The Castoffs met at Leslie’s house on a cold, snowy day. Leslie told me that she didn’t know who would be at the meeting today. Since it’s holiday times, we are a little lax in communicating. Turns out that there were quite a few Castoffs – Julie, Mary, Marylane, Deb, Linda and Lisa brought her daughter, Rene, who just moved back to Montana from Washington state.
I have to admit that we didn’t get a lot of knitting done. We hadn’t seen each other in TWO WEEKS. That’s a long time to hold in all that chatter. First of all, we all had to admire Leslie’s Christmas tree. Words, and unfortunately pictures, don’t begin to describe this tree. Or, should I say, this 3-in-1 tree. It’s skinny little trunk was trifurcated. All the sections were decorated in three distinct, and totally different, ways. You’ll just have to take my word for it because the photo doesn’t show it well. I guess my camera was confused.
It's 3, 3, 3 trees in 1!
It’s always fun to see what mischief Leslie gets up to with her Christmas trees.
Julie came in and talked about the knitted gifts that she sent her mom. She sent me photos, so here is her mom with Robert the Bear. They are both darling – mom and bear.
Aww. Don't know who is cuter!
Julie's cabled pillow.
Julie was one of the few actually knitting today. What was it? “Just a dishcloth.”
Just a dishcloth, but it's pretty.
Most of the rest of us were talking, drinking and eating. We got into a huge discussion about racism and about the book, “The Help” which many of us had read and had an opinion on.
Mary making an emphatic point.
Speaking of Mary, she made a baby hat for her ‘not’ pregnant son and daughter-in-law and presented it to them at Christmas. She is hoping to give them a hint about presenting her with a grandchild. Hmmm. Guess we’ll just have to wait and see if the hint hit home, eh, Mary?
Mary's big HINT
By the way, I love the tags on their new clothes, Mary. Returnable?
Lisa brought Rene, as I said, and also brought some yummy gorgonzola crackers that we snapped up like starving monkies. We also snapped up the mixed nuts and corn chips with parmeson and spinach dip. Ravenous Castoffs.
Food and wine, wine and food. Yum.
Welcome back to Montana, Rene!
And now for the silly photo of the week. Here I am wearing a hat that Marylane knitted for her niece. “I think it’s too big,” she said. “Oh, let me try it on,” I said. “Oh, I don’t think it’s THAT big,” I said. Hmmm.
Maybe it is a little big...
I did end up looking like a little gnome…with a giant nose. And very red all over.
Next week we meet at Michele’s house. Maybe we can even get some knitting done, eh? Maybe not. We’ll have two or three other people to catch up with, but I know it will be a lot of fun, whether we knit or not.
Have a wonderful 2011 and sorry that some of you have to go back to work. Hee, hee, hee. Marylane and I will think of you when we go snowshoeing.
