Knit and the City

Doesn't the title say it all? I'm a 30 something knitter on the West Coast. Expect to read about my life with the guy, two ex-racing greyhounds and a couple of crazy cats!

8/31/2003

Fuzzy Feet felted. I did a Cabled Mousie for Wendy! I can't thank her enough for giving me something small to start on. I was so petrified of cabling! Now, no sweat! I may take the yarn I won from her in the spring out and start an Irish Celtic Cabled sweater. I guess I'll do another Mousie. You see, I've been stood up. I was supposed to go to the Patio Party with Big B but he's bailed and I have no car. I gave the guy the car to go to the Patio Party telling him I would be down later. I didn't want to spend ALL day there. So now I will spend no time there. I could take a cab but I'm broke. Actually it's better I don't go. If I did I'd want to drink at least a bucket of beer. Granted they're on sale but then that's still more money I won't have to pay my rent. So it looks like more mousies for me!

Doesn't he look great in that shirt? It's my guy at a gig. He wears this crazy shirt at least once a week. Makes me think I should have bought two. Well, Christmas is coming. I'm off to the office today to show support for year end. Just a stop by to say Hi! kinda thing but they may need a hand. After that it's Patio Party time! The guy's been playing at the Granville Island Backstage Lounge's Patio Opening and Patio Closing Party for the last 13 years. It's a riot. I asked Big B to come with me this year. The guy will need the car and I don't really want to spend all 12 hours there. So hopefully the Big B won't bail and I'll head down. If not I may just drop the guy off and go down for the last couple hours. Fuzzy Foot 2 is at the toe decreases. Yesterday I thought I may have been too hasty to name where I got bounced off the Knitting Bloggers Web Ring. I figured it may have been my fault somehow to get bounced. Maybe I double clicked or something. So this morning I decided to try again from the same spot. Looks like I won't be surfing the ring for another day. Damn. Now I think that this is funny. I'm such a bad girl getting banned off the Internet! Does well for my rep! Thanks! Off to work. Craaap.

8/30/2003

Lookit...I'm not a web-dummy after all. I'm just web-challenged. I did a button AND a counter. And I'm almost done my other Fuzzy Foot.

WTF? So I decide today that I'm gonna surf the Knitting Bloggers Webring. Something I've never done before. I'm having a good time. Finding some cool sites but then...I click for the next site from somewhere and get banned! Something about unauthorized use or using a 'web spider'. What the hell is that? I can't even get a freakin' button on my page without it screwing up. Sheeeiiit. I was having fun. One Fuzzy Foot down. One to go.

8/29/2003

He loved it! Granted he's cursing me for making him learn yet another new thing but I'm happy he's pleased with it. I took several calls at work from him telling me all the neat stuff his Palm Pilot could do. Nothing like boys and new toys. If you noticed your car was broken into and your wallet was missing at midnight, would you call your credit card companies ASAP and let them know? I would. Someone didn't and now I'm missing a $65,000 SUV. Dammit. Started my fuzzy feet. Rocking along. Watched 'Bringin' down the House' last night. It was cute. I love Steve Martin. He was great and Queen Latifah was really good too. She comes across as so comfortable and believeable. I'm tired today because we were up late out to dinner and watching movies. Yawn.

