Busy Little Bee...

Hi!

Wow, life has gone nutso on me. I love it! I've been busy with stuff for the trip--I've found passion I forgot I had inside of me! Seriously, it's cool. And I've been chugging along on the Elfine #1...I'm actually very close to being finished...and a wee bit discouraged that I have to do the second sock. And still working on the Green Gable sweater--have I even posted a photo of that progress on that? Here--let me go find it...

Pattern is here, yarn is Cascade Sierra Quattro.
Using a Takumi, size 5, 24"needle.

Do any of you know what Bubble Tea is? It may be only a West Coast thing at this point. It always cracks me up the way things arrive in the US--how trends are decidedly regional, but because we are all in the same country, we mistakenly think things are the same all over. Anyway, I digress...Bubble Tea was the topic, I believe! I had it in Taiwan and about a year ago found a place on the backside of nowhere (which really only means it's far away from me...not really the middle of nowhere...) that had it. Now it's popping up all over the place! It's basically iced tea with milk and tapioca bubbles in the bottom. Looks weird, and if I thought about it too much it would probably be disgusting--chunks of slime in TEA??! But I L. O. V. E. the stuff. Addicted. Delicious....must. have. NOW!

More later...it's far to lovely outside to sit here and type. I can't afford to burn sunlight in Oregon!

Seriously.

I am:

1. thinking I am never going to get another sock finished in my life ever again.
2. thinking that I'm the slowest and least productive knitter in the entire world.
3. dreading the fact that I have to get my silly support letter written, even though I know I have to do it and that it's really no big deal and that it is one way that the kingdom of God works together as a body (yeah, mixed metaphors...got it) and that God will provide for this trip if indeed He wants us to go...
4. did I mention the never-ending socks?
   

RANDOM POST.

I found a restaurant like J. Alexander's today. I swear they have nearly the exact menu. It was delicious. Oh, it's called Stanford's.

Lisa's birthday was last Tuesday--a week ago tomorrow--tomorrow is my sister Debbie's birthday. So for Lisa's birthday we went to the Oregon Coast. The dunes, where I've never been. It was gorgeous (but very windy and a bit chilly) and I had coffee from a new-to-me place. Plus: incredible sunset, sea lions...must remember to get to the coast more often than I do.

The friends...

...the dunes...

...my toes in the Pacific (brr!)...

...the new coffee place...

...and the sunset.