Just when you think tou're a total screw-up as a parent your four-year-old turns off the t.v (!), puts on a Beatles CD when you suggest listening to some music (!!), and then proceeds to sing along with half of the songs because she knows them from listening to the CD so many times before (!!!)

Damn, maybe we are doing something right after all!

It's a gray, rainy day here, which is a good thing, but I'm already ready for a nap! I think today is going to be seriously heavy on the caffine side.

Do I have anything exciting to say? Naw. Maybe later.

Neat! I actually made it almost all the way around the KnitBlog list last night, catching up with a lot of the 'old timers' and "meeting" all of the new folk! Many joyous Greetings to all!

I managed to pick up my needles and work on a sock that I started back in the end of June. It's been so hot this summer that the thought of working on wool socks has been right out. But September is in sight, and if I'm going to have to cram my pampered tootsies into shoes again after a summer of freedom in sandals, they are going to be properly cushioned by a pair of newly hand knit sockies!

I haven't been completely idle. I've been brushing up (OK, learning) how to do applique while working on this quilt. I started with the center block, and have a few of the others done. It's not huge, 48"X48", and will make a nice wall hanging. It will also be good the see my learning curve, because I gotta tell you, that first block is pretty damn bad! My applique goal? To be able to do a quilt like this one, and to do it well.

Six years ago, yesterday



Happy Anniversary, My Love

Oh m'gawd! Over 100 KnitBlogs! And how cool is that? I haven't been all the way around the ring in soooooo long! *sigh* It'll happen some night, when I have about 6 hours to kill and don't have to get up the next morning!

I hope my comments comes back soon. I miss them, even though they don't get much use. I have a headache and am throwing a pity party for myself. Blahblahblah.

Ah well. Must have something to make me smile!

Mmmm, mmm, mm!

Oh Hip, Hip, Hooray!!! We *finally* got that temperature drop that we've needed around here! (Tho' if one more person says: "It's not the heat, it's the humidity" I am going to thump them!) It was pretty funny today. I have never seen so many people happy, smiling, and even downright giddy at the fact that it was a gray, rainy morning! It was just a huge relief. When you work in agriculture the heat we've been having ain't nothing but trouble. Our only complaint about today is that we didn't get more rain!

I have to admit not doing any knitting over the last week or so. I only have to do the sleeves of the Kokopelli sweater, which will go up fairly quickly once I get started on them. It should be, I hope, cool enough over the next few days to get them done. Of course, I don't know why I'm in such a rush. It's not like The girlie is going to be able to wear it any time soon!

And, as per Grandma's request, a picture of her beautiful granddaughter not doing something goofy!

(not me in the background! it's my sis-in-law Tessa)

Dang! I have a 4-year-old! How the heck did that happen so fast?!? And how did she get so long and tall? I am constantly amazed by her...

I cease to be amused by the heat. Bleh.

Judy, where ever you are, hang on. You are in my thoughts and prayers.

I was experiencing blogging difficulties, but it seems ok now...

Heat waves suck. It's suppose to be near 100 today. No knitting, not much computering. Air conditioning. Must find air conditioning.

We will resume our regularly schedued blogging when the temperature has dropped about 20 degrees! Keep cool All!

Hard to believe...

Four years ago I started doing the hardest, scariest, toughest, most difficult, most rewarding, most fun job that I could ever think of having in my entire life...

I became a Mother!

Happy Birthday Irina!



My goofy Girlie!

My throat is sore, my nose is stuffy, my back aches and I'm tired. I should do some picking up around here, as my Mommy is coming up to have dinner with the girlie and I, but I don't wanna. Heck, I've already dropped the short one off at daycare, done the grocery shopping, and thrown out half of the contents of the 'fridge. I'm grabbing my Clive Cussler book and crawling back into bed for a few hours. I have to be "Mommy On Duty" for the next two days with little chance for space to myself, I should rest while I can! Right? Right! (Just nod and agree, it's safer)

I got the phone call that I wanted. Tony's there, healthy, and ready to bury himself in a windowless room with who knows how many other people playing games for the next 48+ hours! (He actually called a few hours ago, and was scheduled to start his first tournament shortly after that, so the gaming has begun!)

I, myself, am struggling with the sleeves for the Kokopelli sweater. I just can't get them to work right to save my life. I've knit and ripped one of them three times already and think I've worked the problem out. Now I've just got to try it again!

Aha! Now I know who to blame for my Alchemy addiction! I guess turn about is fair play...Have you ever played Marbles Christiane? >insert wicked little laugh here while rubbing hands together gleefully<

Plane number 1 has landed safely in Newark. Now I can breath for an hour until plane number 2 takes off for Milwaukee...

Well, the Mr. is at the airport (waiting in some long line somewhere, I'm sure) to board a plane that will take him to Milwaukee where he will be attending Gen Con! Yes, as he put it last night, he is going to ride on a plane for a few hours to go to a city far away where he will proceed to spend 3 days doing nothing but playing games! I don't see the fascination myself, but he doesn't understand my knitting or quilting stuff either, so I guess that makes us even. He's going to have a blast! And I? I will be able to breath again when I know that his plane has landed!

Yes! The back of the Kokopelli sweater is done! I don't know if I'm completely crazy about it, but Irina is happy so that makes it ok. She has decided that I'm going to do a sweater with SpongeBob Squarepants on it.

I only hope that I can get her to change her mind!

Pictures of the turtle coming when I have daylight and fresh batteries in the camera!

*AHEM*

Who was it who mentioned the game Alchemy in her blog? I'd like to have a *word* with you!...

...right after I finish this level...

Nasty headache today. I hope that means that we really are going to get the rain that they've promised for later. (I ended up with a bad headache, almost a migraine, on friday before the rain hit. That's Kim, the human barometer.) Tony ended up bringing Irina to day care, so I could continue to lay in bed and suffer. I hated asking him to do it, as he is off on thursday and friday for a trip, but I think being sick was an option at that point if I moved too much. (No, Mom, I'm NOT!)

Did a fair amount of knitting last night while watching Murder Rooms on PBS. I've only got the turtle's head left to do, and then an few inches of stockinette to finish the back. I just love 4 stitches to the inch! It's almost instant gratification!

Hmmm...Trying to figure out how to get my archives re-set up. I'm using Blogger for my general updating, but I may switch over to doing my archives manually ('specially as I can't seem to get my ftp path figured out)

(ed:Woo Hoo! Figured it out without hours of cut & paste! The archives are back Mom! *grin*)

(ed again!: ok, but for some reason the page isn't showing up. I think I typed something wrong, as usually the problem is with what I've done, and not something else!)

(edx3: Yup. It's confirmed. I'm a dweeb. They should be working now.)

Yawn. Yup, it's going to be another hot one today. Yuck! It's not too bad now, and the place is quiet as my tall one and small one have gone to church. What I should do is go take a shower and get some knitting in while it's still comfortable enough to do so. (Why does that weather bunny on tv have to be so damn perky when she talks about how uncomfortable today is going to be? Freakishly annoying!)

We had a beautiful downpour of rain yesterday that knocked the temperature down yesterday to make it pleasurable enough to knit. Unfortunately it didn't last through today. Bleh! And it's suppose to be nasty sticky hot again tomorrow. Blehbleh! Well, I managed to get about a third of the way up the back of the Kokopelli sweater last night, and the turtle design seems to be coming along nicely. I may not manage to get anything done tomorrow, but if my pattern of the past few weeks holds I'll end up sleeping most of the day anyway!