Crochet Me Crazy

Well, we are at the end of our trip visiting relatives. We managed to see a lot of relatives this past week! the first couple of nights we were at Jeff's parent's house. Jeff's little sister,her boyfriend, and their new baby came one day to see us. We haven't seen his sister in 4 years and we had never seen the baby sot that was nice.

Next, we drove to one of my sister's house on the lake. I have another sister that drove there to see us with her son. My son and her son talk on the phone all the time and hadn't seen each other in a while. The kids went through 4 dozen minnows that day fishing and caught over 40 fish!

We kept about 30 of them. Alison also learned to water ski and they kids got drug around the lake on a tube.

From there, we left to got see my other sister! (Yes, I have 3 sisters) They have a beautiful home and we visited with them. We went to their neighborhood pool. They have a media room in there house. The kids thought that was cool. Alison enjoyed taking a bath in their jacuzzi tub. The kids got a little rested at their house after not getting a lot of sleep at the lake. Yesterday, drove back to Jeff's parents house. I'm washing laundry and the kids are still sleeping. I'm ready to get on the road soon. It's a long drive home.

We made it to Jeff's parents house tonight safe and sound. Boy, I really am turning into a "hick" though...driving through the cities of Austin and San Antonio make my hair stand on end! The strangest things I notice now while we're here...all that water in the toilet when you flush and how the floors feel so sound and solid when you walk on them! It is literally such a strange sensation to me after walking around in an Rv for 1 1/2 years! It really is funny...boy the things you take for granted! I'm on the internet at their house right now. Boy, I was downloading a podcast that I listen to and my jaw dropped when I saw how fast it downloaded! I forget that internet this fast even existed! What normally takes me about 45 minutes to download only took about 7 minutes! Wow!

Well, after yesterday's slow day, we made up for it today! It has been really busy today all day and we were completely booked. I don't think it was as busy as last Labor Day but last Labor Day was just insane. I'm so tired. The wind has been blowing up a storm and there is little "twisters" of dust flying around everywhere. My face and my whole body is covered with dirt...no, I really mean I have visible dirt all over my face. I think I've done about 10 pony rides today...meaning a lot of walking for me! Glad for busy days though!

I definately have my crochet inspiration back. I've got myself a little stack of patterns picked out of stuff I want to make. Mostly little projects so that will get in the way of my progress on my fisherman afghan but that's okay. I figure it's really a little hot to be working on a afghan right now anyway. Once I get enough of it done, I'll post pictures of my progress on that.

We are about to be moving to another camp host site in the park in the next week or so. The people leaving the site keep changing their mind about what day they are leaving but whenever that turns out to be, we are moving into that site. Looking forward to that because my RV will be completely shaded and I will be able to access the public internet in the park from my RV! YAY! Thank God for little blessings!!

Well, I hope everyone is having a wonderful Labor Day Weekend!

Wow, last year on this day, we were so busy at the stables we could scarcely breathe. It was the busiest day we had had the whole year. Today, we have had 4 riders so far today. It's bordering on boring up here today. There are not a lot of campers in the park today either.

There is a big dark cloud hanging over the stables today.

Will it rain? We can only pray that it will but it won't surprise me if it passes right over us.

Well, my husband has applied for a tax appraiser job here. He is the only applicant so far and the board is having a meeting in about a week. Pray that if it is God's will, he will get the job! He might not be the most popular guy in town, and the pay isn't great, but at least it would be a secure job and we can get on with some kind of normal life.

Well, I started on my Fisherman Crochet afghan last week. Exactly what I was afraid would happen, happened. I got to my second series of pattern stitches and I could not figure out how to do the "knurl" stitch. I kept looking at the illustrations and it just didn't make sense. I sat there forever trying to figure it out, hoping I don't have to give up! Then I decided to seek help on the internet. I found out that a "knurl" stitch is simply a reverse single crochet! Well, why didn't they say so...and those illustrations make it look much more involved than it actually is...I mean it's really so simple! So, I've made it past that hurdle. I haven't made it much further though.

There have been days this week that have been unbelievably hot. One day it was 112 degrees on the thermometer at the stables.

Alison's first dance class of the year was on Monday.

She has been very sore this week from working all those muscles that haven't been worked all summer!

Tuesday, some kids asked Michael to take them on a hike. Alison went with them. Michael is so used to hiking ALL over this park in the heat of the day. It doesn't seem to phase him. Even park rangers talk about how Michael walks all over the park in the heat of the day. They offer him a ride and he turns them down. Well, anyway...Michael took those kids more of a hike than they could handle. Michael calls me to tell me to bring them water. By the time they got off the mountain, this poor little 16 year old girl was all scraped up and bruises from falling down so much and she was pretty heat exhausted. These two kids with them were so desperate for water, they were picking up water bottles along the trail and drinking whatever water was in them! I got them in the car with some water. I told Michael he should have called me sooner. We could have sent someone with water up to them. Anyway, my kids were fine but Alison had brought here hydropak with water. She had started sharing with the other kids until she ran out. My kids are pretty tough and they have been conditioned to the heat this summer I guess.

Today, we are working at the stables. Labor Day Weekend is the last tourist rush of the summer. The campers are streaming back into the park for the weekend and hopefully they will want to come horseback riding while they are here!

I have finished a little crochet bag. Just a little project to fill the time.




I also made these two little scrubbies this morning. Just a little quickie. I should put some little french knots in black on the red one and it would look like a watermelon!