Here is the shawl I've been working on.  The yarn is undyed but looks yellow on the white background. You can see the beads in the ball but not really in the shawl. It's just a garter stitch with three stitches for a border. I started plying yesterday but I thought I should break up the spinning pictures.  I really need to get this plying done but it feels like it will take forever.  It may get a little faster now that the singles are a little thicker.

I listened to and caught up on all the podcasts that had a new episode out.  I also finished all the episodes of the Knit 1 Heart Too so today I started In a Sknit.  I joined the Knit 1 Heart Too group so now they will added to my list to check every week. Tomorrow all the kdrama shows I watch should be translated so I'll try to catch up.

We have been doing o.k. with our home work and chores but not so much on the exercise. Today we made duct tape bags following a pattern we found in a free ebook on amazon.  The pattern wasn't hard or anything but it was time consuming and a little tedious at times.  My son's turned out the size of a purse and my daughter's turned out long and shallow. Tomorrow I think we may try sewing again.  I'm still trying to get some swimming, the park and more Letter Boxing in before the end of the summer.  School starts in one month.  

My sister, K, is actually in Sipan right now (it's a little island near Guam).  She got a job at a hotel there for six moths with an option to stay if they like her work after that. She has asked for letters and has sent postcards out.  We wrote her some postcards but haven't had a chance to mail them because I don't have any stamps.  Amey and I got postcards but Mooky didn't.  I think his is just lost in the mail but he ran to his bedroom crying that Aunt K didn't love him.

Writing postcards made me miss when we used to do Postcrossing.  We got and sent postcards all over the world and I have a photo album full of the postcards.  I would love to do it again but I stopped because of the price.  We used to be able to send a post card anywhere with a first class stamp (about .45 at the time) but there was a rate change and even though it was only a postcard if it was going overseas it was 1.10.  That was a big difference and just too much of an expense.

I guess that's it after all my rambling.  I'll see you next time.