sherriknits

It was a fun time and we hated to come home.  I guess it’s best to come home when we feel that way rather than waiting for it to be time to get home!  One little boy started getting homesick yesterday.  It’s funny that he does that, but he does every year about the day before it’s time to come home.

We’re off!  This is his spot and I don’t even try to sit there.

We had an eventful time getting there.  The RV worked great until we were 5 minutes into the trip.  We had to stop by hubby’s workplace to get something, he left the engine running but when he jumped back in to start it…it would NOT go into gear.  We sat there for at least 30 min. and made several phone calls trying to find someone who might know what was wrong.  No help.  Finally it just jiggled in to place, something is loose in the ignition.

We drove an hour and stopped at Walmart to do our biggest shopping.  Then to the gas station….did it again, but hubby is on to it now and it didn’t hold us up.  We were maybe 10 min. down the freeway and he notices that as it gets dark we have no dash lights.  We pulled over and this is where I found my few min. of wireless connection, my last time for a week.  (yes, I survived!)  This time it was a fuse blown because some wires had accidentally shut in the Jeep door behind us.  It wasn’t too easy changing fuses under the dashboard in the dark.  Thankfully I’d found a flashlight in a drawer when we were moving in to the rv or who knows how we’d have fixed that one.  I don’t think my iPod or cell phone would have put off enough light…they are what I use for a flashlight.

We stayed our first night in a rest area.  After our nice breakfast, we discovered the battery was dead.  This used to happen frequently and hubby unhooked the Jeep, jumped it, and hooked up the Jeep again and away we went.

We stayed the whole week at Blu-Shastin RV Park .  We had one spot for 4 nights, then had to move to another spot for the last 3.  This spot was in the open but we had this nice little yard and we were one space away from the restrooms. 

Before the kids started arriving, I got some serious knitting accomplished.  MS3 is finished! 

And put to rest until I have time to block it….

I am so glad I did this and I really needed this challenge to kick me out of a difficult spot I had been in for way too long.  This project for me was way more than the knitting…it was all about persevering and pushing through obstacles and seeing it to the finish.  I always seem to be able to measure what is going on in my life to what I am working on creatively.  Knitting has been that thing for the last few years and I have learned a lot about myself through it.

I also made this from Cat’s new book.  I’d tell you the name of it, but all of my knitting is still in the Rv and it’s too late to go out there and get it.

I used Lorna’s Laces that I bought from Cashmere Cottage.  I also got some fun sock yarn from Wooly Bully in Leavenworth but haven’t taken a picture of it.

At Stitch n Pitch, I got this lace weight yarn and was really eager to get started on it, I don’t think the needles were cooled off from MS3 before I had this one out.  I’m farther along than this now, but don’t have any pictures.  The pattern is fun and easy.

When it came time to move to the other spot, we had to wait for the current tenants to move out so we could move.

  Hubby was a bit anxious because he didn’t want someone to have to wait for us to move.  He tested the RV to make sure it would start and then turned it off and we waited. and waited.  Finally, they left and we all piled in.  (By now the oldest daughter and her hubby were with us.)  Click. Click. Click.  The battery again.  It would not start.  I finally went for a walk and prayed because it was getting so stressful and when I came back, it was running.  The little boy rode his bike over and most of us walked.

This spot had trees and grass leading to the creek.  Even though we had a little more space and it was shady, it felt like the neighbors were right there with us.  The water was fun, though.

Later this day, the other kids plus one showed up.  We had a tent set up in back and our oldest son and daughter’s boyfriend came in the first morning rather frozen.  We put blankets over the top of the tent and gave them extra for each of them and they did fine the next night. 

We had birthday breakfast for our oldest daughter.

I think we’d have had it outside but the boys hadn’t warmed up yet.

We got her this for her desk at school….(it has her full name and these things are so cool!  She had one for her first years of teaching with her maiden name on it but needed a new one for her new job and new name!)

We all ventured to town and drove up the highway at various times.

Someone hates shopping

But he did enjoy getting a phone call…

We enjoyed our campfire

Do you see the blue ball?  The newlyweds got it for a gift…it’s an ice cream maker!  We filled the outer section with rock salt and ice and the inside with cream, sugar and vanilla.  Here the little boy gets a lesson on what we’re doing.

We tossed it around and around for 10-15 min.  It was fun but we got barely more than a bowl….wow!  It was so good!

I haven’t remembered to do Saturday Sky for a few weeks, but here was the end of the day Sat.  It was nice to get some clouds because the days were so hot the first part of the week.  I don’t do heat well and was kind of glad when it rained one evening for awhile.  (never thought I’d say that!)

Some of the kids left Sat. and some on Sun.  The 3 of us got to enjoy one more day. 

This morning, we were loading up and I went out to help hubby take down the bug tent we got part way through the week because we couldn’t eat outside without entertaining bees.  We found a cheap one in Wenatchee and ate most of our meals outside from then on.  I had barely started helping take out the legs when I felt a sharp pain in the palm of my hand…. a BEE STUNG ME!  Youch.  It wasn’t terrible, but I did not get to knit on the way home today because it aggravated it.  grrrrr

I finished getting everything in place inside while the boys worked outside.

When we checked out, we asked about reserving the spot we had last year for next summer.  Can you believe this? Most of the camp was already booked up for next year.  People tend to like to get their regular spots and we did see several people moving through the week from one spot to another because like us, they got a few days here and a few days there around those who had pre-registered.  It’s a great place for big families and multiple spaces.  We saw many 3-5 spaces taken up by large groups.  We booked our favorite spot for 4 days next year and he told us the 2 open spots for the rest of the week.  We need to figure out which we will move to…kind of a bummer to move from the favorite spot later in the week…but we’re happy.  The only problem we had was one night from 12:30 am until 3 there was a LOUD party across from us.  They came in late, partied loud and in the morning there was a lone tent there and no activity.  The tent was there all day and by the next morning it was gone.  I have no idea what that was all about but it was weird.

I did get a lot more knitting accomplished this week, but forgot to take pictures.  I knit and re-knit two different yarns usimg Cat’s book.  I guess it was more of an educational venture than something that ended up being something.  I am not the least bit upset over knitting, frogging, tinking, re-knitting because I am really just trying to get the concept in my brain.  I wish I’d taken pictures of some of the progress but was just having too much fun.  Some of the attempts just didn’t suit the yarn or I hadn’t gotten the fit quite right.  It makes a little more sense each time I do it, though and it’s pretty exciting!  More on that to come!

I have lots of work to do tomorrow and then we’ll see what the rest of the week holds for us…

Tags: knitting, mysterystole3, vacation

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