This just in

Wow. It pays to leave things lying around instead of taking them home.

Last month the art department here had a faculty/staff art show. I submitted a few felted bowls that I'd made, and when I picked them up, I stuck them on my desk instead of going to the trouble of carrying them home. Today a woman stopped in to talk and saw the bowls and bought one. With actual money.

Okay, it was a check, but I can probably turn it into real money.

Why does a woman who rarely wears makeup carry all this stuff with her?

Happy sock

Poor Neo's sock. All brown and sad-looking. And too short.

While we were in Florida, in the car, I got to the last 12 stitches of the second sock, so pleased with myself that I was finishing it before cold weather next winter. That's when it jumped up and bit me in the butt. It's one inch too short. TOO SHORT. Since I'm not long on patience, I balled that puppy up and buried in the bottom of my KnitKnackSack™ and pulled out some springy, happy pink and purple mostly-cotton yarn and cast on for another sock.

I will finish your socks, Neo, I promise, and before it gets cold again (although if it's cold again this week, that doesn't count), and once I find that gorgeous blue yarn you chose, I'll make you a pair of happy socks to go with the depressing socks.

For now, though, I've got me a Happy Sock.

More Adventures of Neo's Sock

Neo's sock goes to Gatorland





Neo's sock at Leu Gardens in Orlando

For Joan

More Florida photos from April

I should never save anything as a draft. I'd totally forgotten this one.


Gatorland photos


Feedin' time



Croc




Croc facts



Cypress knees



Feathering the nest



More swamp



Bromeliads

































These are gonna just be a hodgepodge of photos. I don't have the energy to sort them out. They were taken at the Quality Inn in Orlando, Leu Gardens in Orlando, the side of the road in Ft. Lauderdale (iguanas), and Gatorland in Orlando.


Ft. Lauderdale roadside iguanas



Iguana



Another iguana



Bird of Paradise, Gatorland



A jumps into the pool




Another roadside iguana



Leu Garden







Nesting bird, Gatorland



Roadside iguana
What??? I like them.



Aaaannnnnnnddddddd



Another jump




Gator Farm, Everglades




Catchin' dinner




Donna with a baby alligator


















Ft. Lauderdale Roadside Iguana Camp









Donna's house






Leu Gardens, Orlando






















Bamboo, Leu Garden




More bamboo



Leu Gardens fan palm




Carved bamboo



Orange blossom