Short takes from home

My cat made it home just fine, and didn't need to be tranquilized. She's had words with my parents' cats, but hopefully they'll get along well enough for a few weeks, and mom won't get bitten again. (It was smaller than it looked at first and it's healing quite nicely.)

The wedding was beautiful and the dinner afterwards was fabulous. I took over 100 pictures and they're slowly downloading.

It was great to see knitting friends on an off-week of the "Borders North" group from the DenverKnits list. I'll see you all in three weeks, at the regularly-scheduled meeting. Maybe I'll bike from...

My new apartment, which is reasonable. And very cheap. We have a fireplace, and a decent kitchen (and a dishwasher!), but the bedroom is very small. I might have to put the dresser in the closet, but I really hope not. However, I'll be able to hang up my sweater rack again, and I'm looking forward to that. All of my plans for displaying pretty yarn have been put on hold, because there just won't be enough room.

Fireworks at the CU stadium were pretty good, but the concert would have been better at Chautauqua Park. The CBS broadcast of the Boston Pops concert left much to be desired, including the Chorus!! We didn't get to see them at all, and they were the main reason I tuned in. However, the smiley-face fireworks were pretty darn cool.

I finished my Dale sweater and it's really cute. (Front and back.) I also finished the front of the tencel sweater (High Tide), and...

I started knitting a doily. It seems so pathetic, so dorky, so old-fashined. But it's so cool, and addictive. There are lots of different ones here, and mom has some Dianna booklets with more beautiful ones. Look at the ones by Neibling here. I don't know what I'll do with it when I'm done. It's a little bit of "because I can" and a little bit of "That's just so cool!"

Mom's kitten, Max, has good taste in yarn. He's been stealing her wools and silks. and he took a ball of wool/mohair for my goddess sweater under the table and chewed it. Some pieces are only about 6", but I still got two reasonably-sized balls and an asortment of small balls and long pieces. I can spit-splice it together, after I trim off the bits that the cat spit-chewed apart. (This is the same cat who ate the Lopi mouse I made for him. It came back up and he had a tummy ache, but he's been fine.)

I'm off to Tanglewood for the weekend to sing Winton Marsalis and Maurice Ravel. I'm sure I'll stop by Colorful Stitches, but hopefully won't repeat my performance there last summer. I'll be back on Sunday, and hopefully I'll have time to put up a lot of pictures. I have about three days to finish packing my apartment, then it's back to Tanglewood, home for a little party, and then I'm outta here!