Saturday - 26 days til vacation

Can you tell I'm getting anxious?

Doug called this evening -- not sure if he called because he's on a short term deployment and a bit homesick, because he and Brenda had a fight, because he's sickly and wanted to talk to his mom, or just bored. . . but it was good to hear from him - whatever the reason :)

Marty and I did some shopping today -- weather was fabulous, with sunshine and temps in the mid 60's. Got pasta on sale for .49/lb, whole chickens .78/lb, bananas .25/lb (getting past their prime but still eatable and not yet banana bread stage), some baking potatoes $2.49/8 lbs, potato chips at half price, and probably a few things I've forgotten.

Went to the Salvation Army Store, and only got 3 things -- a leather kit with 3 projects in it - a bookmark, a comb case, and a baseball card holder - all in one kit for .50, a new skein of Lion Brand chenille yarn .39 and a needlepoint kit of a Valentine Teddy Bear for .39 Marty was impressed and he'll be doing the leather kits. Now, I need to figure out a one skein pattern for the yarn.

Put today's change in the change jar -- will roll the coins and sort the bills for our trip.

I started another dishcloth - this one is round. Should be a stretch for my knit cheallenged mind, but I like the pattern, and wanted something to use up some varigated cotton yarn. You can see the pattern here: http://foothillsofthegreatsmokymountains.blogspot.com/2007/07/picot-swirl-cloth_25.html