Life Goes On.

Dear Elisa,

Wow, what a year.  I've been really busy, though you wouldn't know that from the cobwebs around here.  I was out of work ("funemployed") for a few months, then got a great job in April.  It's very interesting work at a really great company for nice pay.  I'm having a good time.  My Grandpa got sick in February and passed away in June.  That wasn't a good time.  I feel like I've only started to come out from under that in the last couple of days.  We were very close, and his passing hurt way, way more than I'd thought it would.

But I have been knitting!  We also have our garden going again for the summer.  I bought a Mac, which has been life-changing.  I've messed with computers for almost 30 years, and this is truly, truly the only computer I've ever loved.  I was reluctant to get one because I thought it would be just different enough from a PC that I would be constantly annoyed.  But once I stopped trying to find the hard way to do something and realized that there is a really easy, obvious way to do most things, it all fell into place.  Weird, huh?  I guess I'm slowly becoming an Apple fangirl.

Oh, back to the knitting.  Right.  I haven't finished that Shipwreck Shawl yet.  I did make it through the complicated lacy bits to the serious beady bits, then petered out.  I did knit a supercute baby blanket (the Cascading Colors Baby Blankie) for a friend's supercute baby, the lovely Phoebe. 

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As you can see, my Yard Buddha experienced a traumatic head removal.  He continues to be a dashing knitwear model for non-hat items, though.

xoxo,
M.