Here There And Everywhere

So I'm sitting here waiting for the water to warm up in the hot water heater. I have friends coming today for a day of spinning and taking no doubt! Sue and Debbie are coming and Carol who is my HH spinning buddy. March/Easter break is over and things get back to normal around here only chaos is the new normal around here. Finally the dealership called to say that they had fixed the truck yesterday. Teapot drove in to get it. Now it is worse than it ever was! So this is it. The riot act gets read today with threats of lawyers! Meanwhile the washer leaks like a sieve and Daughter #2 went out of here this morning in her sister's jeans because hers were all dirty. It's her own fault because most of her jeans are crumpled in a heap on the floor of her room. They could have been taken to Mom's and washed there if she had managed to put them in the laundry basket! Silly girl. Car won't work... Washer won't work... And computer is on the fritz. Meanwhile the sunroom is littered with Icelandic fleece as I try to spin a satisfactory woollen yarn. I hope the water is warm by now because if it's not then that means the hot water tank didn't run out due to too many showers, it means that that' on the fritz too!

An Ode To The Earless Bunny

When children play and search for that symbol of life, The oval of new life, And mother nature reminds us of all things green and growing, of new life and new love, and hope eternal, Then we too return to our roots of youth. Oh happy Easter, when earless bunnies shall prevail, Oh joy divine, This sunlit day when all pleasure is in the brightness and charm of earth's slow rotation toward light, Is not this day the best day of all? Happy Easter to one and all! May your ham be cooked well and your turkeys be tasty and through it all you remember how lucky we are to live in this great world of warm winds and spring-like brightness... And if you are one of the unlucky ones that is enjoying the last vestiges of winter may your pain be of short duration. I'm off to enjoy the ears of my bunny... And I might even brush out the real one.... ; )

I'd Rather Be.... Not Spinning!!!

I am sitting here so po'd with spinning at this moment that I have decided that I need a real break from it... By real I mean more than a few minutes. I have been spinning all day today and all day yesterday trying to get an illusive 12 t.p.i. skein of yarn and I am getting nowhere fast. I break it midway through plying it...this is a big no no! I get 10 t.p.i. Or 9 t.p.i. But not 12 t.p.i. and I am certainly NOT having fun! I have to say that I really hate these high t.p.i. yarns. I keep wondering who in their right mind would want a yarn that has such high twist. I will give it one more try tonight. If I get it, great! If not, then I will set it aside for now and stick with level 5 homework. I have been trying to get this yarn with silk so I will try with cotton and see if that is any better. Actually I was just thinking that I enjoyed sweeping dirt on the floor from the dog's paws better than spinning right now. You know it's bad when! *I'm using this little star to signify a new paragraph since yesterday's try at making paragraphs with Daughter #2's iPad was an abysmal failure. *Easter is going quietly this year with dinner at Mom and Pop's house tomorrow. Teapot has been finishing some panelling in the bathroom upstairs and after try #4 of spinning a 12 t.p.i. I decided a nice walk in the spring air was a necessity. Out I went into the beautiful sunshine with my ever faithful companion Narmie... and the kitten who went for a walk too. She is now in heat... Another f-ing cat with blinking pregnancy issues! Once again we are caught in the cycle of kittens. But I'm determined to get them aborted if I have to. It's off to the veterinarian on the 16th. A great birthday gift to me. Payday and a day waiting for the kitten to get her ovaries removed... But at least I can go shopping while I wait. Hmmm... maybe a cat at the vet's won't be so bad after all. *I have been listening to CBC radio and find that the budget cuts to CBC are horrible. Still, sometimes I wonder if CBc has diversified too much. Maybe we could do without CBC 2 and just have CBC 1 radio and the T.V. Station. Would that not solve some of the problem? Meanwhile Harper is cutting funding to libraries across the country and the first thing cut is free Internet access to those who need it...and who needs it most? Well... I would say that it is the poor.... those who cannot access the Internet from home. Then there is the roll back to 67 for the Old Age Pension. I'm now not going to get a cent until I'm 67. Sucks to be me! And if I was truly relying on it I sure would be really ticked. But then I might not have to worry about it if I pop off early! Anyway CBC radio was interesting for the most part though I thought the stupid program about obsessive behavior was odd especially when they interviewed the guy who thought that all food fell into one of two categories. one category was dirty food and the other was.. You got it...clean food. An example of clean food was a squished hamburger and sushi. Peanut butter came into the category of dirty food! That was enough for me.... I turned of the radio but not before hearing the interview about the fellow who had a pencil sharpening business. he obsessed about beautifully sharpened pencils... Like they are art... Ok that was weird too. So now I'm listening to world music on my iPhone. Lovely. *I hope your Easter is full of flowers, chocolate,and hugs... 'cause what's life without a few hugs?

