Rain!!

There are finally clouds!! We needed the rain so bad around here. It started Friday night with a nice storm and heavy wind. I just love that kind of weather. Laying in bed listening to the rain against the roof and the windows, the wind howling past the house, that to me is cozy!

The weatherman is promising us some more today and he better be right.

 My thumb is slowly healing and the doc said I could take the splint of every once in a while. It is now six weeks and not being able to do stuff you want to do is slowly but surely driving me batty. Pinterest is addicting but with the downside that one gets lots of craft ideas. I have been knitting, I started with big needles and a few rows every day. Then I moved on to the almost finished projects that I started before Christmas and could not finish.

 Only thing missing from these where the buttons, I put them on yesterday and DS delivered them to the neighbor yesterday.

 DH wanted a pair of mittens and since I always wanted to do a pair of Komi mittens, these where started last week.

 Also finished with only a few rows to go since Christmas, a baby hat. Going to deliver that tomorrow.

And the Votter, also finally finished. These have been in the making since the end of October, beginning of November. 

Tomorrow I have another doc appointment for my thumb, hopefully by tomorrow afternoon I can finally say the splint goodbye. Doc thinks that I need some "thumb-therapy" for a while.

Holidays

From our house to yours,

We wish everybody a good Holiday!

Long time

It has been a while since my last blog post, not much has changed ever since. Jeremy is still "King-of-the-porch" and has a habit of following us everywhere if we are outside. He has taken a special fondness to DH who says he does not like cats. He does however give Jeremy a treat every night after their walk around yard. 

Knitting has come to a standstill ever since an accident I had at work. Turns out thumbs don't really bend well the other way. Doctor gave me a nice splint and just extended the wear time. It drives me up the wall, crafting and knitting is what I love to do. Watching TV with nothing in my hands is like telling a kindergartner to go sit on his hands while everybody else gets to play with glitter and glue.

 These mittens where finished some time ago, together with another red pair and a pair of flip top childrens mittens. The last two pair already are gifted and I (of course) forgot to take pictures.

 I DS and me hung the laundry this afternoon. He does not really like to hang laundry with his mom, but you try it one handed! We turned around and noticed that we color coordinated the laundry with the barn. How is that for OCD? I will take suggestions where to hang the jeans......

Tess loves it if somebody comes outside to sit and talk with her and scratch her nose. Every day we have a little session, I talk, she listens. She is a very good listener (if Paco lets her that is). More about Paco in the next post. He is a character!!

Orange

The leaves are turning all shades of orange on the farm. The weather is still very nice, a bit cold in the morning but with nice warm afternoons.

Nice enough to sit on the porch and with Jeremy aka "king of the porch" as company it isn't at all bad.

And if for any reason you have to leave your chair, the king will take it and do a pretend sleep.

Every morning when we leave for school, he comes running over for his daily share of food (from us, we know he also eats at the neighbors later in the day) He then walks us out and sits at the bottom of the porch steps until we are out of sight.
Wonder what he does all day when we are not watching.

Squirrel....................

A three day weekend has come to an end. We have been looking forward to it for a long time, imagine three whole days off, no school, no work. Besides the household chores of course, those keep coming, never stop, ever. 

But of course I had to schedule my dentist appointment on Thursday and had that pesky molar removed. For the rest of my three day weekend it felt like I had been kicked in the jaw, not to mention the two days of "soft food" while the boys where munching on all good stuff that I could not eat. 

One can only handle so much yogurt and soup.

This afternoon we sat outside in front of the school house and watched the ground squirrels for a while. There is a whole family living in the back, maybe even more that just one family. 

They have build a whole underground castle and frolic about all day.

 See, they make the ground look like Swiss cheese.

While watching them I knitted some on the worlds thickest, warmest knee highs. 

 Turned the heel on the first one, hopefully they will be done before it gets nice and cold here. (Yes, it does get a bit cold here)

 Only 41 days left until Christmas, that means I have to make a start on making decorations. Planning to make one of these a day.

They are called Julekuler (geez, I love that word) and come from this book. There are 55 different kuler in the book, so hard to choose.

If you are not fond of Spider pictures and get the urge to toss your computer out of the window then run screaming through the house with the feeling of taking the jump yourself then don't look farther then the first pretty rainbow pictures.

There, now you are warned!!

 It was a rainy, but not that rainy, weekend. Just perfect, nice temperature small and pleasant showers and to top it off this afternoon a pretty full rainbow over the farm.

We all went outside to marvel at it, I almost was tempted to imitate this guy but it was not THAT intense.

In the mean time I am knitting mittens and knee highs to prepare for the nice cold weather. I can hear my relatives snicker, yeah, we call it "cold" you guys call it a summer day. Never mind, I think knee highs are "da bomb" the only set back is that my legs are long and the knitting really feels like it never ends......

Now for my little spider friend, poor lady almost got smacked in the head with the door (to my defense she did crawl into it her self) Just when I wanted to close the door I saw her, ran inside to get my camera, got her onto a piece of paper and took her to get her passport picture taken.

afterwards I let her go on a tree, DH watching on at a safe distance, he is not that fond of little critters as I am. Last thing to do is find out what kind of spider it is.

The Weather

Above my desk at work is a whole collection of knitted toys that I made over time. I keep adding more but for some reason it seems the shelf never is too full. I could have sworn I made way more than these over the 5 years I work there. Now I like to think that they play together just like the toys in Toy story, but my gut says they don't wander off on their own. 

Of course it is time for the all over "catching-a-cold" at work and I got it too.

It got better just in time for the weekend, so I could enjoy a day of knitting with my friends and a lazy Sunday was spend half in the school house crafting and half of the day on the porch.

We do have a new "tiger" that keeps us company. Don't know what it is, he is again not ours but comes over for snacks and food and lately cuddles.

He just like the Black and White tiger in our former home lays underneath our chairs or if one is available on the chair.

 He is cute and he knows it.

 And he talks, we did have a whole conversation, I know he does not speak human, and I don't speak cat but we get along pretty well.

 After knit day I have a severe case of startitis, and there is already this on the needles.
Shawl Maia

 and a pair of mittens, one is done and the other one on the needles.

But yet there are more projects I really want to start. 

Going to be strong.............