Erica’s Blog

Saturday was a relaxed, lazy day.  Hubby worked from 11:00 till 7:30 or so, and the rest of us just hung out at home.

Sunday was BUSY:

• Up early to bake Uncle Jimmy’s sugar-free chocolate birthday cake.
• Church.
• Home.
• Stop @ Hubby’s work to pick up Uncle Jimmy’s present.
• Meet @ Jimmy & Velia’s in Richmond at 2:00 for a major food-fest in honor of Uncle Jimmy’s 53rd birthday.
• Down to Emeryville for Erik & Florence’s baby shower at 6:00.  They loved the parquet squares blanket.  It was quite the shower; I’ve been to weddings with fewer guests!
• Home by…mmm…10:00 ish.
• Car/party knitting for the day:  a mitred dish cloth.

Today, we all slept in (after a horrible headache woke me up at 1:00).  Hubby & the girls worked outside a bit while I caught up on laundry & Roomba-ing, etc.  In the afternoon, we spent an hour or so over at the military cemetery, which looked really impressive with all the flags the Boy Scouts put out on the graves for Memorial Day.  It was really interesting — they even have some soldiers from the Spanish-American War there.  I could have stayed a lot longer, but the girls got bored after a while.  I was really puzzled to find a lot of babies who had died in February 1967.  Makes me wonder what happened then.  I guess I’ve got some poking around to do….

Worked on Shannon’s wristers.  Worked on Mrs. M’s scarf.  Swatched for something w/the Hip-Hop yarn (OK, it wasn’t really a swatch, but a false start).  Hubby grilled a bunch of salmon that his buddy Jeremy caught and gave us.  We’re winding down now.  Tomorrow will be here too soon…