Tour de France Woes

Before I get to the bad news, here’s a picture of a family of pheasants. Maybe two families since there are 2 adult hens. I have no doubt there are 5 or 6 more at the very least that I didn’t see. There are lots of grasshoppers this year and that means lots of food for baby pheasants.




The bad news. I had to rip my entire Tour de France sweater. Right down to the cast on row. I held on to those cast on stitches for dear life. I hate casting on. I had to rip because the thing was way too freaking big. Because I didn’t check my GAUGE after starting. I did my swatch with dpns. There is a Zimmerman quote to cover what I did/didn’t do. Something about supping something bitter I think. Maybe I will be able to find it later after I publish this post.



Anyway, this is where I am now. Almost back to where I was before.

In other news, I got a wonderful birthday box from my brother’s family. It included 3 fun goodies for me: cookbooks! One Chinese, one a mix of asian, one Greek. We’ve been consuming all sorts of Chinese delights since then. I’ve hardly had time for knitting or sewing with all the drooling through the cookbooks.