Last weekend my mom flew up from Texas and my sister down from PA and my brother and his girlfriend and I drove out from the city and met to take a lovely break on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. We sat by a fire, wandered along the shore, kayaked and caught up. My very stupid brother jumped in the ocean and froze and we saw some wild ponies. It was absolutely great.

I worked on my Icelandic sweater, my little sister did some very rude cross stitch samplers for her friends for Christmas, and my mother worked on her growing herd of felt horse Christmas ornaments. Fall has at last come to the east coast and I'm getting ready to knit some tiny sweaters and start a new collection of M&B animals ready to go for Christmas shopping so keep your eyes out.