Monday Already?

Wow - where did my weekend go? It flies when you stay busy I guess! My weekend was packed full but I had so much fun! My high school friend Kim came up from Tennessee to visit (you might remember her from my visit to R-ville and the knitting class) and we definitely didn't sit still very long!

She got here Friday afternoon and when Logan got home from work, we all packed up our things and went camping at Comer's Rock/Hale Lake campground not too far from us in the Jefferson Nat'l Forest. It was soooo nice and peaceful until a group of I would say about 15 people all stuffed themselves into one campground above us and decided that the whole campground wanted to listen to them blare country music from their mini-van and listen to their psycho kids scream all night. You could definitely tell the next morning it was a campground full of grumpy campers...all except for the rowdy group of course who woke up at about 6:00 with their howler-monkey-sounding kid. Can you tell I am still a bit grumpy about the whole situation? A rant for a minute - people that are totally oblivious to other people around them.

Saturday after hiking around that morning and then coming home, we ate lunch and changed into bathing suits and headed down to the river. Our goal was for Logan to drop us off and Kim and I float down the river in our inner-tubes and Logan and his dad were going to canoe up the river and meet us then float back down to where they started with the canoe...Let's just say it didn't exactly work out that way. First, our drop off was way farther away from the canoe put-in than we though. Second, the river was NOT moving - we floated and floated and didn't get very far! After 3 hour of floating Logan finally tracked us down and helped us out about 5 minutes before it started to storm! What luck!

Our goal after that was to head to the New River Valley Fair and watch the bull riding and barrel racing but it didn't work out that way. Kim and I were exhausted from paddling down the river and being out in the sun so long plus it was raining pretty hard so we stayed in and Kim and I knit and watched movies.

It was a super fun visit and I wish I had pictures but we were so busy I didn't have any time to take any!!

Catching up to today, I got to wake up early this morning to meet our farrier to have Daisy reshod. While we were at the beach, she threw a shoe so it was time to get her a new set! Other than that, I have been working on laundry and searching for new knitting patterns to start on after I finish my Brea Bag - which I am starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel! The gusset is over halfway done and hopefully will be finished this week!

To leave everyone today, I was searching online for knitting patterns and can't believe how many *weird* things there are to knit out there! I found most of these on www.knittingpatterncentral.com. Let's just say some people have WAY too much time on their hands and must really be hard up for knitting! Here are just a few that I found that made me laugh -

A knit digestive track

A fu-Manchu mustache

And knit toilet paper - hope it doesn't get confused with the regular t.p.!