Thanks for the feedback on Victoria’s tattoo. ¬†I’m pleased with it and the Red Sox socks make me giggle when I see them. ¬† Here’s a picture of the artist, Don, in progress.
Don is a friend of JessaLu’s who details cars. ¬†He did the tat on her Amelia and she arranged for him to come to Tina’s Stitch & Spin this past weekend. ¬†Excellent pictures and summary there. ¬†I again thank Tina for hosting and Jess for reminding me.
I got a bonus in that the folks picked the monkeys up at camp early on Friday and took them directly to the boat.  This meant I could go to the S&S alone.   I had the house to myself Friday night!  It was eerily quiet.  I had a relaxing evening and drove up early Sat morning to meet Jess at a diner in Catskill for breakfast.  Have I mentioned I hate the stupid NY State Thruway?  Well I do.  Two lane highways should be illegal!
Sigh.  Anway, I had a stressful drive up as traffic either flowed way fast or slowed to a crawl for no apparent reason other than a dingbat in a crappy car that was too scared to pass a truck.  Add in that my 2.5 yr old Magellan GPS refused to accept input of an address.  I was free to get assistance to any previously entered address, but any street I tried to input in 3 states were rejected for being invalid.  I had to use the Google nav on my iPhone.  But then again, I had battery issues there and a crappy arsed charger that actually drained the battery.  Grrrr.  After breakfast, Jess and I hit the local Walmart and I picked up a good charger and a new TomTom.
There’s also something about driving in upstate NY that turns my car into a animal killing machine. ¬†In all the years I’ve been driving, I had exactly 2 roadkills. ¬†Now? ¬†The last two trips have doubled that! ¬†Last trip was a ground hog, though if it hadn’t of been my car that took the little guy out, it would have been the 18 wheeler behind me. ¬†This trip? ¬†A bird or two. ¬†Sigh.
Moving along, last week was the Trike-a-thon at school.  Alex completed the most laps for his class at 26 while Kat came in at 22.  The school was able to raise $1,500.
Thanks for the donations!  Random number generator selected JessaLu as the winner of the Malabrigo sock and I was able to hand deliver it to her this past weekend.
Gotta write some code.
Craft on!
2 responses so far ↓
1 JessaLu // Jun 30, 2009 at 11:28 am
yay! I won! ;o) Thanks!!
I’m so glad Don could make it, he really helped make the day special.
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2 Tina M. // Jun 30, 2009 at 1:07 pm
It was great to have you there, thank you for driving all that way! I almost killed a squirrel today on the way to work, last week it was a close call with a pheasant. I feel your pain, just not literaly, yet.
You’ve got some damned cute kids.