busy hands are happy hands..

there was a glimmer of sun early sunday morning and we made a dash for the backyard before mc61 had to go to the airport. 

i have to say getting outside and doing something thing at nine am really sets the pace for the day. i haven't felt that productive in a while. we finally put our callas and snapdragons into the ground. 

wow!

i suppose this next weekend we'll put some type of seeds or starters into the soil beds. imagine if that happened?!

after the airport, i went to the store and got my groceries.
i had breakfast out, ran into friends. that's an unexpected treat. 
went and got my hair did. 
then actually kept a 'goal' of walking up mt tabor with a friend.
she brought her dog, who turned out to be a belle of the ball on some level. 


i mean, really. that's an action packed sunday. by seven pm, i felt quite accomplished.
i even started a new knitting pattern. 


sometimes it really is the small things. 

tonight i had been invited to stop by grendels for a little knitting session. 
although it wasn't packed with ladies, yapping and sipping wine. i'm glad i went.
if anything it was a new experience. one of the employees, who was the host and quite a good knitter, was able to give me a little help too. i worked more on my summer scarf pattern, which still looks incorrect on some level.

there was a photographer and his wife, from getty images, that had been in a week prior because the host had been knitting while taking a little break from getting coffee orders. he'd been in search of images of knitters. she told him about tonight and there you go. 
it was very interesting. the wife as it turns out has a degree in fiber arts. one of the main reasons she came to the US was to work at philadelphia's college of textile? apparently there aren't many fiber artists in the US so they needed more accredited people. hence, jumping the pond. she knows her way around the yarn and the knitting to say the least. 
it was a quick review about cotton/wool coming into liverpool, manchester with the big industry, the different qualities of water that can affect the way in the end the yarn will feel. ... i should have been taking notes instead of yarning over and slip slip knitting!
there was good conversation too, talk of digital photography and accessibility of 'photographers'. architecture came up. i found more people that didn't realize there was a frank lloyd wright house in silverdale. but his houses are everywhere, right. the women by t.c. boyle which focuses on flw and the women in his life. 
i was reminded that a friend had previously mentioned this to me months ago.. 

it was interesting because here i just went to get some knitting pointers and here are two fascinating people. i probably won't see them again. 
i love it when these types of experiences happen. 
i don't know it's like you're little and you find a second prize inside the cereal box. 
 

it just makes you feel good.