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What Happened to Jimmy’s Grille?

March 8, 2009

We went there last night expecting to have another great meal like we had last month.  Boy, were we surprised!  Actually, I now wonder if the place was sold.  I think the cook used to work at MacDonald’s and it must have been the waitress’s first day.  The crab-cakes were more filler than crab-meat, the shrimp and scallops were overcooked and too few for the amount they were charging.  We were half finished our meal when the waitress got around to bringing the seafood and tartar sauce and Worcestershire.  And she never asked about dessert. 

Today was an absolutely beautiful day.  I spent all afternoon sitting on the deck and knitting.  I took lots of pictures, but I put them on the other computer and then deleted from my camera.  You’ll have to wait until tomorrow, maybe.   It was Olive’s first time outside.  So, I took a picture of my sock progress just for you. 

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Happy to be Home

March 7, 2009

I love my children,but I am so happy to be back home.  I worry about them.  I’ll be glad when Win finds a job that he really likes instead of “just a job”.   Jenn has been having trouble with her periods.  Dr. T retired a couple years ago, but she has finally found someone else who gives her the care that we were so used to having with Dr. T.  He’s also a Hopkins doctor.  I’ll probably go back in a few weeks. 

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Here’s the yarn that I bought from Enchanted Knoll Farm in Maine.  It came when I left.  My not certain what I will make with it, but I really am very pleased with it.  It has a great feel and the colors are  so much better than this picture.

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The heel is finished and I’m coming down to the toes.  I’m expecting my other sock club any day and I brought back sewing, knitting and crocheting to do.  My daughter can sew, but my machines do so much more than hers.  John keeps taking her fleece throw so she bought a piece for him and wants me to finish it the way I did hers.  She also wants me to change the sleeves on her tunic.  I  have a knit shirt from Win with some strange holes.  I guess it beats catching turtles for my grandson. 

The snow is just about gone.  Each day has been getting a little warmer and I’m hoping to be able to sit outside this weekend.  I don’t think this is yet the beginning of Spring.  030209-050

I Had to Go

March 5, 2009

I’m in Reisterstown for  few days.  Sometimes, you just have to check on things.  My son called, so here I am.  I hadn’t seen my daughter for  while.  I haven’t been doing nothing much.  It snowed here, too.  It’s odd how you expect it to be different for some reason.  I managed to take a few pictures.

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Here’s Biscuit, my son’s kitty.  She’s adorable.  She likes to look outside, but has never gone outside.  You can leave the door open and she’ll look out, but that’s about it.

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We’re going to the Dutch Market tomorrow, so I may not be back until Friday.  I’ve gotten some work done on my socks, but not as much as I would like.

Slow No Wake

February 26, 2009

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If the water ever got this high, the whole Delmarva peninsula would be under water. 

022109-011Usually it’s too windy to walk along the river in the winter.    It was only 30 degrees, but the sun was shining.  This is one of the reasons I like living here.

Look What I Got

February 24, 2009

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“How Sweaters Are Really Made”

Nancy sent me this picture for Christmas.  I just love it.  It is getting hung on the wall as soon as the family room is finished.  We finished the painting and Frank will be back when he finishes working on some body’s bathroom.  As a matter of fact, I like it so much, it’s my current wallpaper.   It’ll also look good on the craft room wall if and when it gets made.

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It took foreverto load this sock picture.  The first one didn’t take any time.  I almost gave up, but my knitting was handy.  The foot is about half done.  It should be finished in a couple of days.

Bella Mittens

February 16, 2009

p1010796The finished the Bella Mittens this morning.  It’s a free pattern.  They went up fast.  I’d say it took me about three movies to finish.  The pattern calls for the one long circular needle method.  I have tried that, but it wasn’t for me.  I did it on double points.  It’s what I’m used to working on.   The pattern itself was well written and easy to follow.  I’d recommend it to anyone.  The yarn is 100% wool that I bought at MD Sheep & Wool one year.  She comes every year and all her  yarn is like this.  I believe she is from Vermont, but I can’t for the life of me remember the name.

Doug painted the ceiling this afternoon while I was at knitting group.  Tomorrow, we are going to look at wall paint.  Onece we are finished painting, Frank will come back and do the framing.  I’ll be so glad when it’s all finished and we can put everything back the way it belongs.

I hope there’s something interesting on tonight.  I would really like to sit and knit for a while.

Weekend with Beth Brown-Reinsel

January 26, 2009

I had a great time.  No.  We ALL had a great time.  It was a marvelous weekend.   But, alas and alack, I forgot my camera so there won’t be any pictures.  And, I am not going to show you my project until it’s finished.  It was held at Beth’s mother’s bed and breakfast, Be My Guest, in Forest Hill, MD.  It took me about 50 minutes to get there from my house in Reisterstown.  It was mostly country roads that were familiar to me which made for a pleasant drive.  Beth’s mother, Edith, is a lovely hostess.  When we got there, she had bagels, sticky buns, fruit, tea and coffee ready for us.  She made a delicious lunch for us both days.  Saturday, four of us went out to dinner at a local restaurant.  I probably gained five pounds.  I can’t say enough about the marvelous weekend I had.  I just wish I had the nerve to go on the cruise with her and Nancy Bush this summer.

Goodbye Colette

January 15, 2009

A lovely person has died.  She had ALS.  I can’t talk.

Needy Zippo

January 8, 2009

Olive went to the vet this morning to get tutored and Zippo is starting to miss her.  He is trying to lay on my chest right now so typing is difficult.  He started calling for her this afternoon and now he’s a real basket case.  Actually, Doug is being a real pain, too.  I can pick her up after 10AM tomorrow and he will probably be pushing me out the door at 945.

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Perhaps, tomorrow, I’ll take a picture of the sock I’m working on.

Kevin

January 7, 2009

After reading about Chris’s new grandchild, I got to thinking about my own.  He is 14 1/2 years old, but I doubt that I will ever forget the day he was born.  My son-in-law called just as we were going to bed to say that he was taking Jenn down to Hopkins.  This was two days before Dr. T planned to induce labor.  Shehad gestational diabetes and Kevin was a good size.  Anyway, John promised to call after she was settled.  When the alarm went off at 5AM, I got up and called Hopkins.  They put me through to her.  She said to me, “When are you coming, Mommy?”  Right then, my heart did a little flip flop.  My daughter wanted me there at her side.  That little sentence told me so much.  I said I would be there as soon as the doors to Win’s summer day camp opened.  I got there in plenty of time.  Kevin’s cube shaped head didn’t help matters any.  When I held him for the first time, I couldn’t help but to count his fingers.  His hands were so much wider then Win’s.  And so was his chest!  He was built like his father.  But, when I looked into those eyes, it was like looking at my little girl all over again.  He still looks like his Mom and he’s got her mouth, too.  When he’s ready, the girls better watch out because my first husband was a great kisser.

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