Glorious Rain

I am determined to post something before the week is over and I'm gone for the weekend (no internet at home)! For those of you else where in the country, Boston has been unundated with rain. I think it was started by my landlords getting our house painted - you are just asking for trouble. The painters were scheduled to put a second coat on Tuesday and when I left for work in the morning, they were racing the rain clouds that were forming. It is forcasted "chance of showers and cloudy" until thursday when it will only be "cloudy". So that is what? 9 days of rain - I love it! It must also have something to do with my mom and aunt Mary coming to visit next week for my brother's graduation - bring umbrellas!



There is nothing better than long bouts of rain, especially in spring - the weather is just starting to turn into the unbearable hot summer, and the rain comes in with the nice 50s/60s and it excuses you to focus inward and replenish - no guilt for not being out and hiking with friends or exploring and enjoying the sun. Plus I get to wear my yellow galoshes!



You know I will be getting a lot of knitting done this weekend. I am about half way through a new cotton sweater from the summer 2006 Interweave Knits called Looking Glass Top. I'm still unsure if I will love it or just like it when it is done, but have some other knitting projects lined up that I am itching to jump into. I think I will start the Pea Pod Baby Set from the same issue this weekend. I didn't know who to make it for and was resigned to just make it to have on hand when I remembered that an old, old friend from my early years is pregnant with her second child, Ann Desorb who lives in Denver - it gets cold out there, right?



To round out the cozy weekend, I just bought my first music download! It's dangerously too easy. I've had Carla Bruni's Quelqu un Ma Dit stuck in my head this last week which I heard on WERSs morning program, Coffeehouse. So after several days of deliberation I went ahead and bought her whole album (I'm listening to it now and can't wait to transfer it to my MP3 player). My french is horrible, but thing I will have the song memorized soon.



Let's see, this week has been busy, my evenings this week have been mainly filled with Aimee's Granny Circle I went to on wednesday where I had a vegan three cheese lasagna (I still think there were only two "cheeses" in it) and working on the Green Roofs Conference - helping with the tradeshow exhibit for our firm and helping give a tour of green roofs in Cambridge - yes, in the rain - but it was fun!



Sorry for the knitting talk, but have been surfing the knitting blogs out there, as well as just blogs in general - push the "Next Blog" button on the upper right of the page. You realize how global blogging has become and sometimes you feel a little bit voyeristic (I know I'm not using that word correctly, but you get my point). Cheers and enjoy the rain!