Blackberry Overload

My sisters and I went peach and blackberry picking on Friday.  I came home with about 5 pounds of blackberries.  Now when you are picking them, that doesn't seem like a lot, so you just keep picking.  But when you get home, you realize that 5 pounds of blackberries is A LOT, and you scramble to find things to do with them before they go bad in your fridge.

Mr. Logical made some blackberry barley lemonade in the pressure cooker.  I made some blackberry muffins and a blackberry pie, and we still have lots leftover!  I'll freeze some so we can have more blackberry things later on.

Rainbow sock

We found out recently that my mom's best friend, our second mother, has stage 3 uterine cancer.  So besides sending her some very cute cake pops from Shari's Berries, I set about making her a pair of socks.  It seemed like the perfect time to try out the Heelless Sleeping Socks from Nancy Bush's Knitting Vintage Socks.  The first one knit up really quickly, and I am quite pleased with it.

Also started my dollhouse this week, and am just about finished with my sister's wedding gift (will post pictures after she gets it).

Summer Vacation

Summer vacation started at 12:00pm this afternoon.  Hopefully this means I will get back to regular blog posts!  I have a few projects on my list for this week.  Today I made Spock's new dog bed cover.  Here's what I have planned for the reset of the week:

• Roman shades for the door windows
• Finish up my southwest socks
• Finally finish my sister's wedding gift (she has been married almost 2 years!)
• Crack open the dollhouse!
• Movies with Mr. Logical
• Pedicure with Li'l Sister
• Berry picking with Li'l Bro

Stuff I like

Just a quick list of stuff I like:

• lazy days at home watching BBC mysteries
• road trips
• Easter
• giving handmade gifts
• coloring
• sleeping
• old TV shows
• yarn
• blankets
• Betty Neels romance novels

Logical Life

QSL card from Last Man Standing

Mr. Logical and I started dating almost 3 years ago.  In the past three years, I have learned a lot about a lot of different things.  For instance, the Free Masons are probably the nicest guys you will ever meet, Bose speakers are actually bad, don't use soap to wash the good knives, and sometimes you should use a circular polarizer sometimes when you take digital SLR pictures.

I knew about most of Mr. Logical's hobbies early on in the relationship.  Last winter, however, he busted out the ham radio hobby.  He had mentioned that he had a ham radio license in passing, and I thought nothing of it.  Now ham radio is a part of our daily lives.  So much so that we started watching Last Man Standing, just because the main character, Mike Baxter, played by Tim Allen, is a ham.  Lucky for me, Last Man Standing is actually pretty funny and I enjoy it.

A few weeks ago, Last Man Standing put out a call for QSL cards from ham radio operators.  Mr. Logical sent one in, and today got one back autographed by Tim Allen.  This is probably the only part of ham radio that I understand (well, besides that it involves a radio and antennas).