April Showers Bring May Thunderstorms!

Goodness we have had a lot of storms lately! But the bright side is very thing is fresh and green and smells so good, the roses, the jasmine the freshly cute grass.





Just ask Lily...



Or Molly...


But Rosie says that grass is itchy!


In knitting news, I am hoping to have the sock mate done by Sunday evening so I can start another Big Easy Vest for the hubby.

Happy Knitting!

What a week! Whew!

I am waiting for the bell to ring, seriously when will it stop. I have been so busy and I can't seem to get everything done that I normally do or want to do.
I had a deadline at work this week, which isn't really a problem other than I have to get the report approved for I send it out and I always send it for approval several days ahead of time and inevidibly it comes back to me the day it is due with issues or some sort, they found something I didn't or they had some history on the case I had no way of knowing and now things have to be revised. Although this time wasn't as bad I did at least not have to stand at the fax machine this time at 5:15 trying to get it faxed out to the applicant. And I did learn a lot from this weeks experience I just wish other people didn't want until the last minute. But that is okay just something to remember when I am in charge! LOL.

It was nice at the beginning of the week so I took sock on a field trip at lunch time.




I went outside to sit, but I needed to find a place where I wouldn't be bothered. So I went out behind our building there is a concrete sidewalk there, and a big green generator thing for the heating system so that wasn't running and then a huge field.
So I sat there because I figured no one would really be taking smoke breaks there and the shop guys grill out by the parking lot on their lunch break, which is cool but it was just a day when I wanted some peace and quiet and watch the clouds float by.






We saw lots of clouds. Little did I know how much rain those clouds were leading to us! And hail!


And I got some more eggs from the farm this week with one really funny looking egg!


It is a long skinny egg! LOL. We got a chuckle over it.


I finished planting the peppers this week after work, hooray!
I hope they do well I have never planted chili peppers before. I planted them in a different bed than the bell peppers, I didn't want those hotties to be a bad influence on the bells.

I also planted some geraniums...



While I was out planting I noticed this...



It is the rose bush I gave my mother her last Mothers Day.
It blooms every year for Mothers day despite my having moved it twice. And it blooms through the second week of September which was her birthday. It grows up to the gutters on the house and it had orginally been planted by the front door, but it was taking over the front porch and grabbing everyone coming in the house. It now as a knice place out back with plenty of room to grow and no one will bother it. I am thinking of getting an arbor for it to grow along. I think it would like that.

So to all you Moms and anyone to cares for someone else even if they have four legs instead of two, Happy Mothers Day!

Charity Knitting and Helping a Scout Help Others

Charity projects of all charity projects. There is a young lady named Kaitlyn who hasn’t been knitting very long but has already found away to use her knitting to help others.
She is a girl scout and as many may know the scouts are a service organization and one of the highest awards you can receive is based on your service to others. That is whay Kaitlyn is doing through knitting.
Here is her website Knitted Cap Knitwork If you would like to help Kaitlyn other young people less fortunate and/or experience a major medical event in their lives, please knit a hat or two and send it on to her. One group of knitters got together and sent her a donation of 82 hats! So that’s a good start but I bet she could use more hats, or other items to donate to young people in need!

Knit on!

Busy Week

Seriously, I don't even know what happened to it. One day I was working the next day, weekend. Just like that. I haven't posted the things I wanted to when I wanted to, but I plan to make up for that.
Even though work has been busy, I got to leave early one day last week to go the retirement party of a former boss. It was a good time and got to chat with old friends (pictures coming soon).
Then this weekend we had a broken water pipe in the kitchen. I don't mean a leaky pipe I mean this thing had a hole in it! Much time and devotion was spent in that repair, but it is fixed and we can once again run water in the sink and wash dishes. Hooray!

The weather has been wonderful this week and the roses are loving it!





The Star Jasmine will be blooming any day now.




I planted some veggies too, these are in the early stages.

It is hard to tell at this stage but those are bell peppers and tomatoes with merigolds.

Here is the raised garden which will soon hold cucumbers along with the Hosta.


The girls are having a nice weekend.

I don't have to come in now, do I?

Lily wants to know where the fleece went that mommy was skirting earlier.


And I have been working on a new sock.


For those you made in to maryland Sheep and Wool i hope it was as awesome and I thought it would be.

Happy Knitting

Storms

We actually had a super cell storm here yesterday. It was really wild and strange all at the same time. We don’t normally get those types of storms here. Major storms are usually confirmed to Nor’Easters and tropical storms, if not hurricanes.

The tornados touched down in places all around us but we were not affected, thank goodness! Because DH was up at work and I was at my job and we were about 25 miles from home and were so worried the whole way driving home about what we would find when we got there, mostly we were worried about the dogs.

There were others that were not so lucky. Some people lost nearly everything, houses were severely damaged, some business just not even there anymore. They think the biggest tornado to touch down was an F4, we just don’t get those here, it is amazing in a totally scary way. At least one funnel cloud made land fall off the water and damaged some cars. We do get those from time to time.

