No there yet, little smurfs

I have bloggin malaise. Why? you ask. The truth is that I have nothing to report about

It isn't that I haven't been knitting. But I'm still working on the now neverending rows of the last pattern chart of Icarus. I'm really hoping that by some miracle I will be done that chart this weekend. And then on to the border.

So no pictures, they would be boring. Other people seem to be able to get nice pictures of their lace in progress, but mine look lame. I need to work on my photography skills. One day I will be done and I will post pre and post-blocking pictures, and model it. But that day will not be today.

Our trip to Ohio was lots of fun. Our friends have the cutest current eight month around. And we timed it really well, because she wasn't teething and was sleeping through both the evenings and nights. So the grown-ups did a lot of hanging out and reminiscing over some drinks during the beautiful Ohio evenings. It was really nice being out in the country away from a big metro area. It made me kind of miss by grad school summers in Ithaca. We also got to see BIG Jesus on the interstate followed not a mile away by Larry Flint's sense of humour. It about summed up the American dichotomy. Good trip!