little bit of crazy leaking out

Are men so helpless? (ok, maybe not all men, but it seems like it today)  Our son has a cold, picked it up from Daughter, and we are out of almost all of the necessary cold type meds.  Hubby volunteered to go to the store and pick them up, I said no, that I would do it, but, no, he insisted.  Ok, gave him a list of what we needed, including a few groceries, and sent him on his way. 

The phone rings 10 minutes later and guess who it is.  He can’t find the children’s cough medicine, want to know if the “if under 12 call your Dr.” stuff would be ok.  No.  Well, he doesn’t see any of the kids’ stuff.  Look around, I say, it has to be there.  No, nothing, no kids meds.  sigh.  Says he’s looked everywhere and nothing, so I tell him to get the other things and come home, I will go back out and get it.

He gets back home and I head out.  At the store I go to the aisle and - AT EYE LEVEL - are 2 shelves of children’s cough/cold/allergy medications.  I felt like banging my head against a wall, I did not because there were no solid walls immediately at hand.

I also picked up a hanging basket of flowers for HIS mom.  We’ve been talking about getting her one for Mother’s Day for weeks, but when he was walking into the store, that had 100 baskets hanging in front , did he grab one?  Did he pick up a card for her?  Did the thought even cross his mind?  Oh. Hell. No.

Let me just add that my checkout experience did nothing to redeem the male gender,  I mean really lettuce in the bottom of a cloth grocery bag, then put the 2lb brick of cheese on top, and he had the audacity to get snippy when I said something about it. 

This does not bode well for the rest of the day.

Saturday Daughter had an early t-ball game, then afterward I ran a few erands, including getting a new swimming pool for the ducks and picking up a bunch of supplies so I can plant my blueberry bushes.  It is a bad idea to pick up plants without a place to put them into the ground as soon as you get home, I know this, but I seldom remember this until it is too late.

This morning we went to the Everett Farmer’s Market, but since it is so early in the season it was very small.  We did manage to pick up a huge boquet of flowers, some organic tomatoes, asparagus, and some delicious pastries.

On the way home I remembered the Seattle Tilth Plant Sale was going on so we went on down to Seattle and had a look around. We picked up a few plants, ate some organic donuts, looked around the P-patch and played at the park.  Next year we will: get there bright and early on Saturday, as the tables were pretty picked over by the time we got there Sunday noon; bring boxes, easier to get the plants to the car and home; and bring my camera.

After a quick stop at Acorn Street for me to pick up a pattern I had on hold, we headed back to the old homestead to do some planting.

Yesterday my parents called and we all ended up at Emery’s to look for honeysuckle.  We didn’t find any honeysuckle, dad is looking for a native honeysuckle and they are harder to find, but I came home with tomatoes, cabbage, 4 blueberry bushes, 25 strawberry plants and a few flowers.

Today was the first day of the annual spring sale at Great Yarns! in Everett, so I headed on up before hubby went to work.  Most of the sale yarns seemed to be the more novelty yarns, does this mean they are going out of trend (I won’t call it style) and the yarn companies will stop making 50 billion of them? Oh, gosh, I hope so.  The big find of the day was a vintage sock knitting booklet, it is from 1950 and originally cost 40c, and it was in the free pattern bin along with an issue of Interweave Knits from the early 90s.  I did manage to do a little stash enhancement, but I was far from my usual stash crazy self.

I was looking at the Interweave Knits summer preview and came across the cutest pair of socks, Bazaar Socks.  I love these socks so much that I am going to host a Knit Along for them.

This KAL will start on May 16th, that is the issue ‘on sale’ date, and will end on August 15th, about the time the next issue will be comming out. 

E-mail me, or leave a comment, to join, include your name and blog - web page - photo gallery where you will be showing off your socks.  I will place a list of participants in my sidebar with links.

ETA: If you do not have a way of posting photos/updates to the web (blog, gallery, etc) I can post them here with the updates.  If you would like to set up your own blog I would recommend www.wordpress.com, they are free and easy to set up while still having lots of layout options.

Updates will be posted weekly.

Now go and download that pattern and get ready to knit!