Random thoughts about knitting, golf, and puppyhood

I know I have been horrible about blogging lately...please pretend you haven't noticed! We are in full swing finish up and put-the-house-back-together mode. We spent all day yesterday painting and moving furniture. I believe that I will be painting our guest bathroom today, as well as the trim and door. Sounds like fun, huh? :) When my Uncle and Danny (my adopted uncle) were here, they built a loft for my bed in our bedroom. I have finally been able to move into that bed and I love it! There is plenty of room for a set of shelves at the head of the bed that hold everything I need as well as a few books that I probably don't need...too many late nights!

I have started re-reading Sense and Sensibility and am in love with it all over again. I have searched and searched for something with the same irresistable charm as the Austen books, but thus far have been unsuccessful. Her writing always makes me want to go back in time :)

For those of you who watched golf this past weekend, I am so thrilled with Tiger's victory! I know I haven't really mentioned it here, but I am a big golf fan and always watch when my favorites are playing. My favorites are Tiger Woods, Adam Scott, Retief Goosen, and Vijay Singh...among others :) This is Tiger's first victory since becoming a father and he has had a dry run since the Wachovia Championship in May so it was wonderful to see him win again.


Now, to the knitting realm. I have put down my stole almost completely as I feel selfish when I work on it, lol. I have focused on the pair of knee socks for Levi and the afghan. I have devoted all of my tv time to the afghan since it is pretty mindless garter stitch, and then everything else I have given over to the socks. I have determined that I don't like the even stripes of this yarn. It's so predictable that I am getting frustrated. Plus the fact that the colors are so drab and boring, but Levi loves them so that's all that matters I suppose!



You may not be able to see in this picture, but I am using some of the new beaded stitch markers that I made the other day. I also have a new creation...a beaded row marker. I love it! I got frustrated with trying to remember what row I was on for my decreases and wanted something pretty to help with that. I saw an idea for something along these lines on someone's blog, so I just modified it to look the way I wanted it to. I know these pics are horrible quality, but I cant ever get my camera to take a good photo of anything that could remotely resemble jewelry. Argh!









I went to take a picture of my socks and Bailey immediately jumped up onto the couch and posed for the camera. I had to take her picture then! Here she is looking gorgeous. I have determined that as soon as all our company leaves and life settles down somewhat, she and I are doing some serious obedience training. She's so sweet and I am perfectly fine with her little 'tudes, but I realized that it's not so overlook-able to other people and some of her little quirks can get annoying when you can't tell her to stop. For example: she thinks that if she barks at something that she wants, you will give it to her...now don't ask me HOW she got that idea, but there it is. Another thing...she is crazy with excitement when she first sees someone until they properly greet her. Now, by properly, I mean that you have to giver her your whole attention for a few minutes and say hi. Now see, to me this is adorable because I would probably do all that anyway, LOL. So, the day has come where puppy and her mommy, have to grow up and face facts. *sigh*