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And I am knitting him a green blanket for his birthday. I am currently a little over a third of the way done and many hours of knitting I have currently put it. Hopefully I will have finished before his birthday and hopefully I can remember how old he’s going to be then and which day his birthday is on… I know his birthday is in June and that he is older than twenty one just as I know Andrew’s birthday is in February and John’s birthday is in October, or was it November? Actually I do think John’s birthday is in November. My brothers typically don’t have to worry about remembering which day my birthday is on thought, I inform them many times about the importance of September 26th and how old I will become upon that date. They typically don’t hint as hard as I do, in fact they usually don’t mention their birthdays and want they want for them at all which is probably why I’m never quite sure how old they are and when their birthdays are. At least I do know that all three of them are older than me.

So now, back to knitting!!! I have still quite a lot of it ahead of me and while I’m knitting I’m currently listening to a G. A. Henty book. The Hero of the story, Edward Martin, has just made a daring escape after being captured and he’s just about to encounter the man captured him before and I think an awkward situation may have to be dealt with in the usual Henty fashion… I’ve read this book before so I know the important facts, like who the beautiful girl the main character marries is, so this time I’m actually not skipping through the pages of historical information. And in case you have no idea what a Henty book is and what I’m talking about I shall tell you, G. A. Henty was an excellent British writer of historical adventure stories for boys. They are very historically accurate and though written with an obvious preference for the courage and cleverness of the English in comparison with the inept and cowardly French(in comparison) they really are quite enjoyable and not too biased. Well… At anyrate I would recommend them heartily. There is something in them for everybody though in some books G. A. Henty completely wears my patience out when in the last paragraph it mentions “And he married a wealthy heiress and settled down happily” but in others the beautiful girl sometimes makes it into the book before it is even halfway over! So now it is time for further knitting and “By Pike and Dyke”.