Life at Camp

Red breasted Grosbeak on the feeders. Spelling isn't right but who cares! He is so pretty and fun to watch!


This Morning Dove is driving poor Feather crazy walking past her all morning. She doesn't go out so this is a treat for her to be this close!


Wild strawberry blossoms in the yard!


And the squirrel is in the feeder filling his belly up!

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Life is GREAT!!

 
Sunset at Camp! What beautiful pictures these are!
 

Taken from the deck at camp!
 
 

 

Aran Cardigan for Rebecca in Texas. This one is going to my Pen Pal Judy in Texas for her Granddaughter! She will not be wearing it for a while as the baby won't be one until October.
 
 

This is the sweater I am working on for Sarah. It is from the Vanna print out that I got a while ago. I have never had to many ends to tie in before in my life!!! I spent all day yesterday and all most all the evening hiding those many double strands of yarn!

I have it all finished but for the buttons. Came to town today to get them and to get a few things at the grocery store. We have some big thunder storms coming tonight so I want to be back at camp before they hit. I needed to shut this pc off too!
 

I have been doing a lot of knitting this last week. DH was on vacation so he got a lot of the yard work done. DS had a softball accident last week and had to have surgery on his right thumb on May 20. He is lucky that he is the boss, so he has two workers and he can do some things. He has a cast and will have it checked on June 6. The doctor had to put the cords back on the bone. Called it a skiiers thumb. LOL Always something with that kid! Just like his mother!!! One thing or another with us! His wife is so good, she just smiles and is by his side. We are hoping to get to see them this weekend...once I have the ankle replaced I will be laid up for 6 weeks with a cast! And will not be able to put any weight on the leg either!

Well take care my friends. I will try to keep you posted with my knitting projects and recovery. May God Bless you all for your concern and internet friendship!

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WE ARE MOVING!!!

The waterline is in the lake and the pump is working...hot water tank is on and we are ready to move in tomorrow. I plan on going to the camp early tomorrow morning and getting the fridge and the rest of the cupboards cleaned up and do some laundry. I love to hang clothes out on the line so will be a fun day for me. I got my veggie plants in the pots today and the hanging flowers are now out on the post on the deck! WE ARE MOVING!! The alarm system is working at the house so this year we will have that for security. Lets hope DH remembers the code!!! We are going to stay up tomorrow night and then come home in the morning to bring up the cats. It will be so nice to have quiet again. Last night we listened to our neighbors across the street little girl talking and crying most of the night. We had our windows open and I guess they did too! And the dogs in the neighborhood barked all night long too! And then the paper machine in the mill went down so we had the steam plant screaming at us as the released the steam into the air most of the night too!!! It will be heaven at camp until the fourth of July when everyone moves up from their out of state homes for the next month or so. Oh well. That won't be bad..we are just about the last camp on the road so we don't get their traffic, just the 4-wheelers during the day. And the people that own party boats ride around and talk. But the nights are quiet and it is so nice!!! Crickets, frogs, loons, and the birds...lol

