It's already 10:00 am, here in central Tennessee, USA, I've been up since
5:30 ish... Don and I sat out on the deck before the temps got too hot.... drinking coffee, talking, laughing and of course, me knitting. We came in about 2 hours ago, turned on the AC and proceeded to clean house, still drinking coffee, talking and laughing all the while. (If I ever figure out a way to knit or crochet while cleaning house, I'll share the secret, LOL!) NOW, I'm here, perusing the posts and sharing our morning. NEXT, I'll surf my favourite blogs, and hopefully make a post to my own. Have a great Sunday! Hugs, Noreen
Sounds wonderful Noreen. This morning DH had to go to work for a couple of hours, the girls and I went outside before it was too hot. I filled the baby pool and let them have at it :) While they were 'swimming' I sat pool side and worked on a new crochet project. I'm making a summer back pack for my 6 year old. I started it this morning and I'm almost finished. Good deal on your house work ... I should do that too. I was thinking yesterday that if I could knit/crochet and use the treadmill at the same time ... I would be skinny! hehe
Good morning, Noreen. Sounds like you and Don are off to a good start for the day. Things are quiet here as my DH is in Amsterdam for a meeting - got an e-mail from him a while ago. He said it was cold there.
I am heading off to church soon. I finished the little sweater for the new daughter of a member who will be joining her family this month from China. I made it from some tape yarn (Paton's Fresco) that should be washable but instructions say to hand wash - I can't see why this tape should have a problem with shrinking and certainly it won't felt, so I wonder if it couldn't be machine washed if there was a gentle cycle. Has anyone had experience caring from something made from this yarn?? It has been discontinued.
I was tempted again -- I got a Jo Sharp pattern booklet to make something and then saw another sweater in it that just looked like DD and then found Elann had the yarn it called for. Not like I wasn't way ahead of myself on projects!
DH wants a vest. I saw a rather traditional cabled vest that might look good under a jacket but was tempted by Diamonds on Knitty.com and have some tweed homespun that I got on eBay that looks like it should work. That one will probably not be good with a jacket but would work for casual wear over a shirt. FIRST, I must finish the WIP sweater I am making for him. ( He has decided to get in a wish list -- also wants grey gloves. I guess he has noticed that I am usually knitting for grandkids.
Time to get in the shower - then off to church and then to a "birthday party" for a friend who is no longer here to have birthdays. It is really a fundraiser in her honor for her last favorite cause.
It is here nearly noon so most of you are heading for late afternoon. I have worked on a cotton warp for a 9 feet scarf. We are going to use the Earthues dnatural dyes and do a warp painting tomorrow. Getting everything ready. It is a very cool day here, and it even was raining a bit. Hope to get all that rain out of the way today, so we can do the warp dyeing tomorrow (Eimear, if you have the time to come by and see what we are up to...it is here at my house)
Otto is making coffee and I will go and sit with him. look at my crossword puzzle, take a break.
Noreen, I have come to the conclusion, that "Multy-Tasking, is a bad idea. It has become a sort of new way of living.
Sitting on the deck and laughing and talking with Don while knitting is the way to go, that is quality time. As for finding a way to get the house work and knitting done at the same time, you most likely would drop a stitch in more ways than one, and not enjoy either, or be able to do justice to either. Enjoy your knitting, even when it is your "earning money knitting",
We live at way to fast a pace, slow down and never mind the dust, it will be done tomorrow, if you have to knit today.... Dusting and cleaning is also done faster and better, when you just do that and nothing else.
I find the topic of multi tasking as annoying as the dumb stickers on apples and tomatoes....
Oh me too, Els! I can't really concentrate when doing too many things at once. However, being a gemini my mind is always on a few thousand (see that exaggeration, Noreen. LOL) things at the same time... and I very often change subjects in the middle of talking about something, kind of like a sudden about-face. It really throws people off because they don't know what the heck I'm talking about... but just as suddenly I'm back on track with the first subject I had been talking about. Makes for a lively conversation! LOL
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Yes, I agree with you, Els! But I need something to "keep me on the track" while dusting and cleaning! ....so that my thoughts and imagination don't tempt or persuade me to other things!!! I listen to the radio OR an audio book!(a book that NOT demand all my attention!) Then I calm down (which is the most important) and get everything done, and enjoy to do it!
It has been a very cold day here too! It was rain in the morning, but better later. Today two big cruise ship has come to Ålesund. 4000 passengers + staff. The shops were opened, they are normally closed sundays. Other things were arranged in town too, so we had a nice, cold day! Cannot believe it is June! I wear winter clothes! I hate to be cold! The snow lies in the mountains, and some places down the hillsides! At this time we normally hardly can see snow spots there. New week tomorrow. It is just 12 work days left at school. The last weeks are always a bit stressing, but it is good to get things done!
