As The Yarn Turns

Still Catching Up

I guess I shouldn't be surprised that being away from my blog would lead to more blogging material. Unfortunately, very little of it is related to knitting. I'm still trying to catch up with that too.

I forgot to show what we won at the convention last week. We went to the party that CQ Magazine holds every year. It's always a fun evening and a good time to talk to all of the people you missed during the day. Plus they usually give out door prizes. Well we won this crystal serving platter from Tiffany's. Pretty cool.

This past Tuesday was our 13th wedding anniversary. We were still too tired to do anything too elaborate but we did go to our favorite little German restaurant here in town, Hannelore's. They made us a special dinner and they made us a special card plus balloons and a cup of candy. It was a fun and relaxing evening. Just what we needed after last week.

We also did a tiny magic show this week for the local chamber of commerce and their "Breaking Barriers" theme for the week. I did my ring escape and Rick did a handcuff escape. It's been a busy week.

Just to squeeze in some knitting content here, I noticed the Robot Shop has cozies for Roomba vacuums. I didn't see any knit cozies, though. Now who is going to be the first to knit a cozy for Roomba? (No Roombas here in my house.) I didn't do a very good search so there might be one out there.

I'll leave you with Zoe and Clyde helping Rick remove a DVD drive from a computer.

"I bet this is what Dad is looking for."

"DVD drives are up here, Clyde. You need to know this if you're going to be the Assistant Network Administrator."

by Sydney  |

The Random Travel Issue

I'm still here. It's just that I've been busy and traveling and tired. My unread blogs in Bloglines is also reaching explosive capacity. So I'm going to try to catch up this week. Luckily we have a long weekend coming up.

This past weekend we went to Dayton, Ohio for a convention. We usually drive up because we have a lot of stuff to take and flying wouldn't really make the trip easier.

1. Deer will stand in the middle of the road on the Natchez Trace almost any time of day. On the way up, an entire deer family decided to stand in middle of road. Although we lost quite a bit of tread on our tires and lost a few years off of our lives, we managed to avoid hitting them. They decided to wander off of the road after that.

2. In spite of having to avoid wildlife, we love the beautiful scenery and history along the trace.

3. Geese don't care if it's just a retention pond in the middle of a parking lot. They can still manage to raise a family there.

4. Apparently every motorcycle in the Dayton area gathered in this bar (?) on Saturday.

5. I managed to work in enough time for some silliness and a tshirt with the Ham Sexy guys.

6. Once again, I had no Internet access while I was there. It's probably just as well since I also had no spare time.

7. It's hot and smokey outside today. I'm assuming the smoke from the fires in Florida is blowing up this way. That's a lot of smoke people. We aren't that close.

8. I am so tired and glad to be home again with Katie, Zoe, and Clyde.

by Sydney  |