YOP 9 WEEK 9

Summer is still in full swing here in the desert of Arizona.  We are under a heat warning again for the next week.  This is about the time of year I am getting a bit tired of being in the house so much because of the heat.  This will last another 4-6 weeks and then the mornings will become tolerable to sit outside and work on my yarn crafts.

I have a bit of a longer post today as there has been quite a bit going on this week again so let's get started!

I finished hubby's RCR socks.  They have already been worn and washed!  I am so happy he likes them.  Since he is so enamored with them:

I cast on another one right away.  I am doing this pair one at a time instead of concurrently.  It is temporarily on hold for the moment.  This is taking precedent:

Another Wee Sherlock baby sweater.  I need it finished by next Saturday.  A lovely lady at church gave me her leftover yarn.  She made a baby blanket for her next Great Grand Child out of this yarn but, because of her MS is not able to make any more items.  She does not know I am making this to give to the new arrival.  My thought was, she bought the yarn for the baby and therefore, the yarn should be used for that baby.  If I get the sweater done in time, I will also make the hat to match it.  The sweater will be in the bag she asked me to return to her next week.  Hopefully she will like it.

Four more squares were completed this week also.  They are on hold at this time too.

In other news:  I made bread last Monday........................it failed.

That is it sitting on an 11" dinner plate.  It tasted fine, it just did not get the rise I wanted.  So, this morning I tried it again and changed up some things.

These look much better but still not as 'high' as I would like.  My next option is to make it all in one pan instead of two.  I am just worried it will spill over the pan when rising.  Any ideas fellow bread makers?

I had the privilege of dog sitting this past week also.  The puppy is now 13 weeks old and such a fun little thing.  May I present Thor!

I felt bad as the night I stayed with him I was having horrible back spasms.  They were so bad, I could not play with him the way he is used to.  In fact, I could hardly catch my breath when they would hit.  Never have I had this happen before.  I was actually in tears and that made the spasms hurt even more.  I finally fell asleep around 3AM and the next morning they had subsided.  I spent that day doing pretty much nothing as I could feel my back just waiting for me to try something stupid so they could strike again.  Sure did get a lot of knitting done on the new RCR sock!

I have been talking to one of our friends that is weather nut like I am.  Being a meteorologist was a career path I considered but.....................I stink at science and math.  The only science course I excelled at was meteorology and geology.  My general math is excellent but you lost me at Algebra and Geometry.  This could be the reason I ended up in Medical Billing!  General Math all the way around.  

But I digress...............................Back to the weather thing.  My friend was talking about his weather station he has at his house.  It sounded like so much fun.  Being able to see how much rain was at your home (rainfall totals are never accurate from the news stations).  Watching the barometric pressure and wind speed.  All things I love to watch.  I looked into getting a weather station.  The only thing I really wanted though was to be able to tell how much rain we get.  So after much research I got my high tech weather station!

You can commence with your laughter now.  But you have to admit, he is adorable.  If I want to know any other weather info, I can go three blocks south of my house and look at my friends weather station.

Today will be spent working on the baby sweater.  Hubby and I are just going to chill for the day.  Tomorrow is Labor Day here in the US.  We have invited our DIL, Grand Daughter and Grand Dog over for a BBQ and some swimming.  Our son is leaving tomorrow for a business trip which is why he is not invited LOL.  That about sums up everything I had for you today.

Until Next Time......................Happy Crafting!!!!!!!!!!!!