Scenes from a Weekend

Sometimes a weekend is best spent just puttering about, engaged in a variety of activities.  How can such a weekend be a bad thing?

We had pancakes, pumpkin pancakes with bacon on the side.  I am not a big pancake breakfast person, they don't seem to last till lunch, all that filling up on simple carbohydrates and sugar.  But they are a nice occasional treat:

I knitted while we listened to a couple of new CDs.

And there was a little more knitting while watched a couple of movies over the weekend.  We watched the original 1977 version of "Fun with Dick and Jane" and "Pride and Prejudice"  The brown cashmere rice stitch cardigan is progressing nicely.  This project will take a little longer than the past couple but it is pure pleasure to knit. And who can resist a late afternoon movie on a dreary day with a cup of espresso?  Not I, and I can't get that at my local movie house either.

There was still time for some reading:

And a little time to play with scissors and glue as I cut up magazines and started collecting pictures for my Spring 2007 inspiration collage notebook pages:

I haven't found all that much knitting inspiration yet, mostly sewing inspiration, and there is no telling if I will make any of it or just dream.  But I love cutting and pasting, and I love looking back at the things I have saved over the years, they provide a constant source of inspiration and joy. 

And last, but far from least, G came home from the florists with a beautiful big cymbidium orchid.  He had been struggling with the idea of what to get for Valentine's Day, as we are going away on Friday for the weekend, and it seemed a shame to send me a dozen yellow roses (the usual choice) when they would just wilt.  He decided to stop by the florist's anyway and while he was there he saw this huge cymbidium, and, although it is near the end of its bloom, I love it and know I will get lots of future flowerings of it.  Besides it makes up for the one which was allowed to die while I was in Knoxville in September.

Comments

[Gina]

I am not a fan of those standard breakfasts either, but pumpkin pancakes? You stopped me in my tracks. Please share, as I suspect these will be gluten-free as well.