Adios y'all!

We're heading out on a real live trip this afternoon. I bought a whole new memory card for the camera so watch out!

Sorry I've been out of touch y'all, but I've been pretty busy with something kind of exciting that involves knitting and mail and a major change in my worldview. But I have to take time out to show you my gum. I am such a sucker for cute packaging.

This is my favorite song in the whole world

Another Miniature Weekend bites the dust

Hi y'all! Look at this little guy. Isn't he sweet?Ok, that's my crazy cat lady moment for today. Time to get serious. There's a lot of stuff to tell y'all about.

Some of you may remember that May 15th was Miniature Showcase!! It's the very silly (I mean cool) event that my entire year revolves around. Really. You can see my pictures here. It was a tough decision, but this year I picked up (another) appetizer tray from Autumn Leaf Studios. It makes me very very happy.

We stayed (again) at The Belmont Hotel. It's great. They left us-ok, just John-a little handwritten note! Cute. If you're in the big D, please go there.

On Saturday night, we happened upon an Uncle Lucius show at Lee Harvey's. Remember? That's the place with all the wicked cool beer signs. You can see my pictures of them from last year's mw here.

On Sunday we met the Starks for a fancy brunch at the Modern in Fort Worth. Then we went to see Michelangelo's first painting at the Kimbell. It was fantastic! Demons and stuff. Cool. Plus there was a painting of John there!

In the car I tried to hunker down and knit for real, with mixed results. I got to the foldy part.
You probably don't remember what this might someday become. Here's a reminder.

In less happy news, our friend and half of our followers JDS and his wife Megan moved away to LA last week. The only bright spot in the darkness is that Megan is going to work for Marketplace!! (note to non-nerds: it's a radio show) And Marketplace is hosted by one of my (many) imaginary boyfriends, Kai Ryssdal! Maybe she can put in a good word for me...(joke! joke!)

Speaking of film (we were, kind of, because Jack makes movies, remember?) on Friday we got all brainy and watched 8 1/2. I LOVED it.

Oh yeah, did you know there's a Tom Landry freeway? The sign has a little hat on it. (I didn't get a picture and I can't find one on these dang internets!!) I love Texas.

Weekend Update

Hi y'all. How was your weekend? Ours was great. Guess I should ask how were your past two weekends since I've been extra lazy about the c & d.

Weekend of 4-24, my friends Adriane and Robin and I went to see this. There are pics here. This past weekend, we went to the coast for Emily's birthday, and on the way home went to the Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge. It was beautiful. Those pics are here. Hope y'all are well. More later, just noticed it's time for me to leave for work. xo

A post about nothing (but knitting and cats)

So I've got my traditional Thursday headache (from uh, thinking too hard at trivia last night) and the sky looks white and northwesterny so I think today is as good a day as any to stay indoors and do some actual knitting. It's shameful how little knitting I do and how much time I waste on this computation machine reading about knitting and looking at things other people knitted. But, as long as you're here in the interwebs, check out my fave imaginary friend, Crazy Aunt Purl. She keeps her yarn in the jumbo Hefty slider bags just like I do! She likes to take pictures of her cats!

Speaking (always) of cats, see how the ball of yarn is no longer attached to the project? Another cat must have done it because clearly my two are peacefully asleep.

In other news of the mundane, I bought another non-rocking record. That makes TWO new records in 2010 so far. Any of y'all have any ideas about what record number three should be?

Hello again from my balcony

This time I'm sitting in my plain old plastic fake Adirondack chair because my Texass chair went on a crazy adventure with Adriane and I've been too lazy to unfold it. If I look up, I see this:If I look down, I see this:
Guess everything is just fine here at the Grove. Sorry I've been slow to the post, but it's been a "busy" week (or two). Weekend before last, we took a trip to Denton to visit the Starks and as usual it was lovely. We got up early on Sunday to witness (on TV) an important moment in Texas history: the implosion of Texas Stadium. You can watch many many videos of it here. Unfortunately, I didn't take ANY pictures even though the camera was in my purse the whole time. Fortunately, my #1 blog reader was there so she saw everything. For the rest of you, I can show you the things I got on our lady shopping trip.
I like this necklace because it looks like fish eggs.
This bracelet will look great with this sweater, provided it ever becomes a sweater. Don't worry, I'm sure I'll find plenty of chances to wear it in the meantime. We also got our traditional pedis-this time I picked red glitter. (Trust me, it's glittery, you just don't want to get close enough to these feet to see) Toes look weird. Or maybe just mine with the freakishly long 2nd toe.

This past weekend the Howell adults went on vacation, so I got to spend LOTS of extra time with the Howell kids. Thanks once again to my sweet JS, it wasn't so bad. We took them on the fancy new commuter train. It wasn't the worst time ever, but I don't think the intended demographic for this activity is the not quite two year old. It's ok, it wasted-I mean productively used-a couple hours, so overall a plus. We also took them to a Round Rock Express game and powered through an HOUR AND A HALF rain delay. If you don't spend much time with little kids you might say "what's the big deal?", but if you do, you might say "y'all are super badasses!" And you, second person, would be right.

In entertainment news, we just finished season 2 of Breaking Bad. This is a fantastic show but I have to say that towards the end it really pushed the limits of plausibility. I guess for all y'all normal people with basic cable this is no news at all. In other a year behind viewing news, I've started whatever season of Mad Men is on dvd now, and this morning I saw that Christina Hendricks is the most attractive woman in America. I very much agree.

And now for the most exciting news of all here at C &D! We have a new follower! Our very own Jack Daniel Stanley, the finest filmmaker we know. Welcome, follower #2! Yippee!!