I had my MRI yesterday. I didn't make it through the first set when I started to get upset so they brought me out and let me calm down. The 3 ladies decided to put me in feet first for the next 45 minutes if I could go back in and finish the first set. I had enough Valium in me to float a house, but it didn't help. The last time I went in they gave me xanax and it worked very, very good. No problems at all. And I couldn't have any music as they had to put my head in the device so the headset wouldn't fit. DARN!! It is an awful feeling to be in something like that and scared to death of it. I guess the fear I had from being locked up in that little room in the cellar as a small child still rears its ugly head from time to time! At least now I know what it is and why it happens. And I was able to talk myself into knowing that I could get out and no one would keep me there..especially after they took me out the first time. I had the first full set without the contrast and then they brought me out again and said to not move at all...the computer would pick up where it left off so I had to be in the same position for this to work. So they injected the dye contrast and put me back in. I said so many prayers yesterday in that hour I won't have to pray for a week now!!!! And the noise that the machine made sounded like disco music beat a few times. I could see John Travolta dancing around in my head. And when they put me in feet first, me knees were hitting on this bump. The first set tickled my knees so much I was giggling for the 2 minutes it took...and the tech asked me what was so funny...ha ha ha. I noticed that when they were running the MRI the area that it was working on got very warm. When the took me out that first time I was burning up. So I ended up taking the blanket off me and pulling the johnny up to my boobs so the air would blow on my bare skin.(I had my boxers on) The girls laughed and said I had no modesty...not when it comes to keeping cool! All and all, I will make sure if I have to do this again I will have a different medication to make sure I can get through it without tears. Now for my doctor to decide what she can do to help me. But I think I will have the ankle done first. I won't be able to use crutches after the back surgery and this ankle replacement means 6 weeks with not being able to put any pressure on that ankle so I will be on crutches for a couple of months. We will see!

Got the second button band on the aran tonight and the ribbing for the hood almost done and ready for the hood. I hope to finish this soon.

Well, heading to bed..want to get up early and head to camp. DH has the car loaded up for me. He told me he has my rifle and bullets in the front so I would have it with me at camp. After seeing that bear the other night..I want that rifle close at hand!!!

Temps today hit 70 F beautiful degrees..it is still 60 degrees at 11 pm. And the bugs are out! I hate those black flies..they love me and they sure do bite me! DH didn't have any around him when we were out in the boat dropping off the waterline..but I had a dozen of them getting in my eyes and mouth!!! YUCKY!!

Night all

KNIT ON!!

Moving to Camp some day!!!

Well this is going to be one of those years! Nothing has gone right with this move at all this week. DH and I put the waterline in the lake yesterday after waiting for 4 days for the winds to die down and the lake to calm down. Then he discovered he had brought up the wrong pump so that was the end of that! So today we brought up the right pump and he hooked it up. He primed the pump and waited for the water to fill the line up so he could open the line into the camp and nothing. An hour and a half of him putting water in the pump and turning it on and nothing!! So he pulled the waterline in and checked it out to make sure there weren't any holes in the pipe. The foot valve was tangled in the rope and he thinks this was stopping the water from getting pumped in. But the winds are still bad so we didn't get to put the line back. Yesterday we had a little lull in the winds so we took that as our one chance to get it in the lake. But today the winds were even stronger and huge white caps and waves made it impossible to put the little boat back in the water and row out to drop the line with the block on it back. We won't be going to camp tomorrow as I have an MRI in Bangor at 4 pm. It will be too late to go up by the time we get home...so it will have to wait until Saturday when DH is on vacation for the next week. Oh well. Just wasn't meant to be! Now we are keeping our fingers crossed that none of the pipes in the camp have cracked like they did several years ago due to moisture in the pipes and a very cold night with no one staying at camp to keep the water running...lol That is the only good thing about PVC pipe..it is easy to cut and replace it if there is a problem.

Well I did get the two bands done on the Aran Cardigan tonight. I just haven't felt like knitting at all these last 4 or 5 days. I have several projects all packed for camp. Will take up three or four and the rest will be at home. DH will bring them up when I am ready to start them.

I hate thinking about the MRI I am having tomorrow. I was abused as a little girl and one of the incidents was my mother locking me in the basement in a little room that they kept potatoes in during the winter. There was no light so it was a very dark place to be. And this MRI is a great reminder of those feelings even 48 years after the fact. And it took a scare to bring it all back when I was 35. I was in the bathroom at work when the lights went out and there was no back up lights. I was terrified and this just came flashing at me like it was yesterday! And since then I have been terrified of being locked in and not being able to get out. I will have to be medicated to do this and I am bring my Phil Vasseur Greatest Hits CD for them to play while I am in there for an hour tomorrow. My doctor has ordered this to check the whole spine this time. No more little surprises I am hoping. This way she will know what else needs to be corrected and then go in for the surgery. I will be the bionic woman when I am done!!! LOL

Well, I am going to watch Murder She Wrote and then head to bed and try to relax enought to get some sleep. Take care all and.......

