I'm still here, if you were wondering.

Lots of stuff going on as time drags by.  Jeff came home from Costa Rica last week.  He came in late Monday night and went to work Tuesday morning.  Talk about making your vacay last as long as possible.  He's planning on going back in a couple of months.  Hmmm, maybe I can talk him into waiting until the middle of June and I'll go with him. He left the bike with a friend and has to get all that settled as to where to keep it or sell it.

Let's see....  I'm still working on the baby blanket. 

I don't like knitting baby blankets, they are SO boring. They take me as long as a gestation period to make.  I tell someone "oh, I can make that in a couple of weeks."  Then I've jinxed myself and I have to start completely over twice.  So I'm not going to say how much longer it will take, or the child will be getting it for her 7th birthday.  No pressure from Jody on finishing.

Because I'm having to make a baby blanket my other projects have to go by the way-side.  The hoodie is on hold and now I have this beautiful Noro yarn to drool over, and 8 skeins of another colorway in the stash closet, it's Noro too.  Jody said he'd pay me to make the baby blanket and is he ever!!!!

Last weekend we decided to do some re-arranging around the house.  I gave up my tiny sewing/yarn stash room aka, the walk-in linen closet in the hall to have the entire small bedroom as a craft room.  I know some of you are swooning right now especially Duder.  First thing we did was to get all the stuff out of the hall closet and into the re-designed bedroom closet.   I still don't have it all organized like I want, but it's getting there.  We have a few pieces of furniture on Craig's List to get rid of, then we'll move the looms in and it will be official.

In the mean-time, Jody is using the hall closet as "The String Store"!  He has become a distributor of guitar, mandolin and ukulele strings, picks and accessories.  So he moved all his stuff in there.  Check out his web-site www.cruzanstrings.com 
If you need anything let him know, and mention that you know me and I'll get paid in YARN!!!!

Also while all this was going on, Michael and Di made a trip to Florida to talk to another doctor and to do a little fishing.  Jolea and her friend Bobby Ming, took Uncle Michael out on Bobby's boat, and Uncle Doyle was there in spirit too! :)

I will talk to Di today to hear all about the trip and what they found out from the doctor in Florida.

Other than that, I've been taking off just about every Friday if not a Monday, for the past 5 or 6 weeks.  I had tons of comp time to use, and I think I've got it whittled down to a manageable amount, that way if I can't use it before the end of the year, they will pay me for those few hours.  Hate to have so much that I loose it all.  I think I can make it these next 5 days to Spring Break.  Then it will be a zooming 12.5 weeks till Summer!  Oh yeah, I will have that 5 day weekend in the middle of May for the Girls Day out trip to South Texas.  Yeah, I can make it till Summer. 

I guess I better start planning!  It will be here before we know it.