8/27/2003

Truck Rental Tip #5 - If you put GAS into your DIESEL truck, do not start it! STOP! Call your rental office and they will be pleased to help you and get another truck for you. If you drive it on the highway like that until it goes BOOM! Do not complain when you get the repair bill of $10,000 for a whole new engine and all moving parts. My eBay yarn hasn't arrived yet. They did say 8-10 days. I think we're on day 7. I'm getting anxious! I also noticed today that when I pull down my favourites list on the computer it says 'eBay Canada-Your Pe..nal Trading Community' Bwaaaaa! Gosh, I hope I'm not buying 'hot' yarn! It's the guys birthday tomorrow. I got him his present andthisbut I'm not sure if they'll go over as good as this,which I got at the beginning of birthday month. I mentioned that I thought he could use a new orgainizer and he was all blase about the idea. (How the heck do you make the computer do 'l'accent'?) Maybe I'll stop by the book store and get him an autographed hardcover by one of his favourite authors. That's gonna cost more than the Palm! Naw. I'll just get him his card and be happy with it. I did save the receipt just in case. Nicest part is that he's got the night off! WooHoo! We'll go out for dinner and pick up a video and spend a nice evening together. Haven't done that for a while! Bummer it's a work night for me. Still no knitting. I'm tempted to knock off a pair of Fuzzy Feet for myself. The weather here is changing. It's getting decidedly cooler at night and my tootsies could use a new set of slippers. Also keep your eyes to the sky tonight and look for Mars! Supposed to be the closest it's been in 60,000 years! How do they figure that out? We weren't around 60,000 years ago and I'm pretty sure the humanoids that were here didn't have a written language. I guess it's all mathematics. That would be why I choose not to understand it. Whatever. It's going to be cool! I seem to have a lot of pics of this kid. What can I say? He's the youngest and gets all the attention. Pain in the butt Monk.

8/26/2003

It's our year end at work on Sunday. Big B wants me to get all those accident files on my desk billed out and cleared off by then. Yeah, right. I could if he actually showed up at the office and put in a little time. Then I could go lock myself away with no phones or customers and complete what I started in a timely fashion. Not 4 months later. I know I'm not going to be able to collect on some of the damages but I know I billed out all the big ones already. Phew. Car Rental Tip #257-Should you accidentally put diesel fuel in your gasoline powered rental van, STOP! Do not pass go, do not even start the vehicle! Call us and we'll get it taken care of. If you drive like that and then wonder why there's black smoke pouring out of the tailpipe for the next 30 kms and still don't call I feel you deserve the $400.00 bill to repair it. Staff Appreciation Night for work is on a bad day. Mom and I usually head to the PetFest every year with the furkids. We soak up all the greyhound goodies. Buy lots of stuff and oooh and aaah at all the hounds that are there available for adoption. This year it's on the same day. Now, I know that you're thinking I could do the greyhound thing in the day and then hit the party at night. True...true....but Petfest is in Munroe, Washington approximately 2 1/2 to 3 hours of driving time away. I don't think I'll be able to make it this year. Too bad. So sad. I found out today that my dear friend Am-ers is headed back to Korea on Thursday! Where the hell did the time go? She got here at the end of June and I think I've seen her twice. I'm a crappy friend. Granted she had lots of other stuff to do but I really should have made more time for her. I'm feeling like a major loser. I hope I can make it up to her. Maybe I need to go to Korea. Then again... I made Indian Chicken Soup from the leftovers of my roast chicken. Yum! Flavoured with all things Indian. Like coriander, cumin, clove, fenugreek, mustard seed, ginger, galanga, red chile, tumeric, lime leaves. It's a melting pot for sure but it's so wonderful and fragrant and delicious.

8/25/2003

Are you ready for a trip back in time. A trip to the prehistoric era where we may run into wild and wooly creatures? Please don't laugh too hard. You might embarass him. Or me. He was a blast to make and I'll definitley do another one. But I will use a bulky weight yarn as my base yarn. Maybe he'll gain a little weight that way. But how could you not love a face like this? By the way he did have a Saber Tooth trimming. At least he won't poke my eye out now.

8/24/2003

Today I realized that I still love my ex-husband. Sounds crazy doesn't it? He really has become a wonderful man. I always knew that about him and am so happy that he seems to have found himself and be comfortable with himself. Don't get any ideas...I love my guy and I ain't giving him up. Being married taught me so much about myself and my ideals and how to compromise over trivial things. I think that when I was married I thought only of myself and the hardships I was going through. Now I realize that it's two people working together and loving each other, regardless of fault, that makes a relationship deep and strong.

