Happy Daddy Day!

I know that Father’s Day is just another holiday created by the greeting card companies, but it is still a holiday for my family.  On this day, we celebrate the hardest working member of our family, Dad.  My Daddy is one of the greatest men I know.  He is the hardest working, kindest, and most loving father you could ever hope for.  It seems unfair that such a person only gets one day of celebration, but at least he got to enjoy it.  Both of the dad’s (my dad and Tyler’s dad) started the afternoon like this.

After that, we had steak, potato salad, corn on the cob, and Chocolate Glacier Cake (a 2 layer chocolate cake with a whipped center and chocolate sauce on the outside, my sister’s specialty).  After lunch, we took Dad shopping for his Father’s Day gift.  He picked out a Craftsman Orbital Sander.  It is a fun and useful gift that he is thrilled with.

When we returned from shopping, Tyler tornado had worn himself out and conked out on the couch.  (He spent a good part of the afternoon “watering” my yard with the hose.  He also watered Grandma and the dogs.)  Taking advantage of the sleeping child, I whipped up the Snickerdoodles for the party tomorrow.  My manager is having a birthday and we have been cooking up quite a surprise party.  His super hero nickname is “Flash” (It’s a long story… the short of it is that our VP compared our team to Super Heroes and the team has all been given super nick names.) because he flashes in and out of the department on his way to and from meetings.  Instead of flowers, he is getting a cookie bouquet.  On the suggestion from my sister, five of the cookies have letters spelling out the word “Flash.”

They will all be wrapped in plastic with ribbons like this.  I’m not sure what container I’m going to put them in yet, I still have to figure that out.

In the world of yarn, yesterday was World Wide Knit in Public Day.  Unfortunately, I had another commitment and spent the entire day behind a spot light at a dance recital.  In an effort to still carry on the spirit of the day, I did knit.  I am working on the Seamless Baby Kimono using Plymouth Dreambaby DK in color 202.  Here it is worked to the armholes.

I am nearly done with the fronts now, but no new pictures to show.  It is going rather quickly and I’m happy with how it’s turning out.  With any luck, it will be a gift for my cousin who is pregnant with a baby girl.  We’re going to be up visiting that side of the family next weekend, so I’d like to have it done by then.

Lastly, I found this rather disturbing bit of fungus in my ivy plant.  It must have popped up overnight because it was not there yesterday.  I’ve put the ivy outside and sprayed the fungus with tea tree oil.  I’m hoping that will kill it.  I have a feeling I’m going to have to completely re-pot the plant in order to save it.  Lovely, but disturbing.

(P.S.  My KnitPicks sock blanks came Thursday but I haven’t had a chance to dye them yet.  I’m hoping to get to that next week.)