Destructo-Kenny meets the Pope

So, this is a little peek at "what the heck's going on in there?" from a slightly different angle. Here you can see the 'point-of-sale' station, which will be wearing that gorgeous 'dolphin' tile I showed you yesterday. Kenny has been working devilishly quick, so I thought he needed a visit to see the Pope, you know, to cleanse and refresh his spirit... and to get a belly-full of some yummy grub:

he did not exactly behave himself. Yes, he is in fact giving "Benny 16" the bunny-ear treatment. Hopefully this will not slow progress on the storefront, which has seemed to benefit from divine intervention more than a few times already... yes, we know what's going on but try to explain it to muggles... and I'm sorry, ladies, that I didn't get a better photo of Kenny. One that wasn't orange... with a life-sized bust of the Pope in front of him. I can assure you we'll catch him in a tool belt eventually. He wears work boots, Josetta. But he's extremely married, to a rockin' cool lurker. (Say hi to Christie, everybody!)

Here's the show and tell portion of the photo-laden post. I ordered really comfy swivel rockers for the store. Four in this slightly English, stylish little number (two each in the floral fabric shown here:

and this gorgeous hottie, who, although beautiful, wasn't dressed just right for Clementine's...

so I bought her a dress in this fabric, Galaxy Marble. She was so thrilled, I bought one for her identical twin, too. I still have to find a fabulous fabric to recover the sofa in, something in a faded red, possibly floral, though an all over viney print would be okay. If I can't find something suitable before Clementine returns, she's threatened to splash leopard spots or zebra stripes on the poor old sofa. We cannot let this happen.

As for her 'road rallye', neither she nor Sting won. It seems that when everyone stopped in at a public house to wash the dust from their throats, Dame Judi Dench let the air out from everyone's tyres (I swear that's how she spelled it in the telegram) and went on to take the trophy cup. I adore Judi Dench. More so now that she got the better of our old Clementine. Have a fun and/or profitable night, and best wishes to Mel, aka Lotusknitter, who should be starting a job in a better location, where she isn't 'expected' to have a 'profitable night'. Cami

66 S. Water St.

Tonight's post is more 'photo-essay' than an actual posting, but I wanted to show you what is happening at 66 S. Water St., the future home of 'Clementine's Dry Goods'. Yesterday the phone guy came and put in this... our future 'ether-net' (can somebody please tell me what that is... do I really need it?) which lives here, in a closet in a back room.

Here we have some construction debris, created just today, by Kenny. Kenny is a very neat and tidy demo-guy... see how the doors are stacked, the trim stood up neatly against the back wall, and the shards of wall board wait patiently for their final ride to the dumpster.

I told you he was tidy. These wall studs are about to be removed, as is the portion of wall to the right. And notice how neatly he wound up all the cords and things on his tools. Kenny is neat as a pin, which serves him well in his real job as an ATC (like Bill, Kenny sits in a big dark room and keeps airplanes from smacking into each other once they leave the airports.) All day. Every day. So, tearing stuff (that is so not the word I was going to use, but sometimes my mother-in-law reads this blog) up is cathartic. He's also a whiz at rebuilding stuff, so I think Clementine is pretty happy he agreed to help us out. He feels about construction the way we feel about knitting.

That's it for today. I did attempt the cast on... again... for the knit-along... please join us if you haven't already done so. I am going to require dark chocolate, Starbucks decaf breakfast blend, a refill on the Xanax, and at least thirty minutes daily to get this shawl-hooligan done in time for the book 7 launch. I definitely want to wear it to the bookstore; what'd be really cool is seeing other 'invisibilities' there, too. I meet the nicest people in bookstores... and bookfairs.
Cami

p.s. don't forget that TOMORROW is the day for the yarn draw... three winners... will your name be pulled from the hat? Stay tuned!