I think I've been around greyhounds too much. My Vegan Fox is awfully skinny. Skinny head, skinny body, skinny legs...makes me think that one of the yarns recommended for use in this pattern was quite a bit more substantial than my substitution of the DK wool. Oh well, it still looks great to me. I have to sew on his skinny little legs and attach his GIANT fangs. I think he may be a throwback to prehistoric times. The Skinny Saber Tooth Fox! Now I'm back to the same dilemma though. What the heck am I gonna do next? I have some Tibet wool and I think I may make up the Quick and Easy Cable Sweater from the latest Knit It! The yarn I have is black and I feel the cables may be lost. Maybe I'll do a cardi. Maybe I should just jump in and do a Philosophers Kit. This one or this one? Descisions, descisions. Last night when I went to make roast chicken I found out that the fuse for the bottom element in the oven has gone out. Craaaaaap. I don't think the oven temp ever got over 325 degrees. How the hell am I going to get roasting like that? All in all the chicken came out well. Not as brown as I'd like but safely cooked. Two best things I got for the kitchen. A meat thermometer and an oven thermometer. Since the chicken did actually did get cooked the guy is thinking my thermometer is wrong. Men! Off to drill holes in my hair clip I got for the Skinny Saber Tooth Fox!

8/23/2003

Yipee for the weekend! What a wonderful sleep-in. Boy, I needed that. I'm feeling much more pleasant now. Not that I wasn't pleasant before it's just that now I don't have to try so hard. You know what I mean? I was so jealous of Terri and her Vegan Fox that I had to start one myself. I've gone for more of the red and orange tones. I think that being a Leo subconciously draws me to those shades. I'm using one strand of Rowan DK wool in a browny-red. One of Bernat Boa 'Salsa' colour and one of Lewiscraft Libra eyelash in a scarlet tone. I had trouble at the beginning of the pattern with all the increasing. That's a lot of fur to be digging through to find 3 tiny strands! I took it apart 3 times because I wasn't happy. I am now! I'm almost done the tail. I think I'm going to give it to the guy's mom. Maybe she can wear it down to the legion. Monk is tearing around the house and crashing into walls and doors. I don't understand the motivation. I can see how it would be to fun to run and jump on the rag rug in the hall and see how far you can slide but when you're that fat the momentum carries you all the way down into the door jamb! There's alot of crashing around here. Well, as long as he's having fun and not hurting anything. Including himself, he can have at it. I hear coffee calling. Mmmmmmmmm.

8/21/2003

Phew. I'm worn out. The PNE took alot out of me. It was a lot of walking and alot of eating. Yummy! I also found a Christmas present for the Big B. It's a bit of a gag but I'm going to get a real present to go with it. I found a huge gangsta rapper pendant with a giant 'B'! It is a riot. The girls still cannot believe that I got it. It's gonna be great. I wonder if I could find a baby blue velour track suit in his size? Hmmmm. I haven't decided what to knit next. I'm waiting for the latest yarn I got on eBay to come in and see if it's the right guage to knit my Vouge 1959 cardi. I promise to do a swatch! Maybe I'll do a couple of mousies for Wendy. Ha! The guy just came in with an empty bowl and asked if I ate all the popcorn. Nope, not me! All of a sudden Sarah is very thirsty. Now she's moping in the bedroom because she was called a bad dog. Granted not very harshly because we were laughing too much at her expression. All the guy did was show her that bowl and ask if she ate it. Her ears went down, she looked away and dropped her head. Then s-l-o-w-l-y walked to the bedroom. I guess she thought if she didn't move fast we wouldn't notice she was gone and wouldn't be in trouble. She's so sensitive to that sort of thing.

8/20/2003

I think the reason the guy and I have such a great relationship is that I do all my arguing at work. With the love of my work life, my Big B. He drives me crazy! He doesn't listen! Is contrary just to be contrary, ignores me when I talk to him! AAAAARRRRGGGGHGHHHH! But I love him. Yep, I really, really, do. He's one of my dearest friends. The BlobbyCami needs bigger boobs to fill it out and make it shine like the work of art it shoulld be. Therefore I'm not going to attempt to shrink it again. I'm going to give it to my wonderful friend E who will love and actually wear it. Off to the PNE tonight with the girls from work. Should be a great time. I've been going since I was a kid. Can't wait to eat my way through it! Maybe I should put in a call and have them up the mini donut production. You think?

