???????
The principal has been away from school for the last few days. But there have been changes.
Daughter #2 missed school on Friday. She did not want to spend 3 hours on a bus heading for a Volleyball tournament with the boys and classmates who are spreading this rumour of her being a lesbian. So Teapot and I felt it was alright to stay home. That was the day that the Principal was notified of the situation.... the day that I wrote about this whole affair here.
Ok so I'm kind of on weird ground here. Since that time Daughter #2 has gone to a local fundraiser to help with the setting up and organization of the event. During that event one of the bullies came up to her and as sweet as anything asked her how she was! (I think the Gods of mahem are upon us!) I asked Daughter #2 what she said and she said that all she did was shake her head in dismay and walk away....
??????!
Over the weekend Daughter #2 has been thinking very hard about what happened on the bus and at one point I thought she was going to go through with the plan to confront the two boys in question, but Sunday came and at bedtime I asked her what her decision was and she said that she didn't want to do it. I can understand why.
Monday came and there were no incidents or problems though she did not take the bus home but instead got a ride with her father.
Today weirder still the same boy that approached her at the fundraiser on Friday night quite nicely as if butter wouldn't melt in his mouth, offered her an ice cream at lunch time when he was offering one to a couple of other kids in the lunch room....
?????!
We are all in shock. Daughter #2 most of all I think. It's like a miracle happened but then at the same time we are having trouble with the idea that this kid might have changed his mind about how he's been treating Daughter #2... and waiting for the hurricane to hit. I cannot believe that he is regretting his nasty tongue. Perhaps he is freaked that he might get in serious trouble this time... perhaps his mother and father won't give him that new laptop if he sets one foot out of line again..... and then I'm feeling guilty for thinking so ill of the little shit. I'm all confused and if I am then what the heck is Daughter #2 feeling?
Egad!
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Busy Busy Busy With A New Knitting Pattern
With Christmas right around the corner I am hard at it. I have decided that a package going back east should contain some mittens and then I decided not just mittens but Glomitts which are a hybrid mitten and glove combined. They are also called shooting mittens because a lot of the soldiers in Afghanistan really like to use them on cold nights. So I went looking for a pattern and there was nary a pattern to be found. The internet had one solitary Glomitt pattern that is put out be Halcyon Yarns and it was not at all what I was looking for so I decided to come up with my own. The pattern that I came up with are for two needles and not DPNs. I have been knitting steady for three days and am just about finished them after having to figure things out as I go and raveling back a little, a few times to make them bigger or smaller as needs be. All that is left to do on one is sew on the flap and on the other I need to sew the side seam and knit the thumb and sew on the flap... so they should be finished today. I will post a picture when they are done.
In the meantime, I will post the pattern here for anyone who would like to knit a pair.... and they are better than Halcyon's!
Mens Glomitts
Using 4mm knitting needles cast on 50 stitches.
Row 1: *K 3, P2, repeat from * to end.
Row 2: Knit on knit stitches and purl on purl stitches.
Row 3: same as Row 1.
Row 4: same as Row 2.
Row 5: *Knit 3 and pass the first of the 3 over the other 2, P 2, repeat from * to end.
Row 6: * Knit 2, P1 increasing F and B, P1, repeat from * to end of row.
Continue on knitting rows 3 through 6 until you have completed 8 patterns.
Increase for the width of the hand in this way.
Knit rows 3 through 5.
Next Row: *K1 increasing F and B, K 1, P 1 increasing F and B, P1, repeat from * to end. 60 stitches.
Continue knitting the following rows until 4 more patterns have been completed.
Row 1: *K3, P3, repeat from * to end.
Row 2: Knit on knit stitches and purl on purl stitches.
Row 3: *K3 and pass the first of the 3 over the other 2, P3, repeat from * to end.
Row 4: *K3, P1 increasing F and B, P1, repeat from * to end.
Making the thumb hole: for the left hand glove.
Row 1: K3, (P3, K3) 3 times, K1.Then, knit the next 6 stitches in pattern with your contrasting scrap yarn. Drop contrasting scrap yarn so that both ends of it are hanging to the outside of the Glomitt (this makes it easier to remove the yarn later). Slide these 6 stitches off of the right needle back onto the left. Pick up your working yarn, and continue knitting Glomitt in the main pattern. This means you’ll knit the six stitches knit with the scrap yarn on your left needle again. Continue to the end of the row maintaining the pattern. Just keep knitting in the main pattern like nothing ever happened until 17 patterns have been repeated from the original cast on.
Cast off.
Making the thumb hole: for the right hand glove:
Row 1: (K3, P3,) 4 times, K2. Then, knit the next 6 stitches in pattern with your contrasting scrap yarn. Drop contrasting scrap yarn so that both ends of it are hanging to the outside of the Glomitt (this makes it easier to remove the yarn later). Slide these 6 stitches off of the right needle back onto the left. Pick up your working yarn, and continue knitting Glomitt in the main pattern. This means you’ll knit the six stitches knit with the scrap yarn on your left needle again. Continue to the end of the row maintaining the pattern. Just keep knitting in the main pattern like nothing ever happened until 17 patterns have been repeated from the original cast on.
Knit the thumb by removing the scrap piece of yarn and picking up 6 bottom stitches and 3 stitches in the side, 6 more across the top, and 3 more down the other side. There should be 18 stitches in all, divided over three sive 3 mm DPNs evenly. Knit thumb in stockinette stitch to length desired decreasing in this manner for the top of the thumb:
Next Row: *K2 tog, K1, repeat from * to end. 4 stitches per needle.
Next Row: Knit
Next Row: *K1, K2 tog, K1 repeat from * to end. 3 stitches per needle.
Break yarn and thread a darning needle, then pull the thread through all remaining stitches and draw tight, ending with a sewing stitch to hold the top of the thumb together. Darn in the tail of the thread.
Flap for the Glomitt:
Cast on 60 stitches with 4 mm needles.
Row 1: *K3, P3, repeat from * to end.
Row 2: Knit on knit stitches and purl on purl stitches.
Row 3: same as Row 1.
Row 4: same as Row 2.
Row 5: *K3 and pass the first of the 3 over the other 2, P3, repeat from * to end.
Row 6: *K3, P1 increasing F and B, P1, repeat from * to end.
Continue in pattern until 2 patterns have been completed.
Follow the first five rows of the pattern then:
Change to 3.25 mm needles and continue in stockinette stitch for 6 rows. Mark the middle of the row with a stitch marker.
Next Row: *K2, sl 1, K1, psso, knit to the last 4 stitches before the stitch marker*, K2 tog, K2. Pass the stitch marker from the left needle to the right and continue from * to * K2 tog, K2.
Continue in stockinette stitch for 2 rows.
Next Row: *K2, sl 1, K1, psso, knit to the last 4 stitches before the stitch marker*, K2 tog, K2. Pass the stitch marker from the left needle to the right and continue from * to * K2 tog, K2.
Continue in stockinette stitch for 2 rows.
Next Row: *K2, sl 1, K1, psso, knit to the last 4 stitches before the stitch marker*, K2 tog, K2. Pass the stitch marker from the left needle to the right and continue from * to * K2 tog, K2.
Continue in stockinette stitch for 1 row.
Next Row: *K2, sl 1, K1, psso, knit to the last 4 stitches before the stitch marker*, K2 tog, K2. Pass the stitch marker from the left needle to the right and continue from * to * K2 tog, K2.
Continue decreasing in this manner until 12 stitches are left. 6 before the marker and 6 after the marker.
To Cast off:
Slip first 6 stitches onto an extra size 3.25 needle or a stitch holder or a cable needle.
Fold the Flap in half and K 1 stitch from each needle together continuing in this manner until end. You should have 6 stitches. Cast off in usual manner.
Finishing the Glomitt
Sew the side seams on the glove and on the flap darning in any end as you go.
Stitch between the fingers, a few stitches with your darning needle, if you want the fingers defined. You can also leave the hand open.
Sew the flap on the back of the glove 1 inch from the top. The flap can be held open with a magnet... I use a hematite bead on the back of the Glomitt and on the tip of the flap.
The right hand glove is the same as the left except using the instructions for the right hand thumb directions.
Here are some pictures of the Glomitt finished... I am sorry that the pictures are not better. I will have to get Teapot to model them later on when he get's home from work.
PS The bullying situation is still pending....
In the meantime, I will post the pattern here for anyone who would like to knit a pair.... and they are better than Halcyon's!
Mens Glomitts
Using 4mm knitting needles cast on 50 stitches.
Row 1: *K 3, P2, repeat from * to end.
Row 2: Knit on knit stitches and purl on purl stitches.
Row 3: same as Row 1.
Row 4: same as Row 2.
Row 5: *Knit 3 and pass the first of the 3 over the other 2, P 2, repeat from * to end.
Row 6: * Knit 2, P1 increasing F and B, P1, repeat from * to end of row.
Continue on knitting rows 3 through 6 until you have completed 8 patterns.
Increase for the width of the hand in this way.
Knit rows 3 through 5.
Next Row: *K1 increasing F and B, K 1, P 1 increasing F and B, P1, repeat from * to end. 60 stitches.
Continue knitting the following rows until 4 more patterns have been completed.
Row 1: *K3, P3, repeat from * to end.
Row 2: Knit on knit stitches and purl on purl stitches.
Row 3: *K3 and pass the first of the 3 over the other 2, P3, repeat from * to end.
Row 4: *K3, P1 increasing F and B, P1, repeat from * to end.
Making the thumb hole: for the left hand glove.
Row 1: K3, (P3, K3) 3 times, K1.Then, knit the next 6 stitches in pattern with your contrasting scrap yarn. Drop contrasting scrap yarn so that both ends of it are hanging to the outside of the Glomitt (this makes it easier to remove the yarn later). Slide these 6 stitches off of the right needle back onto the left. Pick up your working yarn, and continue knitting Glomitt in the main pattern. This means you’ll knit the six stitches knit with the scrap yarn on your left needle again. Continue to the end of the row maintaining the pattern. Just keep knitting in the main pattern like nothing ever happened until 17 patterns have been repeated from the original cast on.
Cast off.
Making the thumb hole: for the right hand glove:
Row 1: (K3, P3,) 4 times, K2. Then, knit the next 6 stitches in pattern with your contrasting scrap yarn. Drop contrasting scrap yarn so that both ends of it are hanging to the outside of the Glomitt (this makes it easier to remove the yarn later). Slide these 6 stitches off of the right needle back onto the left. Pick up your working yarn, and continue knitting Glomitt in the main pattern. This means you’ll knit the six stitches knit with the scrap yarn on your left needle again. Continue to the end of the row maintaining the pattern. Just keep knitting in the main pattern like nothing ever happened until 17 patterns have been repeated from the original cast on.
Knit the thumb by removing the scrap piece of yarn and picking up 6 bottom stitches and 3 stitches in the side, 6 more across the top, and 3 more down the other side. There should be 18 stitches in all, divided over three sive 3 mm DPNs evenly. Knit thumb in stockinette stitch to length desired decreasing in this manner for the top of the thumb:
Next Row: *K2 tog, K1, repeat from * to end. 4 stitches per needle.
Next Row: Knit
Next Row: *K1, K2 tog, K1 repeat from * to end. 3 stitches per needle.
Break yarn and thread a darning needle, then pull the thread through all remaining stitches and draw tight, ending with a sewing stitch to hold the top of the thumb together. Darn in the tail of the thread.
Flap for the Glomitt:
Cast on 60 stitches with 4 mm needles.
Row 1: *K3, P3, repeat from * to end.
Row 2: Knit on knit stitches and purl on purl stitches.
Row 3: same as Row 1.
Row 4: same as Row 2.
Row 5: *K3 and pass the first of the 3 over the other 2, P3, repeat from * to end.
Row 6: *K3, P1 increasing F and B, P1, repeat from * to end.
Continue in pattern until 2 patterns have been completed.
Follow the first five rows of the pattern then:
Change to 3.25 mm needles and continue in stockinette stitch for 6 rows. Mark the middle of the row with a stitch marker.
Next Row: *K2, sl 1, K1, psso, knit to the last 4 stitches before the stitch marker*, K2 tog, K2. Pass the stitch marker from the left needle to the right and continue from * to * K2 tog, K2.
Continue in stockinette stitch for 2 rows.
Next Row: *K2, sl 1, K1, psso, knit to the last 4 stitches before the stitch marker*, K2 tog, K2. Pass the stitch marker from the left needle to the right and continue from * to * K2 tog, K2.
Continue in stockinette stitch for 2 rows.
Next Row: *K2, sl 1, K1, psso, knit to the last 4 stitches before the stitch marker*, K2 tog, K2. Pass the stitch marker from the left needle to the right and continue from * to * K2 tog, K2.
