I was deeply saddened last night when I poured myself some juice into my favorite cup and saw it start to leak out the bottom. Originally I had four. It’s just the right size and easy to hold and the art work is great. The Chesapeake Cat club is gone, but not forgotten.
In other news, I found the pattern that I am going to make with my Kauni yarn. I had forgotten that it was one of those little half sheet pamphlets. Now, when I start it is an entirely different question.
I got out a bunch of my glitzy fabric today. My daughter asked me to make her a case for her new camera. Jeez!! She said to use whatever I felt like using. Does she know what kind of visions come to mind? She should by this time. So, this is what I found. What do you think?
Rats! I just realized that i didn’t get everything in the picture and the colors are not as bright as they really are. The light peach is actually bright orange with silver spots. There is some black velvet with gold trim next to the fuchsia and fuzzy purple spots on the right. I’ll try and take another shot tomorrow, if I remember. I have something extra to show you anyway.
The geese and geesettes have been out in troves. Maude and Zip get so excited watching them, but they both keep their distance. That’s eleven babies. I wonder if they are all theirs? This group has been coming for several days now. I guess they like our little creek. The ones born on the island, I see almost every morning and evening.
I’ve been making progress on my Noro socks and I’m about 2/3s through my second sleeve on the sweater. I found the needles I need for the body. I want to try and knit the body in the round, but I don’t know if my hands can take it. Intarsia is much easier in the round. I’ve been trying to catch up on my blog reading, too. It was cooler today and too windy to knit outside.
Not very many came to knitting group today. There were not a whole lot there last month either. What causes this? I knit year round. Not knitting is unheard of to me. I will probably abandon my heavy wool sweater once it gets hot. But, I still have two more pairs of socks and gloves planned and a half done vest on tiny needles that I need to get back to. I will still be there twice a month unless something that I can’t reschedule comes along. I can’t get together like this for sewing. My machine alone weighs 35 lbs. Then there is all the other crap in order to sew. And there is the fact that I would have to drive so far. The poor thing should have had it’s annual physical two months ago, but that’s a 40 mile drive and I haven’t found another reason to go. Why am I such a sourpuss? I’ll have to think about that. I have got a ton of pictures to download and I haven’t even felt like doing that. I’m going to take my murder mystery and go to bed. I can’t even find any good science fiction lately. What’s this world coming to? Here’s my son with his little girl.
It was one of those days when there were things that needed to be done inside, but the outside kept gently calling my name. The gentle breezes made the morning walk perfect. We decided to walk down to the pond. We could here the frogs before we see the pond. We walked along the edge and they would jump into the pond as we approached and Gus went crazy. There was one white goose in with the Canada geese that we had never seen before. On the way back, we stopped and talked to some of the neighbors. One was especially talkative. He wife recently moved out and he seemed more relaxed and happier then we have ever seen him. When we got back, I poured myself a cup of coffee, grabbed my sock knitting and went out back. After about an hour, I came back in, did some boring work, then I went back out again. That’s the way the day went. In and out and in and out and in and out.
I finished one sock. It was fun to make. The yarn is a bit wonky, but it should soften after washing.The yarn is 30% nylon so I am assuming they will last. The yarn over have me worried. Maybe I will give them to someone and let them worry about it.
I spent a long time going through the new software and moving things around to where I liked them. I have a better understanding of what it can do and I am beginning to like it.
I got this from my children. It’s really great because it is actually five potted flowers that I can plant outside and enjoy for months to come. Do they know me or what?
I have never been big on Mother’s Day and they know it, but sometimes I get something neat like this and that what makes it really special. When they were little, I didn’t really have any money for extras. We celebrated birthdays and Christmas and I made them up for Halloween. I told them that I knew they loved me as much as I loved them and gifts were not necessary. When they started school, they brought me homemade cards that I still have ‘somewhere’.
Are those walls too pink? They make me feel happy. It beats the crap out of the nothing color that was up there before.
Isn’t this a great card? Socks are very important to me. I have two drawers of them. I can’t stand getting my feet dirty.
Set your machine on HOT. Add a little soap or detergent. Don’t let it fill too much. Set it on Small or Medium. Remember, you will be sticking your hand in there. Set for at least 15 minutes. Stop it before it changes cycle. Pull it out and take a look. It probably won’t be shrunk enough yet. It usually takes my washer at least two cycles before it’s felted to where I want it. I also put in the empty Downy ball to help knock it around. I just stop the machine and reset it. After 5 minutes into the second cycle, I’ll start pulling it out at 5 minute intervals until it gets to where I want it. Then I let the machine do it’s thing. I set mine on two rinses. After the final spin, I shape it and stuff it with plastic bags to dry. I also stick a pen in the buttonhole.
becomes this. 
You know, you can fiddle with it just so long and then you have to do something else. I downloaded more pictures and video this morning. I had gotten into the habit of deleting pictures after I downloaded them, but now I don’t know how. I am so blind that I needed a full size picture in order to decide. I also need to figure out how to put videos into my blog. I tried to get Maude screaming to go out, but she just looked at me like I was some kind of idiot. I guess I will have to go get the manual and give up playing around, but not today.
Here’s some of the goslings with Mama. There are three families that come through. It’s usually in the early morning or evening, but these were kind enough to stop by in the middle of the afternoon.
Here’s a young Great Blue Heron. This was taken during low tide. He was walking along the edge of our little island.
Do you see why it is hard to get me to go anywhere?
I think I should have made the flap a little bigger. At least I remembered to put in a buttonhole. I have the pattern about half written with the rest in scribbly note form. I’ll have to work on that. I also need to make a free pattern page.
I only have a few more ends to weave in and then I can start felting. I hope it still looks good when that’s done. Every time I do something like this, I cringe until it’s done. Also, I have never felted anything in this washer. This one does weird things. I had hoped to felt at my other house, but I didn’t have much time to work on it. I love my son, but I love my new house, too. Did I say that before? Another senior moment.
Also, I managed to complete Clue #3 this evening. It really didn’t take long at all. I wasn’t about to leave my machines out with Doug walking around with a paintbrush in his hand.
Up a Creek in Lower Slower Delaware 