8/19/2003

What time is it? Why am I just getting home now? Why did Big B not get to the office till 3 AGAIN?! Grrrrrrrrrr... Big B's reason was that it wasn't busy today. Um...hellloooo? I just lived a super busy day! He doesn't seem to realize that when he's not at the office the phone really rings 3x as much. Today while I ate lunch at my desk and refused to answer the phone I watched and listened as my line would light up and ring then go to voicemail. 2 seconds later Big B's line would light up and ring and go to voicemail. Then 2 seconds later my line would light up again. I wondered why I had a headache! Now I know! Car rental tip #4731- If you are in an accident with a cyclist and the cyclist gets taken to the hospital, you should let the rental car company know the particulars of the incident by calling and/or stopping by to fill out a report. I was a little embarrased about not having a clue to what happened when the insurance agent called up inquiring about why we hadn't made a claim and the serious injuries our renter had caused. Sheesh. I haven't tossed the BlobbyCami into the wash yet. I have a few more ends to weave in and then I'll do it. I think I'm stalling. I have no idea what to do next. I can't quite figure out how they sleep like this and stay balanced.

8/18/2003

Monk does his impersonation of Mommy on the inside at work. clap-clap-clap I get tired and I get cranky. Keep it simple is my motto. Very busy today in the office and I was just to tired to deal. I tried to put on my happy face but I could feel it sliding off onto the floor. I will go to bed early tonight and catch up. Look! And yes it's too big. So I'm going to risk it all and chuck it into a hot wash. After I get the straps on. I-cord may be called Idiot cord for a reason. Only idiots can do it! I'm having a little difficulty. I will practice some more tonight. Also can I change this? Look how lovely the left side where I did K2TOG. Gorgeous! On the right side where I did SSK it looks like shit. Is it just me? Is there a way to get beautiful matching decreases on either side? Would someone care to share this valuable information? I've read over my Montse Stanley bible several times and it says I'm doing it right. Is she lying? Ciao, ciao.

8/16/2003

Now I remember why I went to bed at 8pm when I ran an office. Exhaustion! I'm home after a 12 hour day and nodding off at the computer. The guy took one look at me as I walked through the door and bolted to get me a glass of wine. He's the best. I forgot how much running I used to do. Run for the truck, run to the wash bay, run to get keys for the car parked in front. I was in much better shape back then. I was also 6 years younger. My legs and veins are aching from being on my feet all day. I'm going to go put my feet up. And I plan to finish my BlobbyCami tomorrow. I brought the digicam home in anticipation! I'll take lots of pics of the kids so Terri doesn't suffer from puppy picture withdrawl again. It wasn't pretty. Here's one to tide you over.

8/15/2003

I got to come home at lunch yesterday and spend the first 'real' day off with the guy in 2 months. I hit a lawn chair and fell asleep. I'm a heck of a date aren't I? I did get to the armholes of my BlobbyCami but had to rip back a row because I didn't do the split right. I should have had 82 stitches to each side but ended up all wonky. Like 92/88. Very weird. We were watching 'About Shmidt' and I was a little distracted. I really enjoyed it. I thought Jack Nicholson was great. There was a bit of the leering and simpering Jack in there but I thought that his expressions and mannerisms were perfect for the part. AND we watched 'The Amazing Race'. Tough to watch when you have to explain everything to someone who has never seen the show. The guy's virgin voyage. He caught on quick and was the first to notice that Kelly had forgotten the camera. I was not shouting at the TV for her to go back and get it. No-ho! The guy summed her up as 'a little high strung' Really? I can't wait till next week! I have to work tomorrow. And it's not the usual go in and slack off for a couple hours Saturday. It's a full day of 'on the counter' retail action. And I get to open the office. Sheeeit. I haven't done that in 4 years. I had to practice my safe opening skills today. It took me a half an hour to get it right! Lord help me. I'm sure we'll be fine. I do have to work with lazy ass/hamster down. I may address that before the day is through. She can be so great and then so lame. I'd be very happy with even all the time. We'll see. I have to go rest. I have to be at the office by 6:30AM! I got home an hour and a half late tonight too. At least someone brought me a Slurpee as a small appreciation of me staying. And a Thank You. Who could ask for anything more?