KNIT ON!

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!!

Just a quick note to say "HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY" to everyone! May your day be filled with love and a lot of knitting!

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Camp

I went to camp on Wednesday to see how things were and to get the bedding. On the ride home, I almost hit a deer that ran into the road in front of me. And this big snapping turtle was crossing the road. I stopped in both lanes of traffic so no one could get by me and run over it. They move so slowly and a lot of people run over them when they could have stopped and waited for them to get to the other side of the road. We do not have turtles like we used to when I was a kid. People kill them all the time and the babies do not survive because of predators. This one was moving along nicely and it probably wouldn't have made it if I hadn't stopped traffic for it. LOL


Yesterday we went to camp after DH got out of work at 3:30 pm. I got some of the bedroom cleaned and a lot of the dust removed from the furniture. DH unloaded the cleaning stuff for me and then went to shoot his new bow! I knew he wanted to go up for a reason that wasn't to clean...hahahahahaha. We had sandwiches for supper at camp and then did some more cleaning and headed home. While I was eating supper I noticed a hummingbird at the feeder. By the time I got my camera ready it flew off. So today I went to camp at 7:30 am and did a lot of cleaning...with a lot of breaks. I had lunch and while I was eating, the male hummer was there a lot. I finally got a picture of him. I also put out some of my other bird feeders and had several blue jays and many different kinds of finch. I think the bright yellow ones are so pretty.


And there is still snow at camp!! Some on the road in and a lot on the shoreline. We have a huge pile of it because that is where it drifted the most. It should be gone in a few more days. It will take a couple of weeks for the lawn to dry up before we can drive on it.

I got two of my cupboards washed out with Clorox cleanup today. I hate cleaning up after the mice!! They poop everywhere. We put all the dishes and silverware into large plastic storage boxes so we don't have poop on them any more. But they still get in the cupboards and drawers. We are so lucky that they make cleaning products ready to use...especially when there is no running water for a few more days. I get to clean the place and not need any water!!! Thank God for smart people!! lol

Well, going to go knit and watch TV early tonight. Need to rest my poor aching back and ankle!! Take care all and....

KNIT ON!!!!

Aran Cardigan

Well, I got the sleeves knitted up last night and measured to make sure all the pieces were the right length. @#$@%#& it all! The back and the front were an inch too short. So I took out the bind off and picked up the back stitches and added 8 more rows. Then I frogged the two fronts back 18 rows to where I started to decrease and added 8 more rows there. I have only 5 rows of the decrease done and had to put it up for the evening. Was so over tired I couldn't see straight. Today I have been so busy that I didn't get a chance to even open up my knitting bag to work on it. The weather was 71 F beautiful degrees today, the sun was shining and I just couldn't stay in the house to knit or read!! I went to bed early to work on the fronts this evening, but just didn't feel like it so watched NCIS and Shark. Turned off the TV and couldn't sleep. So here I am at the computer reading blogs and adding to mine. And DH is upstairs snoring away and I can't seem to get sleepy tonight.

Had my little car checked over today. Back tire was making noise so had it to the garage all day. Nothing there so didn't cost me anything.

