Oops! Guess I had an unintentional blog vacation again. I was in Chattanooga the first weekend in June then there was Vacation Bible School and blogging got away from me. Here are a few random snippets of what's been going on...
*I was in Chattanooga at the synod assembly as a voting member for my church. It was such a great experience! In addition to attending to the business of the church, we attended workshops, worshiped daily and heard several inspirational presentations. One was by the Rev. John Nunes. Among other things, he spoke about malaria and the effort to eliminate it by 2015. If you ever have a chance to hear him speak, you should go.
*Did you know that getting rid of malaria can be as simple as using a bed net, being educated, and getting quick treatment if you are infected? A $10 donation will buy a bed net and provide the education needed to use it effectively and learn the symptoms of malaria. If you would like to donate, you can do it here. (I would link to my personal fundraising page but it has too much personal info on it for me to put out on the Internet. Let me know if you want to donate that way and I'll send you a link.) Thanks for considering to help stamp out malaria! I'll try not to go on and on about this initiative but I'm pretty pumped up about it!
*Let's see, what else has been going on? I made fish tacos again with this recipe. Yum! I liked it better than the other recipe but Steve and Emma didn't.
*There has been knitting. I'm making a chemo cap for a friend. It's the Odessa pattern without beads. (It's a long story but this was supposed to be done a long time ago!) I'm also working on a prayer shawl (Little Colonnade) and Hamamelis.
*Oh yeah, I unbound (what is the proper term?) my Springtime Bandit and rebound off with a different method: K2, put the stitches back on the left needle, K2tog through the back loops, K1, repeat. I'm so glad that I found a stretchy bind off that works for me! There are actually points to my shawl now. That wasn't planned but it happened due to the new bind off. And I love the Cascade Venezia I used for this shawl!!! It's a merino/silk blend that feels so nice and is great to knit with.
*We've been gardening but I think that deserves its own post so more on that later. I'll just say that I'm really excited to see cucumber blossoms!!!
Your springtime bandit is lovely! Thanks for that bindoff formula - always good to have another one in the repertoire!
Posted by: Estella | June 16, 2010 at 09:48 AM
Nice to see you back! Sounds like you've been busy with lots of great things!
Posted by: caitlyn | June 16, 2010 at 11:37 PM
That bind off on the springtime bandit looks perfect.
We have VBS this week. Have been holding babies in the nursery (for the leaders' children) everyday 8:30-12:00. Such joy :)
Posted by: Robin | June 17, 2010 at 09:36 PM
I took an unexpected blog-reading break, so now I'm playing catch-up. A whole um, we call them programs, but it might be a "department" in other companies, at my place of work is devoted to solving the malaria problem. It is amazing what little is needed for prevention. The identifying and curing however...total bigger issue.
Posted by: Mary | June 27, 2010 at 12:16 AM