Okay, I gave in. I decided not to join the anniversary Pi KAL because I have too many projects and also I could not get the pattern of my desire to work! :crazy: but… oh well. I may or may not get though it but I’ve started, anyway. And speaking of starts… I’m sure Ms Emily is a clever knitter but I can’t seem to get her cast on to work either (it must not be my year for knitting! :confused: lol) but I came up with my own that I think is much less complicated and looks quite nice in MHO. The pattern starts with 9 CO so I cast on three and knitted three into each stitch. Each on a separate dp and went from there. It lays flat and there aren’t any noticeable lumps or holes. So this is how far I am. Only time will tell if it gets any bigger! :laugh:
Good luck with yours!

This is one of the passes I have to cross to visit Sis. I got to spend an extra day with her this last time because it was snowing and chains only. Here it is in bright sunshine and still wearing it’s new winter coat. Very pretty. I wasn’t able to get a pic of Scott Mt. pass this time but it was also extraordinarily beautiful! The crews had both lanes open when I came back but going up I negotiated a single grader blades width, hoping there was no one coming the other way! lol Lucked out. Not much going on here, knitting, weaving, laundry… you know. But just wanted to say Hi to any visitors. Maybe we’ll try switching “comments” back on and give it a try. There was so much spam we had to turn that option off. 😦 My email is dorleska (at) tds.net if anybody wants to email. I do enjoy hearing from you all. 🙂
Hope you’re all staying warm!

Well, I did it. And himself got it together so I did my first 20 minutes today. Petty wimpy, I’m sure. I started slowly as they recommended and got to a top speed of 2.5mph. The machine said I went 3/4 of a mile and burned 80 some calories. That doesn’t even cover breakfast but I’m told the effect keeps burning extra ones all day. And I’m sure it’ll get better. I did do the heart pulse thing but I forgot what it was and don’t “get” that anyway. I’ll have to do some research. I’m pretty sure it wasn’t much. I was just breaking a sweat but my legs could feel it. I’m told to pansy along for a couple weeks. Well, maybe. 🙄 However, I feel justified because it’s snowing this morning. I couldn’t go out to walk, I’d freeze my buns off! On second thought… lol :laugh:
You can see Robin checking it out there at the bottom of the photo. He was NOT impressed. I didn’t see Taz at all. She hid when I got out the vacuum and hasn’t come out yet! 😛

Here we are warbling away on Christmas in 1978. I can guarantee it didn’t keep me young! lol That’s me in the green there in front. Sister Rosy in yellow concentrating on the accompaniment. X-sis in law in blue, and the one who looks like a hungry baby bird is sister Elsie. I’m pretty sure the red shirt in the background is brother John strumming along on his guitar The lady in the striped shirt is Momma, our soprano. We used to be pretty good, actually. Rosy kept it up and has recently sung with a community chorus. Elsie sings with her church group, as did Momma. Johnny is a guitar maker and singer, too. He’s had a band and his original music is featured on our weaving DVD. I croak along with the radio these days but too many years of The Bad Habit pretty much took away my singing career. Still, it was fun and I think there still survives some taped evidence.
Ahhh… the Good Old Days!

This time it’s snow instead of the Tropic Express and it’s supposed to quit this evening. That will give us enough to be pretty without being a nuisance. 😛 Not much happening this time of year. I knit, I weave, I work in the shop. I cook and clean and do laundry, feed dogs and husband and grandmother. You know, regular stuff. I read and type here and sing along with the radio. I read recently that singing helps keep you both mentally and physically healthy. Couldn’t hurt! 😀
So I guess I’ll go back to knitting.
Ooooh! Himself just broke into song, too! lol Never thought to hear that! :laugh:
Hope you’re having a musical evening!

