No Frolic For Me

Things are moving along at a snail's pace. Still waiting for my lease. I spoke with the real estate agent and was assured I would have it "early next week." (Sound of fingers drumming.) I'm making gradual headway in other areas though. I have an appointment on Tuesday to discuss the creation of the shop sign and related logo. I'm extraordinarily close to making my first inventory purchases - can't wait to see the Opal sock yarn!! Carolyn Anstey of Main Street Yarns in Milton was most helpful this week and I hope to meet with her again soon. Unfortunately, too much going on at home today (including a birthday party for Nick) kept me from visiting the Knitter's Frolic - I could cry! There will always be another one, right?

I'm still searching out people who can knit samples for me. I'm hoping to have some women from a local retirement residence work on a few things and aim to make some progress next week with their activities director.

Good news in the camera department. David discovered that the batteries in the camera (the same name-brand batteries I just put in that I swear were new out of the package) were dying. So we put the no-namers that came with the camera back in and all is well. We were able to take some pictures on Nick's birthday and even had them displayed on the TV. I'm thinking that transferring pictures to my computer (specifically this blog) can't be far behind.

Only two more weeks left of the SEB program. This week was tough. We've been sitting for 5 hours a day, 4 or 5 days a week, for quite some time now. There was less concentration among the group. I think everyone is exhausted. Hopefully the next two weeks will move along quickly. We will have a few days to work at home - it will be nice to have all my tools around me and the ability to take a break and stretch my legs when I want to.

On the homefront, I am getting quite excited about the flowers appearing in my garden. The perennials are starting to shoot up and lots of my bulbs are in flower now. We've made arrangements to have a garden designer do up a plan for our backyard. It may take some time to reach our ultimate look, but we can get started.

I've got a few mushy bananas that are calling out my name and Julia's sweater, on which I've made no headway this week. The pictures are coming soon - and no, not of the bananas.