Sea Anemone Knits

So last Thursday, I went with a bunch of the girls to see the Astros v. the Cardinals.

We were all spread out in groups of three and four or so. Staci and Sharron had their husbands there and Liz (sadly, blogless AND pictureless!) went too. I sat with Jennifer (another blogless! methinks I see a trend!) and Jet who are both Cardinals fans kept leaning over and saying things like "It’s ok, we still like you, even if you ARE rooting for the wrong team!" I have one response to that… 

::ahem:: the Astros kicked the Cardinals BUTTS!

Shawls. I started knitting the Swallowtail shawl from IK Fall 06 on Thursday the 14th. At the end of the knitting group, the shawl looked like this:

Yes, I am in fact flipping off the picture, albeit completely unintentionally. I was trying to take a picture people! Cut me some slack. Almost two weeks later, the shawl looks like this:

By now, I’ve added the first chart of the Lily-of-the-Valley lace and am going to be starting the second chart of it as soon as I update this. Then I have the peaked edging and its ready to be bathed and blocked. So basically, I have about 26 rows left. Woo! According to the shawl percentage calculator I am 93.5 percent done. double WOO!

So, we’ve been very industrious in my family. This past weekend, I picked up my cousin at the airport and we spent the night over at my Aunt’s house. My other two uncles came into town too and all of us gathered at my Grandfather’s house at some ungodly hour of the morning to begin the long process of cleaning out the house. While there, my Aunt and Uncles agreed that I could have the loveseat and matching armchair as I did not have any living room furniture. Literally. I had a couch frame with no cushions, and a stack of big floor pillows. I thought that was really awesome of them. My Papa and brother brought them over to the apt for me yestday and when I got home from work, like magic, I had furniture!

There were some hijinks going on at the house though.

Exhibit A:

My dad found this old coat and immediately put it on and was all like "How do you like my coat??" It was a lot funnier than it sounds when I write it. I guess you would have had to be there. Or know my dad…

I cleaned off a bookshelf and began wiping it down. On the bottom shelf, I encountered a species that before now was only a mere legend. Everyone has seen the "dust bunny." Dust bunnies are the more common cousin to this phenom. Behold, I present to you new photographic evidence of the existance of… DUST BUFFALO!!!!

If you look very carefully you will see a sponge carefully descending upon the herd of dust buffalo. Mere seconds after I snapped the only photographic evidence of dust buffalo the sponge swooped down and wiped the entire herd completely out of existance. Sadly, I report that an entire species is no more. A moment of silence please.