8/13/2003

Jeeezuz, hep me. Goodness, I'm tired today. Big B had a couple meetings and things and didn't get to the office till 3. The phone rings 3x as much when he's not there. I have a headache. And a truck broke down in the interior and had to hit the runaway lane. Now I bet that was exciting. No one was hurt. And they're going to have a good story to tell. "Dude, we totally launched that 1 Ton up the runaway lane! Sweet!" I knit on my BlobbyCami last night. I'm almost at the armhole decreases. I have to work this Saturday on the counter so I don't think I'm going to get it done this weekend. We shall see. I see a couch and a beer in my future.

8/12/2003

Things I don't believe: 1. There is no other life form out there besides us. 2. That I can stop myself from buying more yarn. 3. That Terri finished her Vegan Fox so quickly! There's only one thing to say. BEATCH! And I mean that in the kindest, gentlest way, re-he-heaalllly. The guy went on a house cleaning tear today. It looks so pretty and I didn't have to lift a finger. Lord, I love that man of mine. He also dealt with the remains of upset dog tummy. Eeeewwwww. Yup, I state again, he's a keeper. I have knitted not a stitch this week. I shall punish myself accordingly. Fine Catholic kid I am I'm sure I'll be able to come up with something. I bought FCEK today and I see maybe 2 sweaters I wish to make. Also is there a fashion movement I'm unaware of that says cropped, boxy, striped sweaters make you look thin? Hello? Let's make our asses look like oversize loads! I am thin but I honestly have a 40 hip. Actually a set of saddlebags that sit another 4 inches below my hip. Either way it's a large, wide, flat part of my body. I have nary a whisper of an ass. I'm a big pear. So if I put that little cropped boxy thing on I'm gonna look alot bigger than I am. So will any woman! So don't go there! My little sister never ceases to amaze me. I'm sure she's just trying to find her way in life. She's moving into New West and taking an apartment with a friend. Said friend is going to get her a job working for his restoration company. As in manual labour, construction, heavy lifting, demolition, all that stuff. The kid has never exercised a day in her life! She says she realizes that it's going to be really hard work. I say she washes after 2 weeks. Nah, 1 week if the friend doesn't give her the cushy jobs. If she does manage to last I will have more respect for her for sticking it out. I'll keep you updated. Don't get me wrong, I love her and I want her to do the best she can and be happy. If she needs to do this on the road to happiness, go girl! Alright, I'm off my soapbox. G'night.

8/11/2003

Okay, I think we've solved the Manager's Appreciation and our vacation trip to the Island. We'll be postponing our trip or going the week before the 'do'. I decided that it was in my best interest to go. A lot of new opportunities are being presented to me and if I didn't go it might look like I don't appreciate them. Then again if I don't go the boss won't have the opportunity to show me how much I'm appreciated! I got to talk to this cutie on the phone. It's kinda weird talking to a movie star you were hot for back in high school. He is polite and pleasant as he comes across on screen. It was funny. He was looking for Big B but he wasn't around yet. So I got to say "Was there something I can help you with?" He says this is so and so. To which I said "Yes, We delivered a vehicle for you to the hotel on Saturday, it's license # blah, blah blah, black SUV. Correct?" I think I freaked him out a bit. Stalker! Cute, but nope. Sorry Andrew. ChicKami plods along. I was just reading that Terri is almost finished her Vegan Fox! Cripes woman! You're making us all look bad. Nowhere near as bad as Wendy does but she's getting there. I have to thank SweaterGirl for adding me as a link. You gals are the best. A quiet bunch when it comes to the comments and all but it's nice to know you are out there and have an interest in my little blobby blog. I don't think I can sit here and not comment on a recent knitting mag covergirl who can only knit. Not purl. If it's your 'favorite hobby' why have you chosen not to learn any more about it? There's a fine example of someone who has a "Hamster Down!" I keep forgetting the digicam. I gotta buy one of those. We'll see if there's any bonus left over after I buy the property. Let me go dig in the archives of photos. Ah, here he is. My dearest, and crustiest kitty ever. We called him Rooster Cogburn with fur. Happy times at the Rainbow Bridge, my dear, sweet Rainman.

