Sharks with Lazer Beam Dishcloth

Hey, I found the pattern from this post...so here it is:

Size 4 needles CO 58 stitches

Row 1- 10 k

Row 11: k4, p50, k4

Row 12 (and all even rows): K

Row 13: k4, p50, k4

Row 15: k4, p2, k1, p43, k4

Row 17: k4, p6, k2, p42, k4

Row 19: k4, p5, k4, p41, k4

Row 21: k4, p5, k4, p14, k1, p26, k4

Row 23: k4, p5, k4, p14, k2, p25, k4

Row 25:k4, p4, k6, p14, k3, p23, k4

Row 27:k4, p3, k8, p13, k4, p22, k4

Row 29:k4, p2, k10, p12, k5, p21, k4

Row 31:k4, p5, k8, p10, k7, p20, k4

Row 33: k4, p8, k7, p7, k8, p20, k4

Row 35: k4, p9, k22, p5, k12, p2, k4

Row 37: k4, p11, k22, p2, k4, p11, k4

Row 39: k4, p11, k25, p14, k4

Row 41: k4, p13, k26, p11, k4

Row 43: k4, p14, k26, p10, k4

Row 45: k4, p15, k25, p10, k4

Row 47: k4, p16, k23, p11, k4

Row 49: k4, p18, k6, p26, k4

Row 51: k4, p17, k5, p28, k4

Row 53: k4, p16, k4, p30, k4

Row 55: k4, p50, k4

Row 57: k4, p50, k4

Rows 59-68 k58

If it's spring, it must be rhubarb time!

I made my first rhubarb pie of the season today, well technically my son made it, except for the crusts, that was all me. Here is a little video of some of the prep.

Studies show that crappy looking pie crust tastes the best!

The studies are indeed correct.

Circle of Life

Well, we don't even have chickens yet but we have suffered our first avian death already.

This afternoon as I let the kids out to roam in the backyard, we ran across the lifeless body of a little baby bird. I suspect this little guy's nest was somewhere on our roof (possibly in the rain gutter that has not been cleaned since 2007) and fell out of the nest. I think it might have been a blue jay if he had grown up.

My son was pretty sad and wanted to make a gravestone for the little bird. So I dug out a little hole by the side of the fence and took a sharpie to a nearby rock. My son then decided it needed a picture of a bird with the nest it fell out of, so that everyone would know how he met his untimely end.

After we had buried the little guy, my son retrieved my mother's day rose (I guess I was done using it?) and placed it lovingly by the grave. Then he stood over it and said "Poor little bird. But, that's the circle of life."