Writing From My Daughter's iPad

Ok this works a whole lot better than trying to type from my phone. I will have to borrow her iPad and then save my pennies and buy one for myself. I definitely like this darn wee thing. It is great. I wonder if blogger will recognize paragraphs from this thing! Ish all give it a try. OK so this is a new paragraph. I won't know if this works until I post because I can put the paragraph in in the draft but then when I hit post the paragraphs disappear. Still, if I can make this work it would be great. Now I think I will try posting a picture from this thing. Ok, I can't figure that thing out! That was just plain weird. Maybe I will have to get someone to help me figure that out. I like this little thing though. It's really sharp! Tell me what you think.... And let me know what is your technology thingy that you like best. Meanwhile I'm off to spin a 12 t.p.i. See ya...

Virus(cont.)

By the way... When I post from my phone I for some reason can't do paragraphs. And May near the end of the previous post should have been capitalized. And sorry I won't be responding to comments until I get my computer fixed!!!

Virus

The reason we got a Mac computer was mainly because they're pretty good at keeping viruses at bay. But about a week or maybe two ago you will remember that our keyboard started giving trouble... well now the whole thing is on the fritz. So I am typing this on my phone 'cause I can't access the Internet from our main computer. I hate typing from my phone! The keyboard is so small and I can't always fix my mistakes (and there are plenty of those!). So I hope you will forgive my mistakes today and put it down to rather large digits and a wee small type pad. I know I promised photos but I'm not that good!! I haven't figured out how to put photos on this blog from my phone. I have been working like a daemon. It's been head down and arse up for days. I had a warp to put on my loom and when I got it finished a few days passed before I was able to weave. But Wednesday I tried a few throws of my shuttle and discovered a mistake in the threading. Argh! So yesterday I had to pull out 93 threads and rethread them. They are not finished but I will try to finish them today. So with all the leaning over the loom it really has been head down and arse up! I think Teapot is starting to think I have a different face... that of my butt! Perhaps I should paint a happy face on the seat of my pants.... or borrow the mother-in-law's shorts! In addition to the warp for the loom I have been spinning. Lots! Teapot and the girls have been enjoying mid- term break but I have hardly been out through the door. I have all t.p.i. samples done for level 5 and two left for level 3. I will try to finish those today. I sure hope so because I would like to take the rest of Easter and enjoy it! I am slowly getting though the questions for level 5. After the t.p.i. section is done, I have eight more questions to do. I am hoping to have them done by my birthday on the sixteenth... then two weeks to complete the fifty hour project and level 5 will be going in the mail for marking. Then I will spend may concentrating on level 3. And it will be head down and arse up again! Now... I am going to post this. I hope it doesn't disappear into cyberspace. Here goes...

Sorry, Sorry, Sorry.... I Have Been Writing.. Really I Have

Head down, arse up. Head down, arse up. Head down, arse up..... that's what it has been like here for the last few days. We are still getting jerked around by the Ford Dealership....

Weaving is not happening though I do have the warp on the loom and I've been spinning t.p.i. samples... there will be pictures tomorrow if I can swing it at all.

Company has been swinging through the doors regularly and between sweeping mud up after the cats, dogs and husband/kids, I think I might just add a broom to my feet so that when I walk I'm sweeping too. Mud is everywhere and permeates all parts of the house. Nightly, I have to shake out the top blanket of our bed, over the rail of the balcony upstairs because the dogs have jumped up on the bed with their messy toes. God, I'm sick of it.  Today it is raining and that means that the ground will thaw and the snow water will drain into the ground and maybe, miracle of miracles, the mud will disappear.

I have been writing though, just not on this blog.... you can read here.... to see what's happening and what I've been writing about.

I'm off to spin another t.p.i. sample.... there's a light at the end of the tunnel for level 5... I can see it now... And level 3???  Well, that train's still in the tunnel in the dark... but if I can just get level 5 done then maybe there will be progress there too...

See ya... with photos soon.