Frost

Some signs that winter is on its way around our house.

1. Me madly trying to pick tomatoes in the moonlight before the frost ruins them.


these are the ones I missed.

2. Me madly searching for sox that I haven't seen since last spring

3. Me putting on sox in the morning with a look of distaste.

4. Me cursing on the frost on the flowers on "My Deck".

5. Me slipping and falling on the very frosty and very slippery deck as I chase the cat away from the garbage that I put out last night for garbage day.



6. Me out in my poncho and nighty taking pictures of the nasty frost in the morning for my blog.

7. Coyotes howling at the almost full moon keeping me awake because it is a clear frosty night.

8. Me freezing my buns off as I try to take the one last bag of garbage that Hubby forgot out to the side of the road in my nighty and poncho... brrr!

9. Me sighing in relief when the sun finally comes out around 10 a.m. to burn away the fog that caused the disgusting frost in the first place.

10. Me sitting down to a nice cup of steaming tea and the fireplace turned on to warm my buns up after freezing them off earlier outside.. and having a nice rolag of something soft and woolly to spin.

I'm wearing sox.... waaaaaah! Here look at this disgusting picture of frost while I wail!

Knowledge To Impart

I obviously like the numbers 20 and 25.

(see below)

Things I've Learned (or a little trvia!)

1. Chickens eat eggs (does that make them cannabalistic??? and we eat them... doesn't say much for us.)

2. Grasshoppers poop... yes they do and its big enough to see!

3. No matter how much you clean house... you have to keep doing it. Its like wiping your a-- with a hoop (as my Dad says) kind of pointless.

4. Friday the 13th is not unlucky.

5. The full moon does make you want to howl and sing and dance and run around naked.

6. Your children are all different no matter how many you have. (that one was a shock)

7. You can have creatures that fall in love even when they are not of the same species. (alpacas and sheep for instance)

8. Brand new door knobs don't always work.

9. Eyebrows sometimes are connected.

10. Not everyone who gets to their 50th anniversary love each other. (this one also was a shock)

11. Grasshopper poop can be almost as big as mouse poop! (I've measured)

12. A really good movie can be watched many times and still give pleasure... even for adults.

13. Knitting is more pleasurable when done with hands than with a knitting machine. (This is very personal)

14. The planet breathes and right now it is wheezing because it has a respiratory virus. It just needs to get rid of the snot..... (that's us in case you were wondering.)

15. Finding money in a pocket of a jacket you haven't worn since last year is great... not all crinkling in your pocket turns out to be money.

16. You always worry about your children even when they leave home.... I'm not looking forward to that.

17. Procrastination never works out.

18. Always check the hole of a squirt bottle with the hole pointed away from you! Remember this one.

19. Bats migrate. A good thing too since it gives you a chance to fill up the holes where they were getting in.

20. Honey bee nests in your walls, while a mess, is a real bonus.

20. If you have a friend with a honey bee farm invite them to put some hives at your place.... you get free honey... its great.

21. Honey bees have orange bums.

22. Hornets suck! Enough said.

23. Flies are irritating bu--ers! As they still persist in showing me daily.

24. Try to finish your projects from time to time without starting new ones.

25. Fingernails that are long are rarely clean when you live on a farm.

25. A husband (at least mine) can be a really great thing. (remember this is "things I'VE learned")

26. Not everyone is as lucky picking out a mate as I was.

27. Natural dyeing requires patience to get good results... (I don't get good results usually.... )

28. A rye sense of humour can help at times.

29. A rye sense of humour can make things worse sometimes.

30. Impart the knowledge you've accumulated... someone may benefit. (But then some may think, "What a ninny!")

The State Of The World In Our House (continued)

And so it goes (sigh)

Daughter #1 is still on her block-head kick. I went to the school to pick them all up yesterday.... her science teacher came up to me and said,"You really need to encourage her to pass in her work assignments on time. She passed in her assignment after I had all the others marked and handed back and I couldn't accept it."

