Life in General

Sorry I haven't posted in a while. Life got in the way. We all know what that is like. My desk top computer crashed. All my pictures and files are on that computer. I have to wait for the computer guru to come home in 4 months from schooling in Louisiana before we try to retrieve my pictures and files.... I have a few pictures on the camera now, but I have to think on which way will be better to upload either through Kodak Easy Share or with just the disk... Have to play with this first...

We went camping over the Memorial Day Weekend. Went to Pio Pico, just out side of Chula Vista. It was OK. The weather was beautiful. The Hubster invited friends. Steve and 2 marines. I had the twins with us. 5 years old, boy and a girl. I think I need to put my foot down and not let him invite people. Plus no more grand kids for a while! Because some guest are just like having more kids to have to take care of and clean up after. Just my own thoughts here. The Hubster loves having all the extra company.

I ended up not feeling well, had a bad sore throat and cough, I was downing NyQuil at night, just so I could sleep, HA! not much of that. So I felt very lethargic during the day. Like all I wanted to do was sleep.

I didn't do any knitting. My intentions was to do a lot of it. But that didn't happen. Oh well! Next time. Man I should have brought a book! I thought of it. But so wanted to do the knitting. Again...Oh well!!

I hope to get some more pictures and post a little more often. I'll work on that.

See ya next time.................!

Miss Felicity's New Gift

My Husbands Aunt came out to visit the family here in California from New York. So I decided to make a scarf to give her. She is such a sweet (feisty), little woman, I love her as is she was my own auntie. So I found a pattern on Ravelry that I liked and then went shopping in the Closet Yarn Shop for yarn. I settled for Louisa Harding's Kimono Angora. The Pattern was CROCHARGOSY by Christie Pruitt. Loved the pattern after I got the hang of it. I had to have it finished by or before Saturday. By Friday I was just a bit over half way finished, I finished it about 2:25 AM Saturday, blocked it and went to bed. That is maybe the only reason I crochet now-days Because it is so quick! If I need something in a few days I crochet it. Other wise give me the knitting needles. She Likes the scarf.

What a Wonderful World

WTF... Did I Do? I Don't Know?

This is my first pair of socks.
My Knitting group (such lovely, lively friends that they are) decided that we were going to have a Sock KAL. So I went shopping in my closet and searched in my sock stash and came up with this yarn. Then went to the computer after I swatched and plugged in the info in the "Sock Wizard" program the Hubby bought for me and I copied the pattern...
No problem! See the heel on the finished sock? This is the heel in question?


I found out after many tries that I knitted best when I was alone locked behind my bedroom door. I think it took 8 or 9 tries to cast on one night at the Stamping Post on a Thursday night and gave up and when I got home and locked my self away, cast on again and had no problem... Now I know what a man feels like when he feels like he has to perform ... any way! I cast on and away I went.

Sorry for the glare.

The first sock is done and the second is well on its way. But wait! ..............

I was working on my foot when I showed Peggy at Daily Fiber Yarns when she noticed that my second sock heel was not the same and was just knit... so I ripped it back and had already decided I would do the same to the first sock to find out what I had done wrong. By then it became a group effort to find out what I did wrong with the heel of the first sock... I don't know what I did?

Really! I don't? This is the gusset of the first sock. It felt like I had double knitted the heel. WHAT? I don't know how to double knit. Have I mentioned I don't know what I did? Several ladies thought I double knitted this heel.... Nope! I don't know what I did?

The proof is in the pudding? I have two gussets on one sock? Go figure?

Knit stitch on one side purl on the back, "Did you knit in the round?" No, "Did you use two strands of yarn?"

No, "What did you do?" (If I knew that?.....) "I don't know what I did?" See the two layers? I knit back and forth, I did a slip st and knit across, slipped a stitch and knit across.... Or at least that is what I thought I did. Have I mentioned I don't pay attention very well? If it's going well then I just keep going.... I don't know what bad looks like yet. But I am learning! Well, anyway, don't do that? Take it from me! Pay attention!!!

I still don't know what I did?

The gusset! My friend Cheryl, told me the first time showed her my first sock when I finished it, She said "Why is your gusset so short?" Ummm! I don't Know? "it's usually 2 1/2 inches long?" Huh? "Did You follow the pattern?" Ummm! I thought I did?

Shit Judy, Your such a Dork!

Maybe I am ADHD? Or what ever it's called. I think I have it?

I guess I would be Darwin in "The Knitting Club" book.

I love mystery's.... I should write a book about the Sock Gusset Mystery!

