Outside my window: plums, ripening.
What I’m hearing: a gold finch is singing his heart out from the dead branch of our ash tree.
(This is not a gold finch.)
In my prayers: Mandy. The survivors of the typhoon in the Philippines. The people of Aleppo and Homs. My upcoming trip.
Grateful: for our garden. For Josephine, born last week in Chicago. And Baby Juliette, born last week in Paris. A run here, last week:
In the kitchen: green and yellow beans.
Reading: Charlotte Mason’s original homeschooling series. Metaxas’ biography of Bonhoeffer (wow!) and a Geogette Heyer, Frederica.
dles: a few wash cloths. Not much else.
The Reason I can’t get much done: The Olympics. I love the swimming and the gymnastics, especially. What’s your favorite Olympic event (aside from all the comercials with Morgan Freeman’s voice)?
Learning As We Go 
Oh, Morgan Freeman could say, “Please pass the mayonaisse.” and it would be worth money to pay him.
But we don’t have the TV hooked up to watch anything but
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Can you imagine how much mayonnaise he would get?
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“This is not a gold finch.” hehehe.
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What pattern do you use for your dish cloths?
I watch swimming and gymnastics. I like the diving, too. 🙂
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This is the pattern I used for these: http://www.allfreecrafts.com/knitting/dishcloth.shtml. In the past, I’ve done just seed stitch 33 stitch across (on a 7 or 8 needle) and gone back and forth until it’s square, but I like the little border on this one.
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Thanks, Annie! 🙂 I was just saying to Mark the other day that I need something to knit while he’s reading aloud in the evenings- and I mentioned dishcloths!
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