Today was a nice day in Santa Barbara. Fiesta underway, nice sunny day after the marine layer blew out. Great day to go to East Beach for a little sun, swimming & beach volleyball of course! Oh yeah, and some knitting 
Last night on the XGames one of the hosts had on a cabled beanie, very cool. So my man asked me to make him one like it. So far we have ribbing and a lot of swearing at the cable patterns I decided to use. Damn math! Right now it’s at a point that I can’t even add or subtract without a calculator. I guess being tired does really retard brain cells.
There are a few good beach stories but the best one follows:
There once was a boy named Trevor. He is 4 years old. This boy has a tendency to drop “trou” wherever & whenever he feels the need to take a pee. This same boy has a habit out of running way far away down the beach chasing seagulls (refer to the scariest moment of my life). So Tracy, George & I are sitting in our beach chairs this afternoon just chillin’ when we notice Trevor running far down the beach & looking over his shoulders at us to see if we are watching him. About 50 yards away he stops, looks at us, hurries & drops his pants, pees (for about 15 seconds), pulls his pants up & runs as fast as he can back towards us & past us. He then stops & looks at us. George & I had the lucky task of parenting. Teaching the beach etiquette of peeing in the ocean is rather important to a beach loving town & family! Luckily even though there were a dozen or so people immediately around where he peed, noone seemed to notice a kid whizzin’ in the sand!! Amazing what kids do! Even though he was 6 feet away from people it was okay to whip it out & piss as long as he wasn’t in arms length of mom & dad!
On another note, the other 2 kids had a great time finding crabs in the seaweed they pulled in from the ocean 
Oh yeah & another thing about that Trevor, he loves to eat seaweed, or as we have come to call them “sea carrots” while he says over & over “what’s up doc? what’s up doc?”
Oh and before I forget, he is addicted to coffe (thankfully we drink decaf now). Here he is after stealing my coffee cup yesterday morning & hiding out in my bedroom.
Notice the coffee stains on the front of the shirt & how gigantic my mug is!
Happy, oh so happy!
Tyler & Sadie always have a great time at the beach. It’s a damn good thing too because we go weekly in the summer time. Who wouldn’t living a mile from the ocean??
It’s not very often that I torture you with pictures of my kids so just suck it up & enjoy!
That is Tyler, he is almost 7. He is my autistic child.
Trevor, he is 4 & the entertainer in the family!
That is Sadie, almost 8 and the radist daughter I could have hoped for!
Just for the hell of it here is a picture of the man playing beach ball. He’s in white, brown & blue shorts. Sorry it’s a far off picture!
Oh & that hill behind the volleyball courts is the Santa Barbara Zoo, more precisely it’s the lion & giraffe habitats. Some days you can see the giraffe’s from the beach. Too awesome!
And finally I decided to make a hat based kind of on the japanese hat that thuy likes, out of some of my very own handspun yarns.
I made it fitted so it’s not quite so floppy but it’s defenitely an interesting shape! I just worked straight up in the round until it was the length I wanted. Bound off 3 of the 4 sides. Continued the 4th side until it was long enough to fold over & sew and VOILA! There you have it! Done on size 11 & 13 needles made it go really fast! Not too keen on the colors of the yarn but they were the yarns I had enough of in the same gauge to work with.
SO happy weekend everyone & I will see ya’ ’round!