Here they are. My niece and nephew, the graduates.

My nephew’s graduation from 8th grade was this morning, which makes him a freshman in high school now. He’s certainly got the inches for it. He’s getting taller all the time, and is still as smart and funny and entertaining as he was when he was, well, shorter than I am. He is so not a little boy any more, and there are glimpses of the handsome young man he’s becoming.

My niece’s high school graduation was supposed to be tonight, but they postponed it until tomorrow morning. There were a line of thunderstorms crossing Pennsylvania, and the school board opted to delay the ceremony . . . (Um, the fact that the storms aren’t actually going to reach eastern PA until about 11:00 tonight, well, we’ll just ignore that.)

But still, here she is also–all set and ready to go. I can’t begin to tell you how proud I am of her. Smart, pretty, caring . . . her college major is going to be Environmental Engineering because she is passionate about saving the environment.

Did I mention that she’s smart?  Her final ranking in her class? Twelfth. Out of 430+ students. She’s graduating with a 4.151 GPA, for heaven’s sake.

I hate to say it, but I never worked that hard while I was in school…. I was a whole lot more willing to “coast” as long as I got mostly As with some Bs mixed in. Not my niece. She works hard.

Did I mention how very proud of these two I am?

Now, the Mystery Project?

It’s a Ribby Cardigan.

I made this in Cascade 220, in what will be her college colors.

And yes, she liked it so much (or at least said she did) she was willing to try it on for me in the 90-degree heat. (That’s 32-Celsius for those of you outside the USA.)

Phew!

My nephew’s gift, though? Um, well, he liked it all right . . . so much so that he had asked for pretty much exactly the same thing for his birthday. So that means that, yes, I got him a good gift, but, well . . . a little redundant. Maybe I should have knitted him something, too? Sorry, Ty!

Despite the delayed graduation ceremony . . . which means that Mom and Dad have to head back to Pennsylvania in the morning. Which will be particularly interesting because not only will there be all the graduation traffic (last year, apparently, the traffic backed up for miles, trying to get to the school), but also, there’s an antiques festival in the center of town, too, to add to the traffic.

Not to mention that this means my father is going to miss golf two days in a row.

And, last but not least, I want to show you these, too. Yellow roses which I sent up for my sister’s birthday yesterday. What with all this graduation-chaos, and all the preparations she was doing yesterday, I wanted to be sure that she had something special to make her smile in amongst all the busy stuff.

All in all, it’s been quite a day!

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