Coming Home Hat

The Coming Home Hat was a fantastic knit!  Well designed/written pattern, easy to follow, knitted with rich colored super wash PDS yarn that is hand dyed all help to create a great finished project. I really enjoy a great fitting hat as I seem to spend most of any given year in a hat. I don't live in the warmest places and prefer higher elevations or higher latitudes thus the reason for hats.

I have waited a long time for this front porch and it is almost done.  Evening knitting is a great reward to any day full of fun.

Great texture on this hat to keep any knitter happy and engaged.  

Front porch knitting . . . BLISS!

Since, I am home in Montana the of this hat added to the perfect knit. The other design feature that caught my eye is  lower head band as the design reminds me of trees.  After 10 months on the tundra trees are a wonderful treasure that I cherish when I am back amongst them in Montana.

Coming Home Hat in Action

This is turning into our traditional Father's Day hike.  A nice short hike up into a lake in the northern Whitefish Range. It was wet, damp and a bit cool.

Stellar model pose haha! In my hand I have a pair of Kate Davies Pawkies fingerless mitts knitted in Kate's yarn.

My Sadie and I heading up the trail.

Christian 

Link Lake, Tally and I knitting away on a pair of plain old socks with PDS sock yarn.

"The Girls

My Father In Law who we all try to keep up with.  He still skis, hikes, works and is nothing but a legend at 80.  He loves to be out and about and never sits around doing nothing.

Happy Father's Day!

COFFEE as in Expresso!

I am on a bit of a roll here this a.m. with the blog.  One thing I love about blogging is it is jut fun to write and to share a bit of my world which is not always in order! (Bear with me.)  I know I have a lot of people checking in to read this blog which is great.  So let me just say that many of the post I am posting today is cleaning up the "To Do List" I have for the blog.

I love coffee and tea!  I am a picky coffee drinker!  I want good coffee and prefer organic med-dark roast and some dark roast coffees.  The Unalakleet Nordic Ski Program sells coffee from Grounds For Change as a fund raiser. From each large box of coffee we sell we are able to purchase either a pair of skis and bindings or race boots and poles.  This company is wonderful to work with and has a great product!

After visiting my friend WoolnWords this summer I decided once back in Alaska I needed a small expresso maker.  I did in fact order a small one!  I mean small not thinking European Expresso it is a truly a 1 cup expresso maker. Being the American I am, I realized I needed to order a larger expresso maker, so I could have my America size cup or coffee.  WoolnWords went to Italy last year and this is why she is the expert on Italian Expresso in my books.  So off to Amazon I went!  I ordered this VEV expresso maker which is stainless steal as our house hold is funny about using stainless steal and frother.  The Aerolatte Milk Frother works like a charm! Below you can see my first cappuccino--oh so yummy!  I also use decaf coffee in the afternoon and evening or I will be up all night!  I am sure some of you think decaf is sacrilegious, but for me I enjoy the flavor and process of a nice cappuccino late in the day or after dinner.

That hot pad was knitted from Malabrigo left overs and then felted in the washer.

I also ordered a 4 cup expresso maker last night.  I hope the 4 cup works as great as my 1 cup VEV expresso make!