Jack's 50th Birthday on Go Home Lak e

We hosted a 50th birthday pig roast on the weekend.
Here is the birthday boy (left) and Julius (my DH) carrying dinner to the table

After dinner the band played

Back from my 3 week sailing holiday

Am casting on the 2nd toe up sock of the Leybourn sock pattern.
I actually finished a pair of Loksins during this trip as well.

I have been knitting the same socks over and over again. That's what happens when your brain is not capable of figuring out a new pattern. Oh well! I thought I'd share some photos since my life has been marching on since my last post in February.
I went to Barbados in March

Where I cooked a lot because we did a home exchange rather than stay in a hotel. Most nights we had fish that was caught only hours before.


In April my son learned how to ride a bike



In May I taught a cooking class for the Junior league.


and later in the month I took a baking class using a wood fired oven

It's kind of a caramel crunch cake but not really. I didn't have a recipe so I just put it together with bits and pieces of my other recipes. I sent it over to my mother in law's for her birthday, I couldn't go because my son was home sick.
I hope that it tastes OK.

The theory was that if I went to the cottage that I would get some knitting done. The theory didn't pan out but we did go skiing.

A little knitting!

Finally a finished object. I thought that I was destined to make 09 the year of procrastination. This hat was frogged twice because they were the wrong size. This one is still slightly too large but Nicky, in his 8 year old charm, said 'mom it's fine'.
I love him.

Wrapping, Baking, Knitting

I am alternating between these 3 activities. I'm baking some cakes for a catering job due tonight. I'm wrapping and I'm knitting 2 hats that are, of course, for Christmas.
Here's what we did yesterday.