Photos - write up to follow

Okay I have finally found time to do the write up that goes with the photos.
This first one is a poor photo of the wee sock I made for Naillady1 on Ravelry


These pictures are the items in the parcel I received from Naillady1.The wee socksare just adorable. It was a wonderful parcel and she assures me she did not go over our $10 limit.




Life here has been rather busy lately with babysitting , fixing the drain for the kitchen sink,visiting , quilting, and knitting. I am sure there is some other things but I can't rememberright now.

Nightmare

I had this horrible dream last night or was it this morning.................... I had to go somewhere with Cory and her girl friend..... we had to leave in a hurray and I didn't have a mindless knitting project I could grab to take with me .................. AAAAAUUGGGHHHHHHH . All I had was lace projects that reguired concentration and quiet............... No time to grab needles and yarn ......................... how was I going to survive the trip?????? About that time I woke up and got up. I need to put some mindless knitting in bags with needles ready to grab at a moments notice. I wonder if this has anything to do with me having finished my car knitting and not replaced it with another project. Whille I am at it I should get out some cotton dishcloth yarn. I have the yarn our for the green monkey but am not in a green monkey knitting mood yet.

Dish cloths are mindless knitting time to get that organized. I wonder how mindless a green monkey is????

Yesterday I went quilting at Jocelyn's, Inge was there but none of the others came. I have two "Dear Jane " blocks partially done. I started the first one , pieced it together, appliqued one diamond on and then I looked at it ........................... OKAY I don't know what that shape is but it is NOT a diamond............... rip it off and go to another block. It was obviously not an applique day.

Today I HAVE to do some housework. The dishes are piling up but there is a problem. The sink is not draining ........... have to get Bill to bring the trusty plunger and help me unclog the drain........ Years ago we lived in a house where the water didn't run in so we had to haul water then later we lived in a trailer where the water didn't run out. Of the two it is worse to not have the water run out.......................... how do you get rid of it?????? ........................BAIL................that just doesn't get it all out so you have to sop it up with dish cloths ..................... what a nightmare [but not as bad as no knitting]

a Baby , a green monkey and dishclothes

Well yesterday Shelby and I went with Jill when she had her Ultrasound. My new Grandchild is a girl. She is going to be named after two of her Great Grandmothers, my Mother and Bill's Mother. She will be Elizabeth Nancy Bonter. Shelby is delighted as she didn't want a brother...
As her choice of something knitted from Grandma Shelby wants a GREEN MONKEY in LIME GREEN.
My Eldest Daughter who could have picked anything wants DISHCLOTHES AND TEATOWELS. I have lots of dishclothe patterns but have never knit tea towels .............................I would have knit her dishclothes and something else ...........but NO .......she wants DISHCLOTHES. Oh well time to dig out the cotton yarn................ and I know exactly where it is in THE ROOM. I can even get there without falling over stuff...........SURPRISE.
Have finished a hat to go with the tension mittens.


"Bella Mittens " for Brianne

Look what I got

This parcel arrived in the mail today. it is my parcel from Meggles in the Wee Tiny sock swap. The little sheep are paper clips, the chocolate is gone,the tea I will drink later and the note book will go in my purse. ............. I think Meggles must have known I couldn't find any of my good book marks................... I only have about 8 of them........ all special in their own way as they were gifts .................it is not that they are lost I just can't find them. They are probably in books in this house. I mean where else would you expect to find BOOK MARKS... any way I am babbling. Here are the photos.

More medals

And here they are:






Must say I really enjoyed the Real Olympics, much more than I thought. The Hockey games almost did me in and I don't normally watch hockey. ................. I quit watching hockey as there used to be more fighting than hockey .....................
As a friend used to say...."It was like you went to a fight and a hockey game broke out"

The opening and closing ceremonies were great but the Atheletes were amazing. I have never been so proud to be a Canadian. The sea of red we saw in downtown Vancouver was just great.

My mad knitting has sort of come to an end although I still have my Lace Pooling Scarf to finish. and a second mitten.

finally recovered

Well as you know the Olympics are on. Ravelry (a knitting and crocheting site ) is having Ravelympics and you get medals for completing events like the Ariel unwind, WIPS Dancing etc. So far I have earned 6 medals and hope to earn 5 more.







Needless to say I have been on a mad knitting streak plus looking after DGD when her Mother works.

Friday Molly and I decided to go see some of the events around the cities so we got on the bus.............. went to Richmond to the 0zone. We should have checked somewhere to get a time table as 'BC Street ' was closed to the public because of a media event , something else was closed so we waited in the line for "Heiniken Holland house" Half an hour later we got in only to find that the only things that were open were the ones that wanted to sell you something. We then decided to take the Sky train to Vancouver as we wanted to go to the Art Gallery ........................ an hour and a half wait .......................... we couldn't stand in line that long after alll the standing and walking we had done. One of the volunteers suggested we come first thing in the morning as the wait was a bit shorter then so that is a plan for this week.
We then decided to wander around and see what was going on................








I arrived home that night rather exhausted only to find out the BIll had not been able to take DGD to see the Musical Ride so Saturday what happens................... a rather tired Grandma takes DGD to the Surrey Olympic site for the day and we still didn't get to see the Musical Ride................................if you think I was tired on Friday night you should have been me on Saturday night......... It is now Tuesday I think I have recovered........ 9 year olds are very busy people and we had a great day.
The thing that is the most amazing is the number of people and there is no pushing, everyone seems to have a smile on their face and so many people are wearing something that signifies Canada. It is a wonderful atmosphere no matter where you go .

the adaptor blew up and the library

Today I went off to the library to return the books that were due yesterday. I love the library. I find something very restful about being surrounded by books. Anyway I thought I should see if I could find the first book in this series that the Gals have said is a very good. There is only one problem ...................I can't remember the name of the series, the book or the Author. This makes it very difficult to find the book so I phone Gail and say " What was the name of that book I wanted to borrow that you thought you had but didn't?" There is a long pause ................... then Gail says "I can't remember." .................. After a few seconds she remembers that the second book in the series is "Dragonfly in Amber". I check out on the library computer and find out that the first book is "Outlander" by Diana Gabaldon. I then phone Gail to tell her what I found out. I sure hope this is a good book.

Saturday Hugh and Molly are here for dinner, we are waiting for Bill who is late. We are just chatting and enjoying a glass of wine when the adapter/charger for the laptop BLOWS UP. Yes that is right it BLEW UP .................... there was noise, sparks, flames and smoke. The case burst open and the insides burst forth.......... what a mess, It is FUBAR and now we don't have a computer to use. There is the PC in the ROOM but it isn't set up and there is no anti-virus for it and no place to set it up ............ darn ...............darn ...........darn.

BUT as you see I have made this post................. right. Darling Daughter Jill has brought over her laptop for us to use. I think she figures her Dad will loose it without his daily computer fix.

Maybe by Friday we will have things back to normal around here or as close to it as we get.