My heart goes out to all the people who lost so much yesterday, especially in Suffolk.

Today is a day for counting our blessings.

The Weekend Round up

Well, I have logged on with the intention of getting a post up about four times this week and for one reason or another couldn't manage it.
So here goes, a week long collection of thoughts and pictures.

Since this week is getting completely out of control and I haven’t been able to post all the entries I have started I thought I’d give you a quick week in review as it stands so far.

First, I hope everyone had a fabulous weekend and we are on the countdown to MSW . The weekends seem to be getting shorter and shorter for some reason. They should be longer because we have more light the evenings are longer I should have more time to do stuff right?
It has been raining pretty much constantly since Sunday. The patio is completely flooded and because things have been so dry I thought for sure it was drain off right away but it didn’t so now I have standing water outside the backdoor I am going to have to pump off of there if the sun doesn’t come out soon.

I am just about finished with the Big Easy Vest, here it is so far:






These are pictures from a couple of days ago when I had the front and back seamed and frankly I am quite proud of my seaming this time. Normally, it leaves a bit to be desired, due to my lack of sewing skills I think. But this time using the three needle bind off it looks really good.

I still need to get some buttons for it. But, I will do that this coming weekend most likely I don’t think I am going to have time this week to stop after work but you never know.

I got some good news this week. I have a new little cousin. My cousin and his wife had their second daughter, Morgan Haley. I can’t wait to meet her. Her older sister all of two years of age Reese Caroline is excited about having a baby sister too. I need to knit up a little something for her and I was thinking perhaps Reese might like a sock monkey or a bunny or something like that. I need to find a pattern and get rolling. Not that I haven’t known this little baby was coming, but some of us just work better under pressure. LOL.

I can’t believe April is almost over and May is almost here. May is booked too.

May 3rd – Maryland Sheep and Wool. A four hour drive from here. But hopefully some good knitting time if I can talk the hubby into driving.

May 23rd – 26th having wisdom teeth removed and recovery. Hopefully, some knitting time can be had during the recovery.

May 29th – June 1st Great Aunt and friends visiting from NC and will need entertaining and feeding. Probably not a lot of knitting time that weekend, but that is okay.
The garden tours will make up for it. There was talk of a trip to Busch Gardens but I think those plans have been changed so have to find something fun to do that day instead. Somehow I didn’t think my great aunt was the roller coaster type. And I’m sure they have many more things to do there than just the coasters, but not having been there myself in about 15 years I am not a good tour guide for that particular attraction. We do have President’s head park, which some friends and I thought would make a great paint ball course, but I don’t think anyone else thought it was a great idea.

But, I’m sure there will be great fun had by all by the time the weekend it over. I am going to need June just to recuperate from May. LOL.

I had a doctors appointment yesterday and I didn’t think I would have time to take the Vest with me and pick up stitches at the doctors office, so luckily I had the bright idea of grabbing some sock yarn and needles and taking that along instead, much more portable at this point. Sorry Vest. But as it turned out this was a fabulous idea, because I arrived 30 minutes early for my appointment (I had left in plenty of time because of all the crazies water on the road I thought it might take a little longer than usual. It didn’t. Then I cast on my socks and started knitting. I thought I was making pretty good progress when I measured an inch of K1P1 ribbing and decided to check the time, it was now noon! They were half an hour late on calling me back. As it turns out there had been some sort of emergency and the doctor was running behind. I waited a total of an hour and a half. Which is good for knitting time, not good when you really need to get back to work. I got in to see the doctor and was a little frustrated because it took her all of five minutes to look at the problem I was having and tell me she had no idea what it was and I needed to go to Dr. So N So and have him check it out. So I wasted 2 hours for this? She was admiring my sock and I was so frustrated I didn’t think to snap a picture of her holding it. Maybe the specialist she referred me to will be a good sport.

And aren't these lovely?



My dear blogless friend Anna brought these to me. She doesn't have a blog because she is too busy raising the producers of these, plus her own Romeny sheep, Alpaca and Angora goats. She had mad skills when it comes to spinning and knitting too!

Sunday Rainy Sunday

I'm sorry for the lack of content lately, it isn't for a lack of things going on but rather because so many things are going on right now. I have started so many blog entries only to be interrupted and then the not get back to it in a timely manner, not to mention actually getting something posted.
I'm just about finished with the Big Easy Sweater, a couple more inches on the back and then i am going to check the sizing make sure I don't need to make any adjustments and then I'll sew the back to the front. Only thing left after that is the ribbing edges.
It has been so much fun to make this, if it fits well and the hubster likes it I am going to make him one in every color! (that he'll wear) Of course he is computing costs the whole time wanting to know how many balls of yarn I have used so he knows how much the sweater costs. This is a skill that comes in handy sometimes, but frankly not over my knitting.
The girls are all healthy this week. We have found the source of Rosie's itchies and she now has new medicines to make her a brand new dog. I'm looking forward to that.

It is cloudy and raining here today. A good day for knitting!

Happy Knitting!