My brother kept me hoppin’ this past week. It’s going to get busier still. I worked until 7 or 7:30 all last week. Granted, I didn’t come in until about 10:30, but that’s going to change. I’m staying at my Mom’s, and until Friday, so was my sister. She left Friday, and my Mom’s leaving Tuesday, for a month. Without all the morning chitchat, I’ll get out of the house a lot earlier. But I doubt I’ll be leaving the office much earlier!

Did get some knitting done, though. After “duh”-ing out on Tuesday, I thought to bring it with me to knit on the bus the rest of the week. It’s a short ride, but hey, a row here, a row there, it adds up. Then I did a lot this weekend. Here’s two shots of the blue shawl in progress, first about noon today:

And about 8:30 this evening:

It will definitely need borders, but probably not more than about 8 or 9 inches deep.
Yesterday I went to a nearby yarn store to get fixins for whatever it is I’m going to make to donate for the auction at The Fabulous Fiber Fest in August. I assume I need to donate something; I did last year, as did all the participants. I’ll be there this year as the knitting consultant. Anyway, here’s the yarn, with the bag it came in:

Here’s the beginning of a swatch:

The ribbon yarn is called “India” by Lana Grossa, color 12, and the nubby, glitzy stuff is Trendsetter Swing, color 1843, “fruit salad.” They coordinate perfectly. I hope you can see the colors. I think I’ll concoct some sort of purse with this. Not sure yet. Need to play with it some more. It better be fabulous, for what I spent on this stuff! (Well, I needed needles, too. Killed me to buy a size 9 circular when I have half a dozen of them at home, but whaddaya gonna do.)

Mom’s arthritis is acting up, because there’s been this mondo rain storm threatening but never quite coming. My own hands even felt a little achy; I’d forgotten that I used to get that when I lived here! This humidity is for the birds. It’s great for the singing voice, nice for the skin, but it’s hard to breathe, fer cryin’ out loud! I was never nuts about it, but now I’m really unused to it. (Sigh) Guess I better get used to it again.