Got a lot of weaving done these last 2 1/2 days since the power has been out! The print in my book was a bit small for reading by lamp light tho I did get in a few chapters. I’m not saying what I’m making here because I have a Project in mind and it seems best to me to keep these things “under my hat” until they’re proven! ! 💡
That last storm didn’t flood us (knock knock!) but it was heavy. Sis calls it Glop which is a very descriptive word. Heavy, looks like snow but is very blue because of the 95% water content! My poor willow is broken, there were trees, limbs, and power poles down everywhere and the PUD guys worked pretty close to 37 straight hours trying to get us back up. They sent them home to sleep last night so they didn’t get us (at the end of the line) up until this morning. And guess what? It’s Glopping again! 😦 Well, it’s better than flooding, there has been a pause between then to allow the streams to run-off a bit.
Grandmother has lived in her kitchen which is the only place with heat when the power’s off and has done very well, but will be glad not to have to go down that cold hallway to the Little Room.
Meantime I’m getting my electronic and electrical stuff done this morning… just in case! lol

Hope 2006 is starting Bright and Warm for you!

Cori wasn’t sure about unwrapping her present herself, but she was intrigued by the fact that it had a squeaker! :confused: I helped her unwrap it and she caught right on. It took her awhile last year before she’d go near her “kitty” but the Cat Burglar has just the right something, I guess! 😀 We tug-a-war-ed and played catch and fetch and when everyone else pooped out she laid on her back and played with him by herself.
Randy and I had a nice Xmas, too. He bought me a mystery on CD and a book of Cryptograms for use in the small room. In fact, it’s shaped like a commode! lol But I’m getting a new chair as soon as we can get to town again. I got him several smaller things and Grandmother liked her new flannel gowns, too. She likes to sleep cozy. Probably my most unexpected present was from Rosy who presented me with a lovely little trinket box containing a lovely… you can’t call a thing like that a doily!.. doily called Alita, she says. Very like the Stor Rund Dug she knitted for herself and just as beautiful. And of the same yarn, unless I’m very much mistaken. (It happens! lol 🙄 ) It is just beautiful! Randy just said, “That’s the kind of thing you pass down to your daughter.” Yes, it is, and she IS going to have to wait! Rosy’s Stor Rund Dug is in the archives about Oct. 27th, if you missed that. It is sprinkling this morning but will still be a wonderful day.

And I have the Christmas corned beef in the crock pot… so I get the day off, too! 😉

I hope you all have as nice a Christmas.
🙂

In spite of the fact that I look pretty depressed I am bubbling with joy to have finished this sweater AND to have it fit just as it should! 😀 I think it tuned out very well indeed! I used some light worsted weight cormo wool that we dyed purple. It was supposed to be done for the Red Hat Xmas party but I didn’t make it. Oh well, I am really happy with it, in any case. This is the first lace thing I’ve done for myself and I give credit to my sister Rosy for getting me to try lace with the PI shawl and to the EZasPi list for lessons from Liz and encouragement from all the listers! I think I have learned more from this group than from any I’ve joined. Thank you!
Today I cast on with left-over purple, a cap pattern I found on the web, and it turned out to be based on the center motif from the Feather and Fan shawl from GOL, that I am knitting with thread as a table cloth. Irony::rolleyes: I put a plain center in my tablecloth as that one looked too difficult. I just realized that I had knit it in my cap quite easily! lol 😛

You can see the side front here, it is bolero length, short, but I don’t think it’s too bad. The back is plenty long for warmth without being heavy. I also think the sleeve turned out nicely with the stockinet stitch. Relieves the lace and even sets it off a bit.

:O Or, at least, the grouse should have stayed in the apple tree instead of flying at low altitude across highway 3 just at that dim time of evening as Randy was coming home from work. It would have been better for both of them. Randy wasn’t hurt, tho his truck windshield came off badly. Needless to say the grouse didn’t fair as well. He wasn’t even sure it was a grouse, he saw a streak of grey for a fraction of a second and later found a couple of grey down feathers. About the only birds big enough to do that would be a grouse or an owl, could have been either. Tho now that I think about it, the owl does seem more likely at that time of night.
Well, it means a trip to town but could have been worse. A friend rolled her station wagon loaded with wash tubs of blackberries for canning when she got an owl some years ago. They were unhurt but there were mashed blackberry’s everywhere! :blush: