Starfish Update

Yes, the starfish is still there at the commuter rail station. And the goose poop is back on our walk to work. They must eat an awful lot of algae and vegetation 'cause it's wicked green.

Sprout has been started, I have the collar done... I jsst want to spend a whole day just working on it and see how far I can get. I planned on knitting a bit last night but for some reason I was asleep on the couch by 8:35 pm. How lame is that?

Here is one picture (pardon the background - I know I need to sweep my room up!) It's my new little Hitchhiker - I can't believe I haven't posted it here yet.



What I really need is to sit down with my calendar and schedule vacations for the rest of the year. Does anyone else do that?

Ah, thank you MBTA for the notification system

It seems that the Saugus River Drawbridge is just having all kinds of problems today - luckily the notification came early enough for the hubby and I to drive into work today - especially because the seventh e-mail stated:

Newbury/Rock - Train #124 (2:00pm inbound) is experiencing over a 90 minute delay due to an earlier problem with the drawbridge in Saugus. Train #176 (2:48pm inbound) will also experience a delay of 10-15 minutes. Please allow extra time for your commute. 3/24/2008 2:44 PM

My thought is that this can only make people more aware of the ineffiencies of the Commuter Rail and the T - I only wish they would reimburse us the $3.00 for the Sumner Tunnel and the $14.00 parking that we pay when we drive in due to something like this.

Oh well, it's off to knitting night at Panera with my finished Coronet in my lovely handspun - and on to swatching for my Sprout - I'm making the one with long sleeves and a long body... can't quite do the cropped thing these days. See, I do have knitting content sometimes.

2008 Flower Show

Ah, it was inspiring as usual - and on such a weird day that you are driving up 93 with the sun in your eyes, but it's raining lightly at the same time.

Just a few of my faves - always love a big pot o' succulents (or three):







And I know that I will be in search of some Mountain Laurel for my yard (front, back, not sure until I find out what type of light it likes, but I know I like it!):



More later, gotta go check out what that Punk Rock documentary the hubby is watching is... I just heard The Bad Brains.

What's up with the starfish?

OK,so we were going up to the platform at the Swampscott Commuter Rail Station yesterday and on the edge of it the hubby noticed this:



Weird!

Happy Saturday - why is it snowing? I know that March in New England is "the big tease" - but snow this morning? Rain would have been just fine.

Ticketmaster - hate them, but I will say that I am happy that I openned the other e-mail (not the one with the reminder about The Pogues this Thursday (YEAH!!!) and saw that Eddie Izzard tickets at the Orpheum for late April go on sale this morning!!! We were debating paying a large amount of cash to go see him in NYC - but no, now for the price we would have paid for one ticket we have 2 and don't have to go to NYC!

that was unexpected!

I actually got into the Scout's Swag Club for 3 months! YEAH! I can't wait to get my first package!!! When she announced that they were overwhelmed with people trying to get in, I just figured it would be like the Massachusetts Lottery where I don't win anything. (ooo - $59 million tomorrow night, gotta get some tickets...)



We also got our first 1/2 cord of wood delivered last night - and now we know why people pay to have it stacked! It looks cool all piled up and neat (yes, the hubby did that - and it's as fastidiusly stacked as I would expect it to be). And we got the blower to come on. We will have to work on our fire-starting skills (OK, I will have to start with removing the ash first!)

Knitting has been happening, as has spinning - on my new Little Green Monster. However, the pictures of it, along with the nice stacked wood are still on the camera. I'll have pictures for sure next week since I'm headed to the Flower Show on Sunday with the SILs. Always a nice, and inspiring time!

Warmth

Ah, it happened so quickly once we made the decision... we only looked at them on President's Day... and it's being installed as I type this (of course I'm not there, no, I'm here at Orientation with the latest group of hirees)... the Clydesdale!

Now that my body has gotten used to being in 63F all wrapped up in blankets on the couch, will this just spoil me? I can't wait to see it! And feel it!