I’ve been away for a few months, busy knitting. I started a sideways sweater with Helen (Sit N Knit Too) and was progressing nicely, abet not as nicely as my friend, Martine. She finished her sweater in April. I only got to the left front when we decided to take the Kousa Shawl class at SNK. Since it started I’ve been knitting like a piece work knitter in a third world country. I’m keeping up with the goals of the class even though we went on vacation. (That’s Jan and Greg in the foreground) 
I am 3/4 finished with the fringe, below, and the next class is saturday morning.
The color of the whole shawl isn’t good, but you can see how it looks. The actual color is the picture above.
This is the center square, which the rest of the shawl was built on.
In April we went to California to visit relatives and a quick trip to Vegas. We started visiting Pasadina, CA to see Uncle Ed, who will be 90 this May. We didn’t get the invitation until we got home or we would have rescheduled the trip to see him to coincide with his birthday party.
We were only there for one day and then flew to Vegas to wait for Jan and Greg. Of course, John paid a little Texas-Hold-em.
Jan got tickets for us all to see the Terry Fator show. I’d never heard of him, but now a fan. His opening he welcomed the audience and said if we wanted to take pictures it was OK and even a video, but not all the show. He is the ultimate entertainment. He even has his own theatre at the Mirage.
From there we were lucky enough to fly in Greg’s plane. John got to sit up front. Jan and I sat and read books for the hour ride. Owning your own plane is nice! No lines, no baggage check. It was hassle free until I left my pocket book in the Taxi when we were dropped off at the hanger.
Luckily taxi drivers in Vegas are nice. I got it back, after John called my cell phone a jillion times.
Then back to Alamo, CA to spend a couple days with Jan and Greg and my nephews.
Jack is taller than I am now. eek. A.J. still has the best smile, and is going to be a teenager. Where did the time go? I don’t know what happened to the pictures of Jack and A.J., but here is Cooper:
