeless until we arrived at the parking lot (part gravel) Got in the car to sit and wait again. We finally made it home just before 4 am. DH knew I would be late just not THAT late. But he didn't worry cuz I was with my bro. I felt bad for my DB as he had tickets for last night so he had to do it all over again. Better seats (11th row) made him make the trek again. His wife went with him to that concert and he planned on leaving at noon! I haven't talked to him to see how it went. I definately will think more than twice about seeing a show there again. It was still great to spend time with my DB I think it was the first time we had ever spent that much time alone together. Many wonderful and funny memories from it too!
