While we were at Kings Island, we ran across our cousins. They have one DD who is 2 months older than my oldest and their youngest DD is 17 hours younger than my youngest DD (I have one between and their youngest is DS). We throughly enjoy the family and try to get together, but we and they are so very busy that sometimes it seems even when we get together we are running different directions.
With October here, the candy hunt begins! I buy the candy and hide it and the children, search the house for it. Also, it is a birthday month. My neice had her fifth birthday. My sisters-in-law went to Maryland to celebrate her birthday with her and father and her mother (my ex-sister-in-law). Also celebrating birthdays this month are my cousins Chris, Shane, and Terri. My husband and cousin are on the same day and his aunt and uncle are celebrating 44 years of marriage. My uncle is celebrating close to Halloween. So to all those celebrating this month: Happy Birthday and Happy Anniversary. Hope it is wonderful!
On the cat front: My Houdini has decided that he absolutely hates the backyard cat, Lucky. This is what they are doing to each other:
Houdini is the black and white (insde looking out) and Lucky is the black (outside looking in). Lucky has finally decided that I can be trusted. She will let me pet her (my husband has finally been accepted as well for petting) and pick her up. She comes when I call her name (if she under the porch, in the trees or really close by) and she sits on the back porch meowing for me to come out and she has started a campaign to gain entry to the house. Houdini has begun a campaign of terror. He charges the door and makes some horrid noises when the children get to close to him. We have told him numerous times that the only way he loses his happy home is if he hurts a child. He hasn't been listening, but Buster has been. We took the children on a walk to show them where I had grown up and where their grandparents (my parents) had also grown up. Including a school that is no longer a school, a church that is no longer a church. Somehow that is depressing. But the girls were interested.
Now on to updates about projects: I finished a prayer shawl for one of the teachers. I had planned on finishing this for the teacher for Christmas last year, but due to multiple illnesses, it never happened. I finally finished it!!! I also finished another prayer shawl using some very thick yarn. It turned out very nicely, and colorfully. I have moved onto finishing a hat, a penguin, two clowns, a dishcloth, a rug and an afghan. I have so much to finish and so much more to make. But I am hopeful that I will get a lot finished.
Here are the links for the patterns: http://wicketstitch.net/index_files/Page2158.htm is the link for the butterfly in flight dishcloth. Thanks to (no longer a valid link) RaAnn for such beautiful work. I loved how it turned out and I am looking forward to finishing some more of your patterns. http://www.debbiemacomber.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=nnp&pageID=196 (no longer a valid link) is the link for the prayer shawl that I have made so much that I really don't need to see the pattern anymore. It is a very simple pattern and is a really nice gift. Now if you go to Debbie Macomber's site you will find a link for her Christmas Sweater for children and a link to a coloring contest for children under 10 years of age. Her grandchildren will act as judges (can't be more fair than that). http://www.debbiemacomber.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=knitting&pageID=2 (no longer a valid link) This is the link for Debbie Macomber and her knitting site. I love this site and I think this is one all knitters should look at, you never know what she'll put up next.
Have a good week. I'll write again soon.
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