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Pretend It’s Saturday

January 19, 2009

I was going to blog yesterday. Really. I was all set. I had new pictures. But the internet said no. I don’t know why. It’s really been a nice Internet. Maybe it knew that I was still being grumpy and it didn’t want to have anything to do with that.

p1010619 For the second day, the creek iced over. It was so cold, I didn’t even go out to walk the dog. I did get a lot of sewing done and the finished the baby socks. p10106141

I had plenty of help. p1010587 Olive pinned. Maude sewed. Zippo ironed.

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p1010623 And the Sacred Wiener Dog supervised.

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Tags:Maude, Olive, Sacred Wiener Dog, Zippo
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The Joy of Fabric

January 11, 2009

We FINALLY put the tree away! Ive had everything else packed up for the past week. At first, Doug wanted to leave it up for a while because Olive enjoys it so much. I was able to convince him that it’s not good for her to be doing all that climbing, especially since she pulled out all her stitches.

p1010577 I hope this isn’t too gross for anybody. Well, actually, I don’t really care. This is my blog. It’s not red, swollen or weeping so I’m just going to keep an eye on it. She is much more active today so I think she will be all right.

I set up my cutting table this afternoon and started to pull out appropriate nightie fabric. I going to make two or three or maybe four. I like these the best. I’ve got two cut out so far. I might as well go for four.

I finished one sock. The yarn is great, but the pattern isn’t. The sock is a little too wide, but not unwearable. I’m beginning to wonder why I even try these patterns. I have plenty of my own. If the yarn they send wasn’t always so nice, I’d stop getting it. I should be getting my Red Bird kit some tine this month. Then, I’ll be happy.

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Tags:black sock, fabric, nighties, Olive
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She’s Alive

January 8, 2009

She’s not very happy, but she’s getting around well. Her stitches are on her side rather than her belly which is something I have not seen before.

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Tags:Olive
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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.

Tags:Olive, sock, Zippo
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All Time High

January 5, 2009

I couldn’t believe the number of people that looked at this blog yesterday. And it was a variety of places other than yesterday’s crap. Interesting.

I was going to have this nice newsy blog this afternoon. Then I realized it was knitting group day and I wanted to look at ipod accessories beforehand. I wanted to wear my Latvian Dances, but I couldn’t find them. One of the cats had jumped up onto the cutting table, sending the socks into the flower pots. How do they do these things? I couldn’t find my water bottle or my sunglasses. I was kind of going crazy. When I got down to the stores, I couldn’t get any deceit answers. Everything I was interested in was on the bottom shelf. I guess I’ll just buy on-line.

I had a nice time at knitting group. We’re going to do an entrelac thing next time so I’ll dig out a few things and print out a few patterns. Afterwards, Leslie and I went out to dinner and talked for a long time, so I guess I’m a bit talked out now. When I finally got to the computer I started looking at the blog surfer. Bad idea. I am amazed at what I find, like this and this. I lost tract of time. Here’s my own kind of cute.

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Tags:blogging, cute, knitting group, Latvian socks
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One More Day

December 31, 2008

Olive watching the Pixel Pixies.

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Maude trying to sleep.

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Tags:Maude, Olive
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Nano Stuff

December 28, 2008

So, I downloaded iTunes and I read a bunch of stuff. It said it has to charge for three hours so I thought I would blog. I looked at accessories. I know I want to be able to play it in the car. I like being able to put my CDs on it. I looked at some package deals, but only a few had what I wanted. I’ll probably make my own case for it. It needs to have a pocket for the earpiece. I’ll probably also make a separate case for the other stuff . I’ll have to look through my stash.

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Here’s Olive in a rare pose.

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That’s more like it.

Tags:iPod Nano, Olive
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Well, I’m Home

December 28, 2008

I had a great time, but it’s nice to be home.

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I think Maude was happy with her present. Even though the song was pretty bad this year.

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I certainly liked mine. Look how tiny it is! Please do not enlarge this picture. My hands look awful.

Tags:Hallmark singing snowmen, iPod, Maude
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Happy Day After Christmas

December 26, 2008

There was some stuff on sale for my sewing machine that I wanted to try. I had been reading about them in the Yahoo group. Well, I still wasn’t satisfied after a demonstration so I bought nothing. To make matters worse, the farmers market wasn’t open so the whole trip was a bust.

So I came back and took a bath. I do like that big old bathtub. I told Doug he could take it down to the other house. He just looked at me funny. What did I say?

Later, we went to Petsmart. I got old cat cat chow for Elvis and anew toy and some kitty treats for Biscuit.

This computer is acting weird so I will close.

Tags:Petsmart, shopping
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I Made Cookies

December 23, 2008

First I made Louie’s Famous Chocolate Chip Cookies. These are the best chocolate chip cookies I have ever tasted. And I just want to say, “Thank you, Louie”. You are remembered.

Next came chocolate cookies with white chocolate mint striped little chunks. We didn’t know what else to do with the stupid chunks and these came into being. We thought they were peppermint.

Free recipes are available upon request.

It was bitterly cold today, only 23 degrees and very windy when we went for our walk. We didn’t even get to the end of the road. Even Gus was ready to go home and curl up in his chair.

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