Sarah's Hat and my kitty

Here is Samantha sleeping in bed with me this morning. She loves her mommy so much LOL. She is almost 16 years old now and I do allow her to do things I would not let the others do at any time. She is my baby after all. She sleeps on my pillow with me at night and has to touch my hand at all times. Or she is on my shoulder with her nose stuck in my ear purring. DH can not understand why this doesn't wake me up. Just don't know shes there. She only weighs 9+ pounds so not very heavy at all. Feather likes to sleep on my hip or up against my stomach under the blankets. She is a hoot. Tonto stays at the foot of the bed no matter what you do to him...he thinks he owns that part and makes sure we all know it. No matter what you do to him he stays right there. He is getting old too. Almost 14.



Here is a picture of the brim of the hat I am knitting. I had to take it all out and do it over yesterday. I didn't do the W & T right. So I ripped it out and started over. I stayed up last night until almost midnight to get it done. DC is working on hers also. She had an extra stitch and couldn't find it so I went over this afternoon and took out 6 rows and reknit them for her. Now she is off and running with it. I picked up the stitches around the brim while there. I have a couple of rows done so far..hope to get more done tonight while watching Dancing with the Stars. Will Billy Ray be done this week? LOL Very surprised they booted Heather out. Thought she would be there are few more weeks. Now it's down to Billy Ray and John. It will probably be between Apollo and Tony. They are both very good and would have a hard decision deciding which one if I were a judge. Love them all!

Time for supper and then back to the hat. Hope to have another picture to post tomorrow.

KNIT ON!

Sun Hat for Sarah! Ducks in Spring!

Took a ride to Medway to drop off some old filing cabinets DH got from the mill for a friend and saw these two Mallard ducks sitting on the rocks by a puddle of water in someones front yard. The ice is still on the lakes so they are looking for water! lol too funny! These are a male and female pair so they are ready to be building a nest and get those babies going. AHHH Mother Nature at its best!



I received my yarn on Wednesday. Have it all ready to go and decided to start the hat last night while watching CSI. I think the easy part is going to be knitting the brim. I hate picking up stitches and will have to do that for the top of the hat. I have the brim of the hat last night and have taken a couple of pictures to show you how much I have done. I am using King Tut cotton yarn in Denim. Have it in purple for the second one. I hope that I can get this done soon as I want to put the JOAT together and get the hood started. I have decided that I won't need the Aran Coat until fall now so no big hurry. Take off the pressure and I will want to finish it sooner rather than later. lol I hope this thought process works! Oh well.

Well off to Lincoln to get the Truck fixed...damn engine light came on and need to drive to the main dealer to get it fixed. They don't have the computer that is needed here in Millinocket. Pisses me off. Did not buy out of town cause we didn't want to travel to repair it and now we find out we have to drive to lincoln to fix it. Really really pisses me off. A 45 minute drive, the wait while they put it on the computer and then the drive back. Gas went up to $2.95.9 a gallon yesterday. And that gas hog will cost me about 15-20 bucks for the trip. Really really Pisses me OFF! GGRRRRR.
Oh well enough bitching "Get-R-Done! I am grateful that we have a 3 year bumper to bumper warrantee on this Dodge.

So off to get ready and bring my knitting while I wait. Take care all and
KNIT ON!

Aran Joat Sleeves

 
Here are the sleeves....love the color and all the cat hair that has just magically appeared! Damn Cats! Love 'em, hair and all.

 
Close ups of the cables.

 
 

Finally got a couple of photos to show. They are almost done..just need to bind off and that will take 8 rows. I am hoping not to have to use another skein of yarn. If I don't I may have enough to make baby Sarah a little aran jacket to match Grandmas! Or maybe a hat and scarf for me to match. Will have to wait and see.

