Chez Davis

E’s lovely brown/blue hoodie for BPD. It still fits in all directions.

Watch out, he’s got the camera!

This is BD Saturday night….

And here he is Sunday morning!

He lost 5 lbs and added a year to his age in the transformation.  Better pics to come (provided that the subject stops moving and trying to grab camera).

Ignore the ponytail. That was me trying to demonstrate that this boy has HAIR! My payback was the antics in the pantry. I should know better!!!

Warning; this is 15+ minutes long.  Syd has two lines and they are fairly close to the beginning of the play.  She’s the apple of my eye!

Enjoy!

Today, Syd suggested that her happy-meal bear was *cold*.

“How about a sweater?” I said, thinking she wasn’t listening.

“How about a dress?” she countered. Baa-haa-haa. Oh?!

I snatched up Syd’s idle day-glow-neon-pink yarn (from her knitting Clover Wonder project that is now 24″ long) cast on 25 stitches on size 4 dpn, used Knitting Helps tut for button holes (aka bear arm holes), knit a bunch of rows, used Kfbf for increases at the waist, and then just kept going in the round until I thought it was long enough.  I thought it would be worn on the Stst side, but when Syd discovered she could remove it, she opted for the purl side as it made the itty-bitty bear look like a ballerina.  Really?

Not counting the 3 times I watched the Knitting Help tutorial (interruptions, PEOPLE!) I spent 65 minutes on this little number.

“Just think, now she could even have a top, pants and maybe even gloves.  Mom, I think her ears are cold too”.

This is why I never finish any of my other projects.

Sh completed his ballot last night.  It could have been mailed, but I decided to take it to a designated *drop box*.  Syd is home sick today, and even though she has been interested in the “guys and the sassy girl”, she didn’t want to get out of the car and make the drop herself.  Thus, no action shot.

I was playing around with my ballot last night too, but decided to go to the polling place to cast my vote instead.  Logic? I really like the ritual of voting; I also had the time and I had scribbled on my ballot so I didn’t want to take any chances with it being rejected.  Our polling place?  Syd’s school.  Conclusion? No lines, but, becuase I am registered to be an absentee voter, I got a *provisional* ballot that was exactly the same as the one at home (without the extra scribbles, of course).  This part was very anti-climatic for both of us.

As we were leaving, I overheard a volunteer say that this is the last time Washington will have polling locations.  Already, most of the state is mail-in. Peirce and King county still give you the walk in option.  But I didn’t realize that its going 100% mail-in.  No more lines, no more church rec-room or school gymnasiums, no seniors volunteering and no more stickers.

I am sure there are lots of benefits to going 100% mail-in: better turnout (per se), lower operation costs etc… but I will miss the ritual, and the sticker.

School started two weeks late due to contract negotiations with the teachers. That is all settled now and Syd’s first day was September 15th.

is Houston..and they are without power, gas, bread, milk and eggs.

Forget for a moment about Galveston.  Who knows what lays waiting there.  The last news I read was that it will be at least a week before residents will be allowed back on the island to see what remains.All my parents home/memories/worldly possessions from the last 42 years, not to mention all their treasures from years overseas are trapped there.  Update: Just saw this link from Stan Blazyk.  It was good to see the streets looking drier and the roof still on my folks house!

Back to Houston.  My parents evacuated early (good people) and are making do, as are my sister and her family.  Details remind me of our power outage in 2006 and of Jericho; which may not be that far off from reality.  My sister heard that schools may be opening on Wednesday Monday 9/22 (5 10 days after the storm hit night 9/12 - morning 9/13) but because there are still reported problems with water/sewage, that seems optimistic.  Yesterday, they drove to Brenham, Tx (65 miles west) for gas and groceries. They came home with a topped up tank and onions. That ought to make a nice omlet with all the eggs she needs to cook up.

Good luck you guys ~ our prayers are with you!

Update: they are allowing a “Look-and-Leave” today 9/16 between 12-6pm, so that’s where mom/dad are headed. Fingers crossed!