Holiday Lists

Tempe’s Amazon Wishlist: http://www.amazon.com/wishlist/117WBUTEBYCDG/ref=cm_wl_rlist_go

Rebecca’s Amazon Wishlist: http://www.amazon.com/wishlist/1ZSOLUARGFOXO/ref=cm_wl_rlist_go

Magnus’s Amazon Wishlist: http://www.amazon.com/wishlist/1PJEOZ5MU5QMW/ref=cm_wl_rlist_go

Douglas’s Amazon Wishlist: http://www.amazon.com/wishlist/AF2AWOJWWU5V/ref=cm_wl_rlist_go

Tempe

Something to store puzzles while working on them so kids don’t destroy them

Lord of the Rings stuff

Risk 1959 collector’s edition

Rebecca

Super Princess Peach DS game. (it’s at Toys R Us. I can’t find it online.)

Barbie style salon play set  (beauty parlor for barbies)

Musical instruments. Becca loves to make music.

Magic AND Science? No way!

walkie-talkies

Mindflex

Blokus

Qwirkle

Rush Hour game

Drum set

The boys are mostly interchangeable. They’re interested in the same things for the most part. That said, make sure you put a specific name on the gift.

Batman anything. They have nothing so far.  They want both bad guys and good guys as well. Regular Batman toys and Imaginext.  Either will work for them.

Magnus

Both boys like both of the Imaginext castles. Magnus seemed to home in on this one more than the other.

Magnus loved the big dinosaur (requires imagination, not batteries).

This is a game Magnus gets to play periodically on Daddy’s phone. The prospect of playing it anytime on his own DS got him excited.

He went nuts in the store over the Hulk fists.

Daddy admits that this might have been one of those cases where he was projecting his kid-wishlist onto the kids. Read his expression and decide for yourself. Does he want it or is he just trying to please his Dad? It is a yellow sports car.

More DS games!

Clearly we need a new shirt … and a Scooby Doo Wii game.

Ooooh look at that expression. Sonic and the Secret Rings Wii.

Magnus says we need more bad guys. Specifically this one.

Douglas

Douglas honed in on this Imaginext castle more than the other but both boys liked both castles.

Douglas pulled nearly every Batman toy off the shelf and demanded it be added to the list.

More Batman …

And more …

Clone Wars Wii game.

Douglas wants his own hockey gear.

Everyone

Both boys were diggin the Lego Star Wars kits.

Remember those toys we had when we were kids that you’d put water into then press the button make the water swish around and you’d try to get the rings on the pegs or the balls in the buckets or whatever? They have those again. We think all 3 kids would like these.

All 3 of them went nuts in the store with the Nerf Swords.

+7 miles

58 miles

Reach area of the Marish with fields, meadows, hedges, gates, and drainage dikes.

Plus 14

51 miles

Day 3   They reach a belt of trees, mostly oaks with a few elms and ash.  Drops of rain fall.

Plus 12.5

37 miles

Day 2.  Road splits.  Road to Stock bends left and goes down into the lowlands.  They take a lane which branches to the right, winding through a wood of ancient Oaks.  Sun down and evening coming on.  (ca 6:30 pm)  Quite close to the road-meeting they climb inside a huge tree.  Eat and rest.

plus 2

24.5 miles  same as before

6 more miles

22.5 miles     I’ve made it to Day 2

Road rolls up and down.

This lasts for 8 miles so don’t expect much of a change anytime soon.

I’m very slow

16.5 miles     Begin to sing. Walk through a deeply cloven track between tall trees.

Events have conspired to keep my progress slow.

2 more miles.

14.5 total     Reach Stock Road

A mere 3.5 miles to get me out of the first day.  And it’s only a total of 485 miles from Hobbiton to Rivendell.  I should be there in a couple of years.

Another 2 miles.  That makes 12.5

Stop in a birch grove.  Eat a frugal supper.

me again

Add on another 1.5 miles.  I have been active with other things as well.  And I have had some very tired nights.  So that makes for 10.5 miles.  I need another half mile for the next way point.  I will get that and a bit more tomorrow.

I have been in a bit of a knitting funk.  I know!  Say it isn’t so!  But yes.  Sadly enough.  I keep thinking about all the lovely lace patterns out there.  But I have three projects right now.  Wing o the Moth is big and fluffy and 60% done.  the other 40% is about 50 rows left.  So I keep trying to make myself work on that.  And a lace scarf with nupps.  But I keep questioning my nupps.  In the end I am sure they will block out fine.  And I have been disappointed in my sock projects right now.  I did finally make myself pull out the bad section of one of them so that I could work on it again.  I had a sock that ended up half an inch too short on the foot.  I spent a while trying to convince myself that it would be fine before giving up.  Another sock I knit the cuff shorter thatn the pattern called for, and yet I am very unhappy with how long the cuff is.  I tried to tell myself it would be fine, but haven’t really been able to talk myself into it.  And it wasn’t the fastest project pattern to start with.  I will probably rip the whole thing.  I may find another pattern for it.

I need to push on through and then the happy knitting vibes will be back in short order.  And I need to get more sleep.

I do like knitting.