jury service and drought

I am on jury service this week.
Today involved sitting in a room for around 2 hours with multiple delays due to "legal argument." First ballot of 50 people called. Not me. (thankfully as this trial is 10 days long! I am panicking about library after 1 day let alone 10...).
A bit later sent home and told to come back at 2pm.
By this stage BORED. Very bored. Knitting needles had been confiscated. Wrote a letter. But even I cannot write letters for 6 hours straight. Forgot book at home.
Went home. Got uni work. Went back. Sat in room for another 2 hours. Trial on. Then trial cancelled. Then trial back on. Another ballot. Not me again. sat around some more waiting to see if they needed to re-draw more names.
3.30pm told to go home. today - about an hour of uni work and many hours wasted time. I have WEEKS of work to do at school. And I am sitting there thinking about it. Watching crap day time tv.
Tomorrow - straight in with uni work I reckon. I have apparently 4 more days of this to go - I am hoping I really do get on a trial because then I will actually have achieved something.
The backyard. we need rain urgently!

finishing

Today it was all about finishing several things that had been hanging around for a long time.
Like hand stitching a quilt, which I had finished sewing nearly a year ago...
Completing my milo (wow that knitted up fast!) and a baby vest
and putting elastic in 5 pairs of pyjama pants sewn last winter. All ready for this winter now. (although I am a bit scared about one kid who has grown so much and wondering if any of these may be too short...).
And a well overdue haircut (last June was the last time I had my hair cut! Yikes!). Then a passport photos taken - gosh five years roll around fast!) Bendigo Woollen Mills here I come! Much excitement over that!

needles clicking

I have been knitting again. Several months ago I started a wee vest for a baby in Sweden - still on needles, but I have misplaced the pattern... hmmmm....
So I have started (last week) a "milo". My first ever milo in a 9 month size. It will swim on the baby, who was born this week 10 weeks early, to a dear teaching friend. I am amazed at how fast it knits up. I will then start on some premature baby size things. I have jury duty this week (hmmmmm - kinda not happy but then I have decided a break will be good - no GREAT!) and there is apparently a lot of sitting around, so knitting and writing letters it shall be.
And gorgeous new sock yarn from Red Riding Hood Yarns - her first ever sock club. Divine! And a sweet pouch too. (my I have a fabulous collection of these all of a sudden!)

Do you knit? Any projects going? It is the first day of autumn today!

into scrap booking?

I have been scrap booking which always involves sorting through my supplies.
I have a pile to give to a scraper - I am just too "lazy" to put it on Trade Me - quickest way to get it out of the house is this way.
A pile of pages and mats and stickers ... see pics.
Leave me a comment and I'll post off to the first person who wants it. Quick! Go! (Only for New Zealanders sorry.)

Sharing a Vintage Swap to take part in...

Head over to Butter and Buntings for a fantastic vintge recipe swap.
This looks really neat!

capsules of life

*Big post office run - 3 swap parcels and a bunch of snail mail letters sent off to Australia (x2), USA(x2), France, UK.
* HUGE mammoth effort to get 30 parents and around 45 odd children all signed up for a reading programme at school. I organise the whole entire thing from making library cards, book bags, sets of books for each child which match their reading level and then running the things. More time out of library but same volume of work to do.
*AND carry on maintaining the library as usual. but NOPE today it is a mess. I cannot do it all by my self, but I have to... roping in friends to help do it. Some of us work a lot harder than others like at any workplace.. Shelving is piled up everywhere.
*And we throw into the mix jury service next week. NOT excited. BUT actually time off work might do my brain some good.
*Not good only 4-5 weeks into a school term.
*Summer soccer is over. Yay. Team won their grade. Yay.
*Only have music and futsal 2 nights a week and that is IT for extra curricular stuff.
*Started my next uni paper - need to carry on as I started.
*Weather still stunning and piles of laundry done every day.
*Thinking here we go with another term of being exhausted and staying home in the weekends - sorry family. Need home time seriously.
*Thinking of a poor friend who is on bed rest in hospital at only 30 weeks. that must be HARD> No idea what is around the corner.
*Going in to teach her how to knit to drive away some of the insantiy.
*I need flowers. More. In vases. Where do you buy good not too expensive flowers from every week? I have no idea...
*Doing well with scrapbooking. Love making memories.
*Doing very very well with not spending so much money on stuff I do NOT need. Making do with stuff.
*Got a new lead for the rabbit except we did not put it on properly... cue a PANIC and lots of yelling as we ran around the backyard trying to catch it.... funny now. Was NOT funny at the time.
*I neeeeeeeed sleep...........
*Husband finally coming right after 2 weeks of a viral thing.

Badge collector

I am not too sure you gets more excited about scout badge collecting - the scout or me!
Today's chore - pinning and sewing on scout badges (lots collected from jamboree and from years ago too!).
HOURS of work! HOURS. and not even half done.
And a broken sewing machine needle. Not at all the easiest thing to sew. Or sew straight.
The scout is very pleased though to finally have more badges on the blanket. He has been at the annual Founders Day camp this weekend at Motu Moana and his scout group won the pioneering Trophy! There will be another one or two badges to sew on the camp fire blanket after this weekend now.
I am a past cub scout leader - Scouting is so good for kids - both boys and girls are welcome in scouts in New Zealand - we were the first country to admit girls to scouts around 20 years ago. i think in USA scouts is still a boy thing - correct me if I am wrong!