Photos from Christmas Season, 2007

Here are a couple of photos from our Christmas, I've added a link on the right to the rest of my MySpace photos....

Stealing Dad's pint at O'Connel's Irish Pub, in Old Town...

My knittin' sisters..Stacy and Brynn

Dad and I


Eddie and I at O'Connel's, early December

Eddie decorating our tree...with some pooped pups on the floor!



Our house all decorated for Christmas....


Welcome home...

Finished Scarf Pics :-)

Well, I finished Eddie's scarf (my first knitting endeavor!) on Monday....here are the pics of him wearing it....I think I want one now!

My first attempt at knitting...

The scarf for me on the left and Eddie's cabled scarf on the right...

After years of saying "one of these days, I'm going to learn to knit..." I finally took it up over the fall..though I didn't get very far with my first attempt coming back from Texas. The project (a basic scarf) was the bane of my knitting existence. Evil little thing!
Fast forward to early December, and I started on something else...another scarf, imagine that?!
That one is coming out quite nice, though I haven't really worked on it due to recently starting on yet ANOTHER scarf (this is waaay to addicting!), but a more complicated one that I am knitting for Eddie. That is my favorite so far, and I'm quite amazed that as my first attempt at "cabling", I actually designed my own knit pattern! Thank God it is actually coming out quite beautiful. It alternates between dark grey and dark burgundy. Once that one is done, I am itching to try something even more challenging: I have a book of Celtic/Norse knitting patterns, and there is a unique and gorgeous Celtic knot-work sweater that I want to do!
Here's a pic of the first scarves!

Welcome to the family!

While TRF was immensely fun, it is so nice to be home, and just in time for Christmas, too.
The other day Eddie and I were trying to decide what to get each other for Christmas this year, and I confessed that I have been seriously considering adopting a second dog for a long time now and have been doing a few searches online. Well, it just so happened that last week Eddie ended up near the animal shelter and came home to tell me that there were two malamutes up for adoption. Hmmmm....

We went the next day to visit them, only to find that one had been adopted already, and the other was pending adoption. I didn't want to really pay attention to the dogs - and they were SUPER gorgeous and WELL MANNERED - because I didn't want to get attached to them since they were adopted anyway.

Saturday, the lady at the animal shelter called us up and it turned out that WE could adopt the remaining male. I was out in MD when Ed called, and we decided that he would go pick him up and adopt him!

So, now we have a new dog! And he's a BIIIIG one: a 110 pound malumte mix, but he is a total gentleman. He's very impressive. He and Ceilidh have been going for walks together and doing some occasional rough-housing; they seem to be getting along just fine.

He's already attached himself to our family and claimed us has his new pack, and will whine and wimper if we are not all in view. Strangely though, we have had him since Saturday night and he has yet to bark. He is completely silent. Though earlier when I took him for a walk, he heard some dogs barking near by and he threw his head up as if to howl. I can't wait for him to do that, I bet it is gorgeous.

We think we are either going to name him "Koda" (which means 'friend' in I think Chereokee...I could be mistaken, we looked at so many names recently) or "Hacuma" (Ha-KUMA) which is a mixture of Inuit and other languages meaning "Fire Spirit".

He's a jem!!

Smiling wolf

Our handsome boy.." 'Cuma "

...And our pretty girl Ceilidh...


My two wolf-men ;-)

He loooooves his belly rubbed!

Just chillin'

More pics from Texas Trip 07

...Texas still hasn't gotten the memo that, 'hey it's FALL now'! Last weekend at faire was painfully hot...and supposedly this is November.
Hard to believe we will be going into our 6th weekend at TRF 07 this coming weekend, and MDRF has already come and gone.
Here are some photos from second weekend at TRF....



To see the rest of the photos, I've uploaded a bunch to the Picasa website here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/TerpsichoreRed

Photos from Opening Weekend @ TRF

Hard to believe it, but, I did not take any photos the entire trip down from VA, and didn't actually break out the camera at Faire until Sunday. (Well, actually, the camera had to be found first....) Everything went pretty smoothly; their music is just so wonderful and fun to dance to. I thought I was going to melt dancing in this Texas heat...someone needs to tell this state that it's almost the middle of October, it didn't get the memo.

Sunday morning at TRF

Looking tired from the day before


Me and Roxanne and her 'dance partners'

"Where is he going??"

"OK, not so cute anymore!"

"Yes, go back to Mommy...."

Roxanne





Tartanic!!

Armadillos, Bozoukis, and an awesome gypsy band

We have made it safe and sound with wonderfully smooth sailing from our home in VA all the way down to San Antonio! We have joined forces with our friends' gypsy band, E-Muzeki (www.emuzeki.com), and will be playing the entire run of Texas Ren Fest with them this year in Plantersville TX. Last night we had our first practice, and Eddie sounds fabulous on the drums! Mark is awesome in letting me play a song or two with them on guitar. We're having such a wonderful experience with everyone. Hopefully everything will go great on opening day of TRF and their fans will except us....*crosses fingers*
I will post some road pics here when we have them!