A Quiet Saturday Afternoon

Rog and Maggie are napping and I'm working on getting over a major pout.  Maybe that's why they decided it was a good time to zone out!!!  I tried "drowning my sorrows" with chocolate but that kept me from snoozing, too.  

My pout:  that sweater I've been working on since October is finally finished! Yay! It is much too small!  Bummer!  The front has a section on it where the pattern is all weird and very noticeable. Double Bummer! Looks like an evening of unraveling and making some nice balls of yarn while I watch TV tonight. Hopefully I'll think of something I can actually make with the pretty yarn.  I will occupy myself with starting on next year's Christmas presents and you can be sure no one will be getting a sweater!!

Since I started knitting about seven years ago I have yet to make any piece of wearable clothing for myself that worked. Roger got a sweater and a vest that he wears (but not so much in public), but I just can't seem to get the hang of making something for myself.  I use the pattern for size large, but I think both my crochet and knitting stitches are too tight.  I know my crochet work is tighter than anyone else's that I know, but thought the knitting was OK.  Apparently not.  So, I'm in pout mode today.

I did finish the hemming of the sunshade curtains for the "patio," though, and they look pretty good despite all the assistance from my little helper!!!  

I've been busy this week loading an update to my Family Tree software and transferring files.  The WIFI here is slow enough that I thought if I did it mid-afternoon on a weekday I might get a reasonable download speed.  Not exactly.  The file was big enough that I went over my bandwidth limit and ended up with dial up speed.  It took over an hour to download the update! But, that is done, the database is transferred and I found a new relative while trolling the Ancestry site!  Progress.  

The weather has continued to be awesome for us.  We are so used to it being rainy and/or foggy here in January but because of the drought we have had no moisture since the 19th of December and the temps have been above normal.   That's not good for the ecosystem even though we are enjoying it.  No rain is in the immediate forecast either. It is getting pretty critical in southern California.  Warm Santa Ana winds and dry vegetation make for an awful possibility of wildfire and water is becoming rationed in some areas, so I guess we won't complain if and when it does rain. 

The coyotes have been very quiet the last few nights and Maggie is sleeping with her head out from under her afghan at night.  Two nights now of uninterrupted sleep.  We feel weird.  

We had our weekly Friday lunch out at a Vietnamese Pho restaurant.  Great vegetable soup!!  The price is right fiscally as well as calorically!!  We then followed it with a frozen yogurt treat so I guess we ended up indulging anyway!!  


Spanish lessons are going slowly!! It's hard!! 

Next week we celebrate our 46th anniversary!!  Wow!  Just trying to wrap our minds around that one.  We can't possibly be that old, can we????

We are going to the San Diego Zoo one day next week and hope to take a "backstage" tour as our anniversary treat.  The neighbors will check on Maggs and take her out for us so we don't have to worry about staying too long. I hope we will be able to bring home some excellent photos to share.  In the meantime, you will have to do with dog and bird pics which I'm sure you are starting to dread (at least tire of)!! 

Male Wood Duck

Here's a few from our walks this week:

Osprey

  

Immature Black Crowned Night Heron