Baby Dobby's are Done

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Finished up the Baby Dobby's. The first one-on the right-was a little too small, so I clipped the grafting sts and frogged back to add several rows on the foot.They were fun to make and it's nice to see all the ping pong ball sized leftover sock yarn balls dwindle and disappear.
Youngest Daughter bought a new camera yesterday, a Disney Pix-Micro. Just a tiny digital camera that holds 40 pictures. But...It comes with some awesome software that allows some really fun photo editing. I suspect we'll have great fun editing photos from our vacation!Lifetime Movie network is have a Movies In Print marathon this weekend. All kinds of movies based on books. I watched Mermaid Chair and enjoyed it enough I think I might read the book. There are several more movies on today I've set the DVR to save. Good stuff for sittin' and knittin' and watching.

Ohhhhh, aren't these pretty? I'm getting some new yarn this week...maybe I'll make these on vacation!

Baby Dobby

Baby socks are so quick to make. I finished up the first one before we left to go to the movies and run errands. I am almost half way done with the foot on the second one now just working on it for one evening.
Sugar is naked! The above is before, the bottom after. She went in for a clip and a grooming yesterday. It'd been so long I told them to just cut it way down. And they did. It went from about two inches to a half inch. She looks and smells so different the cats keep yowling, arching their backs and spitting whenever she walks by! It'll grow back quickly, it always amazes me how quickly it does grow back. As I told the groomer, she's mostly an indoor dog and the back yard is heavily shaded so I'm not worried about sunburn. We don't have AC, so it rarely gets cooler than 75 in the house. She's not gonna get cold in the meantime!

Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon

rating: 5 of 5 stars
This is the fourth in the currently six book series.

These are my favorite series of books, I think, although it's a toss up when I'm listening to the Harry Potter series...then they they are my favorite! I love the narrator, Davina Porter, of the unabridged series. She has a wonderful voice, a talent for accents and adds so much to these stories.

The saga of Clare and Jamie continues in the Colonies in the 1770s. As they build up their homestead in the hills of South Carolina, their daughter, Brianna, back in the 1980s builds a relationship with the historian Roger Wakefield. He finds the death notice of her parents and decides to keep the information from her, after all what can she do about deaths that happened some two hundred years in the past?

What indeed....

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We went to see Star Wars The Clone Wars yesterday. I thought it was great fun. Moved so much faster than the other movies did. Lots of action, lots of fun references to other stories, and many other things. We laughed alot. I'm not sure I'd recommend it highly in the theater, although there is the big screen element that often makes a movie so much fun. But definitely get it on DVD and watch it.

Bright!

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Lest you think in this household we think bright colors are just for socks.... Youngest Granddaughter is very picky about clothes so when ever we find something just loose enough that she'll wear we are very happy. And when it's bright and colorful, well, that's just too good to be true!
Baby Dobby's are moving right along. I spent most of the day working on the Mystery Knitting and it ended up being too small. So that is a start over today.

Running Blind by Lee Child

rating: 5 of 5 stars

Another good Jack Reacher story. I found myself not want to fight the story and try to figure it out, just flow along with it and see where it took me. And it took me through some rapids and over a waterfall without me suspecting it till it was too late.

A series of prior service Army women are being targeted. All the have in common is they've left the service due to sexual harassment. Reacher narrows the list of almost 90 women down to eleven that will be killed by someone who leaves no evidence, no sign of struggle, just naked women dead in a bath tub full of camo green Army paint and no apparent cause of death.

The FBI hires him as a consultant, then proceeds to finger him for the murders and he must solve the mystery to save himself while the Bureau dodges his every step and negates every idea he presents.

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