Having a lot of problems with my poor ankle. Dr wants to wait to replace it until after my back surgery. I don't think that is going to wait. I am using crutches again to get around. In the morning it isn't too bad, but as the day wears on the pain is so bad I can hardly stand on it. It feels like a broken bone! I know it is the little pieces in there moving and causing this pain. And I know that I am calling the doctor tomorrow to get on the list and have it done ASAP. We should be moving to camp this weekend. So if I can get it all cleaned up this week and stuff moved in and put away, all DH has to do is put the pump in place, line in the water and prime it! The rest will be getting the cats up there! Then we can plan the surgery. It is only a 2 day stay this time..but I will be in bed for 2 weeks in a fluffy cast and then 4 more weeks in a hard cast and not able to put any weight on it. Oh well..can't be any worse then when I broke it in '82. (Did it on my 10 year olds little 60CC dirt bike! Had 5 1/2 hours of surgery to put the ankle back in place and 6 weeks in a cast. I then had 6 months of physical therapy 5 days a week to learn to walk again. I then had two more surgeries in the next 5 years to remove the pins and screws in it. That summer a friend and her son and me and my son went up on the mountain where there had been a terrible forest fire a few years before and picked blueberries. I picked over 120 quarts of those little things. It was a hot July too! lol We had blueberries for months..gave away many of them too.)

I boiled my sugar water tonight and washed out my hummingbird feeders. I know that the males are already here and they must be wondering why there isn't anything to eat! I have bought 50 pounds of sugar so far..I hope to get the rest this weekend at Sam's Club in Bangor. I have used 150 pounds one summer! Had over 40 of birds and they sure did go through a lot of the stuff everyday. I was boiling 3 gallons of water a day for over a month...August. I usually have a dozen or so females and 3 males. Then the babies start showing up. Last summer I thought I had a couple of big bumble bees on the feeders. When I went out to shoo them away, I discovered they were baby hummers!! lol

Going to head to the camp at 6 when DH leaves for work. Need to get the bedding and curtains down and bring them home to wash and dry. Then I will take the truck to the glass place for them to fix the windshield..it leaked inside the truck last week when we had all the heavy rain. The dealer isn't sure if it is the windshield or the lights on top. (Reason we never ordered them on a truck before..this truck wasn't ordered by us so it had them on the cab.) So start with the windshield and see if it happens again. The truck isn't 3 years old yet and it still have full coverage on it..so get r done now!!! lol

Going to have to get my knitting projects lined up for the summer. DH will never be able to find anything if I don't have it all bagged and tagged and ready to grab when I need a new one. This way I will always have something to do while recouping. I hope I can get the skirt done for DDIL this summer too. Started it over 3 years ago and just couldn't make myself work on it when it got to the 3/4 point! Now I have them on one big circular needle and only have about 45 more rows to go. Will try to get a couple of pictures taken of it and post soon.

Well, going to go watch Murder She Wrote..Haven't seen this one before..that I can remember!! LOL

KNIT ON!!

Graces 5th Birthday Today!!

On Saturday Grace's parents had her birthday party at the indoor mini-golf place for kids in town. She had her little friends from nursery school and family there to share in her day!
This picture is of Grace riding the little merry-go-round that Lori has in the store.



Grace opening up one of her many gifts.



Grace with her Dora lamp that she got from her Aunt Kelly and Uncle Jason. She had such a fun afternoon there. She tired us out just watching her running around, playing golf, and playing the many other games there!




This is a picture of dandilions in our yard! This is the first flowers in our yard. I do not have anything else because we will be moving to camp in a couple of weeks and no one is here to take care of them. So we have them at the lake to enjoy.

Today I finished the two sleeves for the Aran Cardigan. I will be putting it together later tonight and then adding the hood. Can't wait to get this finished and off to Texas.

Went to the local hardware store today to get some hummingbird feeders...the ones from Perky-pet...that stick to the window. I had bought 3 last summer, but dropped them a couple of times when I was filling them and they leaked all over the deck. So I will save them for parts if I should need them.

Well, heading in to work on my aran...and I think I am going to go to bed early tonight..like right now! Got up with DH at 5:30 and drove him to work so I could use the truck and pickup my flowers at the local greenhouse for camp. Also went to the cemetary to put the silk flower arrangements on my father in law, mother in law and brother in laws graves. Will get my mothers later as hers are at camp and we still can't get in.

Take care all and

KNIT ON!!