Shawl is almost done and less animals (for now)

Tapioca, the cat in my previous post, has found a new home.  A co-worker of my DH's took him.  She's a single mom with one son.  I think Tapioca will be very happy with them.  He's a "one-cat-family" kind of guy. 

I've been making great progress on my beautiful Travelling woman scarf (using the British spelling because its used in the pattern.)  I only had about 12 rows to go when I decided to add another pattern of chart A.  I finished a few more rows and now have about 15 rows to go.  I'll put a photo up as soon as I start to block it.  Lace (even though there isn't tons of lace on this) does NOT look good unblocked.  It's made with sock yarn on size 6 needles, so that makes it look kind of wonky too before blocking (at least that's what I'm hoping!)

Had a really fun day on Saturday.  My DH and I went to a small event in Harrington, DE called COOPtastic.  It was an information day with vendors and contests for folks with backyard chickens.  I've ordered 6 peeps that will be in next month, so I thought I would get some good info there.  Got some good info on chicks and chickens, but not much on coops (hey, it was called COOPtastic...I thought there would be lots of different types of coops!)  DH will probably finish the coop design this week and start putting it together next week.  We've decided to pasture the chickens, so we're going to use a mobile coop and a mobile run.  I need to come up with a name for the coop (Coop-a-cabana is currently my favorite, but that's likely to change).  I also need to come up with names for all 6 of the girls.  Here are some thoughts (we're getting 2 of each: austrolorps, buff orpingtons, and ameraucanas):

• List 1:  Laverne and Shirley, Lucy and Ethyl, Betty and Wilma (my late mother's name is Betty, so that seems kind of disrespectful)
• List 2: Grace and Hopper, Ada and Countess, Winifred and Asprey (computer scientists)

I'm trying to come up with others, too.