Catching Up

Well, I haven't been blogging much but now that the summer is over, hopefully I will be. It's been a busy few months and it looks like things aren't going to let up any time soon. I'll put it into these terms; I get paid twice a month so for me, there are 6 paychecks till Christmas. How scary is that? I have to say though, as much as I love the summer and I truly do, I think Fall is probably my favorite time of year. I love the turning of the leaves and all the holiday's that are coming up. I love to decorate for Halloween, Thanksgiving and most of all Christmas. I love the cooler weather so I can wear all my cool scarves and the funky hat my friend made for me last year.

So, today after work I grabbed a book, my sock and my IPod and to Jones Beach. There weren't too many people. Check out the sunset they missed:

And these were taken with my cell phone! I love the way the beach looks at night too. I don't know what it is, but I get a little scared. Even though it's the same old beach as during the day, it looks much wilder at night. There was some sort of photo shoot going on down by the shore. I'm surprised they weren't asked to leave. You usually are after sunset. Maybe they had a permit to be there. I stayed as long as I could because I wanted to see who they were, but it was getting a little late and I wanted to get home.

Well, I am off to finish the cuff on my toe up sock.

I am having so much fun knitting it, I am looking forward to starting the other so I can wear the pair. Then I am going to practice making one sock on two circular needles, one sock using the magic loop method, then I am going to decide which method I like best and knit up a pair of socks with my Noro Sock Yarn! Can you say OOOOO, AAAHHH!!!

Summer Night at Jones Beach

A friend of my brother is in a band. I can't think of the name but they played a free concert at Jones Beach tonight. I went there with my friend P, her daughter and her friend. As soon as we got there, guess who I found? My beautiful little Peanut, who is not such a Peanut. He's 3 months old now and is growing so fast. He was laughing up a storm every time I told him he was crazy.

No, he doesn't have Grandma & Grandpa wrapped around his finger..not at all!

Little Miss M (on the right) and her friend M. They are often mistaken for sisters.

Mom being mom and dad trying to pretend she's not there. Actually, I think he was amused by her.

The boardwalk was actually pretty busy for a week night. They have so much going on at the beach during the summer. Every night there is either some sort of band playing, line dancing or movie showing. I'm really going to have to take advantage of all of that next year.

Yes, I am alive...

Greetings from Field 6 of Jones Beach. This was me yesterday. Today, I am at work. Although we are getting out early (woohoo). My brother and his family have been visiting since last Friday so things have been crazy. I will be posting some photos of their visit shortly.

On the knitting front, I've been knitting a simple little lacy scarf with one of the skeins of lace I bought from Knit Picks. I'm also trying my hand at crochet. I've started fooling around with the Queen Anne's Lace scarf I found on Ravelry through one of my friends. It's coming out rather nicely. I'll be posting photos of that soon too.

Well, have a happy and safe 4th of July.

Sunday's Saturday Evening Sky & 50 Days Till Christmas

The remnants of Hurricane Noel

This is my Saturday evening sky.

(Shamelessly stolen from Dave..the idea, not the photo)

It's beginning to look like Christmas!
According to the sign I saw, there are 50 shopping/crafting/knitting/stress out days till Christmas.

with that in mind, have a good week....

Mini Vacation

So, I took a few days off from work to kick back, relax and re-coup from seeing Harry Potter at midnight. I am much to old to be coming home at 3:30am, but it was fun and I really did enjoy the movie very much. I also want to see it in the IMAX theater before it disappears. So, what have I been doing? I was mostly resting up on Wednesday. I may have tried knitting the sock and a few rows of the mystery stole, but I can't remember now. Thursday and Friday, I went to the beach and finished reading a really good book (Beach Road) and did some knitting...see?!

It's not the greatest photo, but ya get the idea. I think I'm going to take a break from the beach today. I'm slightly singed right now.

Here are two pictures Matthew & Danny sent to me. On the left is Danny's version of me and on the right is a picture of me and Matthew. They just made my day when I opened my mail and found their card and these pictures!!

Catch up

Okay, first thing first:

Trip out East. Here's Paigie driving...oooooo! Next time we drive out there I will take a photo of the signs pointing out where the wineries are. Take note, when driving east most, if not all the wineries seem to be on the LEFT hand side of the road. If you've ever driven out to eastern Long Island, you will understand how difficult making a left hand turn on a two lane road on a summer weekend day is oh so joyful an experience. Then getting out of the driveway to continue the trip east is another fun thing to do. There are usually two signs pointing out where the wineries are. They are one on top of the other. The top has an arrow pointing upwards, indicating there is a winery up ahead somewhere. The one below that usually has an arrow pointing towards the left (to the opposite side of the road) letting you know the winery in question is RIGHT THERE!!! And when I say RIGHT THERE, I mean, RIGHT THERE!! I can't tell you how many tire marks I saw on the road where people had to stop short and make a sharp left into the driveway of whichever winery they were trying to get into. Alas, we did not stop at any....this time.

Paige & Joycie in Greenport. One day I will get them to turn around. I mean, the backs of their heads are really nice, but they are really quite beautiful from the front.
And here is our happy little camper. This is in Port Jefferson. I can't remember if this was before or after she met the love of her life, Matt, the waiter. Yes, we went to eat at a nice little Greek restaurant and ordered a Pizza for the little Miss, Joyce & I had Burritos and Paige...what did you have? I can't remember. I don't think it was Greek though.
It was pointed out to me that I have many more pictures of Marin than of Peter, so, here is our boy Peter and his Moocat - Samus. (I was also told that I misspelled her name, so here is the correction.) Isn't he handsome (Peter, not the moocat)? I can't believe how tall Pete is now. He's such a great kid.

And here is Peter with the great escaping hamster, Hamtaro (I know, I know, I probably spelled his name wrong). This animal escaped his cage not once, but twice. The first time they found him in the bathroom, the second time in the living room. With 4 cats and 2 dogs it's a miracle he was found.

May I ask you...at what point do you drop the camera, stop laughing your ass off and save the child whose hair is covering her eyes so completely she can't see, from drowning? Sadly, we were laughing so hard we actually didn't get a photo of said near drowning. Thank goodness for the nice man who stopped and helped her. Paige and I were of no use.

The sky looked like this today (and yesterday): So I am finally working on the other pair of socks for my nephew.

Okay, I really think that's about it for now. OH, I want to say to my Titi Aida and cousin Rosie. I just found out that Rosie uses this blog as a way to see what I'm up to (you can see her and my mom in a photo I posted about two weeks ago for TGI Friday). And I am thrilled to death that my Titi Aida has checked out my blog. I LOVE YOU BOTH!! XOXOXOXOX