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Australia Calling - The Weekend and Some Knitting

Hi Shelagh,

I've been sick the last few days - a fluey thing that laid me low and kept me home from work.  The home from work I quite like, the being sick not so much.  I'm feeling much better today and back off to work to try and catch up.

This last weekend, we ventured over to Daylesford:

This is Lake Daylesford.  It was a lovely, cold autumn day.  The sun didn't hold much heat but the wind stayed down for most of our visit.  I love the sun sparkling on the water.  We enjoyed a late lunch:

The cheeses are local to Victoria and were absolutely lovely.  The coffees were good too and this little coffee shop was located at the back of a second hand bookstore right on the edge of the lake.  It was a really nice place to spend an hour.

On the knitting front, I am working on the Wing -'o-the-Moth Shawl.  I'm in the Odd Ducks Swap Group on Ravelry and the latest swap I've joined is the Creepy Crawlies Swap and my spoilee loves moths, so I'm finally getting to knit this pattern.  I'm on the last chart and down to the last 15 rows, but as you know, these last ones take forever!  I'm knitting it in a Wollmeise deep red (almost the favourite colour of my spoilee):

Pretty hard to see the detail with my poor photos.  I'll take another few shots when I've finished and blocked the shawl.

Finally, I wanted to show you The Blue Lake at Mt Gambier.  It is in South Australia and we visited there on our recent break.  The blue of the lake really is this blue.  It is one of the most amazing things I've seen; it literally took our breaths away:

Canada Calling: Hello Deb!!

Hi Deb

It's wonderful to read your posts and see how your weight loss is going!  Congratulations!  You and your family must be having a lot of fun with Lilli.

I'm also working on cutting my weight down, and in almost 3 months have lost 19 lbs.   I looked at some photos of myself and am not really ready to post any before/after yet.  However, I just went through some underthings that used to be too small for me and a whole bunch of them now fit.  ;>)

 It's full on into Spring here and slowly but surely the weather is warming up.  I have daffodils flowering today, and more to come.  Too bad it reminds me of all the quackgrass I have to dig up out of my flowerbed.

I've been doing a bit of knitting, and a lot of project planning .  I have a lot of single skeins of fingering weight yarn that I'd like to convert.  I'm still on a yarn diet most of the time and working very hard on using only stash for projects.

Since my last post in March (!) I'm still working on the pink Billowy Delight at knit nights, so it's taking a long time to finish.  It'll be done when I use up the ball of yarn.

I've also finished a pair of socks which turned out to be too big because I used bigger needles. I'm an idiot - I should have known better.  I love the socks, so intend to rip them back and start over again. 

Unfortunately we have rain forecast for the next 4 or 5 days.  I should be glad since it's been so dry out here the municipality instituted a burning ban.  We've had rain off and on for the last few days, so I'm almost read for it to stop and have some sunshine.

 Don't be a stranger, it's been great to have you back!

 

Australia Calling - Lilli

Hi Shelagh

I couldn't resist posting a few photos of Lilli from this weekend:

I think it is safe to say that mid air ball catching is not one of Lilli's strengths. 

After all that activity, what is a girl to do:

Her black coat means she gets hot very quickly even when it is cold so we go nowhere without water - and plenty of treats :)

Our lovely girl.