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It’s Spring, and it is shaping up to be a delightful one. This has been one long year and a half. (Did we even have a spring last year? … with all that has gone on, it is sort of hard to remember.
Good things, great things have been happening lately.
Bill has recovered enough to return to work (2 weeks under his belt now), and is gradually making progress to full recovery.
Great things have been happening on my work front. I am looking forward to seeing what happens next!!
And, I saved the big tease for last… Here is what I am getting to buy/ work on lately.
Yes, yes, tis true. I get to knit for a wee one. I have been sitting on this news for a week, but did not want to go public with it until after our girl had been to the doctor and gotten the official confirmation and a due date. (December 1) So, now we have a baby to look forward to, and I have graduated from just another old knitter to a knitting grandma-to-be!!
1. Roasting a turkey in a convection oven makes a royal mess. You see, that fan in the oven just throws that grease from the turkey skin everywhere. From now on, I stick to oven roasting bags.
2. Knitting lace with laceweight alpaca on wooden knitting needles is a BAD idea.
3. When we gave out our new address to people likely to send us something, they all thought it was just a suggestion.
4. Fedex will leave a package at a totally uninhabited duplex that has a FOR RENT sign on it. (See #3).
5. People will help themselves to unattended item in #4.
6. iPod Touches are totally addictive.
7. How to blog from the iPod Touch.
(At least I think so. We’ll find out in a moment.)
Found this while browsing the web this morning. Quite weird pictures though. How many shall I knit you for the holidays?
Happy Thanksgiving to all! Ours will be low key. Maybe watch a parade, then go out “somewhere” to eat.
No company expected, and we aren’t traveling to see family, well at least until Sunday when I drive to Atlanta for a meeting Monday. I will stop off at my step mom’s for the night.
ETA: Also, a she was a mistake, Ruth. I was trying to update my sidebar and she decided to reproduce herself. Uh… somehow, that sounds all wrong.
We took a few days in the mountains around the Georgia/North Carolina border. Resting up, getting up in the morning whenever we feel like it, visiting quaint mountain towns, browsing log cabin furnishing stores and enjoying multi-color foliage. We don’t get much in the way of leaf color change where we live. That is about the only thing I miss from Tennessee. The weather and leaves have been gorgeous:
A fitting scene for the season:
And a leisurely drive to visit the gift shop at John C. Campbell, where I bought 2 books on primitive rug hooking.
This is my first finished project of woven cotton. It was really knitting yarn and has quite a sheen to it.
You may be surprised what I am using it for. See, we have some nice walk in closets with wood shelving in our master suite area, so this is a shelf protector. I quite like it, so likely will do a couple more at some point.
Okay, so maybe you didn’t want to look in my closet… but its my blog, and what you see is what you get.
In other news, here’s what I did today:
Be sure to go forth and do likewise!!
Sometimes I just get tired of the mainstream women’s magazines. Mind you, I am not talking about good stuff like Spin Off and knitting magazines. I mean the major ones that are supposed to have a general appeal to all women. You know the ones I am talking about. Anyhow, I was delighted and amazed to discover a relatively new magazine that has a huge bundle of great topics, more relevant to us crafty types. The magazine is Hobby Farm Home, and covers such intriguing subjects as wreath making, needle felting, rug hooking, organic gardening and follows in each issue some sort of class going on at John C. Campbell Folk School. In addition, they have awesome recipes (I just made a yummy pumpkin/apple bundt cake from the current issue) and tips on stocking your pantry. This is the best magazine I have come across in who knows when
So, if you are looking for something fresh and different, this is the ticket. (By the way, I bought it at Tractor Supply!!!)
We live in an area that is not that keen on fairs. Of course, most of the living around here is coastal rather than rural/agrarian. Not that there is not a fair handy nearby. There is a fair in Brunswick, but we went once and were not impressed. It definitely is ALL about the midway and nothing else. The home arts displays/contests leave much to be supplied. So, when I found out there was a small, regional fair around 1 hour away, I decided we should give it a look-see. We went last night. Admittedly, it was very small, but we got to see goats, sheep, bunnies, chickens (included one who looked like Tina Turner, I kid you not!!), cows and horses. We weren’t expecting much else, but they had a “farm” display section with representatives of all of the above, PLUS, a donkey and a very, very cute little male llama. They didn’t have too many home arts (only 3 knitted items that I could see, which ALL won blue ribbons – eh, how could they not if they were different items… one was a pair of socks, another a sampler afghan and the last a cotton dishcloth-in the youth division). All else was crocheted items. However, I spotted 2 very impressive items – one a very detailed, very small gauge counted cross stitch of a small town scene, which took the sweepstakes and the other, some sort of woven rag rug – I couldn’t quite figure the technique, but it had tapestry like detailing in it. Small though this fair was, it was enough to satisfy our urge to “go to the fair”. We had a very nice time all in all.
We are getting a nice, soaking rain today which should be great for the additional sod we added to the sides and back of our house.
I’ve ordered a beginner primitive hooked rug kit and hope it will come today. It will be a nice thing to tackle on a dark rainy day, don’t you think?
Life would not be nearly so interesting without stuff like this.
My husband and I are both assessed with a tax from a state where we no longer reside. The purpose of this post is not to debate the fairness of this issue but to relate what happened to us this year.
Recently, I got a notice that mine was “past due”. Of course, they added a hefty amount of interest to the amount for it being past due. Uh, I don’t think so!! So, we visited the bank and got a photocopy of the check where we had paid it (on time, I must add). Upon calling to inform the assessors of this, we learned that my name was in the system twice. Once was last name first, first name last and the other was just the opposite, first name first, last name last. You guessed it! They thought “both” of us owed the tax. Okay, c’mon, even a fifth grader could figure that one out.
What a relief to have grass and landscaping. Especially the grass. You cannot imagine (unless you are Sally or Elayne) what a muddy mess it has been around here.
Sod was delivered yesterday and laid today. (Fortunately, we did not have to do it. We were able to hire some folks to do this at a reasonable price! Which totally thrilled me to death. Our last house, we sodded our own. 
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I think it is starting to look quite respectable around here now.
Here’s a close up – just because I can.
And, a close up of the front landscaping. We are supposed to get some rain tonight. I surely hope so!
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