First of all, thank you everyone for the congratulations! I just can't stop smiling this weekend. We have basically been snuggling and watching the Simpsons and hiding from the rain. Last night our friends took us out to a really nice Italian dinner and I had the most amazing creamy pesto pasta.

Because of the slight chill in the air the past couple of days, I was actually inspired to pull this back out. If you'll recall, I had 8 skeins of Noro Kureyon. This square now represents 4 total skeins used (it is about 20 x 20 inches). 8 is not enough for a blanket. Kevin and I came up with the radical idea of buying more Kureyon (yay!) in a completely contrasting color and sewing together 4 logcabin squares. It won't be a big blanket, but it will be a nice lap sized one for chilly days. And even though I found an online place selling Kureyon for $6 a skein (damn, I should have book marked that!) it was cheaper to pay $8.50 a skein to Webs because of the percentage discount and cheaper shipping.

Oh, and all those peppers. The storm really did a number on our plants. 3 of the pepper plants were ok, but the biggest one last 3 branches and thus a total of 18(!) peppers. So we'll try to ripen them inside, and if not, they'll just be a little less spicy. 6 of the tomato plants were nearly up-rooted when they blew over and we lost a lot of tomatos; some we're hoping will ripen inside, but some were too damaged. Hopefully, the plants will bounce back and we'll get a late harvest.