Knitting for Sarah

I got this pattern for the felted slippers at the Knitt Witt shop online. DeeAnn is still running her business and she has a great selection of wonderful yarns and patterns. Still have one that she had to order coming, but will have enough to do when I have back surgery again soon.

The slippers were knit with bulky Bartlettyarns wool that I've had for few years. I used left over fun fur yarn for the tops. Now to felt the slippers to fit her little feet. Right now they fit me!





Started this hooded aran sweater for Sarah last night. I am using plymouth encore in aran. Got this last summer at the City side yarn shop when she was going out of business. I have knit this up many times and now it is time for my Granddaughter to have one!

Cedar Lake Road Accident

Accident cuts power to 87 BH customersBy Thursday, March 27, 2008 - Bangor Daily News
LONG A TOWNSHIP - A logging truck accident on Cedar Lake Road left 87 Bangor Hydro customers without electricity, telephone and cable television service for most of Thursday, a company spokeswoman said.
The extent of accident injuries is unknown. Six utility poles and their lines were strewn across the roadway by the accident, which was near Route 11 and Millinocket, said Susan Faloon, a company spokeswoman.
"Our crews are still there," Faloon said early Thursday afternoon. "We were due to get the equipment we need to repair it out there at noon and at that point Cedar Lake Road was to be closed down."
The accident was reported at about 6:45 a.m., dispatchers at the Piscatiquis County Sheriff’s Department said. Although the accident is not in their area, they took the call and dispatched Bangor Hydro to the scene, they said.
Electricity is expected to be restored by 8 p.m. Thursday.
Anyone who has lost utilities due to the accident is asked to call Bangor Hydro at 1-800-440-1111.


I will try to get more information on this accident and post it.

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Deer on I-95

This was taken on the I just be fore the Alton Bog. She didn't care that I was there until I move closer in the car...the next photo shows her with her head up and looking at me! She stayed right there the whole time.

These guys were too busy eating all the freshly cut tree limbs. The winter has been hard on all the wild animals this year and the loggers cutting to reclaim the sides of the roads have brought out many, many dear, moose, raccoon, birds, wild turkeys and many other critters.I took this picture of the deer on the ride home today from Bangor. Had to go to return some things and decided to bring my camera along. Took 123 pictures on the way down and back. Also have a video of a deer at the Gateway Inn in Medway. They feed the deer and their customers

Deer at the Gateway Inn in Medway Maine

This is one big deer. The owners of the inn have been feeding the deer all winter so they are nice and full. I took these and the video and hope you all enjoy them! Hope this video will play for you to see this deer eating. There were other people there in their cars too taking photos. This guy would only move when the big trucks would go by on the highway right next to us. Love to watch the deer..any time of the year.

Interstate 95 south bound from Medway, Maine

I took these photos while DH drove us to our sons for Easter yesterday. The state has hired a contractor to reclaim the sides of the highway after 40+ years of tree growth has taken over the safety zone on the sides and in the middle. They have been cutting a 83 mile stretch of the I for a couple of months now.

This is a picture of the trees that have been cut and waiting to be either delimbed and sent for lumber or to make paper with. The trees are used for making paper, fire wood, log homes and the limbs and smaller trees are chipped for bio mass for the industrial burners in the area. On the news the other night the contractor said they take out around a 100 loads of chipped brush every day.


This picture is of them moving the trees to the roadside to be readied for loading onto trucks.


This one shows how the traffic is moved to just one lane as they chip it onto the big box trucks.


I was hoping to catch the deer eating, but DH was driving too fast for my camera to focus..so just got the downed trees again. On Wednesday I saw over 25 deer along that 50 mile section eating the trees...they were cutting the trees down and the deer were eating off the tops as soon as they were setting the trees on the snow covered ground. This winter has been truly hard on our wildlife. The cutters are making them some well needed food, but they are being stuck and killed continuously all day and night long. They now have flashing signs up just before the areas where the most deer are. Have seen many of them dead on the side of the highway over the last month.

