Summer over Knitting? No, Adventure over Knitting

I had a lovely time out with Patti, Sandy and Karel on Friday.  I'd sort of taken a break from ye ole world of knitting.  Which, sadly, also lead to a bit of a break from my knitter friends.  I know, right?  The blog's  called knit with snot, not random chick married to an Ogre, who has 3 little Pigs and slays zombies on occasion.  Although, I suppose I could change it.

Part of the reason for the lack of knitting is due to my awesome job at Forensic Fluids.  No, really, check the link.  My bad hair and I totally work there.  We are featured on the front page of the website.

Besides work, I've been busy having fun!  Yes, knitting is fun, but check this out...

You may play egg toss, or corn hole (why couldn't that just been called bean bag toss??) we've been playing Pitch the Pig!

 I've also found a wonderful place that locks your kids up and spins them around for 5 minutes!

This is available for you and your Pigs, bears, kids, kidlets, piglets, or straight up children in the air conditioned comfort of the Kzoo Air Zoo!  For those of you wondering, yes, it's cruel, but they have caught many wild air planes and now keep them in captivity.

We've also gotten the Pigs' hairs cut.  Yes, hairs.  If you say hair cut, you will be questioned, have bad puns, and worse word play thrown at you.

 We've even taken the Ogre on some of our summer adventures!

He can't have fun, he's an Ogre!

 Check it!  Pig 1 kayaking!

 Now Pig 1 out on the lake. 

Where was Pig 2 during all this fun? He was riding a jet ski.  Some adventure can't be caught by camera, it's too intense.

This sort of adventure is just the right speed to be caught.

Knitting has definitely taken a bit of a back seat to adventure.  But know that I love you and I want to make sweet, sweet knit projects with you. 

The Apron's On!

You may have heard over the last several years, that my oven is broken. Yes, I said years, and I said oven.

I don't mind the rusty exterior, or that the sticker letting you know which buttons are for what is falling off.  It's really that the oven door doesn't shut.  It takes for EVER to bake say, chicken.  I usually just get fed up and call it done.  Sadly, this leads to me feeding the family raw chicken on occasion.

But now, I have a new oven....

Hamilton Beach Convection Counter Top Oven

 I can bake, warm up left overs and eliminate the possibility of salmonella!  Now I just need to knit it a cozy.

Summer, it's been fun

 We've been having adventure this summer!  I'd like to give a shout out to Linderloo aka Fatcatcrochet for reminder that Life without adventure is a waste of oxygen.  I have been using my oxygen wisely lately!

Here Pig 3 is mocking a beloved Pixar character at the Water Tower Place in Chicago.  Yes, we shop lego.

 OOOH!  Mummies attack!

 

Wow.  Kids who read the Kane Chronicles (Red Pyramid) by Rick Riordan can seriously drop some Egyptian science on their family, and innocent bystanders, and museum staff.

Pig 1 is totally into Dinosaurs.  He's planning on studying at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.  Really.  He applied.

While Pig 1 was smitten with dino bones, Pig 3 was staring longingly at the city. 

 He's more of an urban adventure guy. 

Pig 2 had a big adventure at the Museum of Science and Industry.

They've got this thing where you can apply to stay 30 days at the museum.  I so want to sleep in the Spirit of America, rappel off the third floor, drop eggs down the stair well, ooh, and liberate the chicks!!  I just have to make a 60 sec video, oh, and apply.


The Pigs are so big now, they stomped down stonehenge.

Look!  I was there too!