A Cowl of a Tale

So... we're back. Yep. I managed to get some photos at the beach. Here are a few of them worth showing:

Sorry they're so bad. I took them on a Kodak, not with my Canon.

I have been crocheting, too, and here's two recent projects.

Yep. Not much else. So, how've you guys been while I've been AWOL?

Silly Kitty

Also, while we were at the beach, I made some hats!....

I tampered with my Zac Brown Band hat pattern. I'll post the fix later!

And now, here's some Tinker.

I think that this one is the most interesting picture Of Tink that I've ever taken...

Now you see him, now you don't.....

The Pier

And finally, I end this weird saga of our vacation with more pictures.

Pictures of a pier.

A fishing pier.

Here it

is.

And, a serne one. The lights on in the middle of darkness.

Goldfish & Happily Intruding Intruders

There were these tiny little birds that romped around our site for a while. That is, until we all told Nathan to grab them and put them on the other side of the campground. But I did get some good pictures!

Okay, so they're not-so-good pictures. But, in my defense, I had on zoom and had to get down really close to get these pictures, so naturally they'd be a bit blurry.

:~:+:~:

So, we had a deck of cards accually used at the Hard Rock Hotel (courtesy of Nanster & Papa). Nathan and I played Go Fish on them, and Daddy taught us how to play Blackjack. Daddy eventually admitted that he didn't remember how to play Go Fish, so I played a round with him.

But, we(Nathan, Daddy & I) wanted to play Go Fish together... so we created......

Goldfish!

Here's how to play:

Deal each player seven cards. Dealer chooses which player goes first, or, if you can't decide, player to the left of dealer goes first.

First player asks for a card.

Let's say, four.

Any players with a four have to give the first player their card. Only one player has to hand in a card To save the first player from drawing.

If none of the players have the card, the first player has to draw cards numbering the same as the number of players.

When one player wins first place, game continues until all the players have places (second, third, etc.).

Remember: The more players, the more fun!

Here's some snapshots of our game, played with(In random games):

Me

Daddy

Nathan

My Aunt

My Uncle

Tryin' it out for the first time: Three players

 Nathan laughing at Daddy's attempt to enforce Tournament Rules.

 Nathan, MY Uncle, and Momma laughing at my comment: "Can we get off the politics of this game?!?!"

 Shuffling...

 Shuffling...

First successful four-player Goldfish game. Nathan is hiding his cards. MY Aunt's at the very right

We came up with the name, because, I inherited Nanster's way of messing up every single word I say if I try hard enough.

So, when I said Go Fish, it sounded like I was saying, Goldfish.

So, either out of pity, or just to claim that we invented a game, we called the game Goldfish.

Another post later about our fabulous vacation.

"How Many Bugs Did They Test?"

The whole conversation between Daddy & my cousin, Nathan:

Daddy: Hey Nathan, you won't believe this, but sciencist have figured out what the last things is that goes throughs a bug's mind when he hits a windshield!

Nathan: NO way! What is it?!

Daddy: His butt.

Nathan: Really? How many bugs did they test?

That made us laugh, so, so, so hard.

Yeah, we had a lot of fun. Here's some pictures of the beach!

There was a surfing dude when I was taking the first round of pictures, so I just had to snap some shots of him surfing!

I'll do another post about our vacation in a bit.

On The Road...

(BTW, This is a scheduled post!)

We're on our way to the beach now! Type to you soon, maybe even from the beach like last year.

(Old pictures, BTW)

Finally, Something Worth Blogging ABout

I've been in such an inspiration funk lately that, for the past few days, I was accutally waiting for th UPS guy. Around here, they can come as late as 5 PM. But it was worth it.

I ordered five books off of Amazon, but strangely, the order got messed up, and I only received three, while the other two haven't even shipped yet. And when they do get shipped, it will be with some of Daddy's stuff.

A really hilarious book. Full of stuff about being a crocheting and yarn.

Really interesting, though it doesn't say about the pattern if you want to, oh, say, do something Bavarian with only one color.

This one is hugely cool. I'll might just break out some regular yarn and work some of the tablecloths into beautiful blankets.

:~:+:~:

Well, while we're at the beach, I'm gonna be teaching my Aunt to crochet!

Her interest peaked when I gave her a crocheted blanket for Christmas.

It was a beautiful varied dusty red, tan, and brown granny squared blanket. It was a first-time blanket for me, since I sc'd it together instead of my wonky whipstitch. And, it was also my first time ever making flowers, which I made and sewed onto every other blanket. The flowers were an off-white-nearly-tan, and then I made smaller flowers with leftover yarn and sewed them onto the white-ish flowers. I seriously hope that you have a mental picture of it, since I don't have an accual picture of it! XD

Ever since I gave her the blanket, she's been wanting to learn, and finally we have a chance! So, I'm gonna try my best to be a lot better of a teacher than I was when I was teaching my Wed. nite class. It's only one person, so it should be easier, right??

Well, I hope that I can post soon.

I think I'll might actually start something with regular yarn in the thread book. I've got my eye on a B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L tablecloth.

I'm Back!

Mom and I spent the weekend at the beach. We were visiting a friend. And we had fun!

I, of course, took lots of pictures!!!!

How was your weekend?

Cleaning Stinks.

It stinks because it means that I can't...:

BLOG

CROCHET

&

READ.

I accually have found time to blog!!! =)

 We found a place for that shawl! Well, not its permanent  place, but it's a place! XD

We cleaned off my dresser! I didn't even know it had a wood top..... LOL. ^_^

We got my books and my crocheting books in order!

We have organized my huge yarn stash! It now spreads from my drawers, to under my bed, to now in my closet! XD And the granny square dress might just end up on the back shelf.... for now, anyway.

I still found time to crochet roughly 30 chain dasies,

My first ever Tunisnian Crochet project(that curls very badly!),

And to start a retro-colored blanket for my room!

And the pets?

Sugar is sleeping a lot more lately

And the Governor behaved very badly and got his little butt kicked out this morning.

Well, here's two pictures to keep you happy until Daddy finally fixes my computer! (I'm on his! He he!)

And, let's add a little humor---

Have a great week!