Beach Bound and Back!

Hi everyone!  I hope you all had a great week!  I know I did.  I went to the Beach....a last min thing.  My sister has a beach house in Port Aransas, and it was not rented out this past weekend....so as it was not rented as of Friday morning, this we could use it.....Yahoo!  So it was Antonio, Jaime, Jacob, his girlfriend Lizzy, Alex (one of Jaime's great friends) and his girlfriend Marie and myself.....picture overload at the end of this post.

I did get a new T-Shirt.....Michelle from the Knotty KnitWits posted this shirt and I had to get myself one...I love it!

I was working on mostly my secret project all week....and I realized I was going to run out of yarn, so I had to get another skein:

And, I finished it....but I still cannot show you...maybe in a couple of months.

The only other thing I worked on is my And Then Some Shawl, it even traveled with me to the coast

That is all the knitting I have......so now I will overload you with some fun pics.

Here is the newest future biker....we are at Jaime's loading up and Antonio wanted to sit on his motorcycle:

 Here is Friday evening on the beach:

Jamie and Antonio seashell searching 💕💕💕💕

Saturday we went to the beach some more

Here I am walking out to the water....Antonio and Marie are to the right

 Jaime cut our heads off a but, but I think he accidently put the camera in Panoramic mode.

 
Here is Lizzy and Antonio

Now Jacob, Lizzy and Antonio

Then we all went out to eat Saturday evening at a place called Virginia's....right off the water!

After we got back to the house, I had promised Antonio some pool time

 During the evening, Lizzy got really sick and Jacob had to take her to the Emergency room....poor thing.  I felt sooooo bad for her.  So, we usually get up on Sunday, and pack and hit the road...but we wanted to let Lizzy and Jacob get some more sleep, so we stayed till about 2:15.....so I again let Antonio do some more swimming....I swear he is a fish!  LOL!

His arms are sticking out of there somewhere....

We left at 2:15 and here he is at 4:03!

Well, that is all I have for this past week.....but I must make a confession....I do have some yarn on its way to me....I know, I know....I suck at this yarn diet thing....BUTTTT....it is not all my fault, a good friend had to point me to a great price on Malabrigo rios yarn (under $10 per skein)...so I have 9 skeins in the Cereza colorway and 9 skeins in the Pearl colorway on its way to me.  I want to make my Avix Sweater with the Cereza, and the Pearl colorway is for a sweater for Paige..... I also ordered some more biggo yarn in a garnet heather color to make another one of those Decemberist Shawls...but this time on size 15's.....and in order to get free shipping on my Knit Picks order, I also got some Felici worsted yarn to make some more Rye socks (the ones I made myself are kinda my favorite around the house socks).

Have a great week everyone!

Happy Happy Happy Knitting!

Plumbing Problems and LOTS of knitting!

I hope everyone had a great week.....mine was great except for some plumbing issues.  Wednesday the 15th (almost 2 weeks ago) I went to Lowe's to purchase a new toilet.....my master bathroom toilet has had a slow leak for a while, but it turned into a big leak when I got my water bill and it was $63!  Yikes.  Anyway, new toilet......so I also asked about having it installed and they said someone would call in a couple of days.  They called and came out on the 20th....started to work and oops, bad news.  My flange was broken and I needed a new one..it had been leaking for a while and was all rusty....he said he could not put on old toilet, could not put on new, and he did not have time or materials to do it Monday...worst news was the price $325 on top of the already paid for fees to purchase toilet and install....BLECH!  So the hole got plugged and covered with rag to wait till Wednesday.

He came back Wednesday and obviously I have no clue what it takes to 'replace a flange'.  I thought he would take off that metal rusty piece, put on new one and viola.....nope....he started to saw into the concrete.....all around the hole

Then he filled in some dirt that had washed away from my slow leak...and resealed it all....new cement and new clean and shiny flange

Now the cleanest thing in my house is my toilet....LOL!!!!

Okay......so, that is probably more than you ever wanted to learn or see about plumbing!  So, on to knitting!

I finished the Wedding Shawl!

I brought both shawls to work to give to Darlene and she took some pictures of me holding it up.

Here is Celestartium that I finished last year:

and then she noticed some loose yarn.....so I think a bead broke or something.

So I fixed it and all is right with the world again (LOL)!  The new bead goes sideways instead of up and down, and you can see where I wove in ends, but it still looks great!

I also finished my March Socks....Yeah!

For April, I think I will do the exclusive colorway from last year:

Now. towards the end of last week the oak pollen really started to get to me...I went home sick from work, and stayed home Friday.  On Saturday I was about the same but just stayed inside all day and knitted and hung out with Antonio....

by staying in and  hanging out, I was able to knit the Decemberist Shawl and I finished on Saturday too!!  I was pretty excited.  Now, Darlene has already made one Decemberist (on size 13 needles) and she did all the research on it....she increased the amount of times to repeat section one and then she decided to make another one on size 17 needles....so I went with size 17 and used almost 5 skeins.  This thing is HUGE!

Here it is in progress:

Here is Jacob (Jaime's oldest son) holding it up for me:

Here it is blocking (yup, almost 8 feet wide and more than 4 feet deep)!

WOW.....3 finished items in a week.....I felt pretty accomplished!

I told you last week that I got my Miss Babs Tour Destination, but the pattern just was not for me.  However, I still wanted to do a knit along with Miss Babs (my way of justifying the tour) so I looked through stash and saw my fabulous Deep Sea Jellyfish in Yummy 2-ply yarn.  I want to make And Then Some, so I got Pewter and Ebony to see which would go best.

I loved the pewter with it so I got busy!

 I am loving where the two colors come together!

I worked a little on my secret project....but not as much as I should have...so I hope to get extra knitting done on it this week before April.

That is all I have!  I hope you all have a fabulous week!

Happy Happy Happy knitting!!!