the picture says it all. we went with friends tonight to see suzanne vega at the iron horse.

what more can i say?

oh yeah:

dear suzanne vega,
you are awesome.
sincerely,
me

tonight was an important night:

the pioneer valley’s western mass destruction took on the garden state roller girls. how could we not go?

the girls were awesome:

funny, athletic, tough, competitive:

it ended up being a very close game. the last few minutes were gripping! and even though i was wearing this shirt:

i was cheering just as loud as everyone else when the western mass team won the bout.

the boys played too. our local dirty dozen took on the new york shock exchange:

they were great fun to watch, too. though, oddly, the guys seemed to be less hard-hitting, and less awesome on their skates than the girls. oh, and ny kicked the western ma team’s butts.

roller derby is a really fun sport. we are pretty sure tom should be a roller derby ref. we just have to figure out what his name will be. “bunson honeyspew”? “mr. whiskers”? “atom tom”? add your suggestions in the comments!

i just opened iphoto and realized that there is a bunch of stuff i never got around to posting. here is some of it:

jon and laurie came to visit. among other things, we threw a picnic (sadly, no pics), picked strawberries:

(i have a picture of laurie from many, many years ago picking strawberries, that i seem to remember looks just like this one. i should dig it out.)

went to the bookmill:

and rested:

a week or so later, we took a co-worker’s extra tickets to see james taylor off her hands. or, at least, we think we saw james taylor…from our seats it could very well have just been a big-screen broadcast of a recorded james taylor concert:

either way, we found out just how awesome it is to hang out at tanglewood.

***we will now take a moment for a doggie intermission***

***feel free to get some snacks before the next portion of the catching-up begins***

ok, what else does iphoto say we have done?

we visited with good friends, and their amazing twin girls, who were staying in a nearby town. (again, sadly, no pics.)

tom’s parents came for a visit. among other things, we took a boat ride on the Connecticut river:

and went to a bunch of flea markets. we came home with many goodies including, a salt grinder that looks like a bunny, though i don’t think that’s intentional:

and two display heads:

don’t the heads look like they would fit perfectly into a dr. who episode?

finally, these amazing flowers are growing in our garden:


we rescued these from the community garden compost pile at the end of last season. at the time, they were only a root and stem and we weren’t sure if they were even going to grow, let alone what they would look like. they seem to be pretty happy to be in our plot now.

phew! that was a lot of stuff. thanks for hanging in there. now i think i am back up to date!

remember when the yarn harlot fell for the tank top i knit for the store?

well, she finished knitting it, and blogged about it yesterday, and she sort of, kind of, said nice things about my knitting, indirectly:

It’s a remarkably weird yarn for me to choose to knit with, not at all what I usually buy, and I would have walked right by it in WEBS, if there hadn’t happened to be a shop model hanging above the yarn. (There’s a lesson in there for shops.)

and, fancy-ist of all:

I enjoyed knitting with this yarn about as much as I enjoy knitting with cotton or linen or rayon at the best of times - which is really not much at all…The shop model of this was so beautiful though, that I though that I would suck it up for one garment, and I did, and I’m so glad I did.

she said the shop model was beautiful! awwww. :D thanks, stephanie.

oh, and in my last post about this topic, i predicted:

the store should probably stock up on that yarn, because what the harlot knits, the world knits.

and i was right! we sold a ton of all of the colors of this yarn, both online and in the store. and, while the color my store sample was knit in (and the color stephanie used) wasn’t selling super well pre-may, we currently can’t keep it on the shelves.

i’ve finished a few projects recently. want to see?

a scarf to use as a sample for the store:

some yarn spun on my snail shell for selling:

a shrug for me:

and a few other things i still have to photograph.

oh, and i’ve started a new thing, too:

i’m going to wait and see how it turns out before i give you all the details on this one.

on another subject: project runway started up again tonight! love it.

(i need to hog the blog for a moment to send out a group letter to someone. i apologize. regular blogging will resume tomorrow-ish.)

dear bill:
we apologize for leaving you at the brewery tonight. but it was so hot and stuffy. and it smelled like feet. we couldn’t take it.

but we made an important discovery and fell in love. that’s right, we’ll say it, - we love PCT and think we should move the group there.

we had one of the best restaurant veggie burgers ever, there were grapes on the pizza and the wings were made of real chicken:

we chowed down:


and our waitress was super wonderful.

so, we are thinking we should go there again next tuesday.
everyone is welcome! look, there’s even a tv:

and a long table:

so what do you think?
pretty please, with s’mores on top?