Photo of the Day

This is my view for at least 8 hours a day, 5 days a week.

Photo of the Day

So, I'm borrowing an idea from my sister, but she said it as OK because she borrowed it as well. I'm going to try to post a picture a day. These pictures will just be snapshots of my life. So, here goes.

What's wrong with this picture?


Seventeen days post Hurrican Ike, there are still non-functioning traffic lights. I hit 25 lights on my way to work every day and wouldn't you know the most MAJOR intersection I go through would be the one not working.

Places I've Been

I thought I'd make things more interesting by posting pictures from places I've been. I have been fortunate enough to see a couple of amazing places. Some places are very far away from where I live, while others are quite close. There are many more places I hope to see over the remainder of my lifetime.

The first place I will share with you is the most beautiful place I have had the opportunity to see. Maui remains my all time favorite vacation spot.

This was the view from the top of our condo. The water is magnificent. It's slightly cool and crystal clear.

While we were there, we spent as much time in the water as possible. We went on a kayaking and snorkeling tour, another snorkeling tour and my son Shane and I went snorkeling again out in front of our condo. The turtles were my favorite. They would just swim up underneath you. They looked like they were flying.

Shane and I had the opportunity to try out Snuba, which is a cross between snorkeling and scuba diving. You breathe through a regulator and go under water like scuba, but your tank floats on the surface of the water and you are tethered by an air line. We went to a depth of 20 feet. I highly recommend it!

Shown above is one of the first stops we made on the Road to Hana (which you can see pictured in the photo below). This shot is overlooking the West Maui Mountains.

This is overlooking Hanamanu Bay. This is one of my favorite pictures. I have a poster of it in my cube at work so I can stare at it and daydream.

This is just a picture of my kids (plus my husband is way off in the background) walking along the shore of Big Beach.

I hope to make it back to Maui one day, hopefully when I have alot more time to spend there.

In the beginning

What are my thoughts? Well, I thought, why not create a blog and blab to others about my mundane day to day activities. Maybe it will prompt me to be more creative, or more interesting if I must blog about it.

For my first entry, I actually wanted to post a knitting pattern, since the only ones who may come here and read this stuff are my fellow members of Ravelry. I decided to create a dishcloth pattern as my first try at creating a knitting project from scratch. Well, at least taking elements of other patterns and modifying it to a point to which I could call it my own. And here are my results:

October Haunted House Dishcloth

Instructions

Using Needle size US 7, CO 40 sts.

Top Border:

Row 1 & 3: *k1, p1; rep from * across
Row 2 & 4: *p1, k1; rep from * across

Main Pattern:

Row 1, 3 & 5: (K1,P1) twice, K32, (K1,P1) twice
Row 2 & 4: (P1, K1) twice, P32, (P1, K1) twice
Row 6: (P1, K1) twice, P11, K5, P16, (P1, K1) twice
Row 7: (K1, P1) twice, K15, P1, K3, P3, K10, (K1, P1) twice
Row 8: (P1, K1) twice, P9, K2, P11, K2, P8, (P1, K1) twice
Row 9: (K1, P1) twice, K7, P1, K6, P1, K7, P2, K8, (K1, P1) twice
Row 10: (P1, K1) twice, P8, K2, P6, K3, P5, K2, P6, (P1, K1) twice
Row 11: (K1, P1) twice, K5, P1, K7, P3, K7, P2, K7, (K1, P1) twice
Row 12: (P1, K1) twice, P7, K2, P6, K5, P6, K1, P5, (P1, K1) twice
Row 13: (K1, P1) twice, K13, P1, K1, P1, K8, P2, K6, (K1, P1) twice
Row 14: (P1, K1) twice, P6, K2, P8, K1, P1, K1, P13, (P1, K1) twice
Row 15: (K1, P1) twice, K8, P1, K4, P3, K4, P1, K3, P2, K6, (K1, P1) twice
Row 16: (P1, K1) twice, P5, K2, P4, K2, P3, K1, P1, K1, P3, K2, P8, (P1, K1) twice
Row 17: (K1, P1) twice, K8, P2, K3, P1, K1, P1, K3, P2, K4, P2, K5, (K1, P1) twice
Row 18: (P1, K1) twice, P5, K2, P3, K4, P2, K3, P2, K4, P7, (P1, K1) twice
Row 19: (K1, P1) twice, K7, P5, K5, P5, K3, P3, K4, (K1, P1) twice
Row 20: (P1, K1) twice, P4, K3, P3, K12, P1, K2, P7, (P1, K1) twice
Row 21: (K1, P1) twice, K6, P3, K1, P13, K2, P3, K4, (K1, P1) twice
Row 22: (P1, K1) twice, P4, K3, P2, K17, P6, (P1, K1) twice
Row 23: (K1, P1) twice, K5, P4, K1, P14, K1, P3, K4, (K1, P1) twice
Row 24: (P1, K1) twice, P4, K3, P4, K11, P1, K1, P8, (P1, K1) twice
Row 25: (K1, P1) twice, K8, P8, K1, P1, K1, P2, K4, P3, K4, (K1, P1) twice
Row 26: (P1, K1) twice, P4, K3, P4, K2, P1, K1, P1, K8, P8, (P1, K1) twice
Row 27: (K1, P1) twice, K8, P2, K2, P4, K1, P1, K1, P2, K4, P3, K4, (K1, P1) twice
Row 28: (P1, K1) twice, P4, K3, P4, K2, P1, K1, P1, K4, P2, K2, P8, (P1, K1) twice
Row 29: (K1, P1) twice, K8, P2, K2, P4, K1, P1, K1, P2, K4, P3, K4, (K1, P1) twice
Row 30: (P1, K1) twice, P4, K3, P4, K9, P2, K2, P8, (P1, K1) twice
Row 31: (K1, P1) twice, K8, P2, K2, P4, K1, P1, K1, P2, K4, P2, K5, (K1, P1) twice
Row 32: (P1, K1) twice, P5, K2, P4, K2, P1, K1, P1, K4, P2, K2, P8, (P1, K1) twice
Row 33: (K1, P1) twice, K8, P2, K2, P4, K1, P1, K1, P2, K4, P2, K5, (K1, P1) twice
Row 34: (P1, K1) twice, P6, K2, P3, K2, P1, K1, P1, K4, P2, K2, P8, (P1, K1) twice
Row 35: (K1, P1) twice, K8, P2, K2, P4, K1, P1, K1, P2, K3, P2, K6, (K1, P1) twice
Row 36: (P1, K1) twice, P6, K2, P3, K9, P2, K2, P8, (P1, K1) twice
Row 37: (K1, P1) twice, K8, P2, K2, P9, K2, P2, K7, (K1, P1) twice
Row 38: (P1, K1) twice, P7, K2, P2, K13, P8, (P1, K1) twice
Row 39: (K1, P1) twice, K22, P2, K8, (K1, P1) twice
Row 40: (P1, K1) twice, P8, K2, P8, K1, P13, (P1, K1) twice
Row 41: (K1, P1) twice, K14, P1, K6, P2, K9, (K1, P1) twice
Row 42: (P1, K1) twice, P10, K3, P3, K1, P15, (P1, K1) twice
Row 43: (K1, P1) twice, K16, P5, K11, (K1, P1) twice
Row 44, 46, & 48: (P1, K1) twice, P32, (P1, K1) twice
Row 45 & 47: (K1, P1) twice, K32, (K1, P1) twice

Bottom Border:
Repeat Top Border pattern above