Yesterday was so much prettier than today so I’m using this photo instead. Right now there’s a heavy rain going on. They did say it was going to happen, so, it’s a Knitting Day!

Yay! I love Knitting Days. What day isn’t a knitting day anyway? I haven’t had one of those in a long time. Don’t take away my knitting or coffee. If you do it’s not a pleasant day for me or for whoever is nearby.

What am I knitting? I finished all the parts of my Gnome so now they need to be assembled. His beard is rather curly so it needs to be blocked to flatten it out. I might have used the wrong yarn so I might need to knit a new one using a thicker sock yarn. Then, time for a photo adventure, upload it and wait to see who wins the final raffle.

I won the Clue #1 raffle. The prize was two fake fur pompoms. The second I pulled the brown one out of the bag my dog came over and grabbed it from me. She must have thought it was a mouse or something.

Did I mention that I have a collection of old film cameras? The Lomography website sent an e-mail yesterday asking me (and all the other subscribers) if we’ve pulled out our analog cameras for some fun lately. No. I haven’t. So, I took my Minolta Hi-Matic G for a walk thinking that the roll of film that has been in it for a long time needed to be finished. I attempt to take a photo and it won’t click. Darn it all. The roll was already done. Back to the house we go since those old cameras weigh a whole lot and taking it on a half mile walk wasn’t what I wanted to do. For the next walk on the next nice day it’s going to be time for one of the Argus Bricks to go out. I have two of them and I think one has film in it. It’s never a good thing to actually open the cameras to find out if there is really film in them. Done that before. Although, it does give the exposed frames an interesting look.

If you want to know what Lomography is all about you can see my LomoHome here:

https://www.lomography.com/homes/reddeviltj

WAVE RIPPLES IS DONE!!!!!

One KAL/MKAL down and four more to go. The deadlines for the other two are coming up on the 31st and I think I can make it. Oh the stress of knitting. 😉 No stress. This is fun, exhilarating, challenging, and the list goes on.

No, I will never sign up for so many at one time and, as far as I’m concerned (we’ll see) I am not signing up for any more. There’s still the two year-long KALs that should keep  me busy enough. I’ve also got those babies to knit for.

Now, when it comes to knitting for those babies I’m hoping that my DD#2 doesn’t treat these baby sweaters the way she treated the shawl I knitted for her a couple years ago. When we visited to see their house I spotted it in a box of junk up in their attic that they were going to finish transforming into a bedroom.

Some people’s children……..

  We go through this mess several times each year where the creek that runs through our land overflows into the woods. We can tell that the creek has been here for a long, long, time and has etched a valley which adds to the beauty of the woods – when it’s not under water.

Over the years we’ve collected some oddities from upstream during these floods. Right now there is a soccer ball, volleyball ball, a Little Tykes small tugboat complete with the captain at the wheel, a child’s boot, several water bottles, beer cans, assorted pieces of wood and one year, a school of some really large ugly grass carp.

On our walk yesterday I saw new water bottles. If it ever dries out this spring I need to get in there and start cleaning it up. Along the banks of the creek we’ve also got some interesting old things from the farmhouse that used to be here. We  have a family who used to own the land and they now live to the north and own several hundred acres. One of the decedents who I call Uncle Fred told me that the original family farm house was on our land. The house was between the creek and the road. The old concrete steps are still here. Closer to the road and slightly to the south are several old rusty frames from old vehicles. Out in the back of our land, 1/2 mile from the road, we have an eclectic collection of glass bottles and old rusty metals since farmers used to just dump their trash on their own land. I would love to have a metal detector to see what else I can find.

We do have a nice pink bathroom sink back there. Need one?