Tuesday, September 30, 2008
i'm still not very good at this,
this blog thing. i at least have figured out how to get pictures from flicker into my blog (finally) but they do appear a bit on the small side. AND apparently if i used them in more than one spot, they go wonky. so, if you want to see them in a bigger way OR you see a blank box, click on it and it will take you where the picture is.
anniversary flowers august 14, 2008
he got the snapdragons he loves to play with them. i got the purple ones cause...well, i liked them with the snaps!
wild flowers
these are at the bottom under my vitech tree. there are some white ones as well but they are pretty.
carrollton knitters
wolfsong (Cristov) one of our 2 guys. he not only knits but crochets! and does both well! not the best of pictures but it is with my cell phone.
carrollton knitters
janie (our fearless leader) gosh this is fuzzy but they will keep on talking and moving and it was with a cell phone. maybe this would a time to practice with my nikon.
Saturday, September 27, 2008
what do you do when you can't afford to travel?
and what is your answer?
i'm waiting.
take your time.
ok. this is what i do. i make my friends, on penalty of death and dismembership (yes, i am a toughie), take pictures of their travels and share them with me...it is altogether better when they have a blog with pictures and stories!
so if i've missed your travels and neglected your blog...or don't even know you have one (curses), please update me.
what?
how will you know i have been there?
please, what kind of appreciator would i be if i did not make comments?
that would be rude! my mother of 3 daughters would never approve of those manners! she would have my head in a hand basket for sure.
ps...what is a hand basket...uck, a basket full of hands?
never mind.
Friday, September 26, 2008
i love writing and reading
and this is a good cause so please, please, please check it out. (o, sorry, but you will probably have to be a member of ravelry to view this.)
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
i am in deep water!!!
you don't know how wonderful it is to be in deep water again! i don't care what i am doing as long as i am there!!! it has been so very long! of course my pt had to weight my feet down in the pool... i float like a bloody cork!
fear of falling (instilled by the ot at the nursing home) has me banned from the bathtub for about 5 years...pools, lakes, etc as well!
you understand that i was one who was short enough to float in the older type bathtubs, who loved bubbles, bath salts, who would stay in the bath until the water got all cold and scummy. so the pool is...pick a word!!! WAAHOOO...WATER...LOTS AND LOTS OF WATER!!
Saturday, September 13, 2008
what am i doing up at 5:40 a.m.?
typing on the computer and watching ike roll on in ... and dafty people doing dafty things in it! you would think adults would understand that when they tell you this is going to be a really bad hurricane, LISTEN! when they tell you, if you stayed, don't go out until it is light, LISTEN! so i watch and listen to stories about people who don't/didn't LISTEN!
it is way too early to worry about how it will effect us in the dfw metroplex but, it just seemed like the thing to do. what with friends sitting it out in danger areas. and then the kids at a&m...not mine, my friend sheila's girls.
looks like we are going to miss the worst of it but we will get the "side lines".
for those hearing about the 7" of rain lubbock got ... i know that does not sound like much, but you have to understand...lubbock is up on the mesa (spanish for "table"). flat....miles and miles of flat! and flat don't drain! get it? got it? good!
i think i best go to sleep now.
y'all take care now, ya here?
Thursday, September 11, 2008
where have i been??
my body was talking to me, loudly, and i went into a depression...doing as little as i had to and trying to play like all was well when i had to be around others. stupid. people who love me would try to help if i had just said "i'm depress and my spirit is very dim. but somehow, i don't feel i am allowed. how dishonest is that? how rude? to myself and my friends! if i allow others to be down and help them, why can't i ...
uck. enough of this. i have to get ready to go to a knitting meet up at starbucks.
tonight i tried to get a picture of missy pup. i will check it out when i get home...if it took, you will be so ... don't know the word but if it shows up the way i hope, i will change my avatar and you will see it and say "awwww"!
o, the reason i posted the last entry was because i loved the puppy picture!
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
i took this for giggles...what do you think?
Your result for The Best Thing About You Test...
Compassion
Compassion is your strongest virtue
Compassion is the most human of the virtues. And you? Your heart has limits far beyond normal levels empathy, and your capacity for feeling the world's pain is boundless. You poor, beautiful, wonderful thing. All 7 virtues are a part of you, but your compassion runs deepest.
It is likely you're an altruist. And it's likely (but not necessarily true, think of Bono) that your humility score is high too.
Compassionate famous people: Brad Pitt, Mother Theresa, The A-Team.
Your raw relative scores follow. 0% is low, and 100% is perfect, nearly impossible. Note that I pitted the virtues against each other, so in some way these are relative scores. It's impossible to score high on all of them, and a low score on one is just relatively low compared to the other virtues.
