My Only Sunshine

iPhone Thursday - Changes

This is my handsome Buster on Tuesday.  We've been together for 17 years and for about half of that his hair has been this long.  Right after I took this picture he sat down in my friend Amanda's salon chair (she cuts my hair and the Girlies' too, she's the best) and she cut his hair.

 

One big snip (well really it took lots of sawing, he has thick hair) and he was short haired again.

 

As you can see, it cracked Bug up.  That's when it wasn't freaking Bug and Bit out.  Buster had short hair when Bug was born, but neither of the girls remember him having short hair.  They've always loved making fun of the fact that he had longer hair than I do.  You know, "girl hair."

 

Here's the new hair.

 

He still looks just like the love of my life to me.

The funny thing about his hair cut is the way other people react.  You may have seen these pictures in my tweets in the sidebar earlier this week.  So many people responded to those tweets and even more people at his office had something to say.  What is strange in their reactions is that they seem to think the haircut is some sign of a change in who he is.  I think that people always categorized him as a certain type of person because of his long hair.  Now that he has short hair they feel like he must have changed his thoughts on life, or his goals.  I'm not sure.  He hasn't changed at all though.  He wasn't some hippy liberal before (much to my dismay *grin*) and he hasn't become some uptight suit now.  He's always just been a wonderful geologist guy who loves to put on hiking boots and a Baylor t-shirt and take his daughters fossil hunting.  I really like that about him. (Can you tell I'm smitten?)

You may also have noticed all the tweeting about wall paint.  I've been working on painting Bug's room for what seems like forever.  Black is hard to cover.  I'm nearly done with everything but the trim and built-ins.

 

This is Bitty helping me with the first coat of Caribbean Coast blue.  My Girlies love to paint.  It actually take me a little longer to get things done with them helping but I'm not about to stop them.  They like it, I like the company, and I would never tell them there is something they can't do if they put their mind to it.

 

Bug made me a thank you card.  Isn't it cute?  Oh, and Fiona loves to help with the painting too.  Her orange fur looks great with the blue paint.

iPhone Thursday - Tonight we dance

Wainy got dressed up on Father's Day and went with us to the movies.  The Girlies took their Daddy to see Imagine That with Eddie Murphy and Yara Shahidi.  It was a wonderfully sweet movie and that little girl is amazing.  The sound track is filled with Beatles songs which made me very happy.  It was a very good Daddy/Daughter movie.

 

I heard a funny noise coming from under the sofa yesterday.  When I went to look I found Bella.  She laid like this, belly up, under the sofa for a good ten minutes yesterday.  Cats are funny.

Are you wondering yet what Wainy the rabbit and Bella the cat have to do with dancing?  The title is a warning.  Tonight is the ballet summer workshop performance and my girls will be dancing in both shows.  Bug and Bit both tell me they have "solos" because they are older than the other kids in the class.  There will be many pictures, and maybe video, so watch out.

A cat, a duck, and some kids

I know I promised you the poor mistreated cat would host my next entry, and I assure you that I did try, which is why it has taken so long to get this post, but he is too busy being mistreated and put upon.

See what I mean?  It's hard work being that harrassed, really it is.  He will tell you all about it, in that whiney cat "feed me" voice.  So while I couldn't get him to host this entry, I did talk him into posing with some knitting for your viewing pleasure.

That was before I finished the cable for Samus.  I have now gotten the cable finished and have picked up the stitches and started my way up the body.  I'm not loving knitting the body of this thing yet.  It's rather unwieldy on my circular needle and the rows are LONG, but I am holding out hope that it will get better as I go along.  I look forward to wearing this sweater.

While taking breaks from Samus I have been making Bug a pair of mittens.  These are the first mittens I have made and they aren't coming out quite right.  Did you all see Norma's post about her mittens?  I feel bad that her mittens aren't working out as she had hoped, but it does make me feel a little better to know that I'm not the only one who has this problem.  (I should be comparing my mittens to Norma's really, my situation is much worse)

  I knit the finished mitten on the right first.  The ends are all woven in and everything.  Then I started in on the left mitten and it is turning out SO much better.  Somehow my gauge got drastically tighter on the second mitten, but also the thumb gusset actually looks almost right.  So the second is much better, and now I have to figure out what to do.  Do I try to frog the right mitten (ends woven in, many pieces of yarn put together) and then reknit it hoping it will more closely match the left mitten.  Or do I buy another ball of this yarn (DB Alpaca Silk) and start a third mitten?  Another option would be to just scrap both of them and chalk them up to learning, then start another pair of mittens all together, in another, more pink, yarn.  Bug intially didn't think these mittens were so great because the color is so bland (I had plans to work that out) but then she tried them on and decided they were soft enough to make up for the color.  What do you guys think?

Once I realized how far off the mittens were I cast on for something else.  Obviously I had to have something to keep me busy while trying to decide what to do with the mittens.  (please refrain from pointing at all the other WIPs you've seen in previous posts)

Here are the very early stages of my duck.  It's amazing how I can think about knitting all day long but only find myself actually knitting for a few minutes each day.  I need to do something about that.  On top of starting to knit this cute little duck I have spent some time trying to figure out how best to turn a sweater and pair of pants of Bug's that I love into a purse.  It's been going on all over the place, but I was finally truly inspired when I saw this.  There are a few things that my children have worn and grown out of that I just couldn't part with.  The yellow sweater and green cords are like that.  Nobody in my house will ever be able to wear these things again, but I couldn't just donate them like I do all the rest of the kids clothes they have grown out of.

So instead I through the 100%lambswool sweater into the washing machine.  It ran for two full cycles and at the end it was obvious that there were two tiny little holes that I hadn't noticed.  That's ok, I will be cutting those portions off anyway.  I'm going to make the sweater into the body of a purse and use the cords as the bottom and possibly the straps.  I may decide to add leather straps, we'll see.  I'll let you know as soon as I know.

For my last few pics, I'm just going to show off my kids.  If you can't stand to look at kids after suffering through cats and ducks, please feel free to look away, but I promise you'll be missing out.