Speaking of books. I just finished reading the The Knitting Club. WOW!

What a tear jerker. Or maybe it was to close to another friend with a similar story, who passed away all most a year ago. She owned a little yarn shop in Old Town Temecula. I and other ladies went to her shop on Tuesday nights for knit night.

Any way, My socks now sit in limbo. Waiting for the day I get back to them.... Currently I am doing a lace shawl with my friends, and then we are going to do a sweater.... Oh, that ought to go really well. I wonder how I am going to do this and try to have two sleeves where my arms should be and to make sure I don't double knit both sleeves in the same opening.... You know? This should prove it be interesting. Good DAY!

Critters And Yarn

The other day while out with my knitting buddies one of my friends were telling us about some yarn she bought at a local yarn shop in the area that is going out of business. The owner had died all most a year ago and her son's no longer want to continue the store. Anyway... she was showing us some wool she bought and it had critters living in it. there was several spots that the moths had ate through the strands and had laid eggs. EEEEEEEEEKKS!!! She thinks that the yarn already had the bugs in the yarn when she bought it. So she bagged her yarn and put it in the deep freezer. Well don't you know... I got to thinking about my yarn and what might be lurking in or around it! So this morning I got up and empties my little deep freezer out and started bagging up my yarn and putting it in the freezer unfortunately, I have more yarn than I have freezer... That rises another question. What type of yarn does these things eat? Do they just eat wool and animal type yarns. How about mixed yarns with maybe 10 or 20 % wool do they need to be frozen too? Then I would have to ask how does one store yarn to keep the pesky little critters out of your yarns to keep them from re-infesting ones yarns with larvae or just plan ole eating up the goods? How do you store your yarn? Do you put them in large totes or boxes? Do you store your wools in plastic bags? I have heard people say not to store yarn in plastic ... but they come from the manufactures that way? and yarn stores has the yarn in bags to keep the dust of them ... So what gives? What is the right way to keep our stash safe from these little critters. After this batch has been in the freezer for 2 days, then I will take them out and put in a new batch until all my yarn has been in the deep freezer for a few days.

Just Chillin'

Just Chillin' and I do mean chilling! my fingers are frozen, I am afraid to go to the bathroom cuz I know that seat is cold. I sound like I am in Minnesota or North Dakota, Huh? Nope, last time I checked I was still is sunny Southern California, where it's never ... OK, Where it sometimes rains. What is with this weather? One day it is hot, the next day it is cold. No wonder everyone is Catching colds. HEY! Mr Weatherman - person! What's UP? OK, To be honest I would rather it be cold. Because I could go in and turn my furnace on. That's why it is cold in the house. But still. Soon enough it will be one hundred and 3 degrees out in the shade. Well, if you can find any shade that is. If I was me, I would just go hang out at the LYS and bask in all the glorious yarn (and sneeze and itch my fool head off) and chat with all the local buddies for a bit. Well ... OK, till they run me off. OK, there I said it! I think that I should just set up house there at the The Fiber Shop and just knit or crochet what ever trips my trigger. Oooh, I could play with the cot soy, now that is nice and soft, or the milk. Callie has made 5 fingerless mitts with it. So maybe I should make one of these mitts. I need to buy some to make a lace shawl, Well maybe I should buy some bamboo for that instead, or ... Maybe, I'll just read a book. that's what I think I really want to do. No more knitting and just hibernate till I read a couple of books then get back into the fiber stuff again. I read on the average of 10 to 20 books a year. Use to be more. But I found a new addiction and like all addictions it is a costly one. A few friends ask me why I don't get into spinning ... Well, duh! It's like growing pot. Why grow pot if you can run down to the nearest corner and buy a baggie, I can run down to my nearest yarn shop and buy a hank of pretty stuff and not have to have a million dollar light bill just to grow it. (all though those alpaca's are sure cut) I am on a budget at the moment. I need to slow down a bit and DE-stash for a while. But then that brings to mind why it is an addiction. It's a no-win situation. But seriously... I think I need to read a book or two and then knit up a sweater, finish my socks and start in on the lace shawl. Hum, that brings up another thought. If I read, then that means I don't do any house work and I don't get a lot of sleep ... so I would have to clean up the house first then sit and read or I could just go hang out with my thready friends and skip all the other drama... Shiesh! I'm tired! I think I'll go back to bed and stay warn and think about this later. ga-Night!

The Big USC GrannyGhan

We are back to Normal Posts, I have a few more "Shock Talks" but I will save them for another day.

