It's when I hear a new term in a subject that I think I'm pretty proficient, that I realize just how little I know.
What the hey is lever knitting... ???
Maybe I should get serious about getting certified in knitting after I finish with the spinning.
No really... I'm serious... anybody reading this that knows what lever knitting is... leave a comment if it's you... please and thank you.
Monday, June 6, 2011
Olds
It is June 6th and Olds is looming... (no pun intended ladies)! I'm looking forward to it but I have to say that I am going to have to do some shopping. I am hopelessly in bad shape for clothes. I bought two tops recently and I have two old ones from last summer which are covered in pills... and then I have a pink top (puke, barf, ugh... blah)! I have two skirts one of which I discovered has a hole in it... from where the fabric is so thin that it has started to give way in the wash. I have another skirt that is ok. I have one pair of culottes that are ok and another which are fit for the garbage... that's it. That's all I own in summer clothing. The rest is jeans and sweaters. My closet over the last few years has gotten pathetically small. So yesterday I ordered some clothes from Added Touch and shoes from L. L. Bean... and then I remembered that there is a postal strike, so the likelihood of getting it before I head out for Olds is highly unlikely. This morning I got up and picked out $300.00 worth of new clothes with Olds in my heart. Two new tiered skirts, a pair of linen pants, two tee-shirts and a 3/4 sleeve frousy looking top thing. Now I have to order it and I'm having a hard time actually picking up the phone a dialing because ordering $300.00 worth of clothes doesn't really fit in with the budget right now. But as my Grandmother always said, "Well you can't black your ass and go naked... can ya!" (She had some great sayings!)
I just took another 250 metres of yarn off my spinning wheel and it looks lovely. I just have to wash it and then skein it into 50 metre skeins and then I can start dyeing. I still have lots of fibre left to spin. But I'm feeling more relaxed now that I've decided to ask for an extension... I won't need a very long one maybe a few weeks when I get back from Olds. My new goal is to have it ready before the dyeing retreat in July. As for the dyeing retreat... the emails have gone out and people are starting to make their plans... July 22nd, 23rd, and 24th are the dates for the retreat... if you want to join us let me know. You know how to get in touch. Just follow the link to the side there where it says contact me...
For this year's dye retreat I am going to do some nature dyeing if all goes well...
Anyway, you can see the way things are starting to go... planning for Olds and planning for when I get back. Gotta love Olds....
I just took another 250 metres of yarn off my spinning wheel and it looks lovely. I just have to wash it and then skein it into 50 metre skeins and then I can start dyeing. I still have lots of fibre left to spin. But I'm feeling more relaxed now that I've decided to ask for an extension... I won't need a very long one maybe a few weeks when I get back from Olds. My new goal is to have it ready before the dyeing retreat in July. As for the dyeing retreat... the emails have gone out and people are starting to make their plans... July 22nd, 23rd, and 24th are the dates for the retreat... if you want to join us let me know. You know how to get in touch. Just follow the link to the side there where it says contact me...
For this year's dye retreat I am going to do some nature dyeing if all goes well...
Anyway, you can see the way things are starting to go... planning for Olds and planning for when I get back. Gotta love Olds....
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Stuff
My Dalhia's got hit with frost!
I have seed potatoes to put into the ground.
I have resigned myself that I will need a little extension for level 4 so that I can finish the 150 hour project... It's taking longer than I had hoped.
My foot is not as swolen this morning... but then I am taking more anti inflammatories than usual.
It rained all night though we did have a nice day.... that means that Teapot and Daughter#2 are on the river camping in not such great circumstances... I don't know whether to laugh about it or cry... but then as Teapot always says, "when things get really stupid all you can do is laugh!"
I had a whole bunch a friends come by to visit yesterday and help make the day pass quickly.
Which also meant that I hardly got any spinning done.
Daughter #1 came home with her face painted and a pair of sunglasses that were a mile wide... I think she had fun.. : )
I got the animals fed all by myself with a bad ankle... I just did it very slowly.
The new wee kitten doesn't like it's mom licking its bum which she does regularly.... it must hurt like hell to have a sand paper wipe. Yuck... sorry ( had to include that)!
Twinkle is going to meet her maker... she gurgles really loudly just like her mom used to do and disturbs the peace of the neighbourhood.
I wonder if my garden will ever be finished.
It's Sunday morning and I am going to go and spin... yeah!
I'm also going to listen to CBC.... I like Sunday morning. Does anyone remember Sunday Morning with Charles Kuralt? I used to love that show.
But then CBC on Sunday morning is not too bad. There's all kinds of good programs.
Hope your Sunday is lovely... and you don't have frost... and you're not all alone and you have good friends.
All good things for and all good day.
I have seed potatoes to put into the ground.
I have resigned myself that I will need a little extension for level 4 so that I can finish the 150 hour project... It's taking longer than I had hoped.
My foot is not as swolen this morning... but then I am taking more anti inflammatories than usual.
It rained all night though we did have a nice day.... that means that Teapot and Daughter#2 are on the river camping in not such great circumstances... I don't know whether to laugh about it or cry... but then as Teapot always says, "when things get really stupid all you can do is laugh!"
I had a whole bunch a friends come by to visit yesterday and help make the day pass quickly.
Which also meant that I hardly got any spinning done.
Daughter #1 came home with her face painted and a pair of sunglasses that were a mile wide... I think she had fun.. : )
I got the animals fed all by myself with a bad ankle... I just did it very slowly.
The new wee kitten doesn't like it's mom licking its bum which she does regularly.... it must hurt like hell to have a sand paper wipe. Yuck... sorry ( had to include that)!
