June 20th, 2010 | 
Author: I love summer time. I love summer weekends even more. I love spending countless hours during the day swimming, followed by an evening swim that leads to catching lightning bugs.
I love that Skyler has been so determined to learn how to swim this year and has taken to the water like a fish. Or a shark as he wants to be called.
Jumping into the water and swimming back to the ladder so he can climb out and do it all over again. He’s incredible.
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I decided that I needed to update my ravelry stash and project photos. So while taking photos of the yarn, Skyler decided to jump in and get in on the action.
I love my sweet booger butt.
Saturday, we spent a few hours at the zoo with some wonderful friends.
And I got over my fear of fingering weight yarn and took the plunge to knit a shawl.
I’ve more than doubled my progress since taking this photo this morning.
And today we spent a few hours outside, in the blistering heat & scorching sun. Splashing and swimming in the pool.
what a wonderful weekend it was.
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and of course, some macro photos that I took this past weekend that I took using my macro ring :D
and then a non-macro of the robin babies :)
This photo of Downtown Nashville was taken Monday May 3rd….
photo by Kelseywynns (linked to take you to his photo page)
After Nashville was hit with 13.5 inches of rain over two days, causing many rivers, creeks & lakes to flood. May 1st & 2nd 2010 will be monumental days for Nashville and several surrounding cities. They will be remembered as days that many lives were lost, homes & businesses destroyed, families hopes and dreams gone.
Myself and my family were not affected too badly. My brother’s basement was flooded a little and my parents car got flooded. But compared to thousands who lost everything, I am grateful that we were lucky. But you can’t go a day without hearing about the flood. You can’t go a day without seeing something in the newspaper, on the news, some photo of the damage. And things aren’t going to change anytime soon. We will still be talking about this for months, years…. because that’s how long it will take to clean up the damage.
It’s truly a devastating site for several cities who never imagined we would be going through this.
But even through the horrendous storms, these little baby birds managed to survive…
These baby robins hatched Monday morning, after the mommy bird sat in the nest for two days straight, protecting her eggs. Her strong nest in a small Japanese Maple tree.
I’m glad my little birds are safe. I love peeking into the nest, and seeing them grow. Nature is a wonderful thing :)
I love relaxing weekends.
Where we could spend time at the park…
Or time outside playing with bubbles….
Or I could spend the majority of my time knitting…
Ahhh… The choices are endless. I love weekends.
I can’t believe it’s been a month since I last blogged. I have definitely earned my blog slacker of the year award. So since my last post, yarn addiction v.2, I have turned the cake of yarn into a gorgeous spring lace beret.
It’s perfect for spring, summer and most likely fall. The beret has renewed my love of cotton. Or maybe I never had a true love of cotton…
Skyler and I have spent much of our weekends out of the house.
From camping…
To countless weekends spent at the zoo.
Throw in a fabulous Easter with 3 Easter egg hunts…..
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Thinking of all the fun we are having, I feel like I am finally ok with him growing up.
I was strictly a wool lover. I would buy the cheapy cotton peaches n’ cream yarn to satisfy a need to buy yarn. Not sure what I have planned for knitting with it. I had a plan at the time. I was still a cotton hater though. It was stiff, scratchy, felt like cardboard. Just a tad softer than acrylic.
Then I got the news that Knit Picks was introducing new colors into their Simply Cotton line. I’m a yarn addict. I HAD to have it. So I found a pattern and decided to the try the yarn. Maybe it would be like Blue Sky Alpacas 100% organic cotton. (only the most amazing cotton yarn in the world, just too pricy) I couldn’t decide on a color, so I bought from the Simply Cotton Organic Sport yarn. The Malted Milk color. (bottom right if you click the link) Picked out a pattern to knit with it.
And I cast on. Had some doubts. The yarn was too thin. I like my worsted and bulky weight. The yarn was soft yes, but doesn’t glide across my bamboo needles like wool. So I bought some nickel-plated needles I needed. Yarn glides a little easier, but still not like wool. I kept knitting. And then I got farther into the project and I was converted. The drape is extraordinary. The lightness, the airiness of the fineness of the sport weight. Perfect. Utterly, absolutely, incredibly perfect. And I’m completely converted. I want more projects to knit with sport weight. I want to break out my fingering weight yarn and knit with it.
I want to buy more of this cotton yarn and knit a shawl.
I am now an equal opportunity yarn addict. Except for acrylic. It still sucks. hardcore.
I was a cotton yarn hater. It always felt so tough, so scratchy, so stiff. Until I bit the bullet and bought some Knit Picks Simply Cotton yarn. And after knitting with it, it’s love.
