In Time for Summer

Two weeks ago, I was knitting as fast as my little fingers would go to try to finish a scarf for a co-worker who would be leaving for a new job while I was on vacation.  I got within a dozen rows of finishing (plus weaving in the ends), but ended up leaving it on the couch last week while we were out of town.  I completed it tonight, just in time for the summer heat to arrive!

The yarn was a dollar store find by Patons called Glittalic in the color "Black Tinsel."  Rufus is so happy to have me home that he had to check it out, too.

Better than the Superbowl?

While my father and my husband watched the end of the Superbowl, my mother, my sister, and I were having fun at the expense of poor Layla, who just wanted to recover her ball from under the kitchen cabinets. Too bad she was afraid of Rufus!

Being Productive

I've been pretty productive the past few days. Between the Bears game on Sunday and my regularly scheduled Monday night knitting at Panera, I've managed to finish a burp cloth for one baby set and knit most of a bib for a second baby set (both for Feburary baby showers).

Rufus checked out my knitting, but wasn't impressed and tried to eat one of the ends I need to weave in. Seriously--it got stuck in one of his wheels!

New Hammie

Since I won't let Dave get a cat, he won't let me get a new hamster. Instead, I have had to settle for a Zhu Zhu pet; he was half-price at Kroger with all of the leftover Christmas stuff!

Apparently this hamster has issues with pulling hair, so they stuck a warning on his behind...
He's a Kung Zhu battle hamster named Thorn, but I have renamed him Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla. If you know where I got that name from, you rock (School House style!)