Continue in stockinette stitch for 1 row.
Next Row: *K2, sl 1, K1, psso, knit to the last 4 stitches before the stitch marker*, K2 tog, K2. Pass the stitch marker from the left needle to the right and continue from * to * K2 tog, K2.
Continue decreasing in this manner until 12 stitches are left. 6 before the marker and 6 after the marker.
To Cast off:
Slip first 6 stitches onto an extra size 3.25 needle or a stitch holder or a cable needle.
Fold the Flap in half and K 1 stitch from each needle together continuing in this manner until end. You should have 6 stitches. Cast off in usual manner.
Finishing the Glomitt
Sew the side seams on the glove and on the flap darning in any end as you go.
Stitch between the fingers, a few stitches with your darning needle, if you want the fingers defined. You can also leave the hand open.
Sew the flap on the back of the glove 1 inch from the top. The flap can be held open with a magnet... I use a hematite bead on the back of the Glomitt and on the tip of the flap.
The right hand glove is the same as the left except using the instructions for the right hand thumb directions.
Here are some pictures of the Glomitt finished... I am sorry that the pictures are not better. I will have to get Teapot to model them later on when he get's home from work.
PS The bullying situation is still pending....
Friday, November 26, 2010
Oh Dear, Oh My, And !%@%#$^$^$&%&%
Oh dear....
Teapot is floored... he's floored because he read my 101 Things About Me and saw that I wrote, I like sex! He couldn't believe that I would actually put that out there. I had to laugh because he's such a prude... I mean it's not like I gave out details or anything and gee I'd be thought really weird if I didn't like sex! And that's all I'm saying about that.
Oh my....
I had a comment to me on #56. the person who made the comment is a local so don't expect to read the comment. We had a very long conversation about the word career. You see my reader said that in her view that what I do in raising my children and my spinning and knitting and weaving, is very much a career. That a career person is someone who loves very much what they do. But when I wrote #56 I was thinking of career in a very different context.... as in someone who gives up everything they love to follow a career path in order to be successful... or at least successful by most people's standard in this social age. I see people who go to work each day that are so driven by finding success in accolades or money that they have forgotten to stop and smell the roses. Those are the career people I'm talking about... I'm not one because if there is anything I believe it is that we should all stop and smell the roses.
Yeah so that's it about "career".
@$#$^%^*^&@!##!!#%$
Daughter #2 is being bullied. I lay awake half of last night thinking horrible thoughts about children who are the culprits of my Daughter's anxiety. This is not the first time. These same kids have been the basis for much anxiety in Daughter #2's life for several years. They have not physically intimidated her but they have been verbally bullying her on a regular basis for quite a while now. This year it has escalated to a new high and we are quite fed up.
Daughter #2 is a fairly sensitive soul and is moved to tears by pictures of dead animals (needless to say she has a very bad reaction every time we butcher a lamb). When these boys, who have been bullying her, started to to call her names in grade 4 we did what most parents do and told her to ignore it since they were jackasses and it would probably stop after a while. WRONG! They have continued to make her feel bad every chance they get and unfortunately this year it has gotten way out of hand.
Daughter #2 has had for several years a difficult time making friends.... or I should say keeping friends. She has over the years made many good friends but they have always had fathers who have been transferred in the end and so have moved away to other locals leaving Daughter #2 high and dry. Finally a couple of years ago Daughter #2 won a trip to Victoria for a historical fair because her history display was such a good one. One of her class mates also won. It was during their trip to Victoria that they became best chums.
About two weeks ago Daughter #2 came home complaining about a rumour circulating at school about her and her friend being lesbians. This did not sit well and for the last few weeks she has been fighting this rumour to the best of her ability. Yesterday I knew something was wrong when she came through the door very upset with red eyes. She had taken the bus home and these two boys who have been bugging her since grade 4 had proceeded to let everyone know on the bus that they thought that Daughter #2 was indeed gay. Daughter #2 was mortified...and really, really hurt by the fact that they would not only say such a thing about her but they would say it in such a public place and for all to hear.
Teapot and I are disgusted with this whole affair. The Principal has been notified not only on this but on previous accasions of bullying too. Daughter #2 has been goaded and provoked and bugged for far too long and we are at the point where its time to put an end to this. Before these two boyos have been called into the office and have had a talking to about name calling etc... I lay awake and all I could do last night was steam. I have never been so close to wanting to do something bad in all my life. The two boys in question are known for being complete shits.
Daughter #2 has been offered an opportunity to have all kids involved in the incident and all parents of said kids to get together where she can confront these kids face to face with the Principal and Teapot and I. She is thinking about this option. Let me tell you it is very hard for a kid of 13 years who is a sensitive and quiet gal to face such a situation and I'm not sure she will have the guts to go through with it. I'm not sure what I want for her. I just wish that she had some peace.... peace of mind and peace to go back and forth to school without being bugged by dickheads.
I am sorry to use such language but I'll be honest the language is mild to what I am feeling about the two boys that are making my daughter's life purely miserable.
Right now life sucks around here.... but I do hope, dear readers, that your weekend is proving to be better than ours is turning out.
Teapot is floored... he's floored because he read my 101 Things About Me and saw that I wrote, I like sex! He couldn't believe that I would actually put that out there. I had to laugh because he's such a prude... I mean it's not like I gave out details or anything and gee I'd be thought really weird if I didn't like sex! And that's all I'm saying about that.
Oh my....
I had a comment to me on #56. the person who made the comment is a local so don't expect to read the comment. We had a very long conversation about the word career. You see my reader said that in her view that what I do in raising my children and my spinning and knitting and weaving, is very much a career. That a career person is someone who loves very much what they do. But when I wrote #56 I was thinking of career in a very different context.... as in someone who gives up everything they love to follow a career path in order to be successful... or at least successful by most people's standard in this social age. I see people who go to work each day that are so driven by finding success in accolades or money that they have forgotten to stop and smell the roses. Those are the career people I'm talking about... I'm not one because if there is anything I believe it is that we should all stop and smell the roses.
Yeah so that's it about "career".
@$#$^%^*^&@!##!!#%$
Daughter #2 is being bullied. I lay awake half of last night thinking horrible thoughts about children who are the culprits of my Daughter's anxiety. This is not the first time. These same kids have been the basis for much anxiety in Daughter #2's life for several years. They have not physically intimidated her but they have been verbally bullying her on a regular basis for quite a while now. This year it has escalated to a new high and we are quite fed up.
Daughter #2 is a fairly sensitive soul and is moved to tears by pictures of dead animals (needless to say she has a very bad reaction every time we butcher a lamb). When these boys, who have been bullying her, started to to call her names in grade 4 we did what most parents do and told her to ignore it since they were jackasses and it would probably stop after a while. WRONG! They have continued to make her feel bad every chance they get and unfortunately this year it has gotten way out of hand.
Daughter #2 has had for several years a difficult time making friends.... or I should say keeping friends. She has over the years made many good friends but they have always had fathers who have been transferred in the end and so have moved away to other locals leaving Daughter #2 high and dry. Finally a couple of years ago Daughter #2 won a trip to Victoria for a historical fair because her history display was such a good one. One of her class mates also won. It was during their trip to Victoria that they became best chums.
About two weeks ago Daughter #2 came home complaining about a rumour circulating at school about her and her friend being lesbians. This did not sit well and for the last few weeks she has been fighting this rumour to the best of her ability. Yesterday I knew something was wrong when she came through the door very upset with red eyes. She had taken the bus home and these two boys who have been bugging her since grade 4 had proceeded to let everyone know on the bus that they thought that Daughter #2 was indeed gay. Daughter #2 was mortified...and really, really hurt by the fact that they would not only say such a thing about her but they would say it in such a public place and for all to hear.
Teapot and I are disgusted with this whole affair. The Principal has been notified not only on this but on previous accasions of bullying too. Daughter #2 has been goaded and provoked and bugged for far too long and we are at the point where its time to put an end to this. Before these two boyos have been called into the office and have had a talking to about name calling etc... I lay awake and all I could do last night was steam. I have never been so close to wanting to do something bad in all my life. The two boys in question are known for being complete shits.
Daughter #2 has been offered an opportunity to have all kids involved in the incident and all parents of said kids to get together where she can confront these kids face to face with the Principal and Teapot and I. She is thinking about this option. Let me tell you it is very hard for a kid of 13 years who is a sensitive and quiet gal to face such a situation and I'm not sure she will have the guts to go through with it. I'm not sure what I want for her. I just wish that she had some peace.... peace of mind and peace to go back and forth to school without being bugged by dickheads.
I am sorry to use such language but I'll be honest the language is mild to what I am feeling about the two boys that are making my daughter's life purely miserable.
Right now life sucks around here.... but I do hope, dear readers, that your weekend is proving to be better than ours is turning out.
Thursday, November 25, 2010
101 Things About Me
I saw this on another blog.... so yes I'm plagiarizing.... get over it...!
1. I am 5' 7 3/4" tall.
2. I am way overweight and think that it is inherited as I come from a long line of heavy set people on my father's side of the family.... yet I wasn't always overweight and I'm trying not to be now. But I've been trying for years and I just keep getting heavier.
3. After high school I went to college for two years to study to become a Travel Agent... I sucked at it and wanted out as soon as I finished the program and so wasted two years of tuition... I've always regretted those two years.
4. I have scoliosis for which I had surgery and had fifteen spinal fusions and a Herrington Rod in my back.
5. I've had three boyfriends over the years one of whom I married.
6. In my mid-teen years I was a prude.
7. That stopped when I became sexually active at 17.
8. I love sex... just like chocolate.... it's all very decadent.... (hope I didn't shock you).
9. I hate socks.... that's important.... I should live on a beach in a somewhat warmer climate so that I could walk around barefoot all the time.
10. Instead I have always lived in very cold and snowy places....
11. I almost convinced Teapot to apply for a position in Bermuda.... aahhh now that would have been the life... with bare feet.
12. I hate feet... I think they are disgusting and really wish I could never have anything to do with them.
13. Have always been artistic.... I started drawing at the age of 12 and never looked back.
14. I had a really awesome art teacher in high school named Robin Cook, who had a Master's degree in art. He taught me oh so much about art which I really didn't realize until later.
15. Finished my last year of high school in a school that I really couldn't care less about.
16. I worked at Suzy Shear for three years as a merchandiser and window dresser.... and loved it.
17. I can sing... well pretty darn good though I've never gotten any recognition for it even from my parents.
18. I have really lousy hearing...
19. I hate phones and especially having to make official calls to people I don't know... I much rather computers and email.
20. I love the feel of the sun on my face but I hate really hot weather and I hate humidity.... that's probably why I don't live in Toronto.
21. I hate city living and lived in a small city most of my years growing up.... I even lived in Toronto for two summers.... ick!
22. I worked for a homeopathic drug dispenser for two summers while going to University... it sucked... I think all homeopaths, as a result of my experiences, are next to witch doctors.
23. I had an opportunity to try out for the National ballet when I was twelve... I found out that I needed back surgery and that was the end of that.
24. I love to paint abstract paintings with acrylic paints. I turn my music on really loud and go out on the deck in the summer and have a few drinks.... (when I wasn't allergic to it) and just start spraying paint all over my canvases/boards.
25. I'm allergic to alcohol.
26. I write poetry.
27. I had two miscarriages before I was finally able to carry a baby to term.
28. I had the names of my children picked out long before I ever had children... I won't say what the girls names were because I had girls and that would compromise their privacy.... but the boys names were Aaron Montgomery and Keegan Ezekiel.
29. The fibre arts never really interested me until a few years ago at which time I became a spinner first a dyer second and a weaver third.
30. I learned to knit at the age of 8.
31. I never really started to knit much until I went to college and then to help pass time in the residence I knit myself a mohair full length coat.
32. I love my family. All of them.... though my mother and I have a strained relationship.
33. Teapot makes me smile.... he lightens my heart... and I'm devoted to him.
34. I really don't know why he sticks with me..... but he does. So he must love me too. (That always surprises me).
35. I'm very proud of my two daughters. They are both smart and witty and full of fun.
36. I'm partially werewolf because at the full moon each month, I have an odd reaction... either I stay awake long hours or I just want to sit in the moonlight and stare off into space.
37. I was an Anglican lay reader for many years.
38. I dabbled in the Wiccan religion when I was younger.... it didn't work for me. Though I do believe that the earth, and the universe have a deep spiritual pull.
39. I love to hug trees.
40. I want to be cremated when my time comes and have a Manitoba Maple planted where my ashes lay. Somewhere near a water source so that the Maple will have a long life.
41. I don't think I will live to be really old.... I have too many heart and high blood pressure problems in my ancestry.
42. I'm not sure I really believe in God, but I try to because I think that God is the best option to explain the connectedness that I find in life..... it works for me I guess.
