Christmas 2008

sarah lounging in her new Tonka dump truck!


Scarves I knit for Christmas gifts for family and friends.



Sarahs new smile! She has her daddys ski hat on!



Sarah playing with her new Camera. She took over 400 pictures before the batteries wore out. She took pictures of EVERYTHING!!! She was more interested in seeing what the view screen showed than the actual taking of the pictures. It only took her two pictures to figure out that she had to push the button on the front of the camera in order to have a picture. Reviews on this fisher-price camera were negative on the childs ability to use this camera. My God!! Sarah is only 27 months old and she used it for two days!!! Now to find her some rechargeable AAA batteries for this.

The ride home was horrible. We woke up to light snow then it turned to freezing rain. When we headed home at 10 a.m. its wasn't bad at all...just the roads weren't plowed or salted or sanded. We got to Newport and it was pouring!!! Temps were 35F. I am amazed at the drivers. If the big rigs are not going any faster then 45 MPH should tell you something! We saw one very serious accident in Bangor in the southbound part of the I. The further north we went the worse the roads got and the faster people wanted to go. I just took my time and stayed in line with the rest of the traffic and we got home without any problems. We had a car pass us and then up the road about 5 miles they were off the road. So called 911 and reported it. Told the dispatcher that they needed to get the plows out to salt and sand. Was told there is no money for it so just take my time. Love this state!!! Don't lay of the people in the office building, lay off the men and women out there in the plow trucks and let us worry about how we will get home safely. Love our governor...he is such a jerk!!!

Well heading to bed to rest. My back is sore and my ankle is swollen and it needs to be elevated for a while. Happy New Year Everyone!!!

KNIT ON!!

Sony Camera

I got an email today from Sony about my camera. Mailed it out two weeks ago and they just got it today! Now I go in to their site tonight and I have to call them...this is supposed to be a recall. I don't know if they are open this time of night so will wait until morning.

All my christmas presents have arrived by mail or UPS. Even with paying postage I saved a lot of money of these gifts. I am amazed. I received all my orders within 7 days...most came two to three days after placing the order. Thank you Amazon.com!!

I haven't felt like knitting much lately. I did get the four pair of socks done for my friend and she is very pleased with them. I told her she should learn to knit. At our age it is something to do with our time and it does produce very nice results for me and the giftee! Lets see how long it takes for her to ask me for lessons. She said she was taught by her grandmother as a young adult. It wouldn't take any time at all for her to remember how to knit and purl. I would gladly teach her how to read a pattern...even though the new ones today with "charts" make my head spin. lol

DGD is learning to use her potty! Got a call today from her to tell Grammy and GB that she went 4 times yesterday and 2 time today!! She is growing up so fast!!! Next month will be big changes in the house for her. A new baby brother...I call him the "little guy" and I think that is what I will call him after he's born. Now it's a big secret what his name will be...DS is the name picker as DDIL was the one who got to pick Sarah's name. Hope our son is kind to this one...nothing to long to learn to spell..lol

We got a lot of rain this weekend and most of the southern part of the state was hit hard with ice and power outages. We had a couple of flickers but nothing that stayed off. I stayed off the computer just in case it did go out. Hate to have it shut down like that.

Have my Christmas cards all written..now to get to the post office tomorrow and mail them. Supposed to snow and we could get 6 inches of the white shit! LOL I will get to plow!!! Yippee for me!

Dh had two things removed from his bald head last Friday. He missed a day of work because they changed the time on him...so he decided to be home in case they changed it again..and they did. Called us at 7:30 to say they had a cancellation due to the snow/rain mess so he went in an hour earlier. Will know next week sometime if they are cancerous or not. One looked like the one he had on his back removed 18 months before and that was basil cell. The other had changed some and was sticking up so the doctor took it as he was already there ....haha DH has 5 stitches in each one. And they are so GROSS! DH said they are very sore and burn. I bet they do. I have changed the bandages for him each night and I am so glad I haven't gotten light headed like I did when I was changing the bandages when he had his gall bladder out!! Almost passed out doing that! LOL He still teases me about it. Oh well. Must be because I love him and don't want him in any pain. He gave me the shots when I had my knee and ankle replaced because I couldn't stick the needles in myself and never complained (too much anyway) about that. lol

If I don't get to post again until after the holidays "MERRY CHRISTMAS!" everyone and May God Bless you all!!!!

KNIT ON!

Christmas Gifts for a friend

This pair is from Red Heart Acrylic yarn. I swapped with my friend Nadine for this...she was looking for some of the pink camo yarn to crochet a couple of sweaters..good trade for us both.

This one is from Brunswick Yarn that I had left from my shop. It too is acrylic worsted weight. I hope the young boy that is getting them likes them and they fit.

The purple ones are from Brunswick yarn that I have had left over from my yarn shop days. I have so much yarn I will never use it all in my life time!!!!
One pair left to go for this little girl. Gerry I hope they fit your step-grand kids.

My Sony Camera is at the repair shop in Texas. I got my shipping labels after I hounded them three times in one day. Oh, they emailed them to me. No you didn't!!! So I called and finally got an American in the USA and he got me the labels ASAP...so I packed it up and took it to the UPS place in town. Now for them to replace that LCD part and get it back to me before Christmas. Keep your fingers crossed that they can do what they promised me!