8/09/2003

I wore my Hippy out and about today. I got wolf whistled at when I passed the Italian Coffee Shop! Either I'm looking hot or you just can't miss me in the bright orange sweater. Even the guy says it's a great sweater. He'a a keeper. Have I said before that people who don't pick up their dogs' poop really piss me off? Well they do. Would you let your kid shit on the street and not do something about it? I usually really aware of poop. I guess I have a sixth poo sense. Maybe the sense is fading as I get older but I came close twice today to getting poop on my flip flops. Dammit, people. Pick up your poop! It's not like I'm walking through the woods or something! I'm on the freaking sidewalk! Grrrrr. Slept in till noon today. Fahbulous! Musta needed it. My mom was supposed to go to Savary yesterday but got confused when she looked at the BC Ferries website to make a reservation and saw they were fully booked. She didn't read the finer print that says they only reserve 15% of the boats capacity. So she won't leave until tomorrow. Too bad. She's lost 2 days in paradise! Starting the increases on my ChicKami and i'm very pleased. The guy got me the new Fall Vouge Knitting. There's a sweater in there I'd like to try with the yarn I won from Wendy. Do you think Wendy will mind when I dye the sweater after I'm done? It's the brightest Kelly Green! Ya think I turn heads in the orange sweater?! Look Out! Ah Saturday, laundry, knitting, napping, knitting. I love it.

8/08/2003

Weather shift. There's strange things a happenin' here. Today was cloudy and HUMID but quite nice temperature wise. Much cooler than it's been the last month. But still a bit sticky. I'm hoping for rain. I'm sure the firefighters in the Interior region could use it. Major forest fires. Largest in 50 years. Some started just by flicking that cigarette butt out the window. Now it's the guys birthday month. Crap. He's so hard to surprise or get stuff for! I can't buy him anything musical and surprise him. I always want to consult him to make sure I get the right thing and the best thing. I was going to buy him the book he wanted but he already bought it on the 31st! The day before birthday month. Now that's just not fair, is it? What to do? What to do? My mom is off to her cabin on Savary Island. Where we were staying while we rebuilt our cabin. I'm so jealous. She's going for 2 weeks! And no slave labour. Just sun and fun. Man. Also found out that there's a manager appreciation thing for work coming up. I didn't find out about it till today. And it's right when we planned to go back to Savary! Now what am I going to do? I can't exactly tell the owner 'Thanks for inviting me to the Charity Ball and spending $4000 for our table, but I just can't make it.' Crap. Crap. Crap. We're going to have to reschedule. Argh. Quiet day at work. How nice. I should go work on my Chickami. Couldn't last night because Amazing Race was on. I'm bummed about the clowns. They did look like they really were trying to enjoy every minute of their race through the entire thing. Sure that doesn't make for good reality TV a la Kelly and John but I kinda liked them. I'm glad Chip and Reichen didn't get booted. I thought for sure they could hear me yelling at them to get out of the car! Walk! Walk!! John was such a jeark with his comments during the face first rapell (?). Chip is right. 'John, you are such an ass****!' Idiot. Once again I state that Kelly picked a fine man.

