She’s coming along nicely! I’m about to start the breast. More short rows! In garter stitch, short rows are no big deal. I don’t use them a lot in my knitting life; I tend to think in straight lines. I also spent a ridiculous amount of time looking at safety eyes on Amazon; she’s going to need some peepers!
We had a great weekend. Yesterday the kids came over to make dinner for Mother’s Day. My pick? Oxtails. We used this Instant Pot recipe. Yummmm. I think next time I’d sub apple cider vinegar for the balsamic. It didn’t need a deeper flavor, but the brightness was nice. And we added more fish sauce for perfect umami. It’s super fun to hang out with these guys and play with food!
Friday night my Facebook feed blew up with pictures of the aurora borealis, seen from here in Portland and points further south, too. I went out at midnight to find a bit of dark sky. I ended up on Marine Drive on the Columbia River, looking across to Government Island by the I-205 bridge.
I couldn’t see the aurora with my naked eye, but my iPhone XS picked up some color.
If you can’t see it with your eye, can you say you’ve seen the aurora? My eyes didn’t see the sky as green; it was black with a little bit of white-ish haze.
I edited the previous picture to pop a bit more, and to match the background of what my eye was seeing (the blackness of trees on the island). This pinkness matches more what friends with newer phone cameras were seeing. I invited DH out the next night to see, so I could try his newer phone.
No aurora Saturday night, but night mode on his camera works great! (No flash, and the red is from the neighboring car’s tail lights). Our kids went out to Powell Butte to try to see, but there was’t anything to see. The lesson here: Wait until your Facebook feed blows up with pictures, and then you know it’s time to go!
So I’ve “seen” the aurora, and I haven’t! But it was fun trying. It’s still on my bucket list. Did you see it?
PDXKnitterati 
Your husband is a hoot !! 😀
Yes he is! He still makes me laugh every day.
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Apparently we were in a good place to view the sky in upstate NY. Unfortunately, it was clouds, clouds and more clouds.
I’d still like to see the aurora through my own eyes rather than my phone camera. Still
Yeah, No luck here in SW Ohio either. I tried driving around both Friday and Saturday evenings. Even with the night setting I didn’t really see any color. Only “seeing” via a camera is definitely not as satisfying. I didn’t realize all those beautiful pictures were based on “seeing” through a camera. Therefore I’m okay with “missing” it.
That sounds like a fun weekend! We didn’t see it here – we were clouded in here all three nights there was a chance. I did see the aurora when we lived in AK, but would have loved to have seen it again!
I’d love to see the aurora with my own eyes instead of through my camera! So it’s not off the bucket list yet…
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It really is beautiful!