A week from tomorrow...

Redskins
Can you believe it??? It's almost here!!! Football season!!! I didn't think we'd ever make it back and so much has happened in the offseason. We have a new head coach, a new defensive coordinator and a new offensive coordinator. Thankfully we didn't make any big free agency splash although we traded this week for Jason Taylor after Philip Daniels went down with a torn ACL and is out for the season. Getting JT seems to have energized the team and the fans. I'm anxiously awaiting the ES write up of today's scrimmage.

Crochet
My current crochet project is a name filet I'm working on for my now ex-manager. She was a wonderful manager, probably the best I've ever had. I'm really going to miss her and it scares me to think who they may get to replace her. I'm working on the solid border, then have to add the fan border and I'll be done. I'm ready to be done too. I want to work on something else. I bought some I Love This Cotton yarn at HL yesterday. It is so soft!! It must be new because I have not seen or heard of it before. I bought 2 skeins each of aubergine, buttercup and white. I'm thinking seraphina.

Orioles
My baby birds aren't doing so well right now. We've lost 4 straight. We're playing the angels right now who have the best record in baseball, then go to play the yankees who are doing their second half surge thing, then out to the west coast to play the angels again. This is going to be a rough stretch that's going to test DT and the team like never before. Our starting pitching is in shambles and there's no one in the minors ready to come up and play. One positive though is our offense. We're hitting like nobody's business and that's good to see and keeps us within stiking distance in most of our games.

What I'm reading
I just finished Odd Thomas for the second time and it was just as good and just as sad. I have started Forever Odd (also for the second time) but am only on the first chapter. I'm rereading the Odd Thomas series so everything will be fresh in my mind when I finally get to read Odd Hours. Then I want to read the Christopher Snow books as I hear his hat is worn by Odd in Odd Hours. So many books, so little time....