YOUR VIRTUES
80% Compassion
44% Intelligence
63% Humility
67% Honesty
13% Discipline
43% Courage
50% Passion
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
you gotta go
here for a free obama/biden sticker!
i have tried not to be political here but i must. john mc cain is not the man i would have voted for in 2000. this war cannot continue.
mc cain was honest when he said the draft would have to be reenacted if he gets in...think about it. if you keep losing soldiers, and recruiting is down to the bottom of the barrel, you have to get them from somewhere...and that is the draft...your daughter, your son.
women need to keep our civil rights...as in birth control which is now being considered as abortion by this administration...and something mc cain agrees on.
please check out the truth of what mc cain is saying. don't throw up your hands and decide not to vote. there is too much at stake. don't throw away your vote!
Monday, August 25, 2008
after the olympics
thanks to the recorder, i will see the last 3 days of the olympics. a migraine and back pain had me down. no knitting or tv...just podcasts and audio books. i committed to 4 project for ravelympics...3 projects to finish and 1 new one. i got the new baby hat done, the red square, and the first of diamonds for daylia...the bloody socks have been put in time out! i think they have been a contributor to my migraine! so until i have made some with thicker...much thicker yarn! and much, much lighter yarn! so i can see what i am doing and what i am learning, they will stay in time out.
for the convention, i am working on the back of my round the trip sweater and ribbing for it.
i just watched teddy kennedy at the democratic convention...he is losing his hair from his treatments for cancer but not his spirit! god bless him!
and now meet mrs obama
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
a v8 moment!
i know my sox needles are not the littlest by far! but if you look back, you will see that yarn is DARK! i am trying to do a wrap and turn heel (for nonknitters or nonsock knitters, i've learned to follow it but don't ask me to explain it! better you should watch this youtube video.). "learned" is rather a loose term here. "learning" would be a much better term. for those of you who have struggled with this one, i have figured out a trick...my v8 moment.
i could not see if i had really done the wrap as my yarn is not as big as in the youtube demo. or as light! after ripping it back and starting over (because i was unsure or thought i had not done the wrap.) i finally did the wrap, placed a stitch marker, knitted to the next one needed, did the wrap, placed the stitch marker and carried on.
placing the markers prevents you from making too many wraps (like i did) or not enough wraps (like i did)! it also helps when you go to unwap as you cannot skip a wrap when you go to picing up stitches.
fiddly, you bet! save on eyesight and sanity, YOU BET!
try it or suggest it to others. may help the person, the sanity, the eyesight, and prevent lots of undo ripping! also might get some people, who don't do this type of heel, to stick with it a bit longer before only doing a different heel type.
at my group knitting last night, no one at the table does this type of heel. i think it is easy now that i figured out my little trick!
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
the great excape
have any of you ever owned a terrier? even a half breed terrier? if you have, this story is for you!
yesterday, charlie and i went to pt (physical therapy), leaving the kids behind...something that oscar wilde does not like. several hours later, we returned home to much enthusiastic greetings! some verbal comments from oscar.
so when it came time to go see my gp (doctor) and get my blood sucked, it was agreed that the one who was bouncing like he had springs on his paws as he verbally cried his excitement and demands for accompaniment, could come as was his smiling, tail wagging sister, ie, mystery puppy...hey, if he goes and you go, i want to go too!
the day was cool and cloudy. the car with windows cracked, would not be hot.
away we went. i saw herr doctor. i had what seemed like a gallon of blood removed. we went back to the car. two dogs greeted us...mysy with her squeaks and smiles from under the steering wheel...oscar from atop the passenger seat with smiles and tail a waggle!
the next moment, out he goes, minus halter? huh? and in a flash he is out of site!
as the sky was crying, we thought it would be best to continue with my transfer from chair to car and get the car quickly undercover in the trunk as well.
windows down, we called and called. we drove around the lot he had streaked off toward.
no dog. we drove around and around the area calling. the hospital desk was informed in case he decided to get out of the wet! we parked back were we had been. no dog.
charlie went off on foot...around all the parking lots; front back and side. no dog.
we drove around the hospital again...as well as checking back at the desk. no dog.
we had to go to the store as the cupboard was bear. in despair we went. a small adventure ensued when we knew what city we were in but not quite sure of the best direction to head in as we were not seeing street names we were familiar with...we did ultimately drive over john mc cain a couple of times (unintentionally, for sure....but gave me a laugh). finally, there it was! sprouts! i love that store! we had to eat first (blood had to be fasting). charlie has learned it is a bad, very bad idea to let some people, of small stature, to shop on an empty stomach! finally, we had all the necessities.
ah, but we needed gas. we got it.
mysy and well as the two biped were off to the hospital, one more time. all hoping to see a small white dog! we turned in slowly searching the small hillock. the lot in front. under the poetical. the newly stripped area. UH. what? what? and as we turn toward the area where we had parked, there he was! dripping wet! full of cockaburrs...our own oscar. quite happy. ready for a ride.
and that was the end of the great escape!
moral: he will now have to have a collar and a halter when he got out! so if he develops another houdini trick, he will have id tags...just encase someone does not check his chip! for chip he got right after the first escape the second day we had him.
and that, my friends, is what it is like to own terriers!
noodles and knitting, they go together how?
like this! i think she needs to be added to the list of my favorite blog! i do love people who can think "outside" the box! (hmmmm, maybe i did work for xerox too long!)
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