43. Christmas is a terrible time of the year for me.... I used to love it but now I don't... mostly because I do all the work and find that it really is just another day in which I don't get to put my feet up. I hate Christmas shopping.
44. I studied Philosophy in University and graduated with an Honours degree.
45. I love Turkey dinner.... it's my favorite meal...
46. I asked Teapot to marry me. It was an accident... but I'm glad he said yes. We were watching a program on TV and the Heroin said , "Would you marry me?" She was asking her best friend (who was a male) if she was the marrying kind... so I turned to Teapot and asked him if he would marry me.... in the same vein. He asked, "Is that a proposal?" I stopped dead in my tracks and thought about it for a few seconds and said, "Yes!" That stopped him in his tracks and then he took a few seconds to think and then he said, "yes!" Then we both sat there for a while in complete silence and complete shock... then Teapot said, "Did what I think just happened actually just happen?" and I answered "Yes!" Then for about two months no one would believe that we were engaged.
47. It was my Uncle Dick who got us actually focused on getting married for real. He made me go talk to a minister.
48. I lived on an native reservation for the first 5 years of my married life... they were hard years but they were very fulfilling years.
49. I don't think I'm a very good mother.... especially when the daughters were little... but I try my best.
50. I love back rubs.
51. I didn't always have a good relationship with my father but I do now... and I'm really glad of that.
52. I'm very opinionated about some things and turn people off with my strong opinions... and I am very sorry for that because I like for people to like me and am disappointed when I turn people off.
53. I'm dreadfully lazy.
54. I'm shy in a crowd and tend to keep my mouth shut... mostly because I'm not at all witty on the spur of the moment.... scintillating conversation is not my forte.
55. I used to lie a lot... now I don't... and I'm not telling if that is a lie!
56. I've never had a career and think that the whole work at a career thing is ridiculous... most people work to survive. If you like your work then you have a career of insanity.... (see there I go with my opinions again....sorry)!
57. I love cheezies.
58. I've discovered quite recently that I could really get into silk embroidery.
59. I love jazz music.
60. I think Diana Krall is awesome.
61. I also think Uncle Kracker is awesome. I wish he'd get off his a-- and put out another great album.
62. I am a royalist... I love the Queen and think Prince Charles is a misguided fool. But I can't wait for Prince William's wedding. I love to watch the royals though I'm not a fanatic, and buy magazines and books about it all... one thing though I do wish them all well.
63. I'm a Newfoundlander.... from 15 generations back... and proud of it.
64. I've traveled all over Canada. I've lived in a number of different places in Canada. I could spend my life traveling around Canada and never want to go further afield... Canada has a lot to offer.
65. I still have a Newfy accent even after living away from Newfoundland for almost twenty years... which just goes to show that "You can take the girl out of the bay but you can't take the bay out of the girl"!!!
66. I'm terrible shy. Though I try not to be... but I absolutely quake if I have to get up in front of people to speak... and suffer terribly from stage fright.
67. I love the ocean and thanks to boyfriend number 2, I spent a great deal of time on a 40 foot yacht.
68. I've had one of my poems published. I just wish I could get a lot more published.
69. I am not a good housekeeper and have better things to do with my time than race around cleaning up dust bunnies.
70. I love to watch spiders but have a terrible fear that they will fall off the ceiling of my bedroom and into my mouth.
71. I sleep on my right side.
72. I am an insomniac... but less so as I age.
73. I snore so I am told.
74. I've always wanted to hang glide.... but would probably sh-t my pants if I tried.
75. I drove across Canada twice in a two seater convertible... and it was awesome especially looking at the mountains as we drove along.
76. I loved to watch in the rear view mirror, the autumn leaves swirling behind my convertible.
77. I drive a Dodge Dakota truck... that's falling apart... (well I am a farmer!!)
78. I raise sheep and alpacas.
79. I love dogs, tolerate cats (it's a reciprocal thing), and enjoy sheep and alpacas.
80. I owned a wolf/husky dog who I loved dearly... and miss dreadfully.
81. I try not to think about politics but every so often I get really fierce about it all.
82. I want to take cruise ship to Hawaii... some time.
83. I once spent two weeks in England and had a lovely trip... I love British History...
84. I have 3 children whom I support through Foster Parent's Plan and World Vision in Brazil, Peru and the Dominican Republic... and love each one.
85. I have made four quilts in my life... all of them were hand stitched. I never want to do it again.... but I will.
86. I have a dreadful memory.... so I'm told.
87. I am a dreadful homebody. I love my little house. It took Teapot and I a long time to find a home.
88. I tried to get a children's story book published that I had written a few years back and never succeeded.
89. I would love to write a really good book... probably a novel... and get it published.
90. I have a dreadful memory... did I tell you that...
91. I've broken a toe and a wrist but that's it for broken bones and quite frankly I hope to keep it that way. I broke my toe when I was 6 yrs old and put my foot in the driver's seat when my father was closing it.... it was a two door car. The seat cracked my toe. Then I broke my wrist the first time I put on cross country skies... Ok I lost control of them on a little slope and one foot wanted to go one way and the other wanted to go the other... it was not a graceful fall but evidently quite a sight to see.
92. I am a terrible writer.... but wish that I could be a better one.
93. In one of the anomalies in life I am good at cooking but hate to cook.
94. I am terrible at serving my good cooking and everyone always gets cold food at my house because I'm completely uncoordinated at getting everything ready at the one time.
95. I love colour.... and have a hard time picking my favorite.... (you may know that)... I hate pink.
96. I love to walk in the forest and miss walking there in the winter when the snow is deep.
97. When I was a kid I always wanted to be able to communicate with animals.... especially whales and owls... I still do.
98. I love to sit in front of the fire... summer or winter... I could be Cinderella actually.
99. I wish I had closer relations with my cousins... and my sister.... we've all just gone our separate ways over the years.... sad really....
100. I've really enjoyed meeting my followers and computer friends even if it is only a limited relationship...... thanks to you all....
101. It's really hard to think of 101 things to write about yourself.... really!
1. I am 5' 7 3/4" tall.
2. I am way overweight and think that it is inherited as I come from a long line of heavy set people on my father's side of the family.... yet I wasn't always overweight and I'm trying not to be now. But I've been trying for years and I just keep getting heavier.
3. After high school I went to college for two years to study to become a Travel Agent... I sucked at it and wanted out as soon as I finished the program and so wasted two years of tuition... I've always regretted those two years.
4. I have scoliosis for which I had surgery and had fifteen spinal fusions and a Herrington Rod in my back.
5. I've had three boyfriends over the years one of whom I married.
6. In my mid-teen years I was a prude.
7. That stopped when I became sexually active at 17.
8. I love sex... just like chocolate.... it's all very decadent.... (hope I didn't shock you).
9. I hate socks.... that's important.... I should live on a beach in a somewhat warmer climate so that I could walk around barefoot all the time.
10. Instead I have always lived in very cold and snowy places....
11. I almost convinced Teapot to apply for a position in Bermuda.... aahhh now that would have been the life... with bare feet.
12. I hate feet... I think they are disgusting and really wish I could never have anything to do with them.
13. Have always been artistic.... I started drawing at the age of 12 and never looked back.
14. I had a really awesome art teacher in high school named Robin Cook, who had a Master's degree in art. He taught me oh so much about art which I really didn't realize until later.
15. Finished my last year of high school in a school that I really couldn't care less about.
16. I worked at Suzy Shear for three years as a merchandiser and window dresser.... and loved it.
17. I can sing... well pretty darn good though I've never gotten any recognition for it even from my parents.
18. I have really lousy hearing...
19. I hate phones and especially having to make official calls to people I don't know... I much rather computers and email.
20. I love the feel of the sun on my face but I hate really hot weather and I hate humidity.... that's probably why I don't live in Toronto.
21. I hate city living and lived in a small city most of my years growing up.... I even lived in Toronto for two summers.... ick!
22. I worked for a homeopathic drug dispenser for two summers while going to University... it sucked... I think all homeopaths, as a result of my experiences, are next to witch doctors.
23. I had an opportunity to try out for the National ballet when I was twelve... I found out that I needed back surgery and that was the end of that.
24. I love to paint abstract paintings with acrylic paints. I turn my music on really loud and go out on the deck in the summer and have a few drinks.... (when I wasn't allergic to it) and just start spraying paint all over my canvases/boards.
25. I'm allergic to alcohol.
26. I write poetry.
27. I had two miscarriages before I was finally able to carry a baby to term.
28. I had the names of my children picked out long before I ever had children... I won't say what the girls names were because I had girls and that would compromise their privacy.... but the boys names were Aaron Montgomery and Keegan Ezekiel.
29. The fibre arts never really interested me until a few years ago at which time I became a spinner first a dyer second and a weaver third.
30. I learned to knit at the age of 8.
31. I never really started to knit much until I went to college and then to help pass time in the residence I knit myself a mohair full length coat.
32. I love my family. All of them.... though my mother and I have a strained relationship.
33. Teapot makes me smile.... he lightens my heart... and I'm devoted to him.
34. I really don't know why he sticks with me..... but he does. So he must love me too. (That always surprises me).
35. I'm very proud of my two daughters. They are both smart and witty and full of fun.
36. I'm partially werewolf because at the full moon each month, I have an odd reaction... either I stay awake long hours or I just want to sit in the moonlight and stare off into space.
37. I was an Anglican lay reader for many years.
38. I dabbled in the Wiccan religion when I was younger.... it didn't work for me. Though I do believe that the earth, and the universe have a deep spiritual pull.
39. I love to hug trees.
40. I want to be cremated when my time comes and have a Manitoba Maple planted where my ashes lay. Somewhere near a water source so that the Maple will have a long life.
41. I don't think I will live to be really old.... I have too many heart and high blood pressure problems in my ancestry.
42. I'm not sure I really believe in God, but I try to because I think that God is the best option to explain the connectedness that I find in life..... it works for me I guess.
43. Christmas is a terrible time of the year for me.... I used to love it but now I don't... mostly because I do all the work and find that it really is just another day in which I don't get to put my feet up. I hate Christmas shopping.
44. I studied Philosophy in University and graduated with an Honours degree.
45. I love Turkey dinner.... it's my favorite meal...
46. I asked Teapot to marry me. It was an accident... but I'm glad he said yes. We were watching a program on TV and the Heroin said , "Would you marry me?" She was asking her best friend (who was a male) if she was the marrying kind... so I turned to Teapot and asked him if he would marry me.... in the same vein. He asked, "Is that a proposal?" I stopped dead in my tracks and thought about it for a few seconds and said, "Yes!" That stopped him in his tracks and then he took a few seconds to think and then he said, "yes!" Then we both sat there for a while in complete silence and complete shock... then Teapot said, "Did what I think just happened actually just happen?" and I answered "Yes!" Then for about two months no one would believe that we were engaged.
47. It was my Uncle Dick who got us actually focused on getting married for real. He made me go talk to a minister.
48. I lived on an native reservation for the first 5 years of my married life... they were hard years but they were very fulfilling years.
49. I don't think I'm a very good mother.... especially when the daughters were little... but I try my best.
50. I love back rubs.
51. I didn't always have a good relationship with my father but I do now... and I'm really glad of that.
52. I'm very opinionated about some things and turn people off with my strong opinions... and I am very sorry for that because I like for people to like me and am disappointed when I turn people off.
53. I'm dreadfully lazy.
54. I'm shy in a crowd and tend to keep my mouth shut... mostly because I'm not at all witty on the spur of the moment.... scintillating conversation is not my forte.
55. I used to lie a lot... now I don't... and I'm not telling if that is a lie!
56. I've never had a career and think that the whole work at a career thing is ridiculous... most people work to survive. If you like your work then you have a career of insanity.... (see there I go with my opinions again....sorry)!
57. I love cheezies.
58. I've discovered quite recently that I could really get into silk embroidery.
59. I love jazz music.
60. I think Diana Krall is awesome.
61. I also think Uncle Kracker is awesome. I wish he'd get off his a-- and put out another great album.
62. I am a royalist... I love the Queen and think Prince Charles is a misguided fool. But I can't wait for Prince William's wedding. I love to watch the royals though I'm not a fanatic, and buy magazines and books about it all... one thing though I do wish them all well.
63. I'm a Newfoundlander.... from 15 generations back... and proud of it.
64. I've traveled all over Canada. I've lived in a number of different places in Canada. I could spend my life traveling around Canada and never want to go further afield... Canada has a lot to offer.
65. I still have a Newfy accent even after living away from Newfoundland for almost twenty years... which just goes to show that "You can take the girl out of the bay but you can't take the bay out of the girl"!!!
66. I'm terrible shy. Though I try not to be... but I absolutely quake if I have to get up in front of people to speak... and suffer terribly from stage fright.
