i love the smell of...

clorox in the morning! this is what the guy is doing this morning. this yucky mildew on the eaves is the price we pay for a lovely shady spot in our back yard. the trees make shade which makes moisture which makes mildew which means that the only way to kill it is CLOROX so the guy is on the roof with a mask, clorox, a compressor and a gun thingy that uncle dave gave him and soon the eaves willl be sparkly white agian and only in need of paint! but that's another project! hmm wonder what the veteran is doing later this year??? the dogs are locked inside with me and i'm supposed to be cleaning the inside of the house but here i sit playing around with my camera and taking pictures of my new sweater in progress!!! it's a neutral color as you can see. i call it antique yellow, rowan all seasons cotton, a blend of cotton and poly i think. it should hold it's shape. this will be a cropped sweater, bolero style shaping in the front with a wide knitted lace border, one from nicky epstein's "on the edge". the border will be on the sleeve edge and the entire edge of the sweater in lieu of ribbing. i think it may have a button, or maybe not, who knows what mood i'll be in when i finish! oooh gotta go the guy is jumping on the roof which must me he needs me for something! ok i'm back now, i knit most of this while the guy was in the operating room swallowing tubes to stretch his esophogus to accomodate food which reminds me we have another date to do more of the same and i have to get a mindless knitting project ready to go. i assure you it will not be the lace border of this sweater, lace is not mindless, for me anyway! how about some knee socks in blue and mauve stripes made of cotton stretch yarn. i ordered lots of that when i made the lacey knitted socks from ik and the blue would coodinate with my new blue frye boots! yep i finally bought me some frye harness boots, been lusting after them since my baby brother bought his harley many moons ago. his fryes were the obligatory black of course and he wears them to this day, even tho the harley is long gone, wears them with a suit if he ever has the occasion to wear a suit! or...i do have a pair of socks started that i could continue with or...i have more regia self patterning yarn in blue for socks for the guy. and...there's the purple, well really lavender, alpaca i have for a scarf for moi... lots to do! good thing it's the knitting season! and speaking of knitting...ATTENTION ALL SEXY KNITTERS!!! tick tock time's a wastin' and it is now time to vote for the september sexy knit pattern! NOW! later, love g