Started to clean our bedroom today. Got just a little done and my back just wouldn't take it. So back to bed to rest and do nothing. I try not to feel sorry for myself, but it's spring and I have so much to do before my surgery in May. We can't move to camp yet. The road is still closed. The lake is still froze solid and theres a ton of snow to contend with and I am not going to battle snow any more. So I will try to get things done around here.

Want to have a yard sale before we move to camp. I asked my cousin if is she was still interested in doing one. I know we can do one later this summer..so not biggy. Will just put my stuff in boxes and mark them as I go. That way even DH can do one! LOL Can't you see that! HA! HA! HA! Yeah right. He just wants the money.

I ordered King Tut cotton yarn from Rosemary's Gift and Yarns yesterday. I was hoping I got the order in before the mail service had gone out so I might get it today. But I didn't. I should be here tomorrow. One of the good things about having a LYS in Maine..only takes one day to get it.

I had placed an order with another shop in Washington state and I am still waiting for it. It took a week before the even acknowledged they got it..and that was after I emailed them to see if they had. PayPal paid them the very day I placed the order so I knew that wasn't what was holding it up. Now to see how many days it takes to get to me. It is mostly sock yarn for DC. She is going to learn to make herself some nice socks to wear all the time. Not just winter ones. She will be using metal needles as she knits very tight and I'm afraid she might break bamboo ones. LOL She has done so good with her knitting. She really has good tension and is better at that then I am...!!! She has no ladders in her ribbing like I do. I have been trying to figure out how she does that, and I think it's because she pulls each stitch before and after she drops it off the needle. ????

DC and I are going to be knitting sun hats as soon as my yarn gets here. The pattern is from Fiber Trends CH-18. I think??? Can't remember the number right now. That is what the King Tut is for. I ordered a bright purple and denim and white for the flower. I will have enough to make two of them for her. Going to make the 18" around one for her. Will post pictures when we get started.

Well, need my beauty rest so it's off to bed. Take care all and

KNIT ON!!

4-Wheeling into camp! Just a little snow!!!!

There was so much snow on the road. It was a good ride in, but the ride out wasn't. The snow had softened up a lot and tons of mud where there wasn't any snow. I had a hard time keeping my bike in the trail. So glad I didn't go alone.

The mice had decided to have a feast with the sunflower seeds for my bird feeders. It's been a month or so since Ive been to camp and no one was there to disturb them eating. Had a lot of shells to clean up. Brought all the curtains down, some paper trash we had left last fall and left for later. Will do all the bedding when we move in. I want to sleep in them before the mice do. Had 5 traps with dead mice in them. I hate to kill them, but they do not belong in my home..they belong outside where mother nature intended them to be. I emptied them and reset for the next bunch who think they live there. LOL

Have only about an inch left on my sleeves to knit. I knit a lot a the Cedar Lake Association meeting Saturday evening. Ordered 3 skeins of King Tut from Rosemary/s Gift Shop. Was good to talk to Rosemary again. Hope DH and I will get to take a ride down her way to see her lovely yarn shop in person. To touch and feel is the best of it for me! LOL I am NOT a yarnaholic!! I am NOT a yarnaholic!! I hope I'm NOT a yarnaholic....but I know I am!! YIPPEE

Well, time to run to the transfer site with my garbage...the weather feels like mid summer today. Almost 80 degrees right now and its not even 3 o'clock. Rain tonight and tomorrow and back to the 50's for the rest of the week. The rain will help to melt the ice on the lake. Can't move in until the ice goes out. No water until it does. DH took the line out last fall because of all the problems he had when he left it in the winter before. Oh well. As long as we get moved before May 21.

KNIT ON!!

Spring is here!!

