How To Cook Your Computer 101

So I knew something was up when I tried to type here yesterday and all I got was.. 3333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333
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I wasn't sure what was wrong but knew it had to be something to do with the cup of tea that I tipped all over the keyboard. For now I am using an ancient keyboard from our old computer and it is a monster to use. ThespacebarsucksandIendupwritingsentenceslikethis. Meanwhile the other keyboard is in the oven. Yes you read that right! It was hooped anyway so Teapot went online to fine information on how to clean a keyboard. It told us to run it under water with a little bit of soap. Then rinse with distilled water and heat oven to 150 degrees. When the oven is heated then turn the heat off and put the keyboard in for an hour then remove it from the oven and place is a dry place with a fan blowing on it for 24 hours. It should be ready later today... and I'll be glad if it works cause this thing is dreadful.

In case you couldn't figure it out... that's why I haven't been here for a few days.

This morning I woke up after a really good night's sleep at 6:30 a.m. I decided to get up right away since I was wide awake and didn't want to wake Teapot. By 7:30 I was getting hungry. I decided to make breakfast and take it to the still sleeping Teapot. Half way through making breakfast he came downstairs since the rich brown smells of food cooking awoke him and his stomach. We had home made hash browns with lots of pepper, fried tomatoes (I wish they had been green), fried mushrooms in worchestershire, and a little bit of bacon. With melon and orange juice on the side, all food groups were met. I'm now having tea at the computer... tempting fate once again.

Sorry the picture is not clearer. I couldn't take a better one since we had eaten the food by the time I discovered that the picture sucked. : )

Progress is being made on the front of homework. I have completed another sample for my level 5 homework and I am working on another. I thought I would put a few pictures here this morning to show some of the samples that I have been working on....

This picture shows my knitted sample for the level 3 question for a yarn appropriate for a baby's layette. I love cotton on a baby and especially this colourful yarn that I spun for level 5 dye samples. At the time when I was spinning I actually spun enough extra so that I could make something not thinking that I could use it for this question. So I get to kill two birds with one stone.

This yarn is the yarn that I designed by using the picture of Noah's Ark (see previous post). There is the blue of one single that is in the sky of the Noah's Ark pic. Then the other single is brown linsey woolsey because of Noah's ark and all the grasses that Noah must have had to use on the ark for all the animals. Then I used little bits of cotton to represent the rainbow. And of course this pic does not do it justice. The blue is a combination of blue wool and turquoise bamboo.... and looks really pretty close up. Same for the brown... it is a combination of flax and rust coloured wool.

I love Northern Lights from Louet... I can spin a perfect 1 tpi woolen yarn from it if I don't draft... it gives me one tpi by default.

This is my cabled yarn for level 5.  It needs some fooling around with because it is not quite balanced and it hasn't been washed so it will just need a little more twist.

Then I got mad at my tapestry... and decided it was taking too long so I pulled it all apart and decided to do this instead.It will be a little purse when I'm finished. But so far it is looking great I think. I'm pleased that it is turning out as I had imagined the tapestry would. I will make a strap in Kumihimo braid if I have enough cotton. And I will show pictures when I get it finished.

The cold winter temperatures and the dreadful snow of last week seems to have passed and we are into more  spring-like temperatures. I love it. I am just waiting for the snow to melt from the deck again so that I can go out and enjoy the deck again. It won't be long if the temperatures stay high. Everyone is saying that the snow pack in the mountains is higher than normal so we will have good moisture... at least for the early part of the summer. Teapot and the girls started their March break on Friday. Teapot got up to another day of snow after two solid weeks of precipitation. He was so disgusted that he went to work like this.

The shirt would blind ya I think.... he  made that a good twenty years ago when I was sewing a lot and he wanted to make a really loud outfit.... he succeeded...there used to be orange surfer shorts to go with it... it was really nasty... but I convinced him that the pants should go in the garbage (actually I think they might have made their way into the garbage without his knowing!)

But now that it is 10 a.m. and the sun has finally burned off the fog it is time to go and do some work... hopefully there will be no more glitches with the computer and I will be here more regularly. See ya soon... I hope.