Happy Birthday, Willy!

Well, technically it's still 35 minutes until his birthday, but we had the 2nd annual birthday BBQ for him today. Two years in a row now he's had absolutely gorgeous weather for this party, and that's certainly not something you can count on this time of year in New England.

It was a great day, with a string of friends coming and going all day. We started at noon and said goodbye to the last set of guests around 10pm. Good times.

Happy Birthday, honey!

Latest crochet project

I haven't really had time to craft lately, but my friend's recent baby shower gave me an excuse to jump back in with both feet. On Tuesday I decided to start a baby blanket to give her at her surprise baby shower...on Saturday. It might have been OK except that, once again, I made it bigger than I really intended. This meant I got foiled on two fronts; first, it took longer to make it of course, and second I ended up having to buy more yarn to finish the project instead of just using up what I had in my stash like I intended. The green stripes are narrower than the others because I had less of that yarn so I was trying to stretch it out--ended up having to buy two more skeins of the stuff anyway. Oh well, at least it still ended up coming out pretty cute, IMHO.

So did I finish in time? Wellllll...sort of. I ended up finishing it in the car while she opened her other presents. Hahaha!

W has become a hunter...

...of mice.

In his car.

EEEWWWWWWW!!!

Apparently one or more mice has made a home in his engine block. He actually saw it scurry away the other day when he opened up the hood. Then a couple of days later he just saw lots of little mouse poops all over. So then he went out and bought a bunch of traps. Like, the old fashioned, snap and kill 'em kind. Yuck, yuck, yuck!!!