Squirt and Aza and my mother-in-law and Dan are playing dominoes.
11-25-14
This is what my ginkgo trees look like now! They have fall leaves on them!
And this is the Japanese maple outside our house.
11-24-14
We are at Grandma's house in Lake Arthur. Sakura is knitting. We are visiting with our dad, three aunts, uncle, and Grandma and her caretaker.
I just love the live oaks and Spanish moss here. This is Grandma's yard.
Aunt CaCoo made gumbo. I took a photo because it's awesome and it's Louisiana gumbo, the authentic stuff.
11-23-14
We arrived in Lake Arthur. Grandma is doing better than we expected. She's up and talking with us. Without her glasses on, she didn't recognize Sakura (asked who she was) but she tells old stories and seems pretty aware. Sakura sang to her. It was beautiful to watch Grandma sing along.
11-22-14
Sakura and I went to see our mom's college roommate today. While on the way we learned that our Grandma wasn't doing well and decided to get plane tickets to go see her tomorrow.
This evening we had dinner with her boys and her ex-husband Jebby.
11-20-14
Walking around LA I'm amazed at the flowers in bloom.
We went to see Fossy's school.
I taught him how to finger knit.
11-18-14
I'm in LA with Sakura and her boys. She is reading the a bedtime story. She is so sweet to them. Such a good mother.
11-17-14
I taught tonight and we discussed 3D printers. I made a knitting needle before class just to see if I remembered how to design and print with it. I did!
11-16-14
Doug's birthday family dinner. I took photo of him with his nephew. Wish I'd moved that durned water bottle.
10-31-14
Getting ready for class.
Got a ticket for not adding my new license plate number to my parking tag.
Exhausted. Migraine. Drained.
10-25-14
I blocked the scarf and it turned out great.
My stomach is really sick again and I've been in bed most of the day. I was able to catch up on my blog, if you can tell, pretty quickly today due to this amazing software I got recently called Dragon NaturallySpeaking. All I have to do is talk, and watch the words appear on the blog. It's so so amazing.
10-24-14
Today I orchestrated a very important meeting that I have been planning for over a month. Actually, I've been planning it for two years. I wanted to form a committee of scientists to advise in my job as a science educator. We met at this restaurant, and had a really productive meeting and a good lunch. Unfortunately, during this lunch, I felt the rumble in my stomach that meant things were not going well internally. This evening I had a dinner to attend with my department, and so I just ate some soup and bread. Okay, I had a brownie too.
I finished the Mobius scarf, and this is how it looks off the needles before being blocked.
Dan finished painting the windows in the living room, and they are stunning, don't you think? It really gives a certain depth to the room. He put in so much work this week on this project and I just love it when he does home improvement projects.
10-23-14
This is what is on my needles. This is that gray hand dyed yarn on a very long circular needle wrapped around into a Mobius shape. It's not much fun to work with. The yarn is quite crunchy, if I can describe it that way. It's very difficult to move the piece around on the very long cable. However, I'm anxious to see how it turns out, and sometimes that's the only motivation that I have.
10-22-14
I had a meeting this morning with a bunch of visitors from Brazil. I came home, had lunch, and started working when my graduate student asked me if I would go with her to the yarn store and Opelika. How could I turn that down? So we went to the store, and then went to get a coffee afterwards. Feeling pretty good, I ordered a cappuccino.
10-21-14
Frisbee Whippet is not doing very well. He was acting very strange tonight, hardly able to stand up, vomiting and seemingly in pain. We thought that this would be his last night on earth. I held him on the couch for quite a long time and he seemed to relax and enjoy that. Poor Frisbee.
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