Finally uploaded my pictures to the computer early (4:am) this morning. So I can post pictures of some of my Christmas Gifting. This is Steve's USC afghan we gave him for Christmas, He also has a USC scarf and hat that he received for his birthday, which I posted on earlier in December. So glad when I finally finished it. This is just regular ole Redheart yarn, no pattern. I seem to do a lot of "crochet" when I am in a crunch to get gifts finished on time. I usually will "knit" when I have plenty of time to work at my own pace. But I really like making gifts for family and friends. Hubby says Steve-O really likes his Ghan. That's good!

How do you know when your butt smells?

OK, I know this is really different maybe even GROSS! But WHF!!! How can you not know? I mean if you was a baby that would be different. Right?

Now this poor mamma, I am sure she would know better than to leave Winnie the Poo hiding in her drawers ... Right? Right? You would think that Thelma walking next to her friend would say ... "Hey Louisa? Girl friend you smell not so fresh chica, Did you wash this morning? Where did these flies come from?" "How do you know I didn't wash today Thelma? I did a quick in and out this morning. Why?"

I don't know about you but I don't want to go to Louisa's house for dinner! Does she wash her hands after digging? Ha! Ha! Ha! WTF??????

Life Goes On.

WOW! this weather is sure mimicking my feelings the past couple days. It wants to rain, it rains a bit, It stops. Just rain and get it over. We need the rain to clense the earth and replenish the underground rivers and the above ground lakes and for it to snow in the mountains. It's chilly, gray and dismal. Very unlike this kind of weather we had in Iowa. Durring the rainy weather there it would be so bleak and dreary that people commited suicide. Between being caught in the recession and not working ... BLAH, BLAH, BLAH!
My youngest daughter was pregnant, she had been having troubles from the beginning with excessive bleeding and then being on bed rest before going back to work, being the sole bread winner of her little family was not easy on her. I said she "was" because she called her sister last night to tell us that her membrane had ruptured and she was heading to the hospital, She called again this morning to tell me that she had given birth to a little girl. The wee one of coarse didn't make it. She said the baby had a heart beat last night but was stillborn this morning. She was only four months along in her pregnancy. I was about to start a baby afghan for her child to be. But now I think I need to make her a comfortghan instead. Maybe one that has a baby girl afghan in the center and darker colors surrounding. OK, lets think cheery thoughts and plan a nice afghan or maybe a beautiful shawl that she can wrap around herself in and make plans for the future.

Don't ever question the bravery of this soldier......

OMG!!!!

What was she thinking?

I don't mean to be mean .... but! WTF!

DANCE

Will you dance with me?

READ THIS VERY SLOWLY..... IT'S PRETTY PROFOUND. Too many people put off something that brings them joy just because they haven't thought about it, don't have it on their schedule, didn't know it was coming or are too rigid to de part from their routine. I got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night in an effort to cut back. From then on, I've tried to be a little more flexible. How many women out there will eat at home because their husband didn't suggest going out to dinner until after something had been thawed? Does the word 'refrigeration' mean nothing to you? How often have your kids dropped in to talk and sat in silence while you watched ' Jeopardy ' on television? I cannot count the times I called my sister and said, 'How about going to lunch in a half hour?' She would gas up and stammer, 'I can't. I have clothes on the line. My hair is dirty. I wish I had known yesterday, I had a late breakfast, It looks like rain.' And my personal favorite: 'It's Monday.' She died a few years ago. We never did have lunch together. Because We Americans cram so much into our lives, we tend to schedule our headaches. We live on a sparse diet of promises we make to ourselves when all the conditions are perfect! We'll go back and visit the grandparents when we get Steve toilet-trained. We'll entertain when we replace the living-room carpet... We'll go on a second honeymoon when we get two more kids out of college. Life has a way of accelerating as we get older. The days get shorter, and the list of promises to ourselves gets longer. One morning, we awaken, and all we have to show for our lives is a litany of 'I'm going to,' 'I plan on,' and 'Someday, when things are settled down a bit.' When anyone calls my 'seize the moment' friend, she is open to adventure and available for trips. She keeps an open mind on new ideas. Her enthusiasm for life is contagious. You talk with her for five minutes, and you're ready to trade your bad feet for a pair of Roller blades and skip an elevator for a bungee cord.. My lips have not touched ice cream in 10 years. I love ice cream. It's just that I might as well apply it directly to my stomach with a spatula and eliminate the digestive process The other day, I stopped the car and bought a triple-Decker. If my car had hit an iceberg on the way home, I would have died happy. Now...go on and have a nice day. Do something you WANT to......not something on your SHOULD DO list. If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting? Make sure you read this to the end; you will understand why I am writing this to you. Have you ever watched kids playing on a merry go round or listened to the rain lapping on the ground? Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight or gazed at the sun into the fading night? Do you run through each day on the fly? When you ask ' How are you?' Do you hear the reply? When the day is done, do you lie in your bed with the next hundred chores running through your head? Ever told your child, 'We'll do it tomorrow.' And in your haste, not see his sorrow? Ever lost touch? Let a good friendship die? Just call to say 'Hi? When you worry and hurry through your day, it is like an unopened gift....Thrown away..... Life is not a race Take it slower. Hear the music before the song is over. It's National Friendship Week.. Show your friends and Knitting Buddies how much you care. Copy and send this to everyone you consider a FRIEND. If it comes back to you, then you'll know you have a circle of friends. To those that read this... I cherish our friendship and appreciate all you do. 'Life may not be the party we hoped for... but while we are here we might as well dance!

