Boy do I hate Mondays. Every Monday I feel like I’m never going to make it to the end of the week. Oddly enough, my favorite day is Thursday. It’s strange, but come Thursday, I start to get excited because I only have to wake up “early” one more time. And I use early loosely – my dogs wake me up before 7 almost every day.
Anyway, I had a pretty productive weekend. I am incredibly close to finishing my grandmother’s cardigan. In fact, as soon as I’m done posting this entry, I’ll be finishing the button bands. Sewing everything together was quite irritating. I’ve sworn off knitting articles of clothing that are constructed using pieces from this point forth. My seaming skills are pretty awful, and it took me approximately 4 hours to seam the whole thing. I’ll give myself this, though – I can mattress stitch plain stockinette to plain stockinette like a pro!
I did start that Vintage Crochet Pineapple Doily I mentioned in my prior post. It’s moving along really quickly. I chose to crochet it in size 10 “Antique Lace” crochet cotton. All I have to say is that it definitely looks “antique.” The color is very convincing. Presently, I’ve got 4 more pineapple points and the edging to do. Barring any natural disasters, I anticipate finishing it sometime tomorrow.
So, what’s next? Well, I’ve got my eye on another doily pattern. It’s from 1918. I think I’m going to have to start those hats I have queued, though. I must fulfill my promises! And there’s that cardigan that I mentioned many posts ago. I should start that soon. According to my track record, if I were to start it now, I’d have it done by the time it starts to get cold.
Enough jibber jabber – it’s time to share my favorite part of the weekend – THE DOG PARK! I’ve been taking Darby and Xerxes to the Freedom Dog Park in Medford, NJ once a week for the past 4 or 5 weeks. I’d love to take them more, but Kai seems pretty set on one trip a week. He doesn’t like it very much, but that’s probably because he doesn’t really like dogs. It’s the most beautiful dog park I’ve ever seen. The park is set far off the road in a woodsy area. It’s 20 acres of pure bliss in my opinion. I haven’t explored the whole of it yet, but the parts I have explored alternate between big open fields and dense foliage. There are various bodies of water scattered throughout that serve as great “swimming pools.” Darby and Xerxes love to swim, if what they do can even be called swimming. Xerxes splashes around with the other dogs, and Darby lays down like a hippo. Neither of them has gone deep enough to require paddling.
Xerxes is a very high energy dog, and yesterday he made a spectacle by bursting through the gate like a bat out of hell. He located the nearest dog and proceeded to run very large, very fast circles around his victim. (He hunkers down, puts his ears back, and gallops. It’s quite a sight.) The dog’s owner laughed and asked me if Xerxes was part greyhound. I told her I don’t know, but at this point, I have my suspicions. I haven’t been able to put weight on him since adopting him last July, and neither labs nor boxers are known for being slender dogs. (The shelter said he was a lab/boxer mix.) When allowed, he runs for hours, and he’s pretty quick, too. I think I’ll ask the vet when I take the two of them for their check-ups this coming Saturday.
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