Slap Happy

Me (as I'm getting into the shower): Does this vast expanse of soft smooth skin get you all excited?  Do you want to touch it's velvety smoothness?

Mosquito (sitting on the screen outside the bathroom window): Buzzz.. buzzz.. buzzz buzz buzz.

Me (to mosquitos): ha ha ha ha ha..... sucka!

Teapot (from bedroom): You're weird!

Me: Slap! Sh-t... one bit me! Look there's mosquitoes in here!

Teapot: Serves you right for taunting them...

Me: (sigh) Where's the Afterbite!

Are You Back Again?

Sheesh.... your life must be more boring than mine. You can't get enough of my going on and on about spinning for the MSP at Olds...

If you're waiting for me to say something smart or sassy or even worth while.... forget it... I'm all out of cool things to say... for that matter I really have never had anything worth saying. Verbal diarrhea, yep... that's what spews from my mouth. And my brain... dead... it's dead. Just plain dead.

For heaven's sake go watch Seinfeld reruns.... anything is better than this mindless poo.

See ya tomorrow.... right?!

Fiasco... With Level 4

Well, I knew my dye samples were going to be different from the ones I did at the Blueberry... I am using different yarn with different stuff in it. But I do have to say that I was very disappointed in the results that I got yesterday. As a result I am changing my mind and doing something different for the 150 hour project. But it will be awesome. Wait and see. It's not that the dye results are bad it's just that the dye results did not give me the delicate colours that I required for the pattern that I was using, and that was the fault of the cashmere I think since the cashmere is slightly grey which turned the colours a lot more sallow than I expected. I'll be honest... I felt like throwing it all down and by bedtime last night I was in a panic.  I did go to sleep but by 3 a.m. I was wide awake again thinking what the hell am I going to do now.  I thought of shawl patterns and then it hit me... the perfect pattern for the yarn colours that I have.....

And that's all I am saying right now. Will I need an extension... I still don't want to admit to it but probably.

So today.... knit and spin and card some more... I can't say more than that since I need to work.

See ya....

Huh???

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.

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....

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.

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... ; (