Twenty Nine Lines To Make You Smile

TWENTY NINE LINES TO MAKE YOU SMILE
1 .. My husband and I divorced over religious differences. He thought he was God and I didn't .
2 .. I don't suffer from insanity; I enjoy every minute of it.
3.. Some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them.
4.. I used to have a handle on life, but it broke .
5.. Don't take life too seriously; No one gets out alive.
6.. You're just jealous because the voices only talk to me
7.. Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder .
8.. Earth is the insane asylum for the universe .
9.. I'm not a complete idiot -- Some parts are just missing.
10... Out of my mind. Back in five minutes .
11.. NyQuil, the stuffy, sneezy, why-the-heck-is-the- room-spinning medicine.
12.. God must love stupid people; He made so many.
13.. The gene pool could use a little chlorine.
14.. Consciousness: That annoying time between naps.
15.. Ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
16.. Being 'over the hill' is much better than being under it!
17.. Wrinkled Was Not One of the Things I Wanted to Be When I Grew up .
18 Procrastinate Now!
19.. I Have a Degree in Liberal Arts; Do You Want Fries With That?
20.. A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
21.. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.
22.. Stupidity is not a handicap. Park elsewhere!
23.. They call it PMS because Mad Cow Disease was already taken .
24 .. He who dies with the most toys is nonetheless DEAD.
25.. A picture is worth a thousand words, but it uses up three thousand times the memory.
26 .. Ham and eggs...A day's work for a chicken, a lifetime commitment for a pig.
27.. The trouble with life is there's no background music .
28.. The original point and click interface was a Smith & Wesson.
29.. I smile because I don't know what is going on.
Appreciate every single thing you have, especially your friends! Life is too short and friends are too few. And if you don't haqve friends, Join a Knitting Group!!!

Are You Bored?

Are You Bored?

Here are a couple of games you might like to play. My brother sends me these games, why he thinks I would want to play them I don't know ... they are kind of fun. if not stupid. It's something to do when you have nothing better to do..... like knit?


http://thedogpaddler.com/RandomUploads/Ball/ball.htm


Click here: Ball


http://majman.net/fly_loader.html


Click here: :::: fly swatter ::::

Pathfinder Control

Click here: http://www.hurtwood.demon.co.uk/Fun/copter.swf

THINK YOU CAN FLY A HELICOPTER?

Read directions first before you start...
You must hold the left mouse button down to go up... release to go down...
Some people have worn their finger out on this...
If you are working for a living, do not forward to your co-workers...
The rest of the day will be useless to the company...
Think you can fly a helicopter?
Click on the link below and give it a whirl!
Click on: Fly a helicopter

Such A Cute Baby!!

Isn't this just the cutest baby picture? Baby looks a little Chinky, but he isn't. This baby was a

10 lb bundle of hunger! Rumer has it he put his mommy in the nut ward at Bellvue Hospital in New York. Don't babies that big come pottie trained? They should.

In Memory of A Friend....

Wow, When I woke up this morning, I learned that our friend Harvey Wicker passed away last evening around 9 o'clock or so. Mr Wicker if you remember in a couple of post back was diagnosed this past September with Pancreatic Cancer. His wife Linda, called my husband this morning to tell us that he had passed. He will have a Memorial at the Mira Mar Marine base and burial at the Military cemetery in Riverside. I feel numb. We'll miss you Harvey.