Snow in Millinocket Maine

Just a little bit of snow! Very windy conditions on Friday after the snow we got during the night. This is picture of the highway in front of the Deadriver gas station. The snow has melted quite a bit...you can see all of this sign now compared to last week when just about half of it was covered up by snow.


Just a bit further down the street you can see that we do recycle here in the boonies!! lol Snow just keeps piling up around here! No sign of spring yet!!!


Two teens walking on the sidewalk..even though they are snow covered. The one on the far left was just about to fall on the ice! Very cold and blustery day. Not too many people out..wind-chill is about 1 degree F and winds were gusting to 50 MPH most of the day.


Little bit of snow in the park on main street. The spruce tree is growing steadily and it getting quite big. They are still able to decorate it for Christmas.

Don't know where we will put any more snow. Our streets are so narrow now that two cars can't pass side by side...one has to move into a driveway for the other to pass it.

It has been a wild couple of days. Thursday we got snow and then the winds came in. The northern part of the state got over 20 inches of new snow and heavy winds for 2 days. We only got 4 or 5 inches of snow, but the winds made it difficult to drive because of the blowing snow. Our house was just a swaying most of the night..told my DC that we had a vibrating bed! The house just kept shaking all night and day long. DH had to work 11-7 shift on Thursday..so Friday morning he came home and plowed us out and then went to bed and slept for 5 hours. He said the bed felt like it was rocking all day long...lol I HATE the wind when it's like this. These old houses sure have withstood some pounding by the winds over the last 90 years. And they stand up better then the new houses being built. All wood and none of that "pretend" stuff they call wood today as my grandmother called it. Real 2 by 4s and all...they cut their wood the true size, not this 1 3/4 by 3 3/4 that they do today. haha

Well this picasa won't let me put up any more than 4 photos at a time so will do the others of the interstate at another time. One of the cats decided she wanted to go out at 1 a.m. so waiting for her to do her thing and then heading back to bed!

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First Day of Spring

Well, here I sit watching the rain, ice, sleet, hail and snow falling. It seems that Spring is just a word that everyone is wishing would hurry up and come to Maine! We have so much snow on the ground that we will have to watch out for floods in the next month or so. DH is back to work and tonight he has to go back in at 11 and work until 7 on snow removal and plowing. He is sleeping now hoping to get enough of a nap to get him through the night! He just hates working this shift so much he won't get any sleep and will be miserable all night. I loved working this shift when I worked in the mill. I would trade my day shift for this one! DH and DS didn't like it, but I was home during the day with him and his father was home at night. So we didn't have to pay for a baby sitter only a few times.

I have one and one half alpaca sock done. These are taking a long time to knit up. The size of the yarn and the needles takes so much longer to get done. But I have finished the little precious sweater and have given it to Lily. Her mom doesn't want to put it on her cause she might get it dirty. LOL Told her that's what washing machines are for!! tee hee.

A friend of ours was killed on Monday. He was in the parking lot of the Olive Garden in Bangor. A very young woman was racing through the parking lot on her cell phone when she hit and ran over him....he died at the hospital a little bit later. Only 53 and such a quiet and gentle man. He will be missed.

We are going to our sons for Easter on Saturday. We won't be staying over, but will be leaving here early and coming home late. Supposed to be quite cold and windy but hopefully no snow! Can't wait to see Sarah. Got her a big soft purple bunny and some new clothes...summer ones and a pair of sneakers that light up. She will have to grow into them, but that is what I wanted when I got them a size bigger...feet grow so fast at the age anyway.

Well going to go read my book..can't stand to start a book and not read it all quickly..so will read it until it is done. Then going to start on some wool felted slippers for us and for Christmas gifts. Hope to have a few pictures up tomorrow of the snow and the socks. Take care all and....

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More snow pictures

 

More Snow Pictures

Just a little bit of snow at camp!
Enjoy looking at it, but hate having to take care if it. These are from camp before we plowed the yard and the deck.


Look at how high the snow it!!! The snow is getting so high there won't be any place to move it to!


