#56 of 356 - A Day of Errands for Errands Sake

Spent the day taking care of business, banking, shopping, art supplies for the Moley Round Robin, last little bits for the Saint Patrick's Day Swamp on Ravelry, which is Irish themed and green. Failed at finding new jeans tho. I am SO tired of the ones that slide off my ass. This is me, tired...

Yanno, the usual stuff... Gotta tell you, I hate buying the bulbs for the over the stove light in the kitchen tho. Why-o-why do they burn out so fast? ... and me with the Black Hole of Calcutta for a kitchen...

We did have a lovely lunch at La Baguette tho. We also picked up a crafted loaf of Euro Rye Bread to go with the Nutella I bought at the Wal-Mart.

After lunch, we went to the Bead Gallery to find some Tiger's Eye beads, so I can send them to my friend, Frewen in the form of a necklace, in hopes of incentivizing her to make me a Mother of the Bride hat that looks like Tiger's Eye for the DD's wedding. We found some cute penguin earrings for the DD who is fond of penguins (which I did not know, until I made some penguin stitch markers for my friend, Becca aka KnitswithPenguins, and so she now does). She may also make stitch markers from them if she can't find ear wires that don't react badly.

Here are the penguins and here's some of the Irish Swamp goodies and the beads I selected.

#37 of 365 - Hats Again

My buddy, Clay and I in our flat caps helping Scruffy Murphy's to celebrate 5 years of serving libations and Celtic Music to Denver. Potcheen, a Celtic Pirate Band played to an appreciative crowd and a good time was had by all.

# 33 of 365 - Imbolc or Groundhog Day

Depending on how you celebrate, today is either Groundhog Day or the celebration of Imbolc. It's due to reading Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series that I got interested in my Celtic heritage. It also lead me to learn more about the seasons as expressed in Celtic Lore. Readers of the series will totally understand this statement. Here's Erin and I waiting to get the latest book in the series signed by Diana, herself. It's also a picture of me in another hat I wear...

Anyway, Punxsutawney Phil did see his shadow but the other groundhogs, for the most part did not, so either Winter is over shortly or we have six more weeks... Good thing I am knitting all these shawls for MMX, then to keep me warm if necessary...

#28 of 365 - Another Hat that I Wear or FB is Kewl for Free Stuff

If you are a fan of Facebook and Einstein Bros. Bagel, then you know that you can get a coupon for a free bagel and a schmear... Erin and I took advantage of it this morning. Of course, the child would take the picture whilst I was stuffing my face, sigh.














This is what the trees looked like as we drove about. Lovely they are, all dusted with rime.