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Yesterday

Today

It's wet here....

The day started out very foggy. Now it's misting. It rained yesterday. More rain tonight, changing to snow. This is going to be a huge mess. We haven't been in our house for enough years to know if the basement gets wet. So far it isn't. But our 3rd DS's basement has water coming through the walls. Augh!

Fargo/Moorhead called off school in the colleges and high schools to get more people available to do sandbagging. It's a battle against the river and more often than not the river wins. We aren't anywhere near Fargo but hope to fly out of there for a bit of vacation on Friday. I sure hope we get to and the flooding isn't affecting the airport. Is that selfish of me?

I picked a pattern for the baby afghan. Crocheted granny squares. But I didn't really like the color combinations that I have and was quickly becoming bored with the pattern and not at all excited about all the ends to weave in....so the baby afghan became a dolly afghan for DGD. I think I'm going to donate all my baby yarn to the women's prison in Jamestown. They knit/crochet hats etc for preemies and donate them. Plus they only want acrylic and that is just what I have. Now to get it packaged up and in the mail. It'll be nice to be rid of that yarn and be able to start over with something I'm excited about.

I'm hoping to get pictures of the dolly afghan, the yarn to be donated and maybe even the weather if there is something that would be photographable. Mostly this kind of weather is just something to be endured until something better comes along. Hopefully we don't have to wait to long. We need it to get dry during April so we can get in the fields.

I've fallen and I ca....actually I did get up again.

So yes, I really did fall today. All the melting and freezing and melting and freezing finally caught up with me at least. A very hard cement sidewalk with just a little patch of shiny smooth ice got me and my tailbone. Ouchy. It sure knocked the stuffings out of me for a couple seconds. I can feel the sore muscles all over and I'm thinking that getting out of bed tomorrow morning should be interesting. The only redeeming factor in the whole thing is that no one saw me.

I have restarted on the Lacy Baby Blanket that I've had in hibernation for a long time. I remember now why it went into hibernation! I'm just not fond of counting and YO and K2T. Mostly it's the counting. And the rows that are all different from each other. I'm a mindless vanilla knitter I guess. This afghan is over 1/2 done now so I will be finishing it come h*ll or high water. If the upcoming grandbaby would happen to be a boy I'll be just that much ahead of the game.

I also am looking for an baby afghan pattern that uses sport weight yarn. I have a boatload of baby colored Lion Brand Baby yarn that I think is enough for an afghan. I've been contemplating a granny square or ripple but it seems like crocheting also makes my hands and wrists hurt. Very similar to what the cotton yarn did. A whole afghan might be a bit too much. Even if it is baby sized. I'll just have to keep looking.

The weather is gorgeous. I really like this time of year with the snow melting and the temperatures above freezing. Loverly. Except when you fall down. Poo.

It's my birthday!!

So I was born many many years ago on this day. Love to have me tell you how many, wouldn't ya? I suppose I could say that I can now eat for senior discounts at certain restaurants. Gee that's horrible sounding. I just don't Feel that Old. I'm like, um, maybe in my 30's on my insides. Of course then how did I get kids in their 20's?? Ha!

It's cold here again today. Wind chill is at least. Computer forecast says -41 wind chill. Brr. The upside is that by the weekend and early next week it's saying 40 as in, yes can I believe it, 40+ degrees above zero. A veritable heat wave. Snow will melt and maybe some of the extremely icy cr*p on the driveway can be scraped off. Yahoo. So easily pleased. Just some warm temperatures.....

I finished the chemo cap last night. Extremely quick knit, lots of fun to knit and to pick the right button(s) for it but it is really not for me. Not the right look at all so that convinced me to donate it somewhere. I just have to find out if there is a place in the tri state area that takes things like that. I'd like to help our area if I can. There are lots of cancer patients around. I just have to find the place to give this to and then maybe I'll knit more to donate.....but not out of cotton! Ouchy hands.

Well, I've gotta have some breakfast and do a touch of cleaning around here. Birthday party at my house tonight. 1st DDIL is making a carrot cake and 1st DS family and 3rd DS are all coming over. DGD and DGS can help open packages. :)

Near Blizzard and knitting with cotton

Well, we aren't officially in a blizzard, but it's as close as I want for this time of year! We are getting some snow, cold temps and lotsa wind. All combined it makes for very difficult visibility. 1st DS said ground blizzard in the open country. That makes driving very hard and almost impossible at night. The SE part of ND got the real deal. Inches and inches of snow and more wind. Schools are closed all over the place, businesses closed for today and roads closed with no travel advised in the eastern 1/2 of the state. If everyone is safe, everyone has electricity and plenty of provisions, and your furnace is working, it is almost fun. No where to go, nothing that HAS to be done. Stay at home and vegetate if you want. :)

I started a chemo cap. I'm thinking of giving it to the lady that I made the prayer shawl for recently. My fear is that she will think it is too much for me to do for her and it will turn into an uncomfortable situation. Anyway, it is Pi Topper Chemo Cap. I'm using Lion Brand Cotton Ease in Terracotta. I've gotten 3 different kinds of buttons to chose from for the band. The pattern is fun. The color of the yarn is fun. Even the buttons are fun. The knitting with cotton not so much fun. I've recouperated from the 1st go round with it and now want to get it finished but am not really looking forward to the achy hands and wrists. I just have to remember to not use cotton again....this has happened before.

Hope your weather is better than ours and your knitting is comfortable!

Blizzard Watch coming up...

We are in a Blizzard Watch for Monday through Wednesday morning. Augh! Below zero temps with lotsa wind = really cold. Add to that the potential of 8-12" of snow. Definitely = Blizzard. The forecasters have gotten it wrong before this winter though. I'm hoping that happens again. We will have so much snow and wetness that we'll never get in the fields this spring. And that makes everyone in my world go slightly nuts/cranky.....

I've got a boatload of housework to do today because I messed around yesterday and didn't do anything productive except knit on the chemo cap. My hands and wrists hurt though from the cotton yarn so if I find any time today for knitting it'll have to be something else. Really though with all the vacuuming, cat box cleaning, cat combing, clothes washing that needs to be done there will be little spare time today!

Pictures of sock and mitten liner, wonders of grandkids

I have pictures!

This is the sock with the Paton's Kroy yarn. The picture is a bit behind the times....I've turned the heel already. The yarn feels a little scratchy but I'm hoping a wash will soften it up.








It does make a pretty pattern without any effort on my part! The name of the yarn is Tutti Frutti.

Here is the mitten liner. I've gotten distracted by socks and also a new project so I only have the one done. I'm fickle. I need to finish the other one though. I momentarily forgot where I live and thought the really cold weather was over. But it's below zero again this morning. Brr!

I don't think I'll need to attach it to the mitten. It seems to stay in place unless you have a 2 year old DGS visiting that pulls it out and then stuffs it back in! :)

I started a chemo hat for the lady that I did the prayer shawl for. I don't know yet if I'm giving it to her or not. We'll see how it turns out....It is a cute pattern though.

Having DGD and DGS here for 5 days was tiring but fun. I must do my Gramma thing and brag on them. They are very smart and precious. And having DDIL tell them to be good or they wouldn't get a surprise when mommy and daddy get home helped them be good. I love that they love having books read to them. We get a blankie and snuggle in for a good time. It's an amazing thing to be a grandparent. If you don't have any of your own I strongly urge everyone to adopt some! It's a wonderful relationship.