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Blue Sky Needed…

Island BoyIt has done nothing but rain for the past 12 hours at least, plus all the rain we got yesterday, and as Staci noted in my comments on my previous post, the bayou is overflowing. We are supersaturated now, and I don’t think we can handle much more rain.

You know it is bad when your Dad calls at 6:45 in the morning and tells you that he is driving down the middle of the road because of the flood. Most of the college campuses closed today, he informed me. That finalized my decision to not go to class, as driving almost 40 miles round-trip in floodwaters was just not what I was up to doing today. Plus, it just isn’t safe. You never know what you will run into in weather like this, and you should never mess with flood water.

I’ll work on my latest psych paper instead.

In preparation for our upcoming show at the Yale Street Market, I’ve been going through old photos to pull out ones that I will print. I came across this forgotten gem from November, 2003 – the first time I met Mike’s parents. While they were down here in Houston, we took them to Galveston. It was a beautiful, clear day and the photos we took were fantastic. I think this one will make the cut for the print pile. What do you think?

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Monday Sunshine…

Cottage Flowers
The flowers outside the magical cottage in St. James Park in the heart of London.

It is after midnight now, so it is officially Monday. I felt the need for bright, sunshine flowers as I listen to the rain outside. Cool weather has visited us, but within days it will be back into the high 80s again. So really, not only do I need flowers, I need leaves changing colors and cooler temperatures to stay for longer than a few days. I guess the reason I have flowers on my mind is because I woke up to the rain here and a knock at my door. The man outside handed me a beautiful bouquet of flowers and the envelope on the card said Flower Delivery Dublin. A reminder from my parents on what I was missing by not taking the trip with them.

I know fall will come, I know it will. It just can’t be soon enough.

Happy Monday!

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Blue Man Group



Blue Man Group

Originally uploaded by bpc.


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Tonight



Tonight

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Birthday Lace from Katy!

Do you know what is even better than having friends that knit? Having friends that knit things FOR YOU! Katy said that as she worked on the Diamond Fantasy shawl, she realized that it was really calling my name. So she gave it to me for my birthday! (Well, we couldn’t get together on my birthday, so it was a week later, but still within the “birthday month” so that is still birthday time to me!)

I realized yesterday that I had been remiss and not shared a photo of it on the blog. And this is not the best photo – Mike took it while I was wearing it with my cell phone. But I had to share it.

The yarn is Hill Country Yarns Sweet Feet Sock Yarn, and the pattern is the Diamond Fantasy Shawl. It is so lovely that two complete strangers out in the wild complemented me on it today – and since Katy was with me, I quickly responded with, “She knit it!”

Hmmm… since I’m posting a photo and her knitting details, does this make this post Katy Blogless’s first blog post via proxy? (Please comment on it, as Katy thinks that if she had a knitblog, no one would comment. So I want her to see the commenty love!)