Mariah Progress

The Mariah sweater is coming along nicely (for me). Sleeve 1 is done, sleeve 2 is about 1/3 of the way done & getting easier.

I have Plans

Since my birthday was kind of a bust, tomorrow I hope to finish up the first sleeve of Mariah, start the second sleeve & perhaps do a bit of sewing. Lunch will be at the Realtor's writing a back-up contract for the house with the pool & hot tub. You can see pictures in my Flickr feed. Then I hope to head out to a friend's for some needed horse time.

Weekend fun

This weekend we visited my folks & found out Columbus had landed in Grafton, IL. Actually, the Columbus replica ships were scheduled to be in Alton, IL, but due to the Corps lowering the water level, they had to dock in Grafton instead. Sunday we took the kids up through Portage d'Sioux and crossed the river on the Grafton Ferry (3 times total) to see the ships.

Dad was going to sail up to Grafton from Portage to meet up for dinner, but only got up to the mouth of the Illinois River & decided there was too much activity to tie up at Grafton. He headed back to Portage & we crossed the river again to pick him up for dinner. Dinner was at the Fin Inn. That was pretty cool. They have huge aquariums with native fish & others for your dining entertainment. Here's what we saw in the waiting room:



After a short wait, we got a table with an aquarium with these enormous catfish & gar.

One Finished object, one Work In Progress found & picked up

First, the finished object: Cross Stitched Rose



And now: The work in progress. Cross stitched wolfhound. This one was hard to work on after we put Bran to sleep, but I really would like to finish it.