I'm starting to get all pruney....

I am sick of the rain. It's been raining exactly a week now. Everyday, and every night. I know we needed it but I need some sunshine really bad. I'm not ready for my tan to fade. I may have to call in sick on Monday if I don't get some sun this weekend. "I'm not coming in today. Oh I have SAD.... you know that ailment that those Northerners get when they don't get any sun. Yeah, I have that.... sure I'll bring you a Dr's note."

One good thing has been my new hair style. It works great in the rain, I know because I stood in it for 30 minutes this morning.

Last Thursday I went to get my 'hairs trimmed' and as usual, my hair dresser DeeDee gives me something to drink and does whatever she wants to my hair. I think I just heard someone gasp. It's really not scary at all. I've known her for 20 years and she's never done anything weird to my hair. She really knows my hair better than I do. My hair is straight as a board and grows down in my face, kind of like a sheep dogs. It won't hold a curl and is rather fine. After all these years, I'm not going to fight it anymore. I'll take a bowl cut please. Like I said, DeeDee would never give me the cut I wanted, she knows best.

Last time I was there (about 5 weeks ago) she decided we'd let my hair grow out. I had told her that Jody can't tollerate the smell of hair spray (or perfume) since his chemo and radiation. I think they got rid of all that stuff in there and now his nose works. Anyway, if he smells anything real flowery or chemically (that's one of W's words) he gets really annoyed. Together we figured to keep him from having me ride in the back of the truck she better give me a real low maintenance hair style. I don't have to put any 'product' on it anymore. And most of the time I really don't have to do anything to it in the morning other than brush it a little. No more Bed Head. It's really soft and flippy. (That's when you hairs swing side to side when you walk.)

So this time she just trimmed it a little to keep the shape and she colored it. I had decided to just let it go back to the natural color, but she had other plans. So now my grays are gone and it's a really nice dark brown (my natural color) with sort of a dark auburn undertone. It really looks good. The cut is so easy to take care of.

Do you remember that sweater I was working on around the time school started? Well I finished it. It's OK, it's just that it's linen. I really don't know why I knit with linen. It just doesn't turn out the way I want it to. It's so flat and lifeless. No spring to it. Better left for weaving and making money from. But I had the yarn in the stash so I had to use it.

I'm trying to get these socks finished by next weekend. I'll probably finish this one tonight (if I'll stay of the computer) and I could get the other done by next Friday. I started these last Thursday night. They are someone's Christmas present, these colors are classics for the person I'm knitting them for.







Let me get my foot out of the way, looks like I was wearing them for a minute.

Just wanted ya'll to know we were molding here in North Texas. We can turn off the water now. The Fire Ants have taken to high ground... in our mailbox.

Have a good one, get some sun, you're looking a bit pale.