Sarah and I just went to the grocery store, and I noticed when we got back to the car, that across the aisle from us, in the parking, lot were a van from Massachusetts, a pickup truck from Michigan, and a van from Maryland! While we see Michigan plates in WI, all the time, since it’s right next door, Massachusetts and Maryland are quite the find! The MA van had an outline sticker of a girl doing a gymnastics move and had a sticker that said the word “gymnast” below the license plate.
Also, the La Quinta hotel near our house, had a packed parking lot. Tomorrow night, we will see how crowded it is over by Blue Harbor Resort.
Starting tomorrow, in the North High School gym, is the 2008 YMCA National Gymnastics Championship! We don’t have tickets, though. It’s just exciting seeing lots of out-of-state license plates.
The high schools both built brand-new gyms in the last few years, so they have enough room, to hold a meet of this magnitude:
4,000 tickets sold
1360 gymnasts
21 different states
This was fun to do, with lots of yo, k2tog,and p2tog! I’ve never done a pattern before, where the number of stitches changes from row to row, but it’s okay! It varied between 39 and 44 stitches. The yarn is 181 Faded Denim Peaches & Creme and knit with US 7 needles. It was designed by Jamie Monaghan.
I finished my second red scarf, too, last Thursday! Woohoo! I should be swatching my sock yarn, about now! LOL!
The weather has calmed down, although it could be warmer. I’m guess I’m not complaining, since it’s saving us a bundle in air conditioning costs.
This is the June 2008 KAL. It was worked with 54 Baby Green Peaches and Creme yarn, on US7 needles. It makes me want to take a tropical vacation! It was designed by Andi Worthy of the Monthly Dishcloth KAL yahoo group!
This is the mid-June KAL with 2 days finished. I’ve been too busy posting my pictures to knit, this morning! LOL! It’s just yo, k2tog, p2tog, etc, that is making the cable-y design. We aren’t using a cable needle. I love the lacy texture! I’m having fun knitting it. The yarn is 181 Faded Denim Peaches and Creme yarn, on US7 needles.
Oh yeah. It finally stopped raining. My computer corner is all back together, with a new rug on the floor. I love how the new feels to my feet. It’s a lot cushier than the 10-year-old rug was. The laptop was nice, but my regular computer, even at 7 years old, is a lot faster and has a much better monitor.
My heart goes out to the people still affected by the flooding. Ugh. Even when we had 18 inches of water in our basement, 10 years ago, it still wasn’t as bad as other people had it.
Rainfall for the month of June now stands at 10.12 inches, already above the previous record of 8.68 inches set in 1969, according to the weather service reporting station at The Sheboygan Press.
Authorities said the downpour flooded more than 50 intersections in the City of Sheboygan on Thursday night, but all roadways in Sheboygan County were passable by Friday morning. Alliant Energy reported only 15 county homes lost power, and all electricity was restored by early morning.
Yes, it definitely doesn’t need to rain, for a long time, around here. My side door won’t close all the way, because the sill is swollen. We haven’t had to water our flowers, in the past week, because there’s been so much rain. We got a little water in the basement, so we need to buy one small rug and a little basement paint. It’s nothing to serious. Also, the lawn needs to dry out, so it can be mowed. The end of the yard is getting so long, but I’m sure it’s still too wet, since the sump pump drains there.
Today is nice and sunny, with a chance of thunderstorms, at some point, but I don’t think the storms will be like they were, earlier in the week. We came through the storms, pretty unscathed compared to some people. We were very lucky.
Over the weekend, we had 3.42 inches of rain! For the whole month of June, we’ve had 6.68 inches of rain! The Sheboygan River rose to 11.3 feet, which is three feet above flood stage. It was spilling over the banks in a few spots, but not endangering any houses. It was also flowing scary fast, and in Sheboygan Falls, where there really is a falls, AND a dam, it was going even faster. We went to Settler’s Park last night and it was like being by the Whitewater Walk, in Niagara Falls! I still need to upload my videos to YouTube. I did take pictures, though, too.
At the lower falls, the water was going by so fast, it almost made you dizzy! Fortunately, there’s a nice strong fence between you and the water. It was hard to focus on the water, with the camera, since it was going SOOOOOO fast. At Settler’s Park, I noticed that parents of young children were keeping a tight grip on their children and being very aware of where the children were.
The rain ruined our trip to Madison on Saturday, since we just had gotten to the Henry Vilas Zoo, when we found out there was a tornado warning. So, during the warning, we drove from the Henry Vilas Zoo, to the east side of Madison, to Applebee’s, so Emily could watch the Belmont Race. Unfortunately, we were there for 2 hours, since we got there an hour earlier than we really needed to, because of the weather. After we got to Applebee’s, the skies really let loose and it POURED!
On Monday, Lake Delton, north of Madison cut a channel through land, where there was no water, washed out Highway A, in Columbia County, and drained Lake Delton, sweeping a few houses off their foundations, in the process. In the newspapers, they show that the lake is empty. I saw a pier, with just muddy ground underneath, with a boat, sitting on the ground. So, the Tommy Bartlett water-skiing show, in the Dells, won’t have skiing this year. Yikes. In Mukwonago, WI, there is a dam they are worried about. The ground around the dam is very saturated and they wonder if it will hold. It’s scary, but nowhere near my house.
My basement got a little bit of water in it and forced us to clean up stuff that we’d been neglecting. Also, DH is repainting the wall in my computer corner, so I have a laptop on a desk, with a separate mouse and keyboard, until he is done and it’s worth the time to set my desktop computer all up again. We are still going to be moving things around, to finish painting and to put a new rug under my desk, so the desktop computer will stay in the other room. So, now I have my charter mail coming into my gmail, since I’m without my Outlook for a little bit.
I’ll have to resize some of my pictures, for posting in here. and get those videos uploaded. Two days without rain, has been a WONDERFUL thing.
We drove down to the lake today, and could see where the muddy river water, joins the lake! The whole harbor had muddy water, too, since that water has been flowing out there, in such a hurry.
Rapids, just below the dam, next to Settler’s Park, in Sheboygan Falls:
Come along as I knit my dishcloths, mow the lawn and wait for the leaves to fall! We live downwind from a lot of big old trees and all those leaves land in our yard! LOL!
