A warm, happy Mother’s Day all around. I had a lovely, and I hope yours was pleasant as well. Nate surprised me completely. I wasn’t expecting anything significant, and here I am- owner of a new digital camera and loads of batteries and photo paper.

It may sound silly, but I’ve wanted photo paper for, like, a year. For whatever reason, it hadn’t happened. So, as silly as photo paper may sound for a MD gift, I was thrilled. But the camera? Wow. It’s a humble camera, to be sure, but it’s a 4.0 megapixel with some manual control. Considering I’ve been using an old, hand-me-down 1.3 megapixel for the last 11 months, I’m ecstatic.

I would again like to thank cousin Elisa for giving me her old digital last spring. It has been fab, given me no troubles, and even survived being dropped on concrete more than once. (By me).

But I am very happy to have a new camera with better resolution. And a manual. It’s amazing how helpful those things are.

As for knitting, I did some. I finished the final flower washcloth, and they were well received. I’m still working on the Flower Basket Shawl, and I’m actually having some trouble there. My pattern is going great. It looks fab. Everything is lining up and seems peachy, but I’m having trouble getting to that “195 stitches” number the pattern calls for before starting the edging chart. If I do one more repeat of the lower chart, I’ll have 191. Unless I’m an idiot and can’t count. Which is possible. But I think I’ve figured it right. Anyone know what happened? I can’t find a mistake anywhere. Everything seems to be working out like it’s supposed to. I’ll spend some more time today staring at the pattern and adding 16 to 175, in the hopes that one of these times, it’ll equal 195.