67. I love the ocean and thanks to boyfriend number 2, I spent a great deal of time on a 40 foot yacht.
68. I've had one of my poems published. I just wish I could get a lot more published.
69. I am not a good housekeeper and have better things to do with my time than race around cleaning up dust bunnies.
70. I love to watch spiders but have a terrible fear that they will fall off the ceiling of my bedroom and into my mouth.
71. I sleep on my right side.
72. I am an insomniac... but less so as I age.
73. I snore so I am told.
74. I've always wanted to hang glide.... but would probably sh-t my pants if I tried.
75. I drove across Canada twice in a two seater convertible... and it was awesome especially looking at the mountains as we drove along.
76. I loved to watch in the rear view mirror, the autumn leaves swirling behind my convertible.
77. I drive a Dodge Dakota truck... that's falling apart... (well I am a farmer!!)
78. I raise sheep and alpacas.
79. I love dogs, tolerate cats (it's a reciprocal thing), and enjoy sheep and alpacas.
80. I owned a wolf/husky dog who I loved dearly... and miss dreadfully.
81. I try not to think about politics but every so often I get really fierce about it all.
82. I want to take cruise ship to Hawaii... some time.
83. I once spent two weeks in England and had a lovely trip... I love British History...
84. I have 3 children whom I support through Foster Parent's Plan and World Vision in Brazil, Peru and the Dominican Republic... and love each one.
85. I have made four quilts in my life... all of them were hand stitched. I never want to do it again.... but I will.
86. I have a dreadful memory.... so I'm told.
87. I am a dreadful homebody. I love my little house. It took Teapot and I a long time to find a home.
88. I tried to get a children's story book published that I had written a few years back and never succeeded.
89. I would love to write a really good book... probably a novel... and get it published.
90. I have a dreadful memory... did I tell you that...
91. I've broken a toe and a wrist but that's it for broken bones and quite frankly I hope to keep it that way. I broke my toe when I was 6 yrs old and put my foot in the driver's seat when my father was closing it.... it was a two door car. The seat cracked my toe. Then I broke my wrist the first time I put on cross country skies... Ok I lost control of them on a little slope and one foot wanted to go one way and the other wanted to go the other... it was not a graceful fall but evidently quite a sight to see.
92. I am a terrible writer.... but wish that I could be a better one.
93. In one of the anomalies in life I am good at cooking but hate to cook.
94. I am terrible at serving my good cooking and everyone always gets cold food at my house because I'm completely uncoordinated at getting everything ready at the one time.
95. I love colour.... and have a hard time picking my favorite.... (you may know that)... I hate pink.
96. I love to walk in the forest and miss walking there in the winter when the snow is deep.
97. When I was a kid I always wanted to be able to communicate with animals.... especially whales and owls... I still do.
98. I love to sit in front of the fire... summer or winter... I could be Cinderella actually.
99. I wish I had closer relations with my cousins... and my sister.... we've all just gone our separate ways over the years.... sad really....
100. I've really enjoyed meeting my followers and computer friends even if it is only a limited relationship...... thanks to you all....
101. It's really hard to think of 101 things to write about yourself.... really!
Phew!... Finally I'm Back Online
Yup... for two days now I have been without connection. For some reason, I think probably because of the wind, we had no access to the internet. I'm not sure that wireless connection is any better than dial up. Dial up is slow that's for sure, but unless you live where connections are really good, I'm not so sure that wireless is any better. Wireless here is faster but we have lost it twice in the last two months... so it's quite tiresome to go to write on the blog and discover that I can't.... especially when I have a good idea for something to write.... these days that doesn't happen too often.
We are now at a whopping +3 degrees!!! Far cry from those shivering -29 that we got just a few short days ago. while the rest of Southern BC is experiencing severe winter weather we are enjoying a rare pleasure of mid-winter balminess. Both the Daughters are off for a academic and work ethics honours trip for some bowling and some swimming... a good day to have wet hair outside.
I have been working once again on jewelry.
Two more necklaces finished and one more and a bookmark left to go. And I started a new shawl.... yup, I pulled out that eewww bright pink alpaca yarn that I skeined up a few weeks ago and decided to knit a shawl with it and then promptly sell it..... I am using the pattern of an ex-instructor of the Master Spinner Program at Olds college only I'm playing with it a bit.... and so far if you forget that it is god-awful pink then it is looking pretty good.
Still waiting for the contractor.... hmm... starting to get concerned that my renovations won't go ahead before Christmas.... that would really p--- me off. I'm being very polite and I'm not bugging him but it is starting to be a worry...
We I have finally decided on flooring for the house.... I was really waffling back and forth on hard wood flooring or that laminate stuff which I really don't like, but with dogs and cats as a busy part of this household, I thought perhaps that it would be practical.... We've I've decided that neither one of it will grace these floors mostly because hardwood wouldn't stand up to the running back and forth of the dogs and laminate is too.... well I just don't like it. I want quarry tile instead.... or at least something that looks like it... I've found what I wanted and it's not that laminated quarry tile stuff either. Home Depot carries a lovely product called Allure. They have lots of different designs but basically it is a recycled rubber product that is designed to look like tile or hardwood and believe me it is hard to tell the difference.... originally that is what we had decided to put on our floor but we couldn't get enough of the product in the colour and pattern that we wanted. I stupid like, had a friend pick it up for me and she didn't get enough of it so it has been sitting in the shed ever since. We will use it on the parent's place where new flooring is needed through the whole house. In the meantime, I have seen it (the hardwood style) on another friends house. It even has the knot holes grooved into the surface of the rubber so it really does have the appearance of wood. Well, I want tile and so I had a look at the tile.... and it is gorgeous
... so rubber that looks like tile it will be... There is one slight problem... our living room floor used to have carpet and the kitchen floor was built up to be the same height as the carpet was... this means that we will have to build up the living room and the sun room with a half inch of sub-flooring material. All in all, the flooring will cost $2000.00 dollars which will have to wait till after Christmas.
The whole house renovation will soon be complete... I keep telling myself this... but then I keep waiting for the contractor... hmmm....
That's a short update and since the connection on the computer has come and gone twice since I started writing this I'm thinking I should finish now before the whole thing goes ..... and is gone!!!
We are now at a whopping +3 degrees!!! Far cry from those shivering -29 that we got just a few short days ago. while the rest of Southern BC is experiencing severe winter weather we are enjoying a rare pleasure of mid-winter balminess. Both the Daughters are off for a academic and work ethics honours trip for some bowling and some swimming... a good day to have wet hair outside.
I have been working once again on jewelry.
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| For Daughter #1 for Christmas |
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| For Mother for Christmas |
Two more necklaces finished and one more and a bookmark left to go. And I started a new shawl.... yup, I pulled out that eewww bright pink alpaca yarn that I skeined up a few weeks ago and decided to knit a shawl with it and then promptly sell it..... I am using the pattern of an ex-instructor of the Master Spinner Program at Olds college only I'm playing with it a bit.... and so far if you forget that it is god-awful pink then it is looking pretty good.
Still waiting for the contractor.... hmm... starting to get concerned that my renovations won't go ahead before Christmas.... that would really p--- me off. I'm being very polite and I'm not bugging him but it is starting to be a worry...
... so rubber that looks like tile it will be... There is one slight problem... our living room floor used to have carpet and the kitchen floor was built up to be the same height as the carpet was... this means that we will have to build up the living room and the sun room with a half inch of sub-flooring material. All in all, the flooring will cost $2000.00 dollars which will have to wait till after Christmas.
The whole house renovation will soon be complete... I keep telling myself this... but then I keep waiting for the contractor... hmmm....
That's a short update and since the connection on the computer has come and gone twice since I started writing this I'm thinking I should finish now before the whole thing goes ..... and is gone!!!
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
I'm Pretty Sure It's Not Just Me
I had a few moments this morning after getting breakfast to sit here at the computer and have a read and most of the blogs that I follow, have not put up a new post for a little while or at least have been very sporadic over the last little while. I'm assuming that there are not too many people who have a whole lot of time these days. With Christmas coming, I'm thinking that more than just myself are preparing for the season. Although I do have to say that yesterday I didn't do a darn thing for Christmas... I just knit all day. I worked on my scarf and as a result it is almost finished.
For over a week though, the beads that I am using for more Christmas gifts, have been sitting on my dining room table waiting for me to get to work....
thus rendering the table completely useless for anything else. But I will finish that scarf today and then go to work on the beaded necklaces until such time as I can put the whole mess away. Besides the necklaces must be finished this week as one is winging its way through the mail to New Brunswick and another one will be for the NPSW gift exchange... and the others are for the Daughters for their stockings.
Once again it is excruciatingly cold out. -29 this morning, when the cat came in... he was covered in frost and was quick to cuddle up with the wee kitten... (who's not so wee anymore)...
I was rather shocked to discover a few days ago that in the downstairs bathroom (with the freezing gaping hole under the tub), my Christmas cactus was blooming beautifully...
I've always noticed that Christmas cactus' like the north side of the house and bloom beautifully there. When I moved into this house I was dismayed that there were no north facing windows. So when we renovated the house last year the first thing I did was put the Christmas cactus on the window shelf that I had designed for the downstairs bathroom.... doesn't it look lovely? It's postively inspirational.... and yes it is pink but pink flowers and pink sunrises/sets are ok in my book.
It is not snowing but -29 is pretty darn cold. As one of my friends said recently.... I went outside and froze my a-- off and then spent the rest of the day trying to figure out how I could get through the winter without going outside... (not exactly those words but I think I've got the gist of it!) So I have resigned myself to trying to keep my feet warm... I have only been wearing s--ks sporadically... today I've hauled out the Crocs and am wearing them in an effort to keep my feet warm... I'm still bootless.... and shoeless... except for a very old pair of warn out runners and a couple of pairs of dress shoes... I have perusing the Sears catalogues in an effort to find some winter boots that will please me... still no luck! Hmm..... the feet are complaining bitterly. I guess I will have to break down and haul out a pair of s--ks!
I have also finished another shawl.... I am pleased to show you all....
This is the same pattern as the one I showed here earlier in the fall but it is made with hand spun yarn as opposed to commercial.... and very pleased I am with it too. I wish you could all see the smile on my face each time I look at it...
So if everyone else is like me then it is no wonder I'm finding nothing new to read on any of my favorite blogs.... what are you doing? Are you prepping for Christmas too?!
Once again it is excruciatingly cold out. -29 this morning, when the cat came in... he was covered in frost and was quick to cuddle up with the wee kitten... (who's not so wee anymore)...
It is not snowing but -29 is pretty darn cold. As one of my friends said recently.... I went outside and froze my a-- off and then spent the rest of the day trying to figure out how I could get through the winter without going outside... (not exactly those words but I think I've got the gist of it!) So I have resigned myself to trying to keep my feet warm... I have only been wearing s--ks sporadically... today I've hauled out the Crocs and am wearing them in an effort to keep my feet warm... I'm still bootless.... and shoeless... except for a very old pair of warn out runners and a couple of pairs of dress shoes... I have perusing the Sears catalogues in an effort to find some winter boots that will please me... still no luck! Hmm..... the feet are complaining bitterly. I guess I will have to break down and haul out a pair of s--ks!
I have also finished another shawl.... I am pleased to show you all....
This is the same pattern as the one I showed here earlier in the fall but it is made with hand spun yarn as opposed to commercial.... and very pleased I am with it too. I wish you could all see the smile on my face each time I look at it...
So if everyone else is like me then it is no wonder I'm finding nothing new to read on any of my favorite blogs.... what are you doing? Are you prepping for Christmas too?!
Monday, November 22, 2010
Dull Witted Nitwit
That's me. Somehow -25 degrees this morning has turned me into a sleepy, thoughtless bore. I couldn't think of anything to say yesterday either. Sometimes its just plain hard to write about anything of value or interest. Teapot kept busy all weekend and Daughter #1 was involved with the annual craft fair. Daughter #2 and I stayed at home. She was nursing a sore throat and I was nursing a new scarf.
I found some yarn on Friday the was a lovely variegated but somewhat coarse fibre.... it would make a good scarf for on the outside of a jacket. I also found an interesting spiral scarf pattern in a book that I took out from the public library on Knit Night... I started knitting on Friday but by Saturday afternoon I knew it sucked. So I raveled it back. Daughter #2 said it looked like genetically modified lettuce!! That just made me want to rid myself of it altogether.... then yesterday morning I got up really early and googled scarf patterns and found this one...
Mine is not going to be exactly like this but close.... My colours are not moving from one shade to the next so well, mine has a lot more green and mine will have a blue trim... but quite honestly it is looking pretty good! At least so far....
Still, I feel rather like a dull witted nitwit. And it is cold.... brrr.
