Sarah

Sarah in her new poncho and hat! It was made from Streetwise yarn that I have had for a long time. I think I am going to have to crochet around the neck to make it stay on her. She kept trying to put it around her waist. LOL





Sarah wearing her new hooded Aran cardigan! I made a size 4 hoping this would be something she will wear later this year...but it is just a little bit big for her.




Dad put the sweater on her today and met us for breakfast at the little restaurant by the hotel we stayed in this weekend. We had a blast playing with Sarah for 2 days!




Sarah is trying to get the dogs to play with her. She wanted them to come over so she could throw her little snowball in the air so Baxter could catch it.

More tomorrow on our visit...heading to bed to rest and watch some tv.

Take care all and...........


KNIT ON!

Aran Cardigan

Here is a picture of the cardigan that I am knitting for Sarah. I am using Encore,worsted weight yarn from Plymouth Yarn. It is 75% acrylic and 25% wool. This way Mom can wash it when it gets dirty. I have made many of these sweaters as gifts for friends and family...HAD to make one for Sarah! The pattern is from "Country Arans for children". It was put out by Plymouth Yarn. The first printing came from Paton's in the late 80's. I have this one left over from my yarn shop days. Have some buttons that I had purchased in Canada many years ago when we went to a big craft fair in New Brunswick. Can't remember the person who made them, but will be perfect for this sweater.





Here are the roses that I got from my son, daughter in law and granddaughter for my birthday today! Also got cards from family and friends, both email and snail mail. (And you can see all my knitting books in the background in the book case.) DH took me out for supper tonight too! And then we went to the local greenhouse to see whats growing there...NOTHING! Debbie won't be starting up the furnace until Wednesday when all the plants arrive. Got my order in early for some hanging planters of vegetables for camp. Won't be able to bend to tend the garden, so will just have them in planters and on the deck. We have some 5 gallon buckets we are going to put tomato plants in along with cukes and peppers. Hope to get the big half potato barrels filled again and plant some radishes in them. LOVE fresh radishes. Love fresh veggies anytime! But to have them fresh in Maine is a hard thing to get in the winter months. They are either not fresh and coated in wax or just not tasty when we get the hot house ones.

Well, off to work on the cardigan for Sarah and go visit Aunt Bubbles at the nursing home with DC.

KNIT ON!!

More Deer Pictures

Duck and deer...lol


Duck and Deer.


Just a few more eating


Supper is served! More coming from the woods to eat.

Snow again & Deer

Well, woke up to snow Saturday morning! Just a little bit, but enough to make us stay home instead of going to Bangor to the Home Show. There were many accidents and the odds made us make a quick decision to stay home and for me to bake a nice spiral ham! So we stayed home, I cooked, cleaned and knit on my aran cardigan. I now have the hood started. The sleeves are done and so are the button bands.

We went to Bangor today (Sunday) and got some stuff on modular homes at the Home Show. (Not a lot of stuff there...people do not have the money to invest in these shows like they did years ago.) Hoping to have home built in a few years near our son....want to watch the grand daughter grow up and once DH is retired, we can move. Just a few more years to go.


We stopped in Medway at the Gateway Inn and watched the deer. Had heard the cops talking about them on the scanner last night, so when we pulled off the interstate I told DH that we were going to stop and watch the deer if they were there. And were they!!! In the 20 minutes we were there, 20 of them came out of the woods to eat the grain the Inn owners have been putting out. There were seagulls and a couple of female ducks there too! One of the ducks was right next to the deer and didn't care if they were close to her or not. The deer were not phased by anyone getting out to take pictures or of all the coming and going cars! The deer were in the woods and some were near the edge of the woods watching. They all came to eat while we were there and more were coming as we pulled out of the parking lot.


This picture shows a duck landing in the deer to get some food. The deer moved and it took right off again and the other one followed suit and took off to. Did get a picture of it in the deer.


This shot shows there are 13 deer. More came from the right and just mingled with the rest to eat. DH didn't want to sit and watch long. Told him I should have left him home...he's a party pooper! I was talking to the people at the show and he was standing there huffing and puffing to move along. You'd think I'd learn after 38 years...go by myself...get to see more and do more. LOL Gotta love him!!! ha-ha

Aunt Ellen

As I posted last night about my aunt Ellen, she passed away. She is now with her family, as she has wanted for the last few months. I will miss you Auntie!!
I love you!!

Aunt Ellen

Just to let everyone know..I did go to the hospital tonight...Auntie is in a coma and is not expected to live much longer! They have stopped all her medications and IV. She still has oxygen, but it is not helping her at all now. She may not make it through the night is what the grandchildren are saying. I am praying that God will take her soon and stop her suffering. She has said all this week that she is ready to go.

Today is the second anniversary of her sons death. She has outlived her husband, son and daughter. Her grandchild have been there for her forever. She lives with one of her granddaughters since her own daughter died just a short time ago.

GOD BLESS YOU AUNT ELLEN!!!

Snow Dump today and collapsed garage

Here a picture of the snow dump I took today. DH wanted to stand in front of it with a shovel and post it to some bow site he goes to. LOL And this has melted in the last 2 weeks! The dirt is showing now and that will slow down the melting of the snow until into July.
Men!! Just have to love them! lol


Here is DH walking back from the snow trying not to step into the mud like he did when he walked to it...lol. I stayed on the road that goes into it and used the zoom lens to get the closeups...haha. Now to go to Rite-Aid later and print them up for him. (cheaper there then for me to print them with my printer I bought for my Sony camera.)


