Knitting Passion

click picture for the pattern.

Know a Marine? Love a Marine? Love someone who loves a Marine?

Yeah, me, too. My friend’s son is in the Marines - stateside for now - and she misses him terribly. Saturday when I went to visit her I took her the USMC emblem cloth. She promptly told me that it would not be used to wash her dishes.

I miss the LCpl, too. Several years ago when he was much younger he and his buddy got together (although to this day the buddy professes innocence - I remind him that he was right there laughing at the end.) and wrapped a rubber band around the sprayer in the kitchen sink at church.

It was meant for someone else I’m told.

It’s probably a good thing that it happened to me.

I laugh at such things.

However . . . .

I also march said young men to their parents for discipline after such actions. Tough love.

Do you know how hard it is NOT to laugh in front of the miscreants? Yeah, very hard. His punishment from his parents was that he had to be my slave for the next month of Sundays. I could only think of ONE thing for him to do - take my newspapers to the recycling station at the dump.

Of course, he didn’t drive at that time, so his parents actually had to drive him to my house and then to the dump. So . . . just who was being punished????

oh, yes . . . when he went to Marine boot camp, he begged me NOT to tell his CO about the water incident. I did not. (yet)

knitted dish cloth, Marines, discipline

Finished this last week and took it to my friend Saturday. I also took her the hearts dishcloth that I showed here before. I’ll show you tomorrow the very special cloth I took her as well.

We had a good visit together and with her sister-in-law as we all tried to decide which felted bag patterns we were going to begin. Last winter we knitted sweaters from the same pattern, although in different colors and different yarns. This time we are all choosing different patterns for the bags.

My friend and I will be going to the big city Saturday for some retail therapy and we’ll be stopping by the Knitting Grounds for some yarn. Hope to see you there, Linda! It’s too bad we can’t be there on Friday night for the knitting group. It looks like a lot of fun.

About the swimming, Linda. No, I’m still not quite to the putting my face into the water place yet. Not sure when (or if) I’ll get there.

BUT . . . today I did swim 15 (FIFTEEN!) complete laps in the pool. AND, I swam more than the Ladybug this time. She says the pool was too hot for her to do a good workout, so spent most of her time treading water and talking with the lifeguard.

I kicked her butt, I did, I did.

And, kicked my own in the process. I imagine that I will really feel it tomorrow. Especially because I sat through an 8 hour training on grantwriting after swimming. AND, will sit another 8 hours tomorrow for the end of the workshop - after swimming again.

What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger - right? Right!

And, a reminder to all - October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. My mother was a victim of years of abuse. I work in the dv world now. Someone you know - or maybe you, yourself - has been touched by domestic violence.

Encourage your legislature and governor to provide funding for shelters and recognition of the problem. It may not happen in my lifetime, but wouldn’t it be a blessing to NOT HAVE TO NEED DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTERS???