It’s Going To Be a Windy Day Today

February 24, 2019Leave a comment

Wind Alert!

I just thought I’d try a color to add extra excitement to the words. They say the wind gusts might get up to 60 mph and these old trees in our woods don’t need that. A couple weeks ago when we had the ice storm I was sitting here talking to my mom on the phone. As I was looking out my window I actually witnessed the tops of two of my neighbor’s trees break off and fall over. How often does that happen?

This morning the creek is really flowing and I could hear it like there were waterfalls in the woods in front of the house. It’s also nice and warm out there in the upper 40s. Here in the Mitten we don’t often get Nice and Warm and Calm with Sun all in one day this early in the year. It seems like we get nasty wind on sunny days or it’s super cold on sunny days or super hot. Do we get nice calm 70° degree days anymore?

I’m knitting right now. Clue #2 for Wave Ripples was sent out on Friday. I picked up the stitches along the right front of the wave panel last night. As we knit we increase at the neckline to shape towards the shoulders. Huh? How come I’m short 3 stitches? Doesn’t matter as long as I do the same for the left front side. It will all work out. You’ll see. I’ve been knitting long enough to know that, unless I go around telling everyone, no one will even be able to tell that my neckline will be just a little bit lower than the original design. Since my neckline will be lower I’m going to alter the neck ribbing anyway to make it more like a mock turtleneck. I like a higher funnel-neck on a wool sweater for cooler weather wear.

You’ll see. It will all be OK.

I need more coffee.

Hang on out there, stay out from under trees and power lines and don’t go out driving your high profile SUVs.

It’s Beginning to Look Like Christmas

November 29, 2018November 29, 2018Leave a comment

after

Everywhere I go.

This is one of the photos that I took while we were walking through Downtown Rochester’s annual light show. There would have been more awesome photo opportunities if there was snow. One year we were there during a snow storm. There were several inches of fresh snow that fell that afternoon and it was still falling. The show is not ending yet so I still have time.

Did I mention that I tend to start blogs then wander off and abandon the entire idea of the whole concept? It’s been days since I’ve been here and each absence seems to be a little longer than the previous. This time there are actually some legitimate reasons for being away. We had Thanksgiving, Black Friday, my downtown Rochester trip and dinner at Rochester Mills Brewery, then a tooth extraction.

Tooth extraction? Ah. Yes. That was the result of some venison chili that I made back in September. No, I didn’t wait until now to eat it. This is how long it took for the crack in the tooth to actually show itself. I ate the chili on September 27th and right after finding the big chunk of bone the hard way all of my teeth on the right side of my mouth felt like they were rearranged. Nothing visible. The dentist couldn’t find anything, either. The day after Thanksgiving the tooth felt even more different so when I looked at it using a magnification mirror there was a slight different appearance to it. By Monday, there was even a more noticeable change but it still didn’t look like a crack – just looked like some discoloration in the valley – it was tooth #5 from the center front. You know, the one that’s not sure if it wants to be a molar or not. I called and made an appointment on Saturday which was a good move on my part because on Tuesday morning it was pretty obvious that the tooth was cracked in half laterally.

Wonderful, eh?

November 1, 2018 Post #1

November 1, 2018April 1, 2019Leave a comment

Yarn

There is a whole lot of yarn around here insulating this house. If I fell out of my chair right now there would be yarn to cushion my fall. Do you think my home owner’s insurance policy could be lowered due to all the cushioning going on around me?

Why am I here?

Why start a new blog or website on November 1 of 2018?

For the past 10+ years I have had two blogs over on blogspot and there have been webpages that were built and maintained after completing two webpage building courses. Those are long gone after the hosts decided that they wanted to start collecting money to allow me to appear there. My blog over there on the other location will probably be removed when I get around to it since it was mostly aimed at my Etsy shop which is also just hanging out all empty due to my own disinterest.

Who am I?

I am a 60 year old born and raised in Michigan yarn-addicted knitter. My knitting days began before my double-digit years after my mom and her mom took a night class through one of the local libraries. They didn’t knit long after that so I took over the book, yarn, and the needles and it’s been on-stop from there.

There’s more to me than just knitting but we can get to that since I’m planning on being around for a few more decades. Sharing personal thoughts and feelings are usually not my forte on the internet. It could happen.

Writing has always been one of my favorites and during my school years several courses in various types of writing lured me in and I thrived in the creative writing courses as well as the research and expository writing courses. In my past life becoming a writer or a reporter were dreams of mine. The closest I came was to be an in-house reporter for two companies that I worked for and a reporter for my high school publication. Recently, my mom found copies of those and they are now here in a file right next to me.

November is my Birthday Month.

The special offers have started to arrive in my inbox this morning and I’m still waiting for the ones for the free yarn. So far, I’m being offered free shipping and discounts. Each year I do take advantage of a free dinner from Rochester Mills Brewery and a free Blizzard from the Dairy Queen.

Stay tuned………………