Thoughtful Thursday

Life has been busy lately. I have a couple of posts percolating but just can't seem to find the time to actually post them. Maybe this weekend. I even have titles already :) Autumn always makes me nostalgic and melancholy. Maybe because the trees are so beautiful but I know that soon all the leaves will have fallen and they will look bare and stark. Beautiful, too, but not like the flaming leaves of autumn. So, I'll leave today with this photograph from last weekend and Camp Mennoscah, and the words (and music I hope to add later) of a favorite Beatles song.

There are places I remember

All my life though some have changed

Some forever, not for better

Some have gone and some remain

All these places have their moments

With lovers and friends I still can recall

Some are dead and some are living

In my life I've loved them all

But of all these friends and lovers

There is no one compares with you

And these memories lose their meaning

When I think of love as something new

Though I know I'll never lose affection

For people and things that went before

I know I'll often stop and think about them

In my life I love you more

Though I remember I’ll never lose affection

For people and things that went before

I know I’ll often stop and think about them

In my life I’ll love you more

In my life I’ll love you more

Happy Campers

We made it to our camping destination last weekend. It was incredible. Beautiful weather, great family times, great park, wonderful campfire food, hiking, open air showers (meaning no roof over the showers -- freaked the kids out at first but then they kinda liked it). We also ate out once each day . . . my kinda camping :)

It was really great. We camped at Clinton Lake just outside of Lawrence. For all our pics go to my flickr site

And in knitting news, here is my latest obsession. It's knit with cotton yarn and it's called the ballband dishcloth. I love it. I'm working on my third since last week.

It's my bag, man

Last summer I posted here about a pattern I found for making a tote bag by crocheting cut up plastic sacks from the grocery store. Emma and I made our plastic yarn and I tried crocheting with it. Ewwww. It was awful to crochet with, so I finally decided to make up my own pattern and knit a bag. I haven't written my pattern up yet, but when I do I'll post it here. It was really fun to knit with but awful to crochet with. Being a connoisseur of plastic bags now, I can also make recommendations as to which bags are the best to knit with! For now, for your viewing pleasure, I present . . .


And it's so much fun to carry it! People can't believe it's plastic until they touch it!