Teapot got down under the house since we wanted to deal with the problem of the crawl space before the really cold temperatures come. Teapot's intention was to add to the insulation down there and then he discovered that there is very little insulation in some places and there were spots where you could actually see day light through some pretty severe cracks. (Not concrete cracks just cracks between the boards). I figured there was a problem with the crawl space when we had the pump freeze up last year. Teapot did his best to fix the problem then, but this year he did more. With extra insulation and a can of expanding foam, Teapot spent most of Saturday afternoon under the house filling cracks and adding insulation in areas where it needed extra. We will see if it will make a big difference.... but we hope it will. Meanwhile he has dealt with the big hole under thebtub in the downstairs bathroom. Yes, there was a big hole there because of the plumbing for the old shower that used to be in there. When the tub went in the bathroom it covered the hole but not totally. It was left so that the new plumbing could be put in for the tub.... It was never sealed like it had been when the shower was there because the tub was a different shape. With the new insulation that Teapot put there, the bathroom is not cold enough to freeze the buns off a brass monkey from cold air seeping up from the crawl space.
We are no closer to building a shelter for Dreamer now than we were last week which was our intention. With the insulation taking a whole lot longer than we expected, it just didn't get done. Maybe next weekend if the temps don't drop to -40 degrees, we will get Dreamer's shelter built.
We have agreed that there is another job that is necessary this year. Our old black cat Midnite is getting old old old.... and he still goes out at night... with the temperatures dipping down so low we are thinking that it might be necessary to build him a little shelter too. I wish he would go into the barn with the sheep but since there is a large door that doesn't really get closed (that way the sheep can come and go as they want) it doesn't really provide a whole lot of warmth.... just shelter. We either have to put a cat door into the workshop or we have to build him a cat house. I am not pushing Teapot to get that one done since there's so much other stuff to be finished.... I may have to keep the wee bugger in on the nights that are -25 or so...
Anyway, I am waiting for the contractor.... hopefully this morning.... he did say that he would call me and give me two days to clear the sun room before he came.... but I have realized that he has my old phone number.... I will call him today... if he doesn't show up. Teapot is gone for the day..... very reluctantly... he did say he would like to stay home and have a warm morning with me and several nice cups of tea.... I like that idea... I wish he could have stayed home with me too.... oh well, the best thing about Christmas is the fact that he will get to stay home with me.... for two whole weeks... I'm really looking forward to that.....
There's something cozy about a cold winter day with nothing to do but knit.... hope you're having a nice winter too....
I have to go check my head now.... I can't believe I said I like winter......!!!!
I found some yarn on Friday the was a lovely variegated but somewhat coarse fibre.... it would make a good scarf for on the outside of a jacket. I also found an interesting spiral scarf pattern in a book that I took out from the public library on Knit Night... I started knitting on Friday but by Saturday afternoon I knew it sucked. So I raveled it back. Daughter #2 said it looked like genetically modified lettuce!! That just made me want to rid myself of it altogether.... then yesterday morning I got up really early and googled scarf patterns and found this one...
Still, I feel rather like a dull witted nitwit. And it is cold.... brrr.
Teapot got down under the house since we wanted to deal with the problem of the crawl space before the really cold temperatures come. Teapot's intention was to add to the insulation down there and then he discovered that there is very little insulation in some places and there were spots where you could actually see day light through some pretty severe cracks. (Not concrete cracks just cracks between the boards). I figured there was a problem with the crawl space when we had the pump freeze up last year. Teapot did his best to fix the problem then, but this year he did more. With extra insulation and a can of expanding foam, Teapot spent most of Saturday afternoon under the house filling cracks and adding insulation in areas where it needed extra. We will see if it will make a big difference.... but we hope it will. Meanwhile he has dealt with the big hole under thebtub in the downstairs bathroom. Yes, there was a big hole there because of the plumbing for the old shower that used to be in there. When the tub went in the bathroom it covered the hole but not totally. It was left so that the new plumbing could be put in for the tub.... It was never sealed like it had been when the shower was there because the tub was a different shape. With the new insulation that Teapot put there, the bathroom is not cold enough to freeze the buns off a brass monkey from cold air seeping up from the crawl space.
We are no closer to building a shelter for Dreamer now than we were last week which was our intention. With the insulation taking a whole lot longer than we expected, it just didn't get done. Maybe next weekend if the temps don't drop to -40 degrees, we will get Dreamer's shelter built.
We have agreed that there is another job that is necessary this year. Our old black cat Midnite is getting old old old.... and he still goes out at night... with the temperatures dipping down so low we are thinking that it might be necessary to build him a little shelter too. I wish he would go into the barn with the sheep but since there is a large door that doesn't really get closed (that way the sheep can come and go as they want) it doesn't really provide a whole lot of warmth.... just shelter. We either have to put a cat door into the workshop or we have to build him a cat house. I am not pushing Teapot to get that one done since there's so much other stuff to be finished.... I may have to keep the wee bugger in on the nights that are -25 or so...
Anyway, I am waiting for the contractor.... hopefully this morning.... he did say that he would call me and give me two days to clear the sun room before he came.... but I have realized that he has my old phone number.... I will call him today... if he doesn't show up. Teapot is gone for the day..... very reluctantly... he did say he would like to stay home and have a warm morning with me and several nice cups of tea.... I like that idea... I wish he could have stayed home with me too.... oh well, the best thing about Christmas is the fact that he will get to stay home with me.... for two whole weeks... I'm really looking forward to that.....
There's something cozy about a cold winter day with nothing to do but knit.... hope you're having a nice winter too....
I have to go check my head now.... I can't believe I said I like winter......!!!!
Friday, November 19, 2010
A Little Communication Goes A Long Way
I've been working on other things today and though yesterday was a calm after the storm with sunshine (albeit cold temps) today we are back to light snow fall and grey skies. At almost the end of November Christmas is baring down on me with a vengeance and so I have work to do. November means the publishing date for the PCSW newsletter is near (and I am not putting the link here at this time since I am not quite ready to publish the new newsletter, so it is a page that is unfinished and you wouldn't get to read much anyway). Still, I have been working on it for most of this grey and cold day. In addition to the newsletter a friend came by with her resume and was wondering if I would be able to help her with clearing it up and also helping her write a cover letter. She has been out of the work force for a few years and I was happy to help her though I do have to say that I am not fresh as a Daisy in that area either. But we worked through it and hopefully she will get the interview... the rest is up to her. Between writing cover letters, and articles for the newsletter, and keeping up my own blog it seems that communication is a large part of life these days and has gotten me to thinking about other forms of communication.
With Christmas hard upon my heels, I am beginning to think about Christmas cards and letters. I have always been a faithful card and letter writer but I find it aggravating at best to spend hours of my time on cards and letters for people and then when I get cards in return, more often than not, they come with a signature that lets me know they are still alive but nothing else. Even worse are the cards that come three days after Christmas that lets me know that they hadn't intended on sending a card at all but felt compelled once they received mine. There seems every year to be more and more of them. Last year I got quite disgusted with the whole Christmas card scene and on principle only sent out five to those who I knew would respond .... and then they didn't. So this year I am turning over a new leaf and not writing cards at all. I will send a quick email to those on my email list and the rest can "suck it..." (very Christmassy attitude isn't it...)!
My friend in FSJ says that this attitude stems from a growly older bitchy thing that happens to those of us that value time and effort and (maybe more importantly) are nearing or have passed the 50th birthday.... I'm 45.... so maybe she's on to something. I think that as we get older we pick the family and friends with whom to continue a relationship based on who show signs that they give a damn about you because they are interested in you as a person and not because of familial bonds or a strange sense of loyalty and that it is reciprocal. (My father calls this the bridge burner syndrome.... because once you lose touch with a person it's usually because there never was a real sense of friendship and then you burn your bridges with them in the end.) Neither Teapot nor I are really all that clued into family... and I'm not really sure why that is.... I know that I'm walking on thin ice here as some family members follow this blog but its not to say that I am impartial to them but that if there is not a reciprocal relationship then it isn't much worth persuing... I am thankful for those of my family and friends that have stayed in touch with me... it means a lot.... even a short email occasionally is a wonderful way of knowing that they are alive and well and still care about you and vice versa... (and it doesn't count if it is a forwarded email of some joke or cartoon).
Each year I write a long poem about my family (husband and daughters and dogs cats and parents) and how we have been doing over the last year and it has always been fun. You can see an example here.... I didn't do it last year and that was because there was so much pressure put on us for Christmas, that I just couldn't think of anything to say.... but this year I'm feeling a little more "in the mood" and I think it is because I have shed so many of my hats (as lay reader for the church, school planning council member, secretary for the NPSW, actually I've been sheding lots of councils and groups) that my brain doesn't feel.... how did I put it last year.... oh yeah, like "I've had a bowel movement on my own head and then sat there wondering how that happened". At the end of writing the poem I contact all family members and send out the poem to them or at least give them the blog address so that they can come in here and have a look... some read it but a lot just dump the email because they don't have time to read it or whatever.... they're the ones I just can't be bothered with anymore. (I just read everything I've written here and it makes me sound terrible I know! Oh well, just think of me as the family fire breathing dragon....)!
In the end, what I'm trying to say is that a little communication goes a long way.... leave a comment... email from time to time, drop us (Teapot and I) a card with a short note on the fly leaf... it is all good... and you know what?.... that's the best Christmas gift anyone could give me.... I don't need gifts, because a kind word works wonders.... mostly because in this day and age of fast paced lives... a kind word is a gift!
And if you do?... I promise it will be reciprocated...
With Christmas hard upon my heels, I am beginning to think about Christmas cards and letters. I have always been a faithful card and letter writer but I find it aggravating at best to spend hours of my time on cards and letters for people and then when I get cards in return, more often than not, they come with a signature that lets me know they are still alive but nothing else. Even worse are the cards that come three days after Christmas that lets me know that they hadn't intended on sending a card at all but felt compelled once they received mine. There seems every year to be more and more of them. Last year I got quite disgusted with the whole Christmas card scene and on principle only sent out five to those who I knew would respond .... and then they didn't. So this year I am turning over a new leaf and not writing cards at all. I will send a quick email to those on my email list and the rest can "suck it..." (very Christmassy attitude isn't it...)!
My friend in FSJ says that this attitude stems from a growly older bitchy thing that happens to those of us that value time and effort and (maybe more importantly) are nearing or have passed the 50th birthday.... I'm 45.... so maybe she's on to something. I think that as we get older we pick the family and friends with whom to continue a relationship based on who show signs that they give a damn about you because they are interested in you as a person and not because of familial bonds or a strange sense of loyalty and that it is reciprocal. (My father calls this the bridge burner syndrome.... because once you lose touch with a person it's usually because there never was a real sense of friendship and then you burn your bridges with them in the end.) Neither Teapot nor I are really all that clued into family... and I'm not really sure why that is.... I know that I'm walking on thin ice here as some family members follow this blog but its not to say that I am impartial to them but that if there is not a reciprocal relationship then it isn't much worth persuing... I am thankful for those of my family and friends that have stayed in touch with me... it means a lot.... even a short email occasionally is a wonderful way of knowing that they are alive and well and still care about you and vice versa... (and it doesn't count if it is a forwarded email of some joke or cartoon).
Each year I write a long poem about my family (husband and daughters and dogs cats and parents) and how we have been doing over the last year and it has always been fun. You can see an example here.... I didn't do it last year and that was because there was so much pressure put on us for Christmas, that I just couldn't think of anything to say.... but this year I'm feeling a little more "in the mood" and I think it is because I have shed so many of my hats (as lay reader for the church, school planning council member, secretary for the NPSW, actually I've been sheding lots of councils and groups) that my brain doesn't feel.... how did I put it last year.... oh yeah, like "I've had a bowel movement on my own head and then sat there wondering how that happened". At the end of writing the poem I contact all family members and send out the poem to them or at least give them the blog address so that they can come in here and have a look... some read it but a lot just dump the email because they don't have time to read it or whatever.... they're the ones I just can't be bothered with anymore. (I just read everything I've written here and it makes me sound terrible I know! Oh well, just think of me as the family fire breathing dragon....)!
In the end, what I'm trying to say is that a little communication goes a long way.... leave a comment... email from time to time, drop us (Teapot and I) a card with a short note on the fly leaf... it is all good... and you know what?.... that's the best Christmas gift anyone could give me.... I don't need gifts, because a kind word works wonders.... mostly because in this day and age of fast paced lives... a kind word is a gift!
And if you do?... I promise it will be reciprocated...
