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Popsicles & Photos!

I finally have figured out how to get photos onto my blog again! (Actually, I am using a ridiculous workaround that involves e-mailing them to myself from one e-mail program to another program.... but HEY, whatever works!) We have just survived a heat wave - temps were well into the 90s for a few days running. This may seem like regular summer weather to some of you, but it's not really typical for Maine, so we don't bother with things like AC. So, here Harriet and her friend Sophie cool off with some Popsicles after a dip in our new above-ground pool, which has been a lifesaver.

MS Walk

My daughter, Harriet, and I walked in the MS Walk yesterday. Harriet raised $810 for the National MS Society. For her ninth birthday party (see post below) she asked her friends to sponsor her in the MS Walk instead of bringing presents. She then hit up friends and relations by e-mail and compiled this impressive amount. For her efforts she got a medal, some t-shirts, a water bottle, tote bag and other MS and drug company swag. I'm very proud of her. Here she is on our back porch after the walk.

OK, I'm Bored

Not that I don't like my Irish Hiking Scarf - I love it. But I've never been a one-and-only-one-thing type of knitter. I fell into that during the Olympics. So I spent a good bit of time the past few days in a few LYS and online checking out patterns and books, plotting a few more projects to jazz up my knitting life (and this boring blog, too.)
I've got a few things planned.
1) First, for some intarsia practice and even a political statement,
Maggie Shepherd's Peace Pullover from Interweave Knits 2002. I'll try it in cotton since I always have to change something.

2) For my daughter, a fair isle hat that starts with an I-cord inspired by the Pam Allen hat in America Knits. (I wish I was making the "Mitten Coat" she designed, but by the time I finished it my 9-year would be a teenager.

3) I'm still on the prowl for a good cable project for me. It cannot be the same three cables over... and over... and over... and over...
But really, I love the scarf. I just could use a little variety.

So on to my other projects....
4) and 5) I know two couples expecting babies, one due in July and one due by adoption any time. I always knit for new babies, so I have two baby projects to plan. Since I live in Maine, even summer babies need sweaters in the evening.

Speaking of summer, there have definitely been signs of SPRING here.
I think we need to pack our skis up for the season. Here is Harriet outside the condo we rented our last weekend at Sugarloaf. The snow was plentiful on the mountain, thankfully.

And this visitor was in the rosebush outside my living room window on March 31.

We interrupt this knit blog...

I do have a non-knitting life, and last weekend it was overwhelmed by a ninth birthday party at the Maine Rock Gym. Harriet loves whoopie pies, which made the birthday cake easy.

I'm not sure anyone over the age of 12 really likes whoopie pies. But everyone at the party scarfed them down.

They all had a great time climbing walls and swinging from ropes. Here's Harriet again - think she's having any fun?

OK, end of my non-knitting post. Back to my Irish Hiking Scarf!