I promptly knocked my head on the wall....

Daughter #1 is now grounded. No horse for three days. Poor Hubby now has to feed it on the way to work. Poor Hubby has to muck out its stall on the way home from work. Daughter #1 says she is going to try harder but she is not making a good start as she just p----d away a half hour this morning playing with her cat instead of getting ready for school. Argh!

I'm starting to worry about my poor dented and somewhat bald head!!!!

The State Of The World In Our House

Daughter #1 has just made blunder #1. She came home this evening at 5 p.m. with a pile of homework and a test tomorrow. She had just spent two hours at the arena with her horse.

Stipulation 1: There will be no horse fun in the afternoon when there is a pile of homework.

Why do kids break the rules?

They want to see their parents bald from pulling out their hair.

I hope I don't regret this horse!!

We All Are What We Are

I decided a while ago that once a week I would try to find a blog written preferably by a woman that was international (so not Canada or the US) and not political, but something written by a woman with a normal life that was primarily interesting and somewhat diverse. If I liked it well enough I would add it to my favorites.

So far I have found a few but not as many as you would expect. I got started on this because I thought about all the people out there who are blogging regularly and it is one chance in hundreds of thousands that you hit them and while some of them are not worth looking at, (partially because they are not maintained) there are many that are worth looking at. I found just such a blog tonight since this is a day for taking it easy (and wiping my nose a lot... I hate colds!)

I really like this blog because her pictures are inspiring. I really like this blog a lot because she talks about all aspects of life. I like this blog a lot because there is so much about art. From hand made tiles from Algeria to fashion from Afghanistan, this woman has a lot to say about lovely things world wide. How interesting.

Sometimes I read other blogs and think why can't I make my blog interesting like that. But ultimately we all are what we are and we can only hope that someone reads what we have to say and find it interesting enough to take something away. How cool it is to be able to touch someone's life and not even know it. It is very fulfilling.

Oh yeah check out my links for her blog. Anarkali

It's Coming

I look out my window in front of my computer and see the dullness of the day and I haven't been able to get warm all morning. We separated our lambs yesterday morning and saw the end to our old friend Jelly. She had been ailing for days and I knew there was no out for her. We tried everything that we could find in the books but all she did was hang her head and stand listlessly in the barnyard then she started throwing up green stuff and we knew we couldn't let her suffer any longer. We knew it was coming but it was still a shock to our systems when we put her out of her misery. Daughter #2 went inside so she wouldn't have to see and Daughter #1 and I stood helplessly by with a few tears for our old happy faced sheep. It was a quick end and she was buried in our yard as our good friends always are. Meanwhile the lambs were not happy with being separated from their moms. I like to wait till the end of September before weaning the lambs as it gives them every opportunity for growth. Problems is we always know what's coming next. Two days of solid baaaa-ing from the lambs and moms as they complain about being separated. But if we want lambs next year they have to be weaned now. That brings me bake to looking out my window and not being able to get warm...

Last night after an afternoon of paddling, and a morning of lambs and sheep my body finally gave in to whatever Daughter #2 came home from school with on Friday. She was feeling miserable all weekend and last night I started to notice my throat was feeling sore. I hoped that a good night of sleep would help me shake it off... but I knew it was coming. With the H1N1 virus around I feel this ominous presence hanging over me. Sore throats this year are nothing to sniff at. Daughter #2 is home today and we both had rotten nights trying to get good sleep. It didn't happen and somehow when I went to bed I knew that was coming too.

I just checked the forecast and they are calling for snow in the next few days and while I knew that was coming somehow I didn't want it for a while yet.

So here I sit... I was supposed to be spinning today with a friend on the level 3 homework but instead I'm just relaxing with a little knitting and some Tylenol and a box of tissues. I'm working on a new project for my Christmas gift exchange with the guild. Our theme this year is totes. I am making mine with a fat yarn in pretty autumn colours. I hope it is nice when done.

Between winter and H1N1 and a few deadlines, sometimes I hate it when I know things are coming.