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Winter Weather Has Struck In Earnest
I woke this morning to several inches of snow on the ground. And it's cold! Like freezing cold. -15 degrees this morning. Teapot headed into FSJ and I worry about him on the road. There have been several road accidents this week one of which has seriously hurt a good friend's husband. He is in the hospital in Edmonton with a broken neck and is fighting for his life. We are praying fiercely for his recovery. It is a worry.
The Daughters have headed off to the bus stop this morning and I worry about them too since the wind chill is -30 degrees this morning since the wind is blowing and is quite gusty.
It is a strange morning this morning with snow swirling around and the sky looking deep blue as the sky is still quite dark. Yesterday morning was stranger still with the sky looking like this...
It almost looked as if a forest fire was burning off in the distance... the old adage kept coming back to me... red sky in the morning shepherd's warning. Well, I'm a shepherd and I took warning. Somehow I knew that temperatures were going down and the snow was coming. Actually, most of BC is getting hit with stormy weather today.
The sheep are in the barn and the alpaca is lying down next to the barn. Honeydew is milling around the feeding boxes and the male alpacas are hunkered down by the side of their feeding mangers hiding out of the wind. Dreamer the horse doesn't seem to be minding the cold temperatures though we will haul out her blanket later today and get her settled too before the temperatures drop again. I wish we had a barn for her. I will just have to take tramp out to her paddock with a bucket of oats today and then I might have a look around the paddock for a likely place to build her a shelter of sorts.... something temporary at this point.
Teapot has just called to say that the road wasn't as bad as we expected and that he is safe at his workshop which is a great relief for me.
It is a good day to spin I think at least that is the plan. I have begun knitting again on my shawl and will continue to spin bison today. Later this evening I will get back to level 3 and pull out the charkha for cotton spinning. I am looking forward to getting the cotton spinning done and get on to the silk spinning. I have also received in the mail the fibre for my 150 hour project in the level 4 course. It is cashmere and you could smell it through the box... quite pungent! But then goat always is... It is going to be interesting keeping everything straight in my mind as I am working on two courses at the same time.... a fairly strange situation. But I am determined to do them both justice.
I have once again changed the look of the blog.... I thought snow for a background would be cool... but I'm staying with the theme of blue and spiders... just in a different way....
CBC radio is on right now and according to them the power has gone off in a number of places all through the province.... I hope we don't lose it here..... I'll be thankful when November moves on....
Before I go for the day I will add a few pictures here of what we are experiencing.....
So I'm off for a winter day.... quiet.... spinning.... knitting.... mmmmm some hot chocolate this morning I think...
Hope your winter day is lovely too....
The Daughters have headed off to the bus stop this morning and I worry about them too since the wind chill is -30 degrees this morning since the wind is blowing and is quite gusty.
It is a strange morning this morning with snow swirling around and the sky looking deep blue as the sky is still quite dark. Yesterday morning was stranger still with the sky looking like this...
The sheep are in the barn and the alpaca is lying down next to the barn. Honeydew is milling around the feeding boxes and the male alpacas are hunkered down by the side of their feeding mangers hiding out of the wind. Dreamer the horse doesn't seem to be minding the cold temperatures though we will haul out her blanket later today and get her settled too before the temperatures drop again. I wish we had a barn for her. I will just have to take tramp out to her paddock with a bucket of oats today and then I might have a look around the paddock for a likely place to build her a shelter of sorts.... something temporary at this point.
Teapot has just called to say that the road wasn't as bad as we expected and that he is safe at his workshop which is a great relief for me.
It is a good day to spin I think at least that is the plan. I have begun knitting again on my shawl and will continue to spin bison today. Later this evening I will get back to level 3 and pull out the charkha for cotton spinning. I am looking forward to getting the cotton spinning done and get on to the silk spinning. I have also received in the mail the fibre for my 150 hour project in the level 4 course. It is cashmere and you could smell it through the box... quite pungent! But then goat always is... It is going to be interesting keeping everything straight in my mind as I am working on two courses at the same time.... a fairly strange situation. But I am determined to do them both justice.
I have once again changed the look of the blog.... I thought snow for a background would be cool... but I'm staying with the theme of blue and spiders... just in a different way....
CBC radio is on right now and according to them the power has gone off in a number of places all through the province.... I hope we don't lose it here..... I'll be thankful when November moves on....
Before I go for the day I will add a few pictures here of what we are experiencing.....
So I'm off for a winter day.... quiet.... spinning.... knitting.... mmmmm some hot chocolate this morning I think...
Hope your winter day is lovely too....
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Startitis Strikes Again
I have a major case of startitis. I am working on a scarf, a third spool of bison, our bedroom and the poem, a shawl, and then right out of the blue (no pun intended) I got the idea that I should spin this...
Isn't it pretty?....
I love this fibre. It is merino.... well, it's called Optim which I think is merino that has been stretched using chemicals. This particular Optim has a little Tencel blended in for fun. It is turning out to be absolutely gorgeous when spun and looks like this.....
I think I will weave and I mean really weave a scarf with this stuff. I have a very fine heddle for my rigid heddle loom so I think that I will go that way... but then maybe Iwill rent a loom from the guild and use a 4 harness loom.
See what I mean by startitis. I see some lovely new fibre and that's all I've got in my mind..... suddenly all the other projects that I'm working on have drifted away across the universe and here I am with thought of divine blue.....
It all started with this....
I saw this picture on APOD the other day and have been dreaming blue ever since....
I even got out my beads and looked for some blue beads that would coordinate with this to make the blue scarf more appealing.... yeah.... serious staritis.
Why oh why can't I ever get finishitis!
I love this fibre. It is merino.... well, it's called Optim which I think is merino that has been stretched using chemicals. This particular Optim has a little Tencel blended in for fun. It is turning out to be absolutely gorgeous when spun and looks like this.....
I think I will weave and I mean really weave a scarf with this stuff. I have a very fine heddle for my rigid heddle loom so I think that I will go that way... but then maybe Iwill rent a loom from the guild and use a 4 harness loom.
See what I mean by startitis. I see some lovely new fibre and that's all I've got in my mind..... suddenly all the other projects that I'm working on have drifted away across the universe and here I am with thought of divine blue.....
It all started with this....
I even got out my beads and looked for some blue beads that would coordinate with this to make the blue scarf more appealing.... yeah.... serious staritis.
Why oh why can't I ever get finishitis!
Monday, November 15, 2010
All Over The Place.... Goes My Errant Mind
I seem to be having trouble these days concentrating on any one subject for more than a minute or two. Sometimes I wonder if that comes with age or if I was always like this. Teapot and I have begun over the weekend to study Political Philosophy with courses on DVD. We sit each evening with one class and watch the course unfold before us and it has been quite interesting. (Daughter #2 calls words like "interesting" place holders.... I'm not really sure why, but it is a derogatory term evidently.) We (that is, Teapot and I) have done courses such as this once before with a group of friends where we would enjoy a "class" and then we would have an hour to sit and discuss the topic and how it applies to us. But even though I enjoyed the course, which was a look at The Physiology of Psychology, I found the discussion group really lame, so this time Teapot and I decided to study this course on our own. We find that we speak about it more freely and are not as reserved in our comments, which is really good since you can make some pretty hilarious comments on a course that evaluates the pros and cons of cannibalism!
It has been an ideal day for the activity of listening to a professor ramble on. Yup, I think winter has finally hit. This week we are supposed to get temperatures down to -20 degrees. It has been grey and cold all day with light snow falling off and on. It has been dull outside and I'm not much better. Yet, I did have some friends come for a day of spinning. With a nice hot bowl of soup for lunch, it was a lovely chance to catch up on what they are doing too. We even had a bit of show and tell. However, now outside the window the snow looks dreadfully cold. The sheep are huddling out in the paddocks and Dreamer (the horse) will require a blanket over her at the rate the temperatures are falling.So an evening of viewing a DVD is an ideal pass time.
It seemed like a good day for a little spinning too. Last week, I started on some Bison fibre for the level 4 requirements. It is coming along quite nicely. Still today I needed a little colour in my life so I pulled out some Optim which is a merino wool which has been stretched to resemble silk. It is a lovely combination of blue, green, teal, and purple. It is very soft to work with and I'm enjoying it much more than I expected. I love spinning colour on a dull grey day like this one was. If it weren't for the trees then I wouldn't have known where the sky ended and the ground began. The electric fire place has been giving off lovely heat and a lovely glow. Makes me want to get a cup of hot chocolate. I have Annie Lennox on playing in the background. It makes for a very mellow evening.... (my feet are complaining though because they are so cold..... maybe I should go find some nice s----- well, you know)!
There was one point of excitement in my life today. Honeydew, the llama that doesn't have an over abundance of brains, got her head stuck in the fence today and I have no idea how long she was standing there trying to get her head out of the fence. I gathered my courage and held her head while separating the fence for her to get her head back through the wires. It worked and she was very mild mannered about it all in the end. I think she was rather surprised that I meant her well.
As you can see from what has been going on in my life that the grey skies have affected life around here. we seem to be waiting and can't settle on anything of value to keep us occupied. November is a month of "in between". Not Christmas yet, and after the pleasures of a colourful autumn, things seem to have graduated to a......
What am I thinking..... there's only five weeks left till Christmas and I still have two pairs of socks to knit......... and God knows how many other things I have to do..... argh! I had better make a list so I don't get side swiped again!
This errant mind of mine keeps dragging me in places I really shouldn't go.
Did you know that eating poppy seeds can show opium in your blood if you do a blood test. I just heard that on the radio ; } Shocking really.... !
It has been an ideal day for the activity of listening to a professor ramble on. Yup, I think winter has finally hit. This week we are supposed to get temperatures down to -20 degrees. It has been grey and cold all day with light snow falling off and on. It has been dull outside and I'm not much better. Yet, I did have some friends come for a day of spinning. With a nice hot bowl of soup for lunch, it was a lovely chance to catch up on what they are doing too. We even had a bit of show and tell. However, now outside the window the snow looks dreadfully cold. The sheep are huddling out in the paddocks and Dreamer (the horse) will require a blanket over her at the rate the temperatures are falling.So an evening of viewing a DVD is an ideal pass time.
It seemed like a good day for a little spinning too. Last week, I started on some Bison fibre for the level 4 requirements. It is coming along quite nicely. Still today I needed a little colour in my life so I pulled out some Optim which is a merino wool which has been stretched to resemble silk. It is a lovely combination of blue, green, teal, and purple. It is very soft to work with and I'm enjoying it much more than I expected. I love spinning colour on a dull grey day like this one was. If it weren't for the trees then I wouldn't have known where the sky ended and the ground began. The electric fire place has been giving off lovely heat and a lovely glow. Makes me want to get a cup of hot chocolate. I have Annie Lennox on playing in the background. It makes for a very mellow evening.... (my feet are complaining though because they are so cold..... maybe I should go find some nice s----- well, you know)!
There was one point of excitement in my life today. Honeydew, the llama that doesn't have an over abundance of brains, got her head stuck in the fence today and I have no idea how long she was standing there trying to get her head out of the fence. I gathered my courage and held her head while separating the fence for her to get her head back through the wires. It worked and she was very mild mannered about it all in the end. I think she was rather surprised that I meant her well.
As you can see from what has been going on in my life that the grey skies have affected life around here. we seem to be waiting and can't settle on anything of value to keep us occupied. November is a month of "in between". Not Christmas yet, and after the pleasures of a colourful autumn, things seem to have graduated to a......
What am I thinking..... there's only five weeks left till Christmas and I still have two pairs of socks to knit......... and God knows how many other things I have to do..... argh! I had better make a list so I don't get side swiped again!
This errant mind of mine keeps dragging me in places I really shouldn't go.
Did you know that eating poppy seeds can show opium in your blood if you do a blood test. I just heard that on the radio ; } Shocking really.... !
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Holy Hanna!
Gee I turned around twice and the weekend disappeared. I'm still trying to figure out what day it is.
The weekend slipped by in a crazy dance of time. What did I do? Not much... I assure you. Do you ever have weekends where you just can't figure out what happened.
We did have company here for two days so that kind of threw me off.... And I totally enjoyed having Teapot's brother and his wife here. Then yesterday we took a quick trip to town to pick up supplies for the contractor who will be working on the house. Of course that took way longer than we expected. I had to pick out light fixtures...... hmmmm. You know you're a normal couple when you are staring at hundreds of light fixtures and your spouse says, "I like that one," and you find yourself wanting to gag. Then you find one you like and your spouse adamantly disagrees with your choice. We finally settled on two fixtures that neither one of us loves but neither one of us hates either. In the end who cares what the light fixture looks like in the bathroom just as long as it aids you in finding the johnny-on-the-spot in the first place. (I wanted motion detectors so that we could leave the light on all the time and it would go off when nobody was around.... Teapot thought it was dumb and too much like an airport.)
After picking out the light fixtures, I spent a very long time looking at flooring. I'm still no closer to picking out something that I want. Argh!