Yesterday was just so unbelievable...the weatherman deserves a gold star right in the middle of his forehead for this day! He was right on!!! It as almost 70F and the snow is melting like crazy! So much so, I think we are going to camp today on the 4-wheelers. I cleaned the seats off really good yesterday and now to see if they will start today for us. They should, Louie got them ready for us to use a couple of weeks ago and then we got more snow and more snow. Today it supposed to be a repeat of yesterday so I pray my back and leg don't act up too much that I don't get to go to camp. The road is closed so 4-wheeler is the only way in. Alan and I plan on leaving after noon time..when the Kenduskeag River race is no longer broadcast on Channel 5. I wish we could go watch it live one of these years, but it sure isn't going to be this one. This little river is a raging river for a few weeks each spring from run off. And of course we got a 4-8 inches of rain this week too! It depends on what end of the state you live at to determine how much rain you got. The coast got hit really bad and has been declared a disaster area by the governor. People lost their homes because of the astronomical waves at high tide those days the Nor'easter tore through our state.

Snow, snow and more snow. On Monday we got a little snow and then rain. Tuesday we got snow! And more snow!! I didn't even bother to go out and plow hoping it would melt the next day....and it did! So that was a good thing! lol

At SugarLoaf USA at Carrabasset Valley they received over 95" of snow these last couple of storms. One day alone was over 45". Our son is not able to work because the house that he is working at had so much snow that they couldn't open the roads on the mountain. A lot of people were stranded for a few days...no power either!! DS said he had a call from his boss that they were going to have to wait a few days until the front end loaders could remove the snow off the roads up there for them to return to work...wow UNBELIEVABLE!!! SugarLoaf is staying open a couple extra weeks because of all the new snow. The best skiing they have had this season....bet there are a lot of bikini skiers out there! LOL The news showed a man shoveling under the pods so they could move....buried under the heavy wet snow and unable to move them...and people could not get on them either. The man shoveling was standing in the snow and it was about 3 feet taller then he was. WOW that's a lot of snow in any mans language.

I have been plugging away at my sleeves. I wish this would go faster. It seems the more I knit the less there is done. LOL Can you tell Im getting tired of this project. I am only knitting at night so not really that much progress. I have been itchin' to get started on the little cotton hat for DGD. It is Fiber Trends CH-18. I do not have any cotton yarn in my stash so I have been shopping the net for some. Think I am going to use King Tut in a purple. Wanted to do a yellow one too, but at $9.95 a skein, I think one hat will be enough for now. Next year I can knit the second size for her in the yellow. I also want to get going on the cotton dress and jumper I have already bought the yarn for. And Cassandra wants a sweater too! I will be busy while laid up this summer won't I?? Love it!

Well, the races are just starting so I am off to the couch to watch and do a little knitting while I watch the people fall into the icy cold (38F) rushing waters!! Some people will do anything to get on TV!!

Take care and I hope to have some pics to post of our ride to camp later today!

KNIT ON!!

Sunday!

Well, here we go again...more snow! Yuck! Mother Nature is having fun again! This time they are predicting up to 3 feet of snow! OH MY !!! Where will we put it???

I am knitting on my sleeves finally. Today I hope to add a few more rows. Been trying to find some yarn to knit the summer hat for Sarah with. It calls for worsted weight cotton yarn, so dishcloth cotton will work good. Now to find what color I want to use.

Well, going to head out to get a few things done before the snow gets here. I am hoping we don't get ice...that is very dangerous for all.

Oh, DH is going back to work tomorrow with all those stitches in his back/shoulder area. Just told him to be careful he doesn't pull them and make them bleed. They are healing so good right now.

Joat and more snow!

Tom's truck is done plowing...
sorry these pics always run backwards...so the top is the end of the plowing and the bottom pics are when I first took pics out the window this morning.


Looking out the back door at the back yard...the 4wheelers are covered with about a foot of snow and so are the trees.








