The summer break has been very nice, so far. I did not have much drama related to spring classes/grades. The weather has been mostly pleasant. I have a new routine that I am enjoying very much. Most weekdays, I am waking up about the same time as always, then having the usual walk in the park after breakfast, and then I go to campus and do something useful in my office or in the lab before coming home at a reasonable time for supper. I have about two hours for knitting while watching TV and then we read a few pages of a book before sleeping. We're reading Mysteries of Terra Firma currently. I am enjoying the history of geology, and the question of how old the earth is (and how we know that) is really interesting.
I finished the socks (photo above). I immediately started a bunch of new things: a lace shawl (which I've already frogged and started over), a hat (with leftover stash), and another pair of mittens. It felt really good to start new and have different yarn to look at, different problems to solve! I'm now about halfway through the shawl. It is not a difficult pattern - I needed to photocopy and enlarge the charts, but I can do several rows in an hour.
We've been out disc golfing a few more times. Visited two parks in the city I had never been to (despite living here for over 15 years). We usually golf with the same core group of friends, but Cypar and I went ourselves on Memorial Day because it felt wasteful not to do some kind of outdoor activity together on that holiday. I think I'm getting slightly better throwing the discs, but I still don't get a lot of distance on the drives. We practiced putting for a while after playing nine holes on Memorial Day; if I was a serious player, I'd probably practice more. I really just want to play as an excuse to be outside and moving.
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