We did pick up all the paneling that we need.... and we did pick up the sub flooring for the sun room... and we did get the wall board for the kitchen and we did get the plywood for the kitchen cupboards.... and we did get the knobs for the bathroom and we did get the door knobs for the girls bedroom door.... and .... and .... and.... $1000.00 dollars later I'm looking at the stuff we bought and thinking is that all for all that money?!!!!
Ouch!
Still I can't wait till the house is looking more finished.....
I'm so excited..... (can you tell?)
Yup I should go and do some work since I've done nothing really all day....
Wow... it's almost Monday!!!! How in the heck did that happen....
The weekend slipped by in a crazy dance of time. What did I do? Not much... I assure you. Do you ever have weekends where you just can't figure out what happened.
We did have company here for two days so that kind of threw me off.... And I totally enjoyed having Teapot's brother and his wife here. Then yesterday we took a quick trip to town to pick up supplies for the contractor who will be working on the house. Of course that took way longer than we expected. I had to pick out light fixtures...... hmmmm. You know you're a normal couple when you are staring at hundreds of light fixtures and your spouse says, "I like that one," and you find yourself wanting to gag. Then you find one you like and your spouse adamantly disagrees with your choice. We finally settled on two fixtures that neither one of us loves but neither one of us hates either. In the end who cares what the light fixture looks like in the bathroom just as long as it aids you in finding the johnny-on-the-spot in the first place. (I wanted motion detectors so that we could leave the light on all the time and it would go off when nobody was around.... Teapot thought it was dumb and too much like an airport.)
After picking out the light fixtures, I spent a very long time looking at flooring. I'm still no closer to picking out something that I want. Argh!
We did pick up all the paneling that we need.... and we did pick up the sub flooring for the sun room... and we did get the wall board for the kitchen and we did get the plywood for the kitchen cupboards.... and we did get the knobs for the bathroom and we did get the door knobs for the girls bedroom door.... and .... and .... and.... $1000.00 dollars later I'm looking at the stuff we bought and thinking is that all for all that money?!!!!
Ouch!
Still I can't wait till the house is looking more finished.....
I'm so excited..... (can you tell?)
Yup I should go and do some work since I've done nothing really all day....
Wow... it's almost Monday!!!! How in the heck did that happen....
Friday, November 12, 2010
Progress
I did say the other day that I would talk about two things later on so I thought that today would be the day that I would fulfill that promise. I made reference the other day to the gallery show and to the scarf that I wasn't happy with.
First of all let me talk about the gallery show. As part of the North Peace Spinners and Weavers guild I am expected to participate in a show every 3 years at our local gallery. Our gallery is a small gallery that hangs art shows each month and each one is unique and individual to the artist being showcased. However, when a guild show occurs we hang the show as a group and the group is showcased. I have participated in three separate shows over the years and this will be the fourth show. Each show has had a theme. This show's theme is Shawls, Scarves, Socks, and Shoelaces. The idea is that we have prepped and ready for the show at least ten or fifteen garments in that category. With twenty people in the guild the show actually adds up to quite a few garments. It is also an opportunity to sell some of our art. So I have been getting ready for the show. I have knitted two shawls and two scarves so far but I still have a whole lot more work to do, obviously. I am planning on making quite a few pairs of socks if I can and I hope to get out my Marudai and do a few shoelaces too. I have a few more shawls in mind and and a couple of more scarves.
Now the other thing that I was going to mention was the scarf that I am currently working on. I had begun to knit a scarf in the bison/cashmere/silk/wool blend yarn that I finished spinning last month.... as I got down to the end of the ball I realized that I didn't have enough yarn to make the scarf long enough. I realized that getting more of that fibre to spin for the scarf would be next to impossible so I didn't even bother with that. I just raveled it out and decided to weave instead. I am working on my 6" x 6" pin loom making blocks and crocheting the blocks together as I go. I stupid-like decided to incorporate silk into the warp. Big mistake... the silk totally overshadows the bison/cashmere/silk/wool blended yarn and it is not nearly what I was hoping for. The softness, the squishiness that makes the bison/cashmere/silk/wool yarn so lovely is totally lost in the weave and the silk warp. I'm totally disappointed. But it is almost finished and I will post a picture here when I am done.
Meanwhile there have been other developments in the last few days. Finally the contractor came to see me and find out what was needing to be done on our renovation and we had a really good chat. He is coming in next week to do a whole bunch of work for me.... which means that I will not have to look at tuck tape on my walls anymore. I won't have to look at bathroom pipes anymore and our bedroom will have paneling right to the ceiling. I am not going to get him to lay the flooring down right now.... I'm going to wait on that. But I am going to get ceiling tiles for about one third of the sun room done (I don't have enough burned for the rest of the room). But at least the strapping will be there and I will be able to put up the tiles as they are finished. So at least there will be progress and at least the bathroom will be finished. And our bedroom will be finished and the sun room will be mostly done and Teapot and I will work on the flooring over March break maybe. I am soooo looking forward to getting the house in a little more livable state. We are also going to buy some light fixtures for the sun room and for the downstairs bathroom. Then I can take the light fixtures there and put them in temporarily until I can find what I am looking for for the other parts of the house. I do realize that this is somewhat of a bandaid but its the best we can do right now. I do not want the house in a total ree raw for Christmas. There is a sale on flooring right now so Teapot and I may have a look at getting the flooring for our living room and sun room.
Well I'm heading off ... it is a vacation day today.... Teapot is home so I will get him to help me sort the house out and prepare for some house guests.... there's family coming and Daughter #1 will have to sleep in Daughter #2's bedroom.... now that should be interesting.... and we've got to hang the door on the two bedrooms so that there's privacy for all!!!! Yeah... life is just a little crazy today!
First of all let me talk about the gallery show. As part of the North Peace Spinners and Weavers guild I am expected to participate in a show every 3 years at our local gallery. Our gallery is a small gallery that hangs art shows each month and each one is unique and individual to the artist being showcased. However, when a guild show occurs we hang the show as a group and the group is showcased. I have participated in three separate shows over the years and this will be the fourth show. Each show has had a theme. This show's theme is Shawls, Scarves, Socks, and Shoelaces. The idea is that we have prepped and ready for the show at least ten or fifteen garments in that category. With twenty people in the guild the show actually adds up to quite a few garments. It is also an opportunity to sell some of our art. So I have been getting ready for the show. I have knitted two shawls and two scarves so far but I still have a whole lot more work to do, obviously. I am planning on making quite a few pairs of socks if I can and I hope to get out my Marudai and do a few shoelaces too. I have a few more shawls in mind and and a couple of more scarves.
Now the other thing that I was going to mention was the scarf that I am currently working on. I had begun to knit a scarf in the bison/cashmere/silk/wool blend yarn that I finished spinning last month.... as I got down to the end of the ball I realized that I didn't have enough yarn to make the scarf long enough. I realized that getting more of that fibre to spin for the scarf would be next to impossible so I didn't even bother with that. I just raveled it out and decided to weave instead. I am working on my 6" x 6" pin loom making blocks and crocheting the blocks together as I go. I stupid-like decided to incorporate silk into the warp. Big mistake... the silk totally overshadows the bison/cashmere/silk/wool blended yarn and it is not nearly what I was hoping for. The softness, the squishiness that makes the bison/cashmere/silk/wool yarn so lovely is totally lost in the weave and the silk warp. I'm totally disappointed. But it is almost finished and I will post a picture here when I am done.
Meanwhile there have been other developments in the last few days. Finally the contractor came to see me and find out what was needing to be done on our renovation and we had a really good chat. He is coming in next week to do a whole bunch of work for me.... which means that I will not have to look at tuck tape on my walls anymore. I won't have to look at bathroom pipes anymore and our bedroom will have paneling right to the ceiling. I am not going to get him to lay the flooring down right now.... I'm going to wait on that. But I am going to get ceiling tiles for about one third of the sun room done (I don't have enough burned for the rest of the room). But at least the strapping will be there and I will be able to put up the tiles as they are finished. So at least there will be progress and at least the bathroom will be finished. And our bedroom will be finished and the sun room will be mostly done and Teapot and I will work on the flooring over March break maybe. I am soooo looking forward to getting the house in a little more livable state. We are also going to buy some light fixtures for the sun room and for the downstairs bathroom. Then I can take the light fixtures there and put them in temporarily until I can find what I am looking for for the other parts of the house. I do realize that this is somewhat of a bandaid but its the best we can do right now. I do not want the house in a total ree raw for Christmas. There is a sale on flooring right now so Teapot and I may have a look at getting the flooring for our living room and sun room.
Well I'm heading off ... it is a vacation day today.... Teapot is home so I will get him to help me sort the house out and prepare for some house guests.... there's family coming and Daughter #1 will have to sleep in Daughter #2's bedroom.... now that should be interesting.... and we've got to hang the door on the two bedrooms so that there's privacy for all!!!! Yeah... life is just a little crazy today!
Thursday, November 11, 2010
A Walk Through My Grandfather's House
If you look at the time that I am making this post you will notice that it is the wee small hours of the morning. I woke up crying.... and then my stomach began to hurt.... I didn't think that dreams could hurt....
Normally I don't dream hardly at all.... or if I do then when I wake, I forget them right away. Not this week. This week I have been dreaming very vividly.
I may have mentioned here before that I grew up in Newfoundland. I grew up in Mount Pearl which is a city attached to the capital city of St. John's. My parents and grandparents (and if rights be known, their parents to the seventh generation) came from a little outport called Elliston, and though I didn't live there I feel like I actually hale from the town where my grandparents lived more than Mount Pearl. (That's my maternal grandparents for those family members who read here.) I have many good memories of my years growing up and I have very vivid memories of my Grandfather's house and the way it made/makes me feel. I don't know if I am getting maudlin in my old age but sometimes I have to wonder. Maybe all these fresh memories are coming back to me because Teapot and I have been going through all the old photos. Whatever the reason, I have been thinking a lot about those years when I grew up. And then tonight I woke up crying. Not because I was sad, but just because it felt so good to be back in that place again. (For that is surely where I was!)
My grandmother had a chrome and vinyl rocking chair just off the kitchen in the dining room, it was as ugly as sin, but that was the best rocking chair ever. It was smooth. The rockers were really long on that chair and it rocked like a dream. When I rocked in that chair it felt like I was swinging. I would sit for hours in that rocking chair and rock and rock and rock and never since has there been a rocking chair that made me happy like that one did. I even saw in my dream my Grandfather's favorite pipe that he would give me to clean and fill with fresh tobacco. I could feel it in my hand. I could even see the sun slanting across the dining room table through the two big windows that never opened.... at least not in my day. I walked the stairs with the big brass chummy thingies that held the stair runner in place. I stood on the front steps of that house and looked back over my shoulder at the door swinging shut behind me and I remembered..... like I've never remembered since they died.
And I missed them.....
Gives new meaning to Remembrance Day......
Normally I don't dream hardly at all.... or if I do then when I wake, I forget them right away. Not this week. This week I have been dreaming very vividly.
I may have mentioned here before that I grew up in Newfoundland. I grew up in Mount Pearl which is a city attached to the capital city of St. John's. My parents and grandparents (and if rights be known, their parents to the seventh generation) came from a little outport called Elliston, and though I didn't live there I feel like I actually hale from the town where my grandparents lived more than Mount Pearl. (That's my maternal grandparents for those family members who read here.) I have many good memories of my years growing up and I have very vivid memories of my Grandfather's house and the way it made/makes me feel. I don't know if I am getting maudlin in my old age but sometimes I have to wonder. Maybe all these fresh memories are coming back to me because Teapot and I have been going through all the old photos. Whatever the reason, I have been thinking a lot about those years when I grew up. And then tonight I woke up crying. Not because I was sad, but just because it felt so good to be back in that place again. (For that is surely where I was!)
My grandmother had a chrome and vinyl rocking chair just off the kitchen in the dining room, it was as ugly as sin, but that was the best rocking chair ever. It was smooth. The rockers were really long on that chair and it rocked like a dream. When I rocked in that chair it felt like I was swinging. I would sit for hours in that rocking chair and rock and rock and rock and never since has there been a rocking chair that made me happy like that one did. I even saw in my dream my Grandfather's favorite pipe that he would give me to clean and fill with fresh tobacco. I could feel it in my hand. I could even see the sun slanting across the dining room table through the two big windows that never opened.... at least not in my day. I walked the stairs with the big brass chummy thingies that held the stair runner in place. I stood on the front steps of that house and looked back over my shoulder at the door swinging shut behind me and I remembered..... like I've never remembered since they died.
And I missed them.....
Gives new meaning to Remembrance Day......
