Local Baseball

We went to see the NH Fisher Cats last weekend. It's a fun place to go - a nice stadium in Manchester and not too crazy-crowded. They do lots of fun things along with the baseball game.

Aren't the mascots cute?
Cute fans too :-)

We had great seats - you could really get into the game!

It really felt like summer. Last year when we tried to go in April the game was cancelled because of snow. We did better this time.

Thanks for the great photos Katie!

Beautiful Spring

OK Florida people - we're getting ready for you up here! Things are starting to look really pretty.

Here's one of Sarah's beautiful meals - lots of veggies. This one was all cooked on the electric griddle.

April

Well it's really spring now. I'm about a week late in posting these, but here are some pictures of our nice Easter brunch. Katie and Raf came up and helped decorate these beautiful eggs. We had a couple of wild egg hunts too - one inside and another one outside.

We make some colorful spring-like dishes. See the Easter pickles? Sarah made the cute bunnies. Raf thought they looked like Pokemon.Katie made this beautiful jello mold. We got the idea from one of Susie's neighbors in Florida.
And here are some real signs of spring. I always notice these little leaves growing in the woods because they're the first green thing every year. They last all summer but after awhile they get overshadowed by all the other green leaves and you don't notice them anymore.

The sky looks pretty forbidding but here are pussywillows!

And my bleeding heart that comes up every year. Things are just starting. I'll post some prettier pictures when the flowers come.

When you go outside at night you can really hear the peeper frogs now. I can even hear them when I'm driving with all my windows closed. Scroll down a little on this link - there's a thing you can click to hear the sound. They're super-loud and they're only about the size of a paper clip. Everything's waking up!

50 States

I've been collecting state quarters and I finally got Oklahoma today. That was the last one I needed and it turns out I had it all the time and I didn't know it. But then, Nathan found it inside of an Easter egg. Nathan said, "Oklahoma" and I said, "Oklahoma!?" Now I don't know what I'm going to do with all these, but it was pretty fun to collect them all. (Mom and Susie, do you need any quarters still?)

Project Progress Report

Just to keep track of how things are going -- I finally got going on the lacy scarf but it's slightly tedious. I need to alternate with some other things.

Here's the next square of Susie's quilt. I want to start working on my black and white bag but I also want to make sure I don't fall behind on this. We're not meeting for a few weeks so I'm ahead of schedule this time. Now I won't feel guilty about working on the bag. :-)

Here's a little more scarf progress. It is a fun pattern and I love the yarn so that will motivate me.

I needed an easy thing too so I started working on some socks. They're fun! The first one's almost done. I hope I feel like making the second one.

How many times will I start over?

Sarah says you're supposed to post your failure projects, not just the successes. I've been trying to make this lacy scarf and I've ripped it out and started over at least four times so far. I decided it might be better if I put markers every time the pattern changed but I didn't have enough. I had to use washers! Now I have some cool new green and purple ones so maybe the project will work better now. The yarn is really nice so I hope the pattern works out.