Sunday, June 27, 2010

Summer Has Started

Sprinkler action and early summer harvest with my little bits of sunshine!




Thursday, June 24, 2010

Baby Knitting



I decided to take a break from my selfish knitting and started a project for my friend Pia's little girl. Her little girl is due to join us in August. Pia is my friend from back in the days when I was working for the Baltimore Sun newspaper website in 1998. I was the website photographer and Pia was my friend Vikki's intern from England. I knew Pia was a kindred spirit when we met. I love her! We hardly see each other in person because she is so far away but we talk online almost every other day.

I choose a Lion Brand pattern eyelet yoke caridgan. I'm using Elite Cotton. It's a very soft yarn. I hope to finished this in a week or two and then start on some pink baby booties.

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Shaft...our love puppy 1996-2010



Our dog Shaft who was 14.5 years old passed away in his sleep last Saturday. It was exactly 2 weeks after my husband's mother passed away. My heart is broken into pieces for our love ones. Shaft was the only dog my husband's mother loved. They are for sure in heaven together.





Shaft had been with us since I graduated college. He was just 10 weeks old when we brought him home from the ASPCA in Baltimore. He moved to 4 different states with us. From Baltimore to LA, from LA to New York and from there on we got Shaft a backyard in New Jersey just like we have promised him. We wanted him to have all the sticks he wants to chew on in his old age.

Shaft watched us get married and have babies. He walked in the woods, climbed along side the mountain and swam in the ocean with us.

Shaft, I love you forever! I don't think I'll ever stop missing you.







Saturday, June 12, 2010

Remembering...



My mother-in-law Norma Elizabeth Artis passed away on May 29th 2010 at 63 years old. She was a great mother and awesome grandmother. She was battling with pancreatic cancer for the past 6 months. She was so strong and brave and fought till the end. She is at peace now and gone home to be with God. She is forever in my husband and my two little boys. We will love her miss her forever.