Pink flamingo

Timmy and I went to HuHot on Friday night; it was so crowded inside that we went outside while we were waiting to get a table. We ran into Mr. High School Band Director, his wife, and their daughter, who is three or four years old. He and Timmy started shooting the breeze, talking about jazz band stuff and Timmy's upcoming recital mostly, when all of a sudden his daughter lunges toward me a little from Mr. High School Band Director's grip and says, "Do you wanna carry me?" We all laughed and I just kinda looked at her for a moment, and said, "Sure!" So there I was, holding this little girl and her stuffed pink flamingo, to whom she was singing, and she said, "Do you wanna sing with me?" She then started singing her own version of Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, but trailed off in the middle, only to pick up with her own version, using lyrics I never learned. Mr. High School Band Director looked at her and said, "Wow! She's improvising. Scatting already!" He is such a jazz band guy.

Let's see ... what else? I gave the ROUS a trim today, so now it doesn't look so much like a Bear Of Unusual Cuteness. It's still a bit fuzzy — textured, really — just not a ball of puff. Now I just have to figure out the teeth and find a needle small enough to go through the button eyes that I got — darning needles are just too big for a job like that. Wish I knew where I left my beading needle.

You should be here in Iowa now, Fyberduck. We've gotten some fantastic thunderstorms over the past week or so (and we desperately need the rain — our lake looks more like a mud hole). Of course, those come with the requisite tornadoes, but none here in our little ville yet, so we're still in one piece. But right now it's very windy and rainy. Nice way to spend a Sunday night, I think. Oh, and I liked the video, by the by.

As for the acrylics, I think I may end up making a Turkish string bag. Maybe I'll double some worsted on my US 15s so's I don't have to go buy another needle. Or maybe I'll just use the 15s and single strand it. Who knows? Maybe that would be a good project for my Earth Day / recycled stuff swap ... I could twist the acrylic with some plastic bag strips. I really need to get cracking on that swap. The send is just three days after the Princess Bride swap! (Why did I do that to myself?)

Oooh, and I saw this cute knitted rainbow dog collar in the April issue of MagKnits, and I may have to knit one up for Luka. He chewed through his collar the other day, and it's kind of difficult to take him outside without one. And I totally know B and KT would get a kick out of it.

Anyway, that's enough chattering from me tonight. I don't want the DST to kick my butt when I wake up, though I'm sure it will anyway.

Flamingo photo hijacked from here.