This picture if of the bankings on side of the road by our house.
It has been cut back a couple of times with a large machine the town has. They can blow it back over into peoples yards or they can blow it into dump trucks and take it to the snow dump. I just wish they would get up on our street and cut it back so it's wide enough for two vehicles again..not one like it is now. Oh well, spring is coming soon..I HOPE!!








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Snow Dump in Millinocket

Here are pictures of the snow dump that the town has out on Medway Road. You can see Mount Katahdin in the background of one. There is a large dump truck coming out of the dump..hope this lets you see how high this thing has grown too.

Life in Maine sucks right now!

Well, is there any place out there that has some nice summer weather? I am so sick of this winter weather I could scream. We got snow,sleet, ice and rain today. The yard is full of frozen snow and ice covers the car and truck. It's is just so hard to understand why it's raining when it's 17 F and 9F with the windchill. We haven't lost our lights and hope we don't. Had a checkup with my back surgeon this morning and was supposed to go to work. Well I didn't get to either one of them. There was no school in just about every town from Bangor north. It was just too dangerous to chance a ride on the interstate in these conditions. I hope they don't fire me...lol. Thank goodness I have a lot of sick time to use up. If I get done working and the hours are still there, I don't get paid for them.

After trying to get Social Security Disability for the last 14 years, I finally won my appeal. I will be able to still work a little bit and not affect the SSD. I am still trying to get Workers Comp to pay my medical bills from my fall on the ice in 2005 at work and nothing yet! I got a bill from the hospital for $50,000 for my knee replacement. At the bottom of the statement it had "We take all major credit cards"! Like anyone has a limit of $50,000 on a credit card. If I had that kind of money I wouldn't need a credit card. DH and I have been having a good laugh over that since we got the bill. Unbelievable!!!!

Going to dig out the wool lace skirt I started for my DIL a couple of years ago and get that finished up. I promised that I would finish up a lot of the WIPs I have and get them out of the way. Or either that take them to the FROG POND and RIP IT, RIP IT, RIP IT!!! ha ha

Night all...off to the living room to knit and watch some TV before bed.

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More snow pictures on Route 11 by Twin Lakes

These are pictures I took from the truck on the way back to town. The wind was blowing so hard that at times we could barely see the road. The drifting on the highway makes for a dangerous ride...it gets very slick and slippery even in 4 wheel drive.

Snow and Camp

Here are 4 pictures of the snow that was at camp yesterday. We got about 18" at the lake compared to a foot in town. But the wind was horrible..poor DH was using a roof rake to get the snow off the roof. He went back up today to get the rest of it off. The snow blower died, so the deck will not be shoveled off. With the snow, ice and rain coming later tonight and tomorrow, it will be too heavy on the roof, but the deck was built to withstand way more weight then the roof. We have seen reports on TV where people are losing a lot of their out buildings because of the heavy snow pack on them. There was one man in the southern part of the state that made the news on TV because he was raking his metal roof off while standing on the ground and the snow let go. He was buried with his head in the deep snow and his feet upwards. No one could see him, so he was there trying to get out. He said he had his cell phone in his pocket and was able to get it out of his pocket. It fell into his hand and he dialed 911 and the fire department came and dug him out. He tried to holler for help, but no one could hear him. He is one lucky man! DH rakes our roofs after every storm to prevent any heavy build up of snow. We do not need to lose our house to neglect.



 
 
 
 

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Just l little bit of snow again!!

This is my little car after the snow yesterday. We don't have much more room to plow the snow in the yard. The banks are higher than the car already.


Look at how high the snow is!!


Took these pictures from the back door this morning. This is the neighbors house on the next street from me. He can't even see out his windows with all the snow in front of his yard. And we have more coming on Tuesday and Wednesday! Enough Mother Nature!


I finished the little precious sweater last night. Now to start Sarah's. And I have gone through one skein of yarn for my alpaca socks. Will take three skeins for a pair. Will use 1 1/2 skeins per sock for my pair. And I am worth it. I will have to get in touch with Kim at the little store in Kingfield and order 3 more skeins of her yarn. Want to make 4 pair and have enough for 3.

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