to market, to market... and to amherst - november 10th

saturday morning was market day at boyce's farmers' market

honeycrisp apples... mmmmmm!
woolsmoke woolworks - look at all of those hats! here are her patterns. unfortunately, i couldn't wait, so i bought one. here is the author of the patterns wearing the hat i bought.
and this is a photo of me taken by a local photographer and posted at justfred.ca. it happened so fast i didn't get to snap a picture of her.
the line up for samosas....

heading to amherst.... this is just past moncton. look at that... SNOW!! wait, it gets worse.

my uncles' remote control. he assures me they no longer lose it in the cushions. my father's beer for scale.

see.... worse! bleh.

fredericton - november 9th

first stop, dollarama - where i found this: yes, ladies and gentlemen, they sell pregnancy tests at the dollar store.
we stopped at the local yarn / sewing machine store. i picked up two skeins of habacho to make socks for my mummy. (shade #301)

lunch was indian food at chez riz.... delicious!
a church
a building

one of four frenchy's visited. i brought home a ton of fantastic finds. it took a garbage bag to hold the purchases from the frenchy's in amherst. it took a carboard box to get the finds home. and all of them wearable - i only got one sweater to take apart - 100% cashmere - in pink - 3$. woot!

heading to fredericton (novmeber 8th)

vacation reading

i finished up the weight of water... i gave it four stars on facebook.



my vacation starts thursday at 3 p.m. - and i'll be hopping into a plane sometime around 6:30 p.m. when i'll start reading this:



my ipod is all ready - charged and filled up.

i'm almost completely packed.

i know i'll blink and it'll be over.

guilt and content

you know, for what should be primarily a knitting blog.... there has been a distinct absence of knitting content for the last few weeks. a fairly decent explanation for this occurence would be the fact that i have been ignoring my knitting for my other passion... reading. at one time i was troubled that i would not be able to maintain both of my favourite passtimes - but soon discovered the library carries audio-books. i think i felt the same elation george did on seinfeld when he realized he could watch tv and, ahem, get it on.

on the first day of my vacation (which has since, dreadfully, come to an end) i stopped at the library on my way home and checked out five books. i've been on a roll - reading this month alone: the memory keeper's daughter (meh), life of pi (great!), suite francaise (great!), continuity girl (bleh).... and i'm now starting the elephant vanishes by haruki murakami.

all of this makes me happy, but i am feeling... what is it... pangs of guilt... is this how a mother feels when she spends more time with one child than the other?

i intend to get back on the knitting wagon. i would like to finish the blanket i'm knitting as a gift during the winter... and any of the ideas i had for fall knitting, they will have to wait until next fall... because fall is now almost over.

well, off to crack the spine of yet another library book.