I always feel like...

...somebody's watching me.....

Through the mail slot, no less.

Yup, I never know what I'm going to find in the mail.

This was a good one though. I'll take a little Molly in the mail any day!

The Offshore Store

This is Tim.

Tim has a hot date with a scrub brush tonight.

Tim has nothing to do with the Offshore Store; his hands were impressively dirty, and I felt I must share. As anybody who owns a boat will tell you, it is endless maintenance. And unless you are independently wealthy, that maintenance gets done by the owner. Most fishermen are not independently wealthy. And so their hands look like this. A lot.

This is Tammy's store.

The Offshore Store is nearing completion! (These pictures are a week old.)

Should be right on schedule for opening the 4th of July weekend!

I am almost , almost done with the Birthday Present. It has become so monumental a project, that is must be capitalized.

sigh.

But I've picked my next project. I have the yarn out. I have the needles ready and waiting.

I thought about swatching...just swatching! That's isn't really cheating...it's only a swatch. I usually frog my swatches, so...it shouldn't count!

But I will resist.

I will go roll 240 truffle balls instead of swatching. And if I can finish the truffles before 2am, I'm going to knit on the blasted present for an hour in an attempt to be done!!!!!

Rites of Passage

How is it possible?

How can it be, that my kids are 6 and 8, and have never done this before in their lives??

They thought they were opening little presents!

Mama, you can ask me to do this job anytime!

Corn has HAIR!

Shortly after this picture was taken, I realized exactly why they'd never shucked corn before.

Or why I never let them into the kitchen.

I'm still picking 'hair' up off the floor, and I've vacuumed three times.