Project-itis

There was a yarn sale at the local yarn store, Make1. Yum! I choose this cotton yarn for the beautiful jewel tones. I plan to knit myself at Knitty.com sweater. My reasoning (pick one):
(1) I need more clothes
(2) I need another sweater
(3) I need another project
(4) I have compulsive project-itis.
My "hard-and-fast" rule of only one project on-the-go at a time has deterioated to one kind of project at a time (i.e., only one knitting, one sewing ...) , to, well, project-itis.



Summertime! Does this photo not suggest summertime to you? Here we have Francis enjoying B.C. cherries with all his senses (we have a wonderful Farmers Market now at the old Currie Barracks). Summertime also means Stampede time. On the one hand, you have to appreciate a festival that the whole city, and I mean the whole city, gets into. Where else would you see the CEO of a major corporation dress up in costume? Where else would the police shut down a major traffic artery to clean up horse poo? On the other hand, I (grumpily) resent the tourists and the traffic, and hate the commercialism and the infantile drunkeness.



I tried out a recipe for playdough the other day -- so much nicer than the Playdoh that you buy. Easy! and I couldn't resist buying a baking set for Francis the other day at IKEA. Here he is "cooking" (his other favorite version of this game involves lots of dishsoap and water at the sink with some of my pots). I worry that I am enforcing gender sterotypes since he only sees me cooking (Dad does "fire", or aka BBQ-ing), but on the other hand, I really enjoy the creative process (and outcome!) of cooking, and hopefully I can pass that on to him.

Summer! I love summer.