I'm a terrible blogger

For some reason I haven't been able to get myself to sit down at the computer and post. I think it's the spinning. It's taken over my life. I've barely knitted anything! I want to do a post about stuff I've spun, but I can't guarantee when that'll happen :) Anyway, I thought I'd post some pictures from my Easter break/super happy cat weekend!

For Easter break we get a 4 day weekend (yay Jesuit schools!) and I drove down to my parents house (which took FOUR HOURS--seriously, want to hear me rant about the idiots in the HOV lanes? because I really really can) where I got out of the car, slept a while, and then got back in the car to drive down to North Carolina to visit my brother and sister in law. But before getting back in the car to drive to NC, I saw this in my parents' back yard:


A pair of bluebirds have moved into the bluebird house in the side yard. My dad even bought mealworms for them.

Anyway, as I said, super happy cat weekend. Here's Rocco, my brother's cat.


And this is Vito, my brother's new cat since they moved to NC. He drives Rocco crazy. Which is understandable since he spent a good hour and a half trying to poke at gnats that were outside the window while yelling at them.



By the way, I had the best chicken portofino EVER while we were in Charlotte. Need to go back and get more!!

Then we drove back to my parents' house. Herbie is my parents' cat--he likes to go back and forth between being terrified of me and wanting to play.


Socks is still hanging in there, though it seems that he's gotten so old he doesn't shed much of his winter coat anymore (he didn't last year either). He's still my baby.


Socks has some new playmates (and by playmates I mean cats he chases out of the yard). This is Avery, the neighbor's cat.


After Avery left the backyard this cat showed up. Apparently he's new, since my parents hadn't seen him before. He was perched under the bird feeder. I have named him Mystery Cat.


Back at home. I've been spending so much time spinning lately that it seems to be driving the cat crazy because I don't sit on the couch (and knit) as much. So she spends most of the time I spin randomly poking me in the leg and yelling.


Of course, when she isn't bugging me she's getting into things, including plastic bags. I had to cut this one off of her. She was wearing it like a purse.


On a totally unrelated note, I got some AWESOME knitting pattern books in the mail (and we can thank the Ravelry Rubberneckers for finding the website). I have no idea what I'll make, but I had to have them. One of them has patterns for a Kermit doll and a Miss Piggy doll.


So here's a spinning tease! Perhaps this will prompt me to actually do the spinning post :) This was roving from Dancing Leaf Farm that I snatched up at the Homespun Yarn Party this year. There's also some metallic thread and sequin string in there.