8/07/2003

Okay, is it just me or is this normal and I'm missing something? A customer was in today and was snorting and horking. I thought he was going to hock a giant lugie out onto the counter. Yep, I hope you got a visual because that's how gross it was! It got to the point where one of the girls asked him if he'd like a Kleenex. Needless to say his credit card had no available credit and we were treated to that sound over and over for about 45 minutes. Eeeeewwwwwww. On to happier thoughts. My Chickami is going to be so cool if I ever finish it. I was reading over at Alison's about her craving to start some yummy fall projects. I think I've been having those too. Even though it's still butt sweat hot here I can feel a change in the weather. Makes me kinda blue to have to turn on some lights at 9pm. Like Ferris Beuller said "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you might miss it." I think that movie still makes it into my Top Ten list. Also the species thing's happening again. Baby Bud took the dog bed, Sarah crawled into our bed, Monkey slept next to Sarah and Ella managed to lay a claim to her bed. Those varmints sure put off alot of heat. Now I know the meaning of Three Dog Night. Or at least The Guy, The Dog and The Cat Night. This is one of my favourite pics of Ella.

8/06/2003

I should have taken a 'recovery' day. I'm still tired from our trip. We got up early to catch the ferry on Friday morning. Like 4:30 am early! Packed up the car and the girls and blasted to the ferry. To get in line with 5 million other folks! Every year we swear we won't travel on a long weekend. Maybe this year will be the last. We managed to get on the 7 am ferry and made all of our connecting ferries. Only problem was the last connection. The water taxi to the island. We booked our trip 2 days in advance but couldn't get a reservation until 4pm. So we ended up waiting around for 3 hours in Lund! Boring. All in all after a 12 hour journey we arrived. I was not feeling well. I had managed to kink a muscle in my shoulder and I think my body has decided to age. I have never experienced such PMS in my life. I felt like I was having labour pains! Cramps so bad they had me doubled over. Nice, huh? After we arrived and unpacked I went straight to bed and woke up 14 hours later. Kinda ate into the vacation time. But what a great time it was. We relaxed and finished the roof on the cabin. We also made some progress on the inside. We were given a butcher block counter top by one of the other folks on the island that were redoing their kitchen. It fits perfectly! It's going to be so nice when we get it all together. The guy had an altercation with a lady who had backed her car up to the beach and was removing buckets of sand and driftwood. He asked her what she was doing and she said she was taking sand to make a sandbox for her kids. The guy told her he disagreed with what she was doing and that it was a delicate ecosystem on the island and it wasn't right for her to take it. She got all up in arms and was all 'It's a public beach! I'm just taking a bucket of sand for the sandbox!' We had seen this lady for the last 3 days back her car up to the beach and load stuff off it. The guy says'How much sand did you take yesterday? Or the day before? Or the day before last!' The lady's mom said that she would ask her husband what the laws were because he was a lawyer. Well, that was it. My guy lost it. He managed not to swear but he told her in no uncertain terms that he knew it was illegal to remove stuff from the beach. The guy went and got a neighbour who calmly told the woman that this was true and gave her the telephone number to call. The lady kept protesting that it was just a bucket of sand! Everybody told us to come down here! The guy says to her 'I bet if you go to Main and Hastings they'll tell you crack's good too!' She said that was a great story that she'd tell her kids! And then she called him a gumpy. old man and got her bucket into the car and got the hell out of there. I hope she got the message. If everyone on the island decided to take, take , take there would be no island left. I was apalled at her 'sense of entitlement'. Just because you own property doesn't mean you can take anything you want. Savay Island is only about 16 kms square and was over subdivided in the early 1900's. There are about 1500 lots on such a tiny space. A lot of folks have bought multiple lots and donated them to the Savary Island Land Trust. A giant piece of propety in the middle of the island was bought and donated as well for a park. I have the hope that we will be able to buy the lots on either side of us and keep them as green spaces. My hope is there are more folks like us who love the island and will do everything they can to keep it such a beautiful haven. Sorry, got off track there. Look what's gone on. Isn't the blobby yarn great. Granted the picture isn't. I'm about 6 inches further along and I'm enjoying the process. Maybe I'll get it done before the next trip. Lastly. We really just go up so Ella can do this in the car.

8/05/2003

We're back! And I'm tired. Finished Harry Potter. Really swell! Loved it. Managed to get my titties tanned. You can take that however you wish. I kept my top on! Pics and sordid details tomorrow. Missed the internet.