What's in a name?

Here's our good looking birthday boy trying to pretend to be thrilled over a ball of yarn and a "Teach Yourself to Crochet" kit when what he really had his heart set on was a CROQUET set. We didn't make him suffer very long before we brought in his real present, the wished for croquet set. We went out to lunch for lobster rolls, steamers, fried clams and a lobster pie and had homemade strawberry pie for dessert. It's still hot. The idea of a glacier is very appealing right now.




On the crafting front, I am almost finished making my 16 Christmas cards for the swap at my local scrap shop. I just have 4 more cards to put together but I'm waiting for the paper that I found on ebay. I thought that working on Christmas cards during a heat wave in August would help cool things down a bit. Isn't my little Santa cute?

I finished reading Twenty Wishes last night. I'd like to read the next volume right away but I have several other books queued up on my Kindle that I could tackle first. I had the Kindle with me the other day when I went into a bookstore. I browsed the titles and when I saw something that interested me I just pulled out the Kindle and found it online and bam, it was downloaded into my library. Very handy. I also have enough paperbacks stacked everywhere in my house to last me several years. I just can't seem to resist bookstores and books.