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| A bit of Baileys in the coffee for St. Paddy's Day |
For crochet of course. After a week off from my ripple blanket, I finished off the evenings with as many ripply rows as I could fit. Week 1 I managed to hook up my quota - Week 2 I traveled to New Orleans (photo post coming) - Week 3, I made my quota and a few more. Find the previous posts about this ripple project HERE, HERE and HERE.
The blanket is now up to 66 rows. I'm liking it. But, with only 36 more rows on the proposal, I think I need to extend my original plan. I could easily double the current size of this blanket - maybe even make it bigger. So, I will stick with my original plan to hook on 20 more rows this week and 16 rows next... I will either add more weeks to my plan or crochet more rows in Weeks 4 & 5. Either way, I think I might like to add a border to the blanket tho. the ripple doesn't really require one, it has a nice ripply edge and straight sides. I'll leave that for a later decision.
Yesterday was St. Paddy's Day. We put on a bit of Irish for the occasion. I do have some Irish in my background - probably a lot more Scot but definitely some Irish. I've never been to Ireland but it's fun to transport it back here for a festive day each March.
I dug some green clothes out of the closet for the day, searched out the claddagh ring my sister brought me back from a trip to Ireland and retired at the end of the night in some green flannel jammies and rainbow socks.
Unlike last year at this time when I was enjoying a sunny weekend in short sleeve shirts and sunglasses, the weather was brisk and windy and cold. The Saturday morning running group found the perfect window of time for our run - 7:30am gave us just about the only time of the day that wasn't raining, sleeting or snowing. It remained cold for Sunday which gave us the chance to enjoy an all day fire and a relaxing day. I did find time for a jaunt around the neighborhood with the dog and my hubby who was taking his "puttin' on the Irish" very seriously.
I spent much of the lazy Sunday afternoon rippling rows between household duties, computer work, lesson planning and hanging out with the boys.
Yes boyS - plural. Middle boy had his spring break from college this past week. He left early Sunday morning to head back to the western part of the state. Big boy's spring break is this week and after a bit of confusion with the Mega Bus boarding location, managed to transport himself into town Saturday night. Little boy will have spring break the following week.
Strange way the weeks worked out, and only a very small window of time when all three were home together.
It was fun to have a fuller house and more people around the table for a few days.
After a quick bite at a local Irish pub for a sandwich, a few beers and a festive band strumming some lively Irish tunes, we rounded out the weekend with an annual watch of our favorite classic Irish tale, The Quiet Man. Big boy watched the show with us - and hopefully enjoyed it. He hadn't seen it before and he had to deal with two parents quoting all the lines before they came. Of course the movie watching lent a bit more time for a last few rows of rippling before retiring for the night.
May you have warm words on a cold evening,
A full moon on a dark night,
And the road downhill all the way to your door.
Onwards to spring for you - and off to do a spot of grocery shop and cake baking...hubby turns 49 today!
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