The best laid plans of mice and men etc.

Just as I was gearing up for a nice big writing session a nasty bug decided 'not tonight Josephine'. Anyway, life goes on and I'm more or less back on deck again. Seems I started to get better just as I was getting stuck into a book I picked up the other day. As one who hasn't had much interest in women's fiction until lately, I'm greatly enjoying Debbie Macomber and he Blossom Street series. I can blame my wonderful daughter-in-law for the change in reading material. Mostly I read crime novel interspersed with the classics but when I go to Denver I catch up with a number of other genres. Although I've become a fan of books about quilt clubs I haven't succumbed to quilting. At the moment Blossom Street ties in nicely with my renewed interest in knitting which I started doing when the arthritis kicked in. As therapy it's been great and I've managed to produce a couple of nice garments for the grandchildren. At the moment I'm finishing off a mauve fluffy bolero style top for one of them. I plan to do three so all the under 10's have one. Katie just sneaks in as I started hers before she turned 10 last month. Which brings me to another subject.

Why is it that I seem to always be the designated birthday cake maker? Last year when I thought I was to provide the salads Joanne, my oldest daughter, rang to say that she was expecting me to bake the cake. This year the same thing happened and we found that both Rebecca (Joanne's oldest daughter) and I were vying for whose cake would be the party cake. If anyone can sold the problem, let me know because I'm sure Becky must feel a bit hurt that her efforts don't seem to get the appreciation they deserve. Also, I don't think the consumers really need hearty dose of cholesterol they get when I make my special chocolate cake. It's very high in good quality cooking chocolate. Ditto the brownies which I whipped up a week or so back.

Anyway, to get back to knitting, I'm just dying to finally complete the current project so I can (hopefully) photograph it and put it on this blog. So, until next time, back to the knitting needles.