Knittinggarden

My son packed up his car and left this morning to drive to California, where he intends to live.  I knew this was coming; he graduated from college last winter and came home for awhile.  He had wanted to go to graduate school but unfortunately didn't get into the one program he applied to, so decided to move down to LA in the fall and "seek his fortune" as they say.  He drove down at the end of August with DH (who relocated to Palm Desert again), stayed with relatives, and proceeded to look for internships, employment, and a place to live.  He is interested in the film industry, graduating in film and video studies, and has done some local work as a production assistant and shot and edited a couple of music videos. While he was in LA, he found an internship where he'll be reading and evaluating screenplays amongst other things and hopefully making contacts for future employment.  He auditioned and was accepted into a pool of extras so he'll possibly get some w...

I haven't really been sitting here doing nothing for over a month, but obviously I haven't gotten over here to the blog.  There's lots of finished and in-process knitting to document, and a State Fair report. I spent most of the last month in Las Vegas taking care of the Princess.  She was hospitalized and when she came out, had a medication that she couldn't tolerate very well, so I ended up going back to help her again and stayed to attend follow-up doctor's appointments with her.  So, I had lots of knitting time but not a lot of documentation capability.  She's doing much better now, and I finally have a chance to catch up. I entered some items in the State Fair again this year, as usual.  Last year I won a beautiful rosette in addition to some blue ribbons, so this year I wanted to get another.  Unfortunately, I didn't have a really impressive project.....it seems like my ideas and my execution didn't really match up this year.  I had started a...