Why our weekend sucked, and rocked!

We saw it coming. Our barbecue date for Saturday had been set weeks ago, but as it got closer and closer this week, the weather report did not improve. Words like 'torrential' and 'flash flood' threatened. So on Thursday we put our tent up which we figured would somehow avert the rain, because we figured of course with our luck, if we go through the trouble of putting up the tent, then it probably won't rain right?


But no dice, and we didn't want to reschedule, because what if we rescheduled and then the same thing happened? And we figured well, we could always all just go in the house right? We could make the best of it right? But well, it rained a lot. And it's just not fun to cook in the rain. But the show did go on, and all in all it looks like it went on ok.

Everyone liked the tent! There was plenty of room, and of course tons of food and drink is always a convenient distraction...

And yeah, we've had good barbecues before, and the weather's always been great. But this one we'll remember for awhile. Really, how lucky are we, we still had like 20 people or so show up and we all laughed and ate for hours. And you know these are all really true friends. I mean, I could probably get people in off the street to hang out in my backyard and eat my food. But these guys, in the crappy weather we had yesterday, they not only showed up, but they helped carry stuff in and out, and made me gin and tonics (trust me it rained that much, you'd need gin too) and helped us keep the propane and charcoals lit. Awww....

Knitting content to follow, I promise. This past week was spent cleaning up the backyard, putting up the tent, vacuuming, grocery shopping, etc. Don't worry, as exciting as all those activities sound, none of them comes close to beating out knitting for the favorite hobby position.