A Mystery Knit A Long...Days 4 and 5

Here you see Day 4, rows 25 to 32 above, and Day 5, rows 33 to 40 below...
I am having so much fun keeping up with this and creating something pretty!!

Miracle Apples and Knitting progress...

I was doing some yard work today in order to fill up our landscape trash can when low and behold, I spied something growing in our lone apple tree! I had always heard that I needed another apple tree in order for the tree to produce fruit, but never got to the point in the yard to warrant treating myself to a second tree. Well, someone's got another apple tree somewhere, since growing up the branches are some green apples!!
They are not very big...I took a good close up of them! Actually these apples are suppose to be a large variety, according to QVC at the time. I guess we shall see! I'm just glad some apples are growing at all!! I am totally thrilled!!
Now on to the Mystery Knit-a-long that I joined!! Here, you see my progress of Day 3 of rows 17 through 24...

The cotton yarn is a bit stiff to work with, but I'm having fun following the Mystery knit-a-long pattern. I'm lucky with the way the striping of the yarn is producing such nice color changes.
Looking forward to Day 4!!!!!

A Mystery Knit A Long...

I "discovered" a very cute blog the last time I browsed the Ravelry website...a Mystery Knit-a- long. So I decided to join for some instant gratification and, of course, out of curiousity what the design would be. To join go to http://rachelsknittingcorner.blogspot.com/
I selected a variegated cotton yarn by Sugar and Creme and did part 1 which are the first eight rows.
I love the pattern already!!! Great practice with K2Tog and PSSO!
Day 2, the blog gave out the next eight rows...I really do love how this is turning out!
Now I can't wait for yet another eight rows for tomorrow!!! Join me, won't you? Not much to catch up on if you do!!

A Lucky Kitty in a New Home...

Last Friday, we paid a visit to my parents so Kara could deliver a precious rescue kitty...a very cute Calico! Although only 8 weeks ago, this kitten has a very calm and quiet nature, so Kara thought she'd be perfect for her Opa and Oma.
As you can see, it was love at first sight!!! And no wonder...
Happy New Home!! Gosh, this kitty sure traveled far from San Jose to Cypress, California!!
Kara giving the kitty one last good cuddle!! Such sweethearts!!
Kitty making herself at home already with her first meal. After we were sure the kitty was settling in nicely, we traveled on to visit Kara's grandpa who is being well taken care of at an assistant living house.
Frank's Dad was being particularly chipper and talkative this visit which made Frank and his sister Paula very happy! We even had some good laughs even though on occasion we had to remind him who we were...so we just made the introductions all over again. Living in the moment brought us some happy times!

More squirrel antics...and a finished scarf!

Our little Moorpark "monkey" a.k.a. Squirrel figured out how to jump into the free hanging bird feeder!!! So funny!!!
When I snapped his picture above, he suddenly had this "uh oh, I'm caught" expression, and you should have seen him jump onto the patio below! He then scaled the stucco wall up to the roof of the house!!
Here is the finished scarf...pattern is one of the little "recipe" cards from The Little Box of Scarves, and I used Laines du Nord's Kiddy Print mohair and Eros ribbon yarns and I think it turned out so pretty!
The lace was simple yet delicate to knit with a very simple repeat for the entire scarf.
I'm glad that it got long enough so I could finished the scarf and enjoy it...and perhaps go and knit something else!

Moorpark Squirrels

Squirrels are something new to us in the suburbs of Moorpark...I'm sure there are plenty of them in the more rural areas, but in our housing track, it's something new. Sure, we'd see an occasional squirrel, but now we're seeing them in pairs playing on our backyard wall.
Makes for something very entertaining for me and the Maggi beagle dog...
When Maggi sees them, she goes tearing out after them with all her vim and vigor! So funny!! You wouldn't guess that Maggi is 9 years old running after these critters!
They just run away or sashay their tails at her! But the dog sure isn't bored!! And I have fun watching too...

Mom and Dad's birthdays...

We celebrated both my parents' birthdays since Dad's birthday is June 14 while my mom's is June 20...we try to pick a date somewhere in the middle. Mom received a wallet size of the Family portrait as well as a nice size picture of Will.
Dad is enjoying his Lena Horne cd set...he has the album, but this way, he can listen when he drives.
My sons, Will and Peter enjoying the festivities...we later went out to dinner at a yummy Greek restaurant.
For both their birthdays, we gifted them with the family portrait. It was finished just in time! I was thrilled to find a handsome frame at Michaels that fit right in with my parents' decor.

We had a wonderful celebration...sorry that my husband Frank and daughter Kara couldn't be there but they are coming home soon for the 4th of July weekend.