Life's a Stitch

I do need to update this blog. I can't figure out an excuse for not doing so. The kids are out of the house, not for the evening; they all maintain their own household, for now. I still work the same full time hours. Extenuating circumstances dictate that I don't knit as much. So what is it that crunches my time into little morsels? Point form to the rescue:

• I am knitting occasionally, putting on a maximum of eight rows each time to the Flared Lace Smoke Ring. Still don't have a surgery date, but my goal is to bind off the day before, exchanging stitches for stitches.
• Creative endeavours include a video slide show for my sister and I to show at my mother's funeral. People ask how is it a funeral when she died in November? Remember that fiasco? Cemetery closed fr the winter, body in storage, funeral delayed? Bizarro. I'm not sharing the video until the event. I figure we all need to be together to hold each other in comfort.
• Still walking on the 10,000 steps a day plan. In order to earn that many paces I need to add a 40 minute walk to my routine almost daily. A healthy time suck.
• Life modernization included the recent addition of an iphone and the accompanying learning curve. Definitely a step in the right direction.

What to use to illustrate this post? Gracee at 10 1/2 years and grandbaby Rye at 10 1/2 weeks: