I made a lot of progress on the second sock. That’s because I had to sit through several hours of Powerpoint presentations over the last two days, and the only way I could stay awake and actually pay attention was by knitting.
Monthly Archives: July 2015
Day 190/365: The Red Hots Sock Gets a Mate
Remember this sock? I posted photos of its progress back in May. Then I got sidetracked by other projects in June.
Now that it’s July (halfway through the year!) and The Pumpkin Socks are done, I wanted to go back to my unfinished projects. So this week’s plan is to complete the second Red Hots sock.
Day 189/365: The Pumpkin Socks, Formerly Known as The Orange Socks
Remember the orange socks that I’d been knitting for my cousin?
These are the same socks that posed with the pumpkin plants in a couple of earlier blog posts, so now I think of these socks as The Pumpkin Socks.
I finished them a few days ago and kept meaning to take better photos so that they could have their own blog entry.
I finally got around to taking those photos today.
They’ve been down to L.A. for a Los Angeles Galaxy game…
…and back to Ventura and then Morro Bay.
For a pair of socks that have yet to be worn, they’ve certainly covered a lot of mileage.
Day 188/365: Week 6 of Half Marathon Training
I got home from work–10 hours of what is my Monday after a 3-day weekend–and I was fully prepared to camp out on the couch for the rest of the evening. But, nooooo. Sean said, “We have to run today.”
“Can’t today be a rest day?” I asked.
“No,” Sean said, “because tomorrow is supposed to be the rest day.”
Drat. He was going to be disciplined and stick to the half marathon training plan that I’d printed out and stuck to the refrigerator door.
So I changed into my running clothes and put on my running shoes, and we went out for a forty-minute run, according to schedule. I spent the first half hour alternating between being mad at my husband and trying to distract myself from the various aches and pains that were developing along my hamstrings and shins and the arches of my feet. I spent the last ten minutes focused on just getting home and putting this run behind me.
Just as it is with every long run that I complete, by the time I got home, I felt pretty good about what I’d accomplished, and I was back to liking my husband again. Especially since he’d made puttanesca while I was at work, and we would be able to sit down to eat in a matter of minutes.
I didn’t take any photos of our dinner, but here is one from our 4th of July breakfast that Sean made. My contribution was the handmade quilted placemats and handmade napkins.
Even though he won’t let me slack off the training schedule, he does make the best breakfast.
Day 187/365: Week 3 of Allergy Testing
After last night’s Women’s World Cup game, Sean and I still had to make the 150-mile drive back down to Ventura so that I could make my morning appointment for allergy testing in Oxnard. I knew that I would be getting shots in the arm this week, but I didn’t realize how many there would be until the nurse came into the room with this tray.
“Am I getting a shot of each one of those?” I asked her, just to be clear.
“No, only the ones with the brown dots on the caps,” she told me.
Needless to say, it was not a pleasant experience and after about the first five or six shots, I couldn’t help whimpering. Truthfully, I wanted to cry a little bit, but I told myself that it would be over pretty soon and then there would only be one more day of testing next week. In case you were curious, I had an allergic reaction to each and every single one of those shots, and when I asked the nurse what they were, she simply replied, “Mold.”
After my appointment, Sean and I had a few errands to run– stuff like going to the credit union and to the post office and getting an oil change for the car– and then we had to drive back up to Morro Bay. I started knitting a new sock over the weekend and I also did some sewing, but I’ll share those projects with you later, because now I’m wiped out and it’s pretty much time to go to bed.
Day 186/365: The Day of the 2015 Women’s World Cup
Sean is a huge soccer fan and right now we are waiting for the 2015 Women’s World Cup game between the USA and Japan to start.
Earlier for lunch, I made sushi rice and we ate fresh vegetarian hand rolls.
Both Sean and I love sushi and Japanese food, but today Sean is a USA fan, through and through.
P.S. The table runner is the reverse side of this table runner from this post, and the quilted placemat is this one.
Day 185/365: Fourth of July
Today Sean and I joined a few hundred people for the Morro Bay 4th of July bike parade.
The bike parade path is a 1.5 mile stretch that starts north of the Morro Creek Bridge across from the Morro Bay Rock, winds along the Embarcadero, past restaurants and tourist shops, and ends at Tidelands Park. Despite how crowded it looks in the photo, it’s actually a lot of fun. People ring their bells and honk their bike horns and cheer and wave to the pedestrians. For this year’s parade, I thought it would be a great idea to attach tin can noise-makers to our bikes, and the results turned out better than I expected. The cans made an incredible racket that added to the merriment of the parade, and other riders made sure to give us a lot of room to let those cans clank and drag along behind us.
A lot of people waved and cheered and laughed when they saw us riding by with tin cans trailing from our bikes. For some strange reason, though, we kept getting asked the same question:
“Just married?”
I don’t have any photos from the actual parade because it was a lot nicer to just ride without a phone or a camera in my hands. Also, I needed my hands free so that I could wave to all the people who came out to watch and enjoy the event.
Happy 4th of July!
Day 184/365: Orange Socks and Pumpkin Plants
The pumpkin seedlings are really starting to thrive now. And here are the finished socks. It’s still foggy in Morro Bay, but I’m hoping the weekend will clear up so I can take more (and better) photos.
Day 183/365: A Foggy Day for Photos
I finished the second orange sock last night and meant to take photos of the completed pair today. Then I got home from work this evening, and this is what it looked like in Morro Bay:
FOG. Booooo.
Here is a photo from April, to refresh your memory of what is normally out there:
Anyway, so there are no sock reveal photos today. The good news, however, is that I committed to finishing the pair, they’re done, and I will be starting a new project.
Hooray!
Since I couldn’t get Sean to pose for today’s photo, here are the Blythes, filling in.
Day 182/365: Orange Sock #2, Almost Finished
I am now up to the ribbing on the sock. I wanted to take a creative and interesting photo for today’s blog entry, and this is the one I liked best. You can see that my pumpkin seedlings are really thriving.
The fence that Sean built.
365 Days Handmade 
