today is monday? are you sure? i thought it was tuesday?

it's going to be a LONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGG week i think
i was woken up last night by what i thought was incoming mortar shells!
seriously i thought we were being bombed!
and i had to use the bathroom but from the sounds of it......they were apparently headed in that direction!

no
it was bernie snoring........
he's got a bad cold it looks like too
it also rained over night so the laundry i left on the outside line needs to be hung inside now.

the cats had their hot fancy feast this morning, i have my coffee......( that jamaican arabica susan) poor bernie is sneezing and coughing at work ........ which probably is fair as he brought this plague home from work.....so he can share it there with them. NOT with me

i started to knit 'damask' in ella rae #117, i love that yarn!!! love it  (look at only the top part of the page, at the shawlette)
i am so sorry now i didn't get two skeins of it (one for a hat) SEE IT!!! it's going to be AWESOME in that damask, i am still casting on though. i have 297 to go, and i am not doing long tail but knitted caston. i hate long tail, so i don't do it often. besides the knitted caston i am weaving in the end as i knit so that is all done (you know how MUCH I LOVE weaving in ends...oye.... that's why i usually bead the ends... but it also gives the ends weight if i bead them so that's a good option too)
i listed part of the yarn stash this weekend on my yarn page, so i have it more organized-i realized i need more light fingering in pastels, of course you also can never have too much lace weight no?
and i still have not blocked aeolian, which is sitting on the inside line reproaching me. it's in one of my favorite shades of purple too! but calpurrnia took over the blocking mats and has now claimed them for calpurrnia! i need to move them up on the bed to block aeolian, as it's HUGE.......i think the wings are going to go over 6' if i am not careful

now this weekend was a quiet one mostly, we had our joint birthday dinner.....(it was very good just like our anniversary dinner) we had a road call for bernie saturday, i went too and we had a blast laughing.
we caught 4 mice in the kitchen....... but we have the traps up just in case now....bernie tossed the mice out under the big maple, but i wanted him to feed them to the ducks as they love mice.
as soon as the weather is consistently better i think we'll be getting new bait- the mice seem to be immune to this bait now. but i don't want our animals to get poisoned by the dead mice so we'll wait to put the new bait down
oh the joys of old stone houses in the woods
hahahaha
meanwhile the spring peepers are here, i can hear them out back by the stream
the bear was under the deck
and the garlic is growing TALL out in the garden.....two of my walking onions are growing tall as well but my multiplier onions are not happy. the spinach seedlings are up in the boxes on the deck but the mesclun and mache aren't yet.....neither are the chard outside but the inside chard is ready for transplanting as are the peppers
i have to start the tomatoes and petunias now


the new date with the kitchen guy is wednesday, let's hope he doesn't cancel on us again.
i am still looking for a good kitchen design software that doesn't cost the earth and the moon....under 100 would be good
so if anyone knows email me ok?

oh my it's late already!!! (the woodstove was cranky this morning but it's fine now-cats are sprawled out in front of it)
i can't linger over coffee, as it's light out and chores need to be started.....ducks need to go out too
see you folks tomorrow