Sunset Cat

Great trip! 12 dives, including nurse sharks, barracuda encounters, a spotted eagle ray, stingrays, lobsters, octopi, morays, drum fish, more! Good food, nice staff at the Lodge at St George.
PinUp Girl is on hold because I’m doing a Colinette throw for a friend. The next couple days are going to be full [...]

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Yep, I made progress on my knitting, I puttered around the house and garden, I surfed the internet and made updates to my webpage. I drank tea, read a variety of books, and walked the dog. (I often declutter as well. Our house is quite small and if something new comes in [...]

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I’m planning an afternoon tea for friends, been working on the menu. Read it and drool:
May Day Afternoon Tea
Menu
Cream of Asparagus soup with fresh herb and crème fraiche garnish
Buttermilk scones with preserves, lemon curd and Devonshire cream
Assorted Tea Sandwiches
Cucumber with herbed cream cheese on oatmeal bread
Ham, cheese and asparagus tip with herbed butter on [...]

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Wow. And wow again. 75 degrees, brilliant blue skies, sheer granite dropoffs, waterfalls — I’m a beach girl but Yosemite is one of the most gorgeous places on earth.
Dave and I go every year to the California Vet Med Assoc spring conference in Yosemite. Lectures in the morning for me, he catches up [...]

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Finished the back portion of Pinup Girl yesterday, started on the front. The front should be more interesting because that’s where all the short rows etc for shaping are, and I haven’t done that yet.
Looks like Cozumel instead of Dominica for August, based on costs/ease of getting there.

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Pinup Girl is moving along. Note it’s not as bright of a green as in the work in progress picture. I bought some bamboo needles because I kept having stitches fall off my aluminum needles. I hold my needles very loosely when I knit so I wanted something just a bit ’stickier’.
The [...]

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I’ve started the Pinup Girl sweater for me from Stitch N Bitch. Celery green Classic Elite Lush. Yum!
I actually knitted a swatch for a gauge. Good thing I did because I ended up going up a size in needles.
I’ve also ordered yarn for my mom’s sweater, the green floral sweater in Knitting [...]

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Since I ‘advertise’ this as SCUBA related as well I figure I’d better put something up here about diving.
I’ve been diving about a year now. Had a pretty bumpy beginning regarding claustrophobia and rental wetsuits and ended up doing classroom & pool work for my PADI open water certification through [...]

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Umm. Yes, gauge is important, and you shouldn’t just wing it, even for a dog sweater. Interestingly enough the length etc is fine, so apparently I do know how to use a tape measure properly. But the Drone costume is just that, for Rigel for Halloween, and not for daily wear, and [...]

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