FotM - Friday Night Knit Night

To night was the first of the month Friday Night Knit Night at The Daily Fiber Yarn shop in Murrieta. One of two nights that I go and knit with some of my friends during the week. The first Friday of every month they have a special "KNIT NIGHT". But because of the Holidays they postponed it till the second Friday this month. Lots of ladies come and sit, knit,chat and buy lots of yarn. On the FotMFNKN they have drawings.

Tonight Karen B. ( a hank of yarn), Marcie K. (a book) , Jean Marie (a bag) , Jerry (I don't know what she won) and I were the blessed ones. This was my winning loot. A Cornucopia Sock Kit. 3 hanks of Kollage CORNTASTIC, that is 100% corn and 1 hank of Kollage POP. I am trying to knit a pair of socks right now... HA! I know why I don't garden much. Because not only do I have a Brown thumb, but I also have ten of the offending short brown digits. I am all thumbs. So, I was thinking of trying to do either magic loop or socks on 2 circs, its got to be easier!. I have to have something to show on Wednesday morning... HELP MR. WIZARD!!!!

I missed a few of my main buddies tonight. Cally went to a Hockey game. LeeAnn was home

(after work), It was her daughters birthday. Happy Birthday Ashley!!! LeeAnn also said she wasn't feeling to well, Cheryl was home recovering from working out. Stephanie was home hobbling around with the vacuum cleaner (thats just a joke!), after having a skiing accident this week (poor girl! take care of your self Steph, please!) But heck, I am glad I came, Cuz I almost stayed home too! I wouldn't have won the sock kit!!!

The usual was there, I was hoping our friend Hester, would be there. Hester has been MIA for a few months taking care of her brother in England and had just got back a few days ago, Jet lag probably caught up to her. Well I guess that has bored you long enough so on to searching for info...

The Big C word

These are the colors that represent the different cancers.
Do you know or have anyone that was diagnosed with cancer? light a candle for them...

In Memory of....

In 1982 I lost my mother to cancer. she had a tennis ball size mass on her lungs. And yes she smoked cigarettes. My mother was 60 yrs old.


I have a brother and sister that was diagnosed with colon cancer last year. Tom, my oldest brother found out when his was already stage 4 and while doing well, isn't doing all that well. I haven't heard from my sister how she is doing but know that she has had surgery and all I know to date on her, is that she is doing OK. This past summer Our knitting group lost a dear friend to breast cancer at the age of 47, and left behind 2 teenage sons. I have a niece in Iowa that was just diagnosed recently with Melanoma. Another good friend of ours found out that he has Pancreatic cancer, My husband has gone to see Mr Wicker a few times and related back to me that he is not doing to well. Mr Wicker and his wife Linda are, our camping buddies. Pancreatic cancer is a nasty cancer to have. Well truth be told any cancer is a nasty thing to have. So out of thought and love, I will light a candle and say a prayer to them. And to everyone else out there that has been diagnosed with cancer, I will say a prayer for them too.

Knitting for your animals

My brother has a Vizsla, that almost looks like this dog in this picture. I think one of these days I will have to make one for Mr Poncho. I think the ole boy would even more handsome.

Knitting for animals

This is the picture I mentioned in an earlier post of my friend Cally knitting a hood for someones dog. I think this is absolutely a hoot!

What well dressed dog would not want to sport a hat like this in the winter? Imagine how warm his little ears will be and any hot little bitch would just love to get his attention.

WOO HOO!!

Knit nights

I went to Knit night tonight at The Crochet Cafe, wasn't very many ladies only 4 of us. Ohhh! Let me say this first. Have you ever wondered what goes through your mind when you take your keys out of the ignition and you put them in your hand bag and you KNOW! ... this is not normal and your subconscious is telling you STOP!!! And you ignore it. And you get out of your car and you press the button down and as soon as you shut the door ... BAM!!! It hits you between the eyes what your subconscious was trying to tell you. and you foolishly tell yourself "How dumb that was". Lucky for me my hubby is a sweet man. As he got up and came right down and unlocked the car door for me, gave me a kiss after I got my stuff (purse, keys and knitting project) and I went bouncing back to the CC, and sat with "Have fun with the ladies" that's what my hubby calls them. "The Ladies". It was good to see these ladies.
I tell you I just love all my knitting friends, some more than others but I still love them. I have about 5 groups that I knit or crochet with. Anyway, when you need help, the majority is always willing to help fix your mistakes, if your down in the dumps, they give you a shoulder to whine on bit and then give you a good shove off it and put ya right back on your feet. There is a camaraderie that just can't be beat with Knitting and Crochet Groups. I applaud you my friends.