Fall Is Here and So Are Some New Socks!

Signs of Fall are everywhere these days.  Just now we enjoyed a long walk under bright blue skies, trudging uphill and down through lots of leaves and pine needles. I love collecting Big Leaf Maple leaves as they truly live up to their name.  Here are some of the "smaller" ones. (Note the pencil!)

And here's my favorite find.

                                                               

BOO!

This pumpkin in our Chicago daughter's garden has an interesting story. They live on a small lake, and during the summer the kids found a strange plant growing in the beach sand.  They dug it up and planted it at home, thinking that it was a melon, but voila!  I think it will soon be carved, don't you?

While walking around that same lake, we stumbled upon the remains of a friend of Captain Hook and his pet parrot.  Don't you wonder what his story is?  There were lots of other signs of Halloween in the neighborhood, but this one was the most unique.

The squirrels, birds and other critters in our yard enjoyed this sunflower from our local daughter's garden.  No, they didn't clean up the shells.

These socks are finally finished.  I won't confess when they were started, but they were part of an "ancient" KAL at the Knitter's Brewing Company.  Sock #1 was done long ago, and then I caught the dreaded SSS!

Pair number four of the GKs' Sock Request has already been delivered and worn to school!  Just one more pair, and I'll be done with the "orders" placed in July when we were at Cannon Beach.  Daniel requested blue and green.  He got a few more colors as well.  As for that last pair of socks....they may take a while as that grandson's foot is my size!  How did that happen?

HAPPY HALLOWEEN !!!

Finished at Last!

We've been home from our trip to Arizona since Wednesday night and are just about caught up with mail, laundry and such.  And I am finally finished with the Scoreboard Scarf! It became so long that I decided to finish off the ends rather than kitchener them together. I couldn't quite imagine such a long cowl! (Stretched out, it's taller than I am!)

Each row except for the gray edges represents one point, the navy being our home team (The Seahawks) and the green, their opponents. The single gray line separates the season's games, all sixteen of them but not the playoffs.

While catching up on my blog friends, I found this chart which made me smile. I just had to share it, too. Now someone needs to do one for knitting!

And if you've ever wondered about the value of knitting, you will enjoy this article.  I think the benefits described could be applied to any handcraft.  OK, gotta run but will post again later about our trip.  Carpe diem!

Settling In and Catching Up

We are finally back in this Time Zone!  It became fall while we were gone, and now we are settling in for the season, catching up with friends, doing chores and our regularly scheduled activities.  Ginger and Mocha are keeping a close eye on us and have almost forgiven us for being gone so long.

The fall blooming clematis is showing off. It would grow clear up the second story if allowed.

I finished a Pumpkin Hat for Stella and am working on some other projects also.

Great niece Maddy is getting acquainted with her little sister.

Becca and I had a delightful afternoon at Country Village which started with lunch next door. She sent this fun photo.  That scone was very tasty!

Traveling is fun, but it's also good to be back home, isn't it?  Life is good.  More travel photos soon. Get inspired with others' knitting at Patchwork Times!