Having the water working is totally amazing and I continue to enjoy it immensely.
The best news however is that I am now a great grandma. Jaxon made his way into the world 7 weeks prematurely on March 31st but he weighed 5lb 4oz and could breathe unaided from the get go. The birth was very problematic but both Mum and baby are now fine and are at home after a 14 day stay in the hospital. He is adorable, as all babies are and everyone is thrilled.
I mailed off the blanket and the bootees last week so they should be there in another week or so hopefully and I made progress on the 'big boy jacket'. The back, two fronts and both sleeves are done. I can't say it was a simple process as I made a lot of mistakes along the way and had to undo and re knit a lot but they are done now and the patterning matches. I was using an arran tuck stitch pattern but it wasn't centralised so I had to adjust which stitches to pull out to use so that the fronts were identically opposite each other and same thing with the sleeves. It was trial and error but I finally got it right. I just have the front edges and neck band to do. Next week I will start on those. Then I will know what size open ended zipper I will need for it.
Meanwhile I picked up the knitting needles and am hand knitting a bunny for him. I can do that at night whilst watching TV. I am making the large one.
Spring has definitely sprung here, the grass is growing so mowing will have to commence very soon. We took one of the mowers to the repair man as it stopped mowing and my husband just can't get down on the floor to fix it anymore. The other one needs to go too as it leaks oil but one at a time and we can use the one that leaks for now to start on the mowing.
Yesterday, we had to go to the VA hospital for some tests for my husband and on the way home we stopped at Pizza Hut and actually went inside to eat. We were the only customers in there so social distancing was not a problem and the pizza was totally delicious straight out of the pizza oven instead of having to drive home and re heat it. Yum!!!
Oh, and I got my second covid shot a week ago so we are both fully vaccinated now. I had a bit of soreness around the site and extreme tiredness with the this one for a couple of days but all is good now.