Summer is Over

Hello Everyone,

Well it is official summer est fini, there is a briskness in the air and the nights are cooling down, the trees are starting to color and troops of kids are walking to school.

I personally love this time of year, for some reason I feel renewed energy and anticipation for the end of the year. I love the colors associated with fall and although I don't decorate much for Halloween I love putting out fall colors.

This weekend we closed up our cabin. It was a lot of hauling, cleaning, and packing this is a bittersweet feeling because we are trying to sell our lake place and though the money would be nice, we feel saddened to let it go.

Our DVD player was on the fritz so we watched an old VHS movie, Slap Shot, I forgot how funny this movie was and by the way it has knitting in it! One of the bored wives of the Chiefs was knitting a swatch of wool on big needles...I knitted many things during my kids hockey games. We had four of them all playing at the same time so we lived at the rink, of course their games never coordinated time wise and since the rink was far from home we really did live there.

These memories are not my fondest, I really did not like watching kids playing such a violent sport and the parents would get caught up in it as well. My tension affected my knitting, so everything I made was very tightly knit.

Sometimes things work well together like peanut butter and chocolate, or Paul Newman in leather pants, others not so well like hockey and knitting!