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07/12/2006
Back from the last frontier!
Hey!! Hey y'all! I'm back from the greatest vacation EVER!! My dad and I met up out in Vancouver, BC to hop a cruise ship up the Inside Passage in Alaska! Big fun! We saw amazing things and had incredible adventures. Went on a zipline tour over the canopy of a temperate rainforest. Took a helicopter ride to do some dogsledding on a glacier. Chased our sled through the snow when our dogs decided that break-time was over. Went through the Denali National Park in a six seater plane in some pretty bouncy weather. Saw some magnificent wildlife (grizzlies, moose, caribou, wolves, foxes, porcupines, bald eagles...). Sat on my veranda and knitted while the ocean went by... Picked up some Lorna's Laces sock yarn in "girly stripe" for some girlpower Jaywalkers.
Here's what I knitted on my trip: 
It is a little fake-wrap tank. The recipe was concocted by Sandi, the owner of my LYS. I knitted it in Cotton Fleece (my favorite yarn ever) in Plum Patina. I wasn't sure about this color--it didn't look like much in the skein, but knitted up? I. LOVE. IT. Can't wait to wear it. Still working on Orangina. Sporadically. That is usually how I roll when it comes to lace. I'm ready to start something else. Next project? Starsky.
So when I returned home, I had a short run of REALLY bad luck. The highpoints: majorly flat tire (two times) on the way to pick up my dog from "puppy camp." Of course I was on the phone with the man who is now my ex-boyfriend when the tire ceased to be a working component of my vehicle. He INSISTED that I allow him to rescue me. Urgh. Once we got that sorted out, I came home, pulled my car in the garage, and attempted to close the garage door. It got halfway down, then refused to budge. Stuck halfway, hanging at a 30 degree angle. Terrific. One of the coils had come unwound. Right, and I'm going to be able to fix this. My super marvelous friend Joe came to my rescue and fixed it (much to his own surprise). I love needing to be rescued twice within a 3 hour period. Give me a friggin' break.
But all was well Monday morning when my postman delivered all of the mail from the 2 weeks I was gone, because I got my colorswap package from Dana!!! 
My dog loved the treat that was in the box for her. Dana, thank you! You rock!
Ok, so is anyone else having trouble with comments that are spam? WTF??? I have been deleting them when they show up, but I had one that showed up on my blog, but not when I went to my comments list. I ended up just deleting the post, because blogspirit is not interested in assisting me in managing my blog. Am I the only one having this problem?????
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