I know I skipped a bunch of days but this time it was a conscious decision not a forgetful thing.  I just didn't feel like I had enough (or any) progress to show you.  I think this will be the way it is from now on.  If I don't feel like I have anything to show I'll skip days. There will probably be things on Monday because I will at least have made my charity knitting on Sunday.  If you can't tell this is the blue totoro.  He has a nose but you can't really see it on the dark blue.  It should have been more of  blue gray but I was limited to what was at Walmat.  I didn't notice till I took the picture that his arms were kind of off.  I blame that a little on my daughter.  She said it was too high so I made it lower.  I'm trying to decide if I should take it off and change it or not.  If I do I'll probably take the other arm off and un-stuff it a little.  I'm still working on the little white totoro and I started the big gray one.  On the white one I need to stuff the tail, make the eyes and attach them both.  That won't take long if I just get to it.  I stated ripping out the 5X sweater so I can hold that yarn double for the grey totoro.  It's going to be huge and it may take me a little longer so I don't hurt my hand.  I'm going to try to attach the arms as I go instead of sewing them on later.  The only problem with this is I forgot to make them.  I need to attach them about row 22 so I figure I have till about row 20 to get them done.  I sewed this guy's appendages on with sewing thread but the big one I think I will need to use yarn.  I feel like there was something else I wanted to say but I can't think of it now.  The only other thing that I have been doing is working a few rows on the sock here and there.

Lets see what have I done that is non craft related.  I listened to all my podcast and got to work on some of Yarnivore's as well. Many podcasts were using a site called Blip but over the course of the last year or so they have slowly been kicking the knitting podcasts off.  I think this is the reason that I can't access the Yarnivore podcast on the site anymore.  Some of the episodes are on YouTube but I had to skip from 45 to 98.  I think I may run into this with other podcasts as well.

What else did I do?  I went on a field trip.  My son has been having a hard time at school so we have been keeping an eye on him.  He came home the day before the field trip absolutely insistent that I go and I was afraid he would have a meltdown if I didn't go.  It was about agriculture so they showed the kids cows (beef and dairy), chickens, pigs, sheep and horses (three sizes).  They talked about why farming is important and what we use animals for.  They also helped pack snack bag for a local food pantry (with things from each food group) and planted seeds in a little cup.  After lunch they went to the John Deere Pavilion to learn about farm machines and a little about how things were in John Deere's time with a black smith and someone dressed up as John Deere.  I did enjoy seeing the sheep but the blacksmith was the highlight of the day for me.  He was so funny with these little throw away lines that went right over the kids heads.  It was not a bad day but not what I had planned for that day.  I of course brought my knitting and got in a couple of cute conversations with some of the kids.  One girl actually guesses correctly that I was making a sock.  I know a couple of times there were some kids watching me knit in the back and not listening to the presenter.  I was o.k. with that because do you really think the second graders care how much horse power a tractor from 1949 had or how much it cost?  As long as they were sitting quietly we were all good.

The only other thing I did is kind of silly.  I signed up for an underwear subscription service.  I know, I know, it's a bit weird but all the reviews seemed good and the price wasn't outragous.  I got my first shipment today and they're cute.  I figure I can do it for a few months then cancle.    It's called Volupties if you want to check it out, they have sizes up to 3X.

I think that's it and now you are caught up.  I think I may skip a few days again till I have something to show.  Maybe I can knit faster and show you more things.