Puget Sound
The “Hammering Man” in front of the Seattle Art Museum
Collin loved this statue. I have a video of him in action, but I can’t seem to get in on here. Guess it’s the wrong sort of file. Anyone know how I can save it in a different format?
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This totem statue is so cool! I wish I would have taken some more detailed shots. It’s made out of motorcycle parts. How fun it must have been to create something like that.
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How sadly pitiful! :(
But he’s OK!
To explain the title…Linnet, Collin, and I went to a special showing of Okkervil River and because we had Collin, we sat up in a sound booth where it wouldn’t damage his ears. There we were, sitting on chairs, with Collin on Linnet’s lap. He was having such a great time rocking out when he slipped forward and smacked his head on the windowsill of the soundbooth. Sharp edge. He immediately got a very large goose egg and cried, and cried, and cried. I took him out to the bar area for some ice and tried to calm him down. Each time he stopped crying, he’d only start up again. There was a very large two-sided fish tank and that seemed to keep him mostly happy. But all the while, Okkervil River was playing and we were missing it. Any attempt to take Collin back into the soundbooth brought on more tears. He no longer wanted to be in there and only wanted to go look at the fish. Linnet so kindly offered to take Collin to the fishies so that I wouldn’t miss any more of the show. Thank you Linnet! Once with the fish, Collin was again happy.
After the concert, we went to the Seattle Art Museum. The exibit we went to was something about inspiring the impressionists. It was wonderful! So interesting, so beautiful! Collin did really well and enjoyed looking at everything. Especially these white cars that have rods of light sticking out of them. It starts with the car on the ground. Then there are several suspended from the ceiling in various stages of a flip. Last, it is on the ground again – right side up and unscathed.
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I have this same picture with Chase standing there from way back in 2001! We went to Seattle for our honeymoon.
If he looks scared, that’s because he is. He still really liked them though. They just made him a bit nervous. It was dark in there, the dinos were moving and making noises, and he felt like they were real. I had to convince him that they were just robots. Scared, but intrigued.
I love the Science Center! (No surprises there as I love just about everything science related.) The insect area is SO fascinating, though it made my mom a bit squeamish. Collin pet a cockroach that one of the employees was holding and we went into the butterfly room. So cool, of course, but nothing like the one in Gainesville! That place is bigger, has more butterflies, a creek, and lots of vegetation. But both are wonderful. Collin also got to touch animals in the tide pool, play with some pretty cool water toys, and make music with some really neat contraptions. All kinds of science-geek goodness!
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Space Needle, fountain, merry-go-round, Pacific Science Center, saltwater taffy, and a monorail ride – the Seattle Center. :)
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Lunch by the Sound.
From September 14th – September 20th my Mom, Collin, and I were in Seattle visiting my sister Linnet. We drove and Collin did surprisingly well – long drive and all. We had a most wonderful trip of course! I love Seattle! And I love Linnet – thanks!
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Can’t contain my excitement: I’m going to Seattle this next week to visit my wonderful sister Linnet, and I just found out today that we will be seeing Okkervil River (along with Sea Wolf and Zykos) at Showbox at the Market! *(Turns out this was actually a special showing in the afternoon – as opposed to the one that night at the Showbox - for gold member KEXP members. Linnet got two tickets and let me be her guest! Thanks Linnet! XOXO It was amazing! Good thing there was a fish tank. :)* This is only made more superb by the fact that we were already planning on going to see The National (with Menomena) at Moore Theatre (for Co-Ops Rock!)! WOW! It will certainly be a music packed month for me! (Fleet Foxes and Wilco back on August 20th!) So I’m feeling quite lucky. Up until this point, I have only been to two major concerts and that was back in high school. Collin gets to go to Okkervil River, so that’ll be pretty cool for him. I told him he was going to a concert with Linnet and me and he said, “I get to dance?” Okkervil River at 2 years old…pretty cool.
On other exciting news fronts: We broke ground for the building of our house yesterday! Chase and his brother Paul are out there right now with the backhoe digging up the dirt. By the time Collin and I get back from Seattle, we should hopefully have a floor - maybe even a bit of framing done!
It’s going to be a wonderful week in Seattle! My mom, Collin, and I are driving up. It’ll be good to get away and know that the house is coming along…
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Trees at Jim’s (my father-in-law) house.
A forest to a child. Enter…
…and discover the magic that awaits.
© Rock Creek Farm 2008
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A Dress for a 1 year old – but grows with ya.
Dress Detail
Here’s what I’ve been working on. This is a dress for a little girl named Claire, who had her birthday a month or so ago. I had this much done by the time her birthday party came ’round (and I did it in the span of 2 days!), and now I’m finally getting the back done. It is my own pattern and some of the way it turned out wasn’t exactly how I had planned, I just sort of figured things out as I went along. I really had no idea what I was doing – I still don’t – and I hope it all turns out OK as far as size goes. I am quite pleased with it considering it is the biggest thing I have made so far, and for the fact that I made the pattern myself. You should see the paper I wrote it all down on. I haven’t really knitted much from patterns, so I had no idea how to write it out. I just listed what to do on each and every row (all 105 of them!). I did the back a bit different, no seed stitch except at the bottom. I’m going to put tie straps up at the top, hopefully border the top with white and put a white heart on the bottom. Just hope it all turns out alright. It’s been a lot of fun, but there are red cotton fluffs all over the house! It’s such a nice, soft cotton blend: 50% Peruvian Pima Cotton and 50% Tencel (which I have no idea what that is. Hold on a minute and I’ll find out…).
…Turns out, Tencel is the brand name for lyocell, which is made from wood pulp cellulose. Interesting. So all natural and very soft! It’s made by Cascade Yarns, which I have liked very much thus far.
Also in the works; I am still working on a sweater for Collin, and I did start Chase’s vest, but I’m not very far on it. It’s looking pretty cool, but I’m nervous about the sizing on it and armhole placement (when I get to it) because I decided to use my own gauge and attempt to figure out how to do the sizing according to that, and well, it could have been a very poor decision on my part. I’ll know eventually I suppose. I also have a gift to knit for a friend of mine who has a baby that’s on the way. I haven’t yet decided what I want to do yet though.
There’s a lot more I’ve been up to as well, but I’ll get to that all in good time. I’ve been busy, busy!
© Media Knits 2008
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