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
The Problem Of My Poem
I've always had this love of playing with words. To me poetry is like Sudoku only with words instead of numbers. A few years back a friend of mine, who happens to be a teacher, and I were having a conversation about poetry. He knew that I liked to write poetry and couldn't believe that I thought poetry was just manipulation of words. He challenged me to write a Shakspearean type poem, romantic and using words that were similar to what Shakespeare would have written... but not a sonnet (though I love writing sonnets too).
So I sat down and wrote the following two poems...
Come hither my love, in yon downy bower,
where silken skin shall prevail over furrowed brow,
and gentle touch shall awaken more than beating hearts.
Fear not and pluck the ripe and honeyed fruit,
and taste the pleasures of this golden time.
The other poem that I wrote went like this....
Hasten, sweet slumber, upon these adoring brows,
Yon gentle wake shall carry this restive two.
Respite shall be their hallowed destiny,
while faith, honour, and love
remain their trusted companions.
They weren't too bad all things considered.
I've always wanted to incorporate these two poems into the decor of Teapot's and my bedroom. The second poem... with "Hasten sweet slumber", should adorn the wall above our bed. That one seemed obvious. But it is the other poem that I'm not sure what to do with. Somehow it seems decadently sexual and I almost feel like I should have it tattooed on my belly..... (I can't believe I just wrote that!)
Anyway, I'm having a dilemma in trying to decide on what to do with that poem. I have a very decadent painting in my mind.... of a woman scantily clad.... with the poem embossed onto the painting.... however, somehow this seems a little too blatantly sexual too. Teapot is not saying much but I'm sure he wouldn't object to a scantily clad woman in a painting hanging in his bedroom.... (wince)! So I either have to get over it and just be decadent.... and come to grips with my discomfort or forget the whole thing. Hmmm....
Oh what to do..... oh what a dilemma.... oh I hope the mother-in-law, doesn't read this.....!!!!
So I sat down and wrote the following two poems...
Come hither my love, in yon downy bower,
where silken skin shall prevail over furrowed brow,
and gentle touch shall awaken more than beating hearts.
Fear not and pluck the ripe and honeyed fruit,
and taste the pleasures of this golden time.
The other poem that I wrote went like this....
Hasten, sweet slumber, upon these adoring brows,
Yon gentle wake shall carry this restive two.
Respite shall be their hallowed destiny,
while faith, honour, and love
remain their trusted companions.
They weren't too bad all things considered.
I've always wanted to incorporate these two poems into the decor of Teapot's and my bedroom. The second poem... with "Hasten sweet slumber", should adorn the wall above our bed. That one seemed obvious. But it is the other poem that I'm not sure what to do with. Somehow it seems decadently sexual and I almost feel like I should have it tattooed on my belly..... (I can't believe I just wrote that!)
Anyway, I'm having a dilemma in trying to decide on what to do with that poem. I have a very decadent painting in my mind.... of a woman scantily clad.... with the poem embossed onto the painting.... however, somehow this seems a little too blatantly sexual too. Teapot is not saying much but I'm sure he wouldn't object to a scantily clad woman in a painting hanging in his bedroom.... (wince)! So I either have to get over it and just be decadent.... and come to grips with my discomfort or forget the whole thing. Hmmm....
Oh what to do..... oh what a dilemma.... oh I hope the mother-in-law, doesn't read this.....!!!!
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Sheesh!
Home again.... a lovely day...... sun is shining.... the snow is melting..... nothing wrong with Pop's vehicle which is what we were hoping.....
Annnddd.....
Level 3 ..... here we go again......
and at the same time as level 4....
Somehow I've got a focus again. : )
And all is right with the world.
Annnddd.....
Level 3 ..... here we go again......
and at the same time as level 4....
Somehow I've got a focus again. : )
And all is right with the world.
Off To FSJ
Pops needs help today. We are headed into FSJ to take his vehicle in for a recall. We will have to spend several hours waiting for his vehicle to be fixed. It will be a long day. If Pops has to go anywhere other than around town I usually drive for him since he has a heart condition and worries about his legs swelling when he has to drive longer than one hour. Driving just knocks him out so I do it and that is what will happen in about half an hour.
I have been working steadily on scarves and a shawl for the gallery (more about that later) next year, and the bedroom. I've been weaving with silk and a ball of bison and cashmere... I'm not happy with the results.... but more about that later too. Teapot did some work in our bedroom over the weekend and managed to get some more of the paneling up. Meanwhile we are waiting for the Contractor fellow who was supposed to be here by now. He hasn't come which worries me since I really want to get the house in shape for Christmas.... this may not happen if he doesn't show up soon.
There is snow on the ground and even though it was a lovely day yesterday and the weather was pleasantly warm, the snow looks like it might hang around for a while. There is still lots of before-the-snow-comes-chores and I'm beginning to think that I might as well throw my arms up in resignation and realize that we can't do everything.
Anyway, I'm off and I'm not even going to do an editing check on this post...... want to make a bet it stinks... full of stupid mistakes.... if so please overlook them....
I have been working steadily on scarves and a shawl for the gallery (more about that later) next year, and the bedroom. I've been weaving with silk and a ball of bison and cashmere... I'm not happy with the results.... but more about that later too. Teapot did some work in our bedroom over the weekend and managed to get some more of the paneling up. Meanwhile we are waiting for the Contractor fellow who was supposed to be here by now. He hasn't come which worries me since I really want to get the house in shape for Christmas.... this may not happen if he doesn't show up soon.
There is snow on the ground and even though it was a lovely day yesterday and the weather was pleasantly warm, the snow looks like it might hang around for a while. There is still lots of before-the-snow-comes-chores and I'm beginning to think that I might as well throw my arms up in resignation and realize that we can't do everything.
Anyway, I'm off and I'm not even going to do an editing check on this post...... want to make a bet it stinks... full of stupid mistakes.... if so please overlook them....
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Friday, November 5, 2010
The Eerie Walk Of November
Down through the bush, one step after the other, I went. The wind was blowing quite rudely. Overhead trees were swaying and the grey clouds passed swiftly by. Squeaking branches sounded, off in the distance. The dogs gallumped along through the bush.
I quickly discovered that when the wind is that high, perhaps a tramp in the bush is not the best idea. There was a loud crack and quite close by, down came one of the towering pines, no longer majestic, with branches brittle from Pine Beetle kill.
November is usually cold and grey with fog around here. Usually the fog covers everything in a fine coating of frost that eventually turns into dripping stalactites of ice. Not this year though. This year, the wind has been blowing pretty much constantly. Dreamer, our horse, raises her tail in disgust, and gallops around her paddock as if she can run with the wind.
I thought yesterday morning when I woke up and looked out the window and couldn't see anything for the grey cloying fog, that the typical November weather had come at last. But by lunch time, once again, the wind had come up and was blowing.....blowing... blowing....
November is not one of my favorite months, I do have to be honest. Somehow, I feel adrift, with nothing but Christmas boring down on me. Even Ideas on CBC last night, which normally I really enjoy, was boring. I had spent the day clearing out boxes full of wool and UFOs (unfinished projects) which is a boring job indeed, and then when I started to develop a headache I thought a walk in the forest.... my beloved forest.... would be good. With trees threatening to fall on my head, I decided that the walk would be better shortened rather than lengthened. So far this week I have managed to wash a fleece, wash a second small amount of fleece, clear out two rather large boxes of junk, unravel a scarf, start another scarf and ravel it out three times, finish two necklaces and one bracelet, dye some sock yarn, organize the level 4 fibres that I will need, find a baggy full of bison (which I just spent a fortune on ordering from the States), ply a ball of silk, cable a skein of novelty yarn, and worked on two paintings. Still, I feel like I have done nothing.
It's November. I know it is. November always leaves me at loose ends.
Rather like my walk of yesterday through a forest of wind, where trees were falling on all sides, November descends upon on me....
Perhaps I should raise my tail, and run with the wind...
I quickly discovered that when the wind is that high, perhaps a tramp in the bush is not the best idea. There was a loud crack and quite close by, down came one of the towering pines, no longer majestic, with branches brittle from Pine Beetle kill.
November is usually cold and grey with fog around here. Usually the fog covers everything in a fine coating of frost that eventually turns into dripping stalactites of ice. Not this year though. This year, the wind has been blowing pretty much constantly. Dreamer, our horse, raises her tail in disgust, and gallops around her paddock as if she can run with the wind.
I thought yesterday morning when I woke up and looked out the window and couldn't see anything for the grey cloying fog, that the typical November weather had come at last. But by lunch time, once again, the wind had come up and was blowing.....blowing... blowing....
November is not one of my favorite months, I do have to be honest. Somehow, I feel adrift, with nothing but Christmas boring down on me. Even Ideas on CBC last night, which normally I really enjoy, was boring. I had spent the day clearing out boxes full of wool and UFOs (unfinished projects) which is a boring job indeed, and then when I started to develop a headache I thought a walk in the forest.... my beloved forest.... would be good. With trees threatening to fall on my head, I decided that the walk would be better shortened rather than lengthened. So far this week I have managed to wash a fleece, wash a second small amount of fleece, clear out two rather large boxes of junk, unravel a scarf, start another scarf and ravel it out three times, finish two necklaces and one bracelet, dye some sock yarn, organize the level 4 fibres that I will need, find a baggy full of bison (which I just spent a fortune on ordering from the States), ply a ball of silk, cable a skein of novelty yarn, and worked on two paintings. Still, I feel like I have done nothing.
It's November. I know it is. November always leaves me at loose ends.
Rather like my walk of yesterday through a forest of wind, where trees were falling on all sides, November descends upon on me....
Perhaps I should raise my tail, and run with the wind...
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Time Of My Days
Like a giant rib cage in the sky, are the clouds this morning. As the sun rises over the horizon, the sky turns from a molten grey to a vivid purple and orange. Sun rise always is phenomenal!
I thought I would post some pictures of what I have been working on in the last few days.
Jewelry....
Washing fleece for Logwood baby blanket.....
Paintings.... watercolours to be exact....
The last painting requires a little explanation. This painting was done from a photograph when Daughter #2 was little. It was a photograph I had of my sister and I and and our friends when we were little. The photo was taken not far from my Grandparents house. I had worked many long hours on this painting as it was to be a gift for my sister. She's the second from the left and I'm the little tot partially covered by the grass. When I finished it I laid it on our dining room table to be taken to the framers and when I came back Daughter #2 was standing on the dining room chair with a pencil lead in one hand and a crayon in the other. You will notice the scribbles in the top left hand corner. I was horrified and of course took the crayons away from her. she was too young to understand the amount of work she had just spoiled in two seconds. I wanted to cry. In a fit of rage I tore the painting up later that evening thinking that I could never repair the painting. But afterwards, I kept all the pieces and stored them away in a portfolio where they have been sitting ever since. Little did I know at the time that had I not torn it, (yes, sometimes my temper gets the better of me.... these moments are sporadic... but every so often... well, I do have to say that I can be quite impulsive sometimes!!!) there was a product on the market that could have removed the pencil and crayon marks..... sigh! Anyway, it has been sitting in my portfolio, a constant reminder of my stupidity in leaving it on the table in the first place. This week I glued it back together. I am using a soft eraser to remove the crayon marks and am touching up the glued areas with my paint brush. I'll let you know how this restoring project turns out. (For those of you who say why didn't you just paint it again.... let's not even go there.... I am not a perfectionist and while this painting could be duplicated it would never be the same.) I am using acrylic on watercolour to cover the rip marks. I'm not sure if it will work but I sure hope so. If it does work then I will frame it and hang it in my new and improved bedroom.
The sky has turned to a dull grey... no wind.... I'm off for another day of nursing Daughter #1 and working on wool.But first I have a beading project that won't take long to finish....
Stay tuned for that.....
Jewelry....
Washing fleece for Logwood baby blanket.....
Paintings.... watercolours to be exact....
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| Muskox... started about five years ago and is now being finished. |
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| The Daughters.... painted from a photograph.... background is only penciled in yet... lots of work left to be done. |
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| Friends..... a painting I did years ago when my children were young. |
The sky has turned to a dull grey... no wind.... I'm off for another day of nursing Daughter #1 and working on wool.But first I have a beading project that won't take long to finish....
Stay tuned for that.....
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Last Night
The night was dark, the night was velvet. I lay warm and safe in my bed. Outside the wind blew, the roof rattled, the house shuttered, but all was safe under his watchful eyes.
Orion came to visit me last night. There... outside my window was my favorite constellation, peeking through my window, reminding me that far greater things abound in this universe than merely me.
How vast and rich this universe is.... how lucky I am to be a part of it....
Orion came to visit me last night. There... outside my window was my favorite constellation, peeking through my window, reminding me that far greater things abound in this universe than merely me.
How vast and rich this universe is.... how lucky I am to be a part of it....
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