I hope everyone is having a wonderful 4th of July. Franklin Habit has a wonderful post for today (and I have to admit, his comment re: comments made me giggle).
We (Dave, me, Rigel) met Tina for a run this morning. So many people out already at 8 a.m., walking their dogs, running, biking, setting up for beach volleyball tournaments. The LA Tri Club 8 a.m. Manhattan Beach ocean swim was on — we could see some people out swimming. It’s June gloom-y, but it was lovely to be out. A little girl in a stroller was thoroughly entranced by Rigel — her mom was fine with Rigel coming up to her for a petting. I love seeing kids who are so excited about dogs, and comfortable with them.
We’re planning an otherwise quiet day — grilling some chicken from the Farmer’s Market for a late lunch, potato salad, fresh fruit salad (we got some wonderful nectarines and blueberries yesterday), drinking some pink wine.
Knitting-wise, I’m going to try to get Zylphia done to the armholes and one sleeve at least started today.
I started a group on Ravelry for my designs. I was a bit worried about doing so — what if no one joined??? But people have, yay! I’m hoping to get some KALs going and to post some techniques links and tutorials there (will have here on the blog as well).
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Probably the most exciting thing that happened this week was Rigel breaking a window.
The squirrel that sometimes sits in our pine tree was there, chittering at Rigel. Rigel got so excited he lunged at the window with both front paws and BROKE THE WINDOW. He didn’t go through it, and he didn’t cut his paws, though he was startled.
Dave (with help from me) took out the rest of the broken glass (with the VARMINT chittering at Dave all the while), took apart the window (old aluminum slider window, the fixed window was the broken one, but you have to take out the slider window first to take out the fixed window), and took it to a local glass store. They cut the glass and re-assembled the aluminum frame & gasket around it, and Dave and I reinstalled the windows. Apparently the old glass was thinner than it was supposed to be, which I’m sure contributed to it breaking when hit just so.
So…the new window is fine, Rigel is fine, the darned squirrel (which is now referred to by a variety of obscene names) is fine. Dave was fine for the whole process. I was a bit of a basket case.
The second most exciting thing…I got a loom! It’s an antique high castle four harness loom. Its previous owner just wanted to find it a home. We’re going to set it up in the cat room (the bedroom/library where the cats stay during the daytime so they don’t use Rigel’s dog door and go outside; they are indoor-only cats). Pics to follow.