Movin'
Even though it needs some work, I've moved my blog to
HERE.
April 22, 2008
April 18, 2008
Lilacs of White
For Rox (from a few years ago...maybe even last year)
And this is what my garden looks like, now.
...in my dreams. (Picture from about 2 years ago.)
It's almost halfway to beautifully empty and this weekend I'm going to figure out the planting chart, clean off the plant shelves and light fixtures, and start my seeds!
ALL TOMORROW.
Stop rolling around and get up off the floor. You look really silly down there, laughing your head off.
April 13, 2008
Green Hope
Yesterday was 72 degrees and today it's 51. But these plants don't care. They know that Spring is here!
The Clematis, which has no idea that I'm going to have to cut it back so we can re-install our pergola. Last year we had a wind storm and the pergola blew over. We stood it up - UPside down, that is - until we had time to anchor it properly and the clematis swarmed over it. Yes, in this household a year is a perfectly acceptable amount of time before something is fixed. Sigh.
P.J.M. Rhododendron, soooo close to opening!
And my favorite lilac, Mme. Lemoine. Soon it's going to burst into beautiful, fragrant, white flowers. I can almost smell it now!!
April 11, 2008
Whine, Bitch and Moan
This one's not for the faint of heart.
I'm behind (895 posts) on my Google Reader blogs. I'm still here
It takes a lot of time to accomplish nothing while Tom's away. I haven't had any spare time with nothing to show for it but I do have lots of take-out in the fridge.
Yeah, there have been the pains in my left arm, the tingling in my left hand and foot, the pain behind my right knee even when I'm not moving. Doctor's appointment Tuesday morning.
The popular consensus of the bowling gals (add them all up and they have about a gazillion years of doctor's visits - that's gotta count for something) is that the left side is some sort of nerve thing. I'll take that, considering that this weekend I thought I'd have to call 911, while Mom was visiting. That panicked me more than anything else. The right side...no one heard my moaning about that so no medical diagnosis.
Wes and I miss Tom and sleep is pretty much a distant memory. Rox and I should be having midnight phone conversations, at this point.
And I just found out that most of our lawn will have to be ripped up and re-done. Why can't I just plant wildflowers and let it be?
Whine, Bitch and Moan. You pay us nothing unless we MAKE YOU MONEY!
April 08, 2008
Clever Girl
I just spent 3 days with my Mom in a non-stop, on the go, what are we doing next, marathon. At one point I think I had a stress attack but recovered after an hour of not RUNNING...and some ice cream. It heals all, you know.
It was a nice visit but DAMN am I tired! We rented movies but only saw 3 out of 6 and did errands and such. And I took pictures of her rainbow of knitted t's. She loves the sweater and keeps doing different patterns: basket weave, mistake rib, garter stripes.
The green and red are done in Dale of Norway's Svale. The dark blue is (Dale) Stork. And the others are all Kraemer's Yarn Tatamy Tweed. She loves her some Tatamy Tweed!!
Of course, we managed to get to the LYS so she could buy yarn to make 2 more of them. LOL!
Considering she had said "I don't mind if we just sit and knit and relax.", I only got about 6 rows done on the Mystic Light KAL shawl,
designed by Anna.
Oh! Is that a set of my stitch markers on her site? Who knew? ha ha
I'm blown away by how beautiful this looks. Even after I pinned it out I couldn't see the pattern until I took the picture. WOW!!
The yarn is Tempted Yarns "Roxanne" colorway.
At this point, I'm still on Clue #1 and #3 comes out tomorrow. My hope is that I can finish the shawl by the end of the Summer. But that's ONLY if I finish the vest first!
I got the cutest set of stitch markers, this week. They're from Wild Fire Fibres.
Teeny tomatoes. Perfect for the knitting gardener!!
And check out Shan's latest "Oh this? I whipped this up without a pattern." A CUPCAKE of an idea! It's at the end of the April 4th post. She's a clever girl!
And I say "girl" because if she's within 10 years of my age...in either direction...she's a GIRL, dammit!
Blogless Jane came by today and helped me start organizing the knitting room. We were going to do some work on the yarn but we both got a bit overwhelmed and scared at all of the hidey places I have found, so we decided to begin with the patterns. And, yes, she went home with 1 or two.
Someday this
will all fit into these.
Stop laughing. It could happen.
She found my "License To Knit" license plate and said "Either you use this or you throw it out." And then we both started to laugh. (If you watch any of those home organizing shows, it's something they always say to threaten the homeowner to use it or lose it.)
She doesn't scare me!