These next two pictures are of a house that the attached garage collapsed yesterday. The owner had her car in there and it was heavily damaged too. The problem with this type of thing happening is that our insurance company won't cover the damages because they didn't have it shoveled. Paying to have someone clear the roof would have been a lot cheaper then rebuilding. This second picture is closer up and shows the crew hired to tear it down and clean it up. This means Mike will have early work for his crew this month. Most carpenters have to lay off their crews for the winter months.

KNIT ON!!!

Green Grass in our yard and Sarahs Aran Sweater and slippers

 

Washed the slippers and I do not think they are small enough for DGD's little feet. I might try felting them some more today. I think I like them, but not sure...will have to wait and see how Sarah likes them. I just wish they had felted smaller...look to me like they are still as large as when I knit them. Her little feet are only 6" long and these are a lot longer than 6 inches...lol Oh well, hope to try them on her this weekend...if mother nature doesn't mess up the weekend again with snow like the last one! We are planning going to visit on Saturday, and staying over night, but the hotels are all booked for Reggae weekend at Sugarloaf USA.



 

Have the back and the two fronts done on the Aran hooded cardigan for DGD. I have the two sleeves started but haven't really worked on them much these last couple of days. My back ache has increased and now I just want to lay still in bed and hope for the pain to ease up. Have pain meds to take, but hate taking them. Saw my doctor on Monday and he said I shouldn't have the second back surgery...just increase my meds and live with it. Yeah right! He should walk a mile in my shoes and then tell me if he wouldn't take the chance to have this pain reduced like it was before I went and moved the wrong way and now have the vertebrae slipped over so I have pain 24/7! My surgeon is now wishing she had fused this when I had surgery last May. Oh well, and I was doing so good. Now to decide which to do first, back or knee replacement...haha Get-R-Done!!



 

We have some green grass in our yard. LOL Still have a ton of snow, but what grass is showing is turning green. Our back yard is so muddy, (Mud season has arrived!!) that we are going to have to start parking in the driveway or on the street for a while. Hate parking on the street..never know what will happen to our vehicles! Do not want the alarms going off at 2 in the morning!!


 

As you can see, there is snow and now grass! I hate the thought of the bugs and mosquitoes coming in May, but will gladly put up with them after this winter and all the snow!


Aunt Ellen is still in the hospital. I haven't been back up...just so hard to see her struggling to breath. I am not a very nice person, but I hope the family can forgive me for my short comings in life. I understand that the doctor has put her on morphine now to help her relax and hopefully able to breath better. I am just going to have to go up today and see if the family can use some support. Enough of me feeling sorry for myself and not being there when needed!!!

Well, got to get going. Promised a lady to send her a yarn care package so she can design some more socks! She is such a great talent, but like is always looking for donations to help with her limited income. And I hope to get a couple of her wonderful sock patterns too!

Take care all and

KNIT ON!!!!

Snow at the Mountain and the Dike

 

Underneath all that snow is a camp! OH YEAH! Just a little bit of snow up at Amajejus Lake! Of course the snowplow hasn't helped! The banking is high because of the plowing, but the snow on the roof, imagine it, it there by mother nature. In the center of this picture is the camp. I had to take a picture to prove that we have a lot of snow! And this sure proves it!


 

This is the camp just before the camp you can't see. I am amazed that it hasn't colapsed from the weight of the snow. Yesterday DH and I took a ride around town and saw a home with an attached garage that the garage had colasped from the weight of the snow. I will have to go back and take a picture of it today to post. I am amazed that people do not take the time to shovel or to have their homes shoveled off with all this snow we got this winter.
 

We had taken the state road to Abol and drove back on the Golden Road. We were both suprized to see tree length wood stacked on the sides of the road again. We haven't been up that road in a few years due to the fact it is posted a private road. The mill hasn't had tree length logs there for years....since they took out all the equipment to cut it up into 4 foot lenths. So took a few pictures of the piles of wood.
 

Abol Bridge and store. The bridge is one-lane and the loaded pulp trucks use it to bring the logs to the mills in the area. Just a little bit of snow in this picture too!

At least the snow has started melting and spring is finally coming to Maine!



KNIT ON!

Aunt Ellen

Wednesday was my Aunt Ellen's 94Th birthday. Her granddaughter brought her to the hospital and she is there still today having severe breathing problems. I went to visit her yesterday and it was so hard to watch her trying to get enough air into her lungs. I didn't stay very long, it was just too much for me to watch. I do plan on going up tonight to see her again. She is alert and in good spirits, but struggling to breath. After watching my mother, father in law, mother in law and brother in law die and the difficulties they had to breath, I just do not have it in me to sit there and watch auntie. Love her dearly, but I just don't want to see her suffering. I hope the rest of the family understands.

I have been knitting on the aran sweater for DGD. I have the back and the two fronts done. I have the two sleeves started as of last night. I will try to get some pictures posted soon. I hope to have this done by next Saturday when we go to visit our son and family! Sarah will look so good in it...it will be big, but she will be able to wear it for a while. I have knit a few other sweaters that she has already outgrown...so this one will last a year or more.

KNIT ON!

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.

KNIT ON!!

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.