Are you ready for some football?
WOOT WOOT, Yes, preseason exhibition football has begun!!! If late summer has any redemption, this is it :). I love summer but late summer is generally soooooo hot. It hasn’t been extremely hot this year so I can’t really complain too much. ;P So here is hoping “The Boys” do well this year, I’ll be watching :).
Polypay singles
Polypay plyed and dyed
Well I did finish the Polypay roving I was spinning. To the left is a spool of singles (this was 1/2 way through the 2nd spool). I finished this last week. I dyed it with Jacquard acid dye in Sapphire Blue. The friend that I spun this for is the friend with the Polypay and Polypay/Suffolk sheep, this was roving from the fleece she gave me from one of her Polypay ewes. She wanted a blue scarf so now all I need to do is to knit this into a scarf for her. She will be so surprised that I have this done BEFORE winter :P. The pattern I chose is to use the flowers from the Daisy Rectangular Shawl that I designed. I saw a beautiful use of these flowers on a scarf on Ravelery. (I tried to post a link to her ravelry site but you have to be signed in to ravelry to see it, if you don’t have a ravelry sign in I would suggest getting one, there are soooo many very cool patterns :). ) I’ll post a picture when it is done. 🙂
Happy Birthday USA!
I love the video of Red Skelton in the following youtube link reciting the Pledge of Allegiance – he’s one of my favorite old time entertainers.
Ok the day is just beginning but it’s already been a Murphy’s law day. I work at the Family History Center this morning and I babysit on Monday-Wednesday mornings. I have time, barely, to get from the babysitting, back home to eat and finish getting ready and then to the Family History Center. This morning the dad (who works days) as he was leaving for work forgot to the let the dogs out to go to the bathroom (they are in cages at night to prevent accidents and a knocked over kitchen trash can) and I will usually let them out when he forgets because I feel bad for the dogs. However, the mom (who works nights) has planted a garden and if the dogs are let out they have to be watched so they wont dig it up. If only you knew where I am going with this. I didn’t let the dogs out because getting two small children bathed, fed, dressed, teeth brushed, lunch made and off on the school bus takes my full attention. The biggest dog (of course) had an accident in the cage, which is in the kitchen, sigh. The little kindergartener did not want to go into the kitchen, lol, not that I blame him, but that meant I needed to let the dogs out, watching over them or not. I do not have time, nor did I want to clean out that cage :P. While all this is going on the lady that reads the water meter came in the back yard and was a bit intimidated by the dog – so I had to come out and hold him so she could read the meter, all this time I’m thinking, are they going to miss the bus? They made the bus and I sent a text to the mom (who I was hoping would be home before I left so I could tell her in person) saying I’m sorry that I couldn’t put the dog back in the cage and it was a mess and I hope he didn’t tear up her garden. And I am sitting at work (on a break) enjoying some peace and quite and wondering who will be in trouble tonight, it wont be me, I’m family and I do this without any compensation lol. I made the sign above and will print a copy to give her to put on her door for the future to let “Murphy” know he is not welcome in her house.
In Memory of our Fallen Heroes
I give a special reverence to those who gave the ultimate sacrifice, their lives, for what they loved, a free and safe country for their families. May we honor them in all we do and may we always keep this country free and safe in their honor. I also want to thank all those who are now serving or have served, in any of the branches of the Armed Services, for your love of freedom and for being willing to serve us and your country without regard for your own lives, you’re all heroes to me. May we always remember that Freedom has a price and all those that have paid that price.
Blueberry Bush
I have been going to put a little garden on my patio for several years now. Last year I finally broke down and bought 2 large pots and 3 small rectangular potting boxes (you can see part of them in the picture on the left) and didn’t get the soil for planting, lol. This year I bought the soil and mulch and started, inside, two squash plants (a zucchini and a yellow squash). They are officially growing and planted out in the pots. For Mother’s Day I received a potted blueberry bush – which I had wanted for a couple of years but it wasn’t in my budget, it is shown in the picture at the left. I have planted spinach in the rectangular boxes and am very excited about having some fresh veggies this summer ;).
I forgot to take my camera out today when I went to the park to spin but you can see the park here from another year. I try to get out to the park once or twice in the spring to spin. After being cooped up inside most of the winter, it was wonderful spinning in the shade of the lovely large trees and was beautiful and with all the green grass and the leaves on the trees, and the temperature was absolutely perfect, such a wonderful peaceful thing to do. 🙂
He is Risen!
I didn’t forget about Easter, had a wonderful Easter Sabbath Day. I just didn’t get to my blog, lots of things going on this year. I had asked the Lord to let me serve more this year, and he is!!! I hope you all had a wonderful Easter!!
Installing Spring
We got a tease of spring, but it’s cold today again in the 30’s. Spring in the midwest is off and on again and I saw this and this is exactly how I felt!!!! Tho’ Hawaii is what comes to mind instead of FL, FL has alligators, snakes and sharks, Hawaii doesn’t have any alligators or snakes, only sharks lol. Hope you laugh as much as I did.
Wind Chimes
Sock Critters
My sister is a very talented lady :). She has designed these “critters”. They are sock dolls of a sort. They are really so cute!!! The picture on the right are some Wind Chimes (well they dont really have any chimes on them, just wasn’t sure what else to call them). You can click on the picture to enlarge the view and I have another picture below to show them up close. They are very pretty :). How lucky am I to be related to her? 🙂 Especially when she gives me stuff 🙂 You can view her site here to see the things she makes and the tutorials she puts up on how to make them :). Look under share it for her blog on what she made and the drop down under create it for the tutorials :).
Wind Chimes 2
Well the ground hog saw his shadow this month and made me very sad. 😦 We have had a very cold and very snowy winter, just like that danged Farmer’s Almanac said we would. I think I’m gonna work on outlawing that thing, unless of course it comes up with a better prediction for this coming winter :). I see that wordpress has updated some stuff and I can’t find spell check, sigh, so I hope everything is spelled ok, if not I’m gonna blame WordPress :P.
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My parakeet passed away this week. He was 13 years old and I had had him for about 3 years. He wasn’t really friendly but did seem to enjoy my company and I enjoyed his wonderful little songs. My son and his spouse decided that I needed another little friend. So they showed up last night with Boo (Cockatiel) and cage and toys and food in hand. He’s about a year old. He’s not real friendly yet, but he should accept me and will be nice company. He’s very pretty, he’s a yellow with a modled grey on his back and wings. Thank you Tim and Ev.
Polypay Ewe roving almost full single spool
I have been spinning, and knitting (2 comfort shawls for some sweet ladies in my ward that lost a husband and mother) so I have been keeping busy. You can see how the roving to yarn is coming along 🙂
We have been cold and snowy, though that is what the Farmer’s Almanac predicted, I was hoping it was wrong :P. Is it spring yet?
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