Another stinkin' hot day. This time with crocheting.

This afternoon I wrote a blog post all about how I am learning to crochet in order to make a little viking helmet for my niece Kate's baby, who is due in the Fall.  I wrote about how hard it was to crochet and when I went to the yarn store for help, Jeffrey didn't know how to crochet either, so he looked up stitches in a big crochet book, and we figured them out together.  Then I hit the wrong button and my post disappeared, so all you get is the quick recap.

I crocheted that little hat last night at work, but it didn't look right, and when Barb came to work this morning, I asked her for help, because she used to crochet, but it turns out she can't really read a pattern, so she wasn't much help.

Tonight I came to work an hour early (!) because Kathy was working, and I know she can crochet because I've seen her do it!  She turned out to be very helpful and I'm actually making the hat now, and it looks like it's supoosed to!  Yay!

It's still so hot and humid that it's killing me.  Rachel has been trying to get a walk every day, as well as biking and swimming laps, because she's training for the triathlon, so today she said she was going to walk to my house, pushing Maddy in her stroller, and she wanted me to walk down to the corner - about a half mile - and meet them. 

I went out to walk it, and it was only going to be a half mile, so no big deal.  The wind was blowing and when I was walking in the shady parts of the sidewalk, it was actually almost pleasant.  They weren't at the corner yet, so I turned to keep walking along the road to meet them, but then I was out of the shade and into the sunlight and it was so hot!  It was like walking on the surface of the sun!

By the time I met up with them I had walked almost a mile, and I could feel how red and overheated my face looked.  I was wearing black clothes, like I always do, so I was like a goth in sunlight, soaking it all in and overheating!

We walked back to my house, which was mostly uphill, and I was wailing about my misery and listening to my breath wheezing.  Maddy said, "Nan crying!"  Rachel says next time we need to bring cold water, sunblock for Maddy, and my inhaler!