Rainy Tuesday

During the transition between winter and spring, is that weird weather. Not quite the warm spring showers but not the frozen blizzards of winter. Today was overcast for most of the day until late afternoon when it started to rain. I love rain almost as much as I love snow.  I love the smell of rain, it is in my top ten of favorite smells/aromas.  Today's rain changed my plans for my post as I was going to take pictures of the socks I am working on and also the baby blanket I am making. 

I love the baby blanket, it is sized for a car seat/baby carrier or pram. It uses leftover sock yarn.  As I am missing most of the yarn bands for the leftover sock yarn it is really going to be interesting when I wash it for the first time.  Plus looking at those around me in my life there seems to be a lot of opportunity this year to give baby gifts.  So I am going to go budget friendly and use what I have got instead of buying a lot of new stuff for now.  I need to build up my stash fund as I want to buy some cashmere for myself this year.

Tomorrow Mr80grit and I have plans to drop off the baby sweater to my SIL. Our nephew is not due until the 29th but according to the doctor will be making an earlier appearance.  I can't wait to meet this little one.  Her other two sons are precious and very boy! They are always fun to be around. Yes, even when crying and whinnying. 

As I see that I might have limited time to knit tomorrow, I must go knit now.  Maybe I will cast on another project, it feels weird to only have two projects on the needles.

Not your ordinary Tuesday

Definitely not your normal Tuesday! First I was unable to text or receive phone calls on my cell phone from 4:45 pm to 7 pm.  That what really weird and stranger still was when the phone was working again all the texts I missed came in. 

Mr80grit had to call me on my work phone to make plans for going to the bookstore and out to dinner. We usually are home bodies on Tuesday.  It was great. I picked up the Holiday issue of Interweave Knits. I already have plans for one or two of the patterns.

Then it was a dinner at a local chain, potato skins..yummy! Now we are back to our normal Tuesday activites, knitting, watching TV, playing on the computer.