Twinkle is going to meet her maker... she gurgles really loudly just like her mom used to do and disturbs the peace of the neighbourhood.
I wonder if my garden will ever be finished.
It's Sunday morning and I am going to go and spin... yeah!
I'm also going to listen to CBC.... I like Sunday morning. Does anyone remember Sunday Morning with Charles Kuralt? I used to love that show.
But then CBC on Sunday morning is not too bad. There's all kinds of good programs.
Hope your Sunday is lovely... and you don't have frost... and you're not all alone and you have good friends.
All good things for and all good day.
Friday, June 3, 2011
Hee Hee Hee
Snow.... camping.... hee hee hee! This should go on record as being the worst possible camping trip ever... it almost makes me want to laugh except that poor Daughter #2 is going.... but I don't mind one little bit that Teapot volunteered to chaperon. Hee hee hee! Sometimes staying home with me and helping me to have a more exciting life is the better option.... don't you think?
Don't answer that... ; (
Don't answer that... ; (
One Endeavour After Another
Well, with the Endeavour back on planet Earth, life gets back to normal for the Astronauts that directed that vehicle. Once again it is sad to see a space shuttle retired. Here are some pictures of the last 16 days... and the Endeavour's endeavour....
We are seeing the end of an era.
As for my endeavours.... it is positively freezing out and I can't believe that it got so cold so quickly... a very brrry +4 degrees C. I have to get my buns out on the deck this morning and finish the last two barrels of flowers....but the freezing temps are definitely not encouraging me to get out there. Poor wee plants though look so cold in their little squares of plastic... I really have to grab a jacket and get them in the soil. I might even cover them with some plastic till we get through this cold snap.
Then.... back to the 150 hour project.... and a day of spinning without a break... really!
I hope all your endeavours are going well!
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| The Endeavour's launch at the Kenedy Space Centre in Florida. |
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| Into the wild blue yonder.... |
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| Love this pic with the space shuttle coming through the clouds. |
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| Look how fast the planet is turning.... : ) |
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| Coming home for the last time. |
As for my endeavours.... it is positively freezing out and I can't believe that it got so cold so quickly... a very brrry +4 degrees C. I have to get my buns out on the deck this morning and finish the last two barrels of flowers....but the freezing temps are definitely not encouraging me to get out there. Poor wee plants though look so cold in their little squares of plastic... I really have to grab a jacket and get them in the soil. I might even cover them with some plastic till we get through this cold snap.
Then.... back to the 150 hour project.... and a day of spinning without a break... really!
I hope all your endeavours are going well!
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Up To My Elbows In Poop.... And Loving It
It's been a lovely day that turned into a blustery grey evening... but did I care.... noooo... I have been up to my elbows in poop... and soil. It's been wonderful. All day I've been working on "My Deck" and planting all the annuals for my potted deck garden. I still have two pots left to do but it is now raining so I'm in until the rain stops unless it doesn't... and then I'm in until tomorrow. I have my carrots in the ground too, and Teapot almost has the area for the beets, beans and peas ready. Potatoes.... well, I'm not sure how that is going to happen, but I'm hoping that we'll get time next weekend. Teapot and Daughter #2 are going on a camping trip down river, this weekend, with the work ethic and academics honour kids. Daughter #1 was supposed to go... but with her arm in a sling she's opting not to go canoeing since paddling would be dreadfully difficult. Instead she is going to be in a Run for Cancer research in FSJ. Me?.... I'm spinning for the 150 hour project. This weekend will be the make or break... by Monday I will know if I will require an extension on the level 4... we'll see. (I'm thinking that an extension is very likely.. urgh!)
Squeeky (the cat) had a f---ng kitten, (just one thank God) night before last. I didn't do anything nasty to it either. Suffice it to say she almost had her kitten on my chest. It was only when I realized that the hunching up she was doing was not exercises but an effort to push out a kitten. It was then that I figured maybe having Squeeky on my chest and stroking her might not be the best idea at the time. I promptly got a box for her and a nice clean towel and figured that maybe she would be best off by herself... I went to bed and slept, while below Squeeky passed her evening suffering the consequences of being a slut. She has been a good Mom and with some luck there has been someone willing to take the wretched thing when it is old enough... Damn Cat! Hi ho, hi ho, it's to the vet we go... in a few weeks.... when we get rid of this blasted kitten. Argh!
Well, it looks like the rain has stopped so I am off to finish my deck planting.... hope you're having a nice day where you are.... and to my Aunt A.... hope you are feeling well soon... walk on, oh Steel Hipped One.
Squeeky (the cat) had a f---ng kitten, (just one thank God) night before last. I didn't do anything nasty to it either. Suffice it to say she almost had her kitten on my chest. It was only when I realized that the hunching up she was doing was not exercises but an effort to push out a kitten. It was then that I figured maybe having Squeeky on my chest and stroking her might not be the best idea at the time. I promptly got a box for her and a nice clean towel and figured that maybe she would be best off by herself... I went to bed and slept, while below Squeeky passed her evening suffering the consequences of being a slut. She has been a good Mom and with some luck there has been someone willing to take the wretched thing when it is old enough... Damn Cat! Hi ho, hi ho, it's to the vet we go... in a few weeks.... when we get rid of this blasted kitten. Argh!
Well, it looks like the rain has stopped so I am off to finish my deck planting.... hope you're having a nice day where you are.... and to my Aunt A.... hope you are feeling well soon... walk on, oh Steel Hipped One.
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