The weather this week has been one weird ride!! Monday it was -20F with the windchill and it was snowing all day too. Today it was 56F and rain. Tonight it is down to 27F and supposed to be heavy snows tomorrow and possibly into Friday. I am so glad I have my Christmas shopping all done. I did most of it locally and on the Internet. I took a ride to Lincoln to Walmart on Tuesday to get a fisher price digital camera for DGD. The Internet price was $40.00. I printed out the page and took it with me. I was told that would not honor any Walmart.com prices. So I put it back and came home. I checked out Amazon.com and got one with shipping for less than $38.00..and it will be here Friday!!! Yippee. I also was able to find some blanket sleepers with feet for Sarah. I got 7 of them for her for $68.00 with shipping..at Amazon again. I saved enough money that I went and ordered her a cabbage patch doll...$13.33 and that will be here Friday too. So Santa is going to come to her house with some nice presents this year...her other grandmother got her a new leap frog thingy so she can learn some more words. She already knows her alphabet, colors, and 0 to 10. Nice to have a mom and grandmother that have a college education. Her other Grammy is a school teacher and also teaches a couple of courses at the local college. Not us, we are from the school of hard knocks. I was one of the first females to work in the paper mill in town..talk about women's lib!! We sure have "come a long way, baby!" Today what us girls went through would get a person fired. We were told that we were walking into a mans world and if we didn't like it we better find another job! What we did for the women of today!!

I hope to get the last sock done tomorrow for my friend and then finish up the second Christmas stocking and start the last one for Rosemary right after. We will see.

I did go back and order all the Christmas stocking patterns from Annie's yesterday. I really like them. Done on a circular so there is no sewing it up the back and it looks so much better..IMHO Sarah's sweater will be on hold for a bit. And I signed up for Death By Socks today for their DBS starting Jan 12, 2009. I have some fingering yarn here now to get the gauge done so that when they post the directions I am off to a good start. I would like to at least get to the second round of this..and not be "assassinated" right off. If anyone is interested in this, the deadline is Friday, Dec 12 at midnight. It is a Yahoo group. Last year I did a sock swap with a lady in Minnesota. She did a beautiful sock for me out of a sport weight with a nice pattern to it and I knit her a pair from worsted weight Bartlettyarns. I hope she got to use them to keep warm last winter! I have enjoyed my socks many times this past year.

DH has to have some minor surgery on his poor bald head right off. He has two pre-cancerous spots and now they have turned to basil cell cancer. At least that is what the doctor is thinking. It sure looks just like the other one. Of course DH hasn't seen the first one or these ones as they are on the back of him..and looking in a mirror doesn't look the same as what you can see up close and personal...ha ha They will get him in ASAP to get this done. This is the second time he's had this type of cancer. I hope this will be the last of it..but he is so light complected and burns so easily that he will probably have more of them in his lifetime. We didn't have sun screen like we do today. And being so blond and white skinned he burned many times as a kid and blistered each time. Me, I have enough of my great great grandmothers Indian blood in me that I just get darker and darker..I will burn but it takes a lot to get a burn like DH gets in just an half hour in the son. And our son and DGD are both dark like me. Now if I could just get the benefits that the American Indians get I would be happy..don't have enough blood line for that.

Well, I am going to go read some more of my new books I got on Amazon.com...right now reading the Spenser series by Robert B Parker. Have read the other series he has but haven't gotten to the single books yet. The library here has a very small and limited amount of his books so buy them online at a good discount rate for second hand books.

KNIT ON!

Christmas Sock is finished!!

I have finished the sock and put it in a Ziploc baggie so the cat won't bother it..lol The pattern is from http://www.annieswoolens.com/StockingKitsPatterns.php The site has a lot of new patterns that I plan to order after Christmas. I will have to order some more wool from Bartlettyarns to make these...and I think I may do a couple of craft fairs next year around the Christmas season. (If I don't give them all away like I did today...lol)
I am waiting for a new pattern book I ordered from Mary Maxim on Monday...was told they would be here tomorrow. So while I wait for them to get here, ordered 4 of them, I have finished a pair of acrylic socks for a boy with a size 5 shoe in boys...which is the size I wear in them so I know these will fit him..they are gifts for friend to give as Christmas gifts. She is paying for the yarn and I am doing the knitting. I will start the second Christmas stocking when I get the mail tomorrow afternoon...already have the yarn. The second one will be a poinsettia and the third one is a snowman. I enjoy knitting these so it will be fun to make more of them after Christmas is over.
The weather has been rain, sleet, and snow all within an hour today. We have a lot of black ice on the roads and sidewalks so it is not fun out there at all right now. I am being very careful not to fall and injure my new body parts!
We do have some snow on the ground but it isn't much. Just enough to be white and icy.
The sweater for Sarah is on hold for now. I want to make sure I get all the socks and mittens done before Christmas this year. I do want to make some felted mittens for my DH, DS and myself. I made some about 9 years ago and DH finally wore them out last winter. And he said his hands were really too warm at times.
Finally got my UPS label for the camera to be returned to Sony last night. If I lived closer to Bangor all I had to do was take it to the UPS store and they would pack it up for me, but I don't. So now trying to find a box sturdy enough for me to wrap this camera up and take it to the little UPS place in town and it should be done in 10 days and back to me before Christmas...and I have my fingers and toes crossed on that promise.
Time for knitting and watching a little TV is on my to do list...so take care, be safe and MERRY CHRISTMAS to all!!!

KNIT ON!!!!!!