AS you can see by the pictures, we got a little bit of snow again! lol I remember when I was 10 I was going to have an outdoor birthday party...yeah right! Woke up on that April 14 th morning to over 2 feet of snow..and no electricity. Last night a little after 10, the lights went out in our neighborhood. Checked out the window and the rest of the town had lights. Called Bangor Hydro Electric Co to let them know what was happening and they had already sent a couple of trucks to take care of it. Hubby was downstairs watching TV and I was in bed knitting and watching tv too. He couldn't find the flashlight so wanted me to get the one on his side of the bed and come down so he could find his. Well it was right there on the end table..but it was so dark he didn't dare to move...didn't want to break my lamp. He is claustrophobic and this was so sudden he was in a panic. Once he saw the light I had he was fine. He went and filled the wood stove and came to bed with me. We were just about asleep when the lights came on. All the lights were still on so we got up and took care of them...and then turned the TV on to watch the end of my show, the news and then OCC. I checked out the window after 1 am and very little snow..but when I got up at 8:30 it looked like someone took a snow gun to the place!! WOW it was wet and heavy. DH got dressed and went out and cleaned the truck off. He decided he felt good enough to plow so I stayed in and went back to bed. lol He and our neighbor Tom plowed the yards. Tom said it was like plowing heavy wet cement! Alan did some and then Tom would push it the other way and then they would swap...Glad I was asleep. LOL

Alan had his surgery Monday afternoon. The doctor removed a very large area off his back. I hope this is the last time he will have to have this done. But they only remove the skin by layers and said they test and then will know if there are any "feelers" in this layer. The first one indicated the cancer and this second surgery will detect if the cancer is deeper into the layers. The thing is really gross and I have to clean it!! YUCK at least I didn't get sick like I did with the stitches he had from his gall bladder surgery a couple of years ago. I was unable to clean that for him...almost passed out it was so funny... Told him that if its still this swollen and sore on Monday he is to call in to work and take a weeks vacation. The mill was down this week for repairs so he was able to have this week off without pay...which is NOT nice! We will get by..we always do.

Finally got the two fronts finished on my Joat and have the cuffs on the sleeves started. One more row of cuff then I will start the design. My hands hurt so bad I find it hard to knit lately...and my mind has not been with it either...just been so worried about Hubby and this cancer scare. Hopefully now that this surgery is over I can start knitting and getting things done around here.




I went to my cousins at lunch time to sit with her mom while she was at work. They live by the river and have had the sea gulls there on the banks for a few weeks now. I tried to get some pictures yesterday, but they weren't there. Today there was just too much snow for them to be landing so I got a picture of this one sitting on the pole next to their home. He is a smart one...no snow for him today to lay in...I got the pole...the others have tried to make him move but he hasn't...lol noisy birds too!

Supposed to be a nice tomorrow...hope to get out of the house for a while...nice drive around the area?? We'll see what the weather brings first. Sunday is supposed to be a very bad day...for the next three days according to the weatherman. I hope we don't get hit too hard again. He said up to 4 inches of rain but with high chances of heavy wet snow in the mountains for this big storm. That means us again! HOPE NOT!! NO MORE SNOW PLEASE...want it to go away so we can get moved to the lake the end of the month. Oh well. Have to wait until the ice goes out on the lake anyway. We get our water from the lake. Don't drink it but use it to bath and do dishes with. Oh well...we will be there sooner or later.

On that note, I am going to go start our supper...take care all and KNIT ON!

Aunt Ellens 93rd Birthday

Yesterday was my Aunt Ellen's birthday. She is quite a character. Last aunt that I have. She is my fathers sister. Her granddaughter Mary Ellen called me the night before to invite me to the Terrace. Told her I would take some pictures for her. This picture is of me and her! What a beautiful lady she is. Her family and friends were there and we had a great time. Got to see family I haven't seen in a while. Got some email Addy's too!! And the cake was so good! LOL

Knitting is going slow...had to take out about 12 rows...had started the decreases for the neck too soon and not happy....hate to take out rows because I counted wrong! I am so numb most of the time!! Got to be an age thing...55 and officially a senior citizen now! Almost.... a few more days before my birthday...ha ha ha

Time for bed..and some much needed beauty sleep as if that will help!

KNIT ON!!