... good luck with the dyeing, Els! Enjoy the sun, Noreen! Judy and Kat, you are so clever! The crocheted bag is so nice, and I am sure the little girl from China will be sweet in her new sweater! AUD ;-))
Aud, it's just the opposite here in upstate NY, the temp. is about 32C or 89F and the humidity is really high. Since we don't have a/c we have the fans going in the rooms where we are at the time.
Oh, I have to agree with Els, the dust won't go anywhere, I know that for a fact. It will disapear one of these days, knitting, crocheting and reading are more fun then that word called house work. At least my dishwasher has returned so that's a great big plus for me. LOL
Judy Good morning ,,, Amsterdam ?? in Holland ? Lucky him , i want to visit My Dutch family there, when i next go to Brusseles ,,,,On my last visit i walked all the ways i used to walk as child and only than realized hopw close we lived to Rembrandt`s plain and why my mother had Coffee there every day ,,,, as a child one has no idea of how close places are.
Yes so i do hear from my father ,, Here it is also a bit colder than usual for this time of year. Which gave me full ability to Embroider in the afternoon ,,,, good day . mirjam
Yes -- he is in Amsterdam in Holland. It is nice to be able to communicate so easily and cheaply by e-mail when he is on these long trips. I am a bit jealous because Amsterdam is such an interesting city - but I get to go to a lot of interesting places with him, so can't complain.
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On my last visit i walked all the ways i used to walk as
Isn't it strange how distances changes?! One of my memories from age 4; My mother and I walked from the shop ( hardly a car to see those days, may be a "horse and cart".) I was so slow the last part of the way, that mum was fed up with my drawdle, and said; "If you don't come now, I GO HOME!" I didn't, and on she went!
I have often thought that it was very unlike her to leave me that long distance!!
We moved to another place, and did not not come back untill many years later. After all these years, I had to "rejudge" the whole story, (which I, as a grown up, had "blown up" to a "possible trauma" for a little girl. Not that I can remember I was afraid, just stubburn! LOL):
It's Monday a.m. now. I'm always so busy on Sunday spending time with DH that I'm practically never on the computer on Sundays.
Sunday was a cool, windy and rainy day here in Manitoba. It looks pretty much the same here today. DH & I had all kinds of outdoor work plans for the yard for Sunday, but only managed a couple of jobs. It is so wet in our yard that we despair of getting a veggie garden planted. Right now it has pools of water on it and looks like a rice paddy. ;>(
However, he did manage to get some grass cut (we have a 3 acre yardsite on
30 acres of land), and he needs to attend to the ride-around mower. It needs a new muffler and cutting blades. That will be done this coming weekend. I managed to pot up some flowers into my 2-tier planter and think they will look really nice when they start filling out. Since this planter sits on our screened porch, I'm able to use shade-happy plants. I used soft pink impatiens, blue Beaconsfield pansies, white alysum, blue & white trailing lobelia in the bottom planter and in the top - a dracena spike in the middle, more pansies, some red salvia, and more of the alysum and lobelia.
It was cool enough last night that I made a fire in the woodstove just to take the chill off in the livingroom. I was able to get a bit of knitting done on a sweater. I'm also getting ready for my knitting camp next week.... I'm off to Fort Collins and Boulder in Colorado. I'm really looking forwad to that!
When we got home from a little dinner out last night we discovered my 11 year old cockatiel had laid 2 eggs in her cage! She doesn't have a "boyfriend", so the eggs weren't fertilized. I had thought she might be making eggs, since she had a lump in her abdomen over the last week. She's never done this before and one of the eggs was quite large, but luckily with a soft shell. My poor little pet... she was quite worn out. We cleaned her up, refreshed her food and water and cuddled her a little.
LOL! That is so funny, Aud! I have a similar story as well, though the distance grew the opposite way. When my sisters and I would act up in the car my mother would threaten to pull over and leave us on the side of the road. This ALWAYS worked to make us behave except for once when we were close to my grandparents' house since we knew we could just walk over there. She didn't follow through on her threat, which is a good thing, because many years later I realized that that spot was probably 4 or 5 miles away from their house, certainly too much for 3 little girls under the age of 7 to walk. In our minds we were "just 10 minutes" from grandma's house but 10 minutes in a car is a lot longer by foot!
When I was 20 I had the opportunity offered to me to go to Holland, all expenses paid by my friend's father. She had gone to Holland to be with her father for a year, then got lonely and missed me (we were best friends for a few years) so her father offered to pay my airfare over there, and of course I would stay with them... for as long as I wanted. I had never flown at that point, and to have my very first flight be by myself... I was a huge chicken... so I passed up the chance to travel to Europe. She came back to Ontario after only three months and we hung out again until she got married
1 1/2 years later and moved away, then we lost touch with each other. I'm kicking myself now, that I didn't grab the chance when I had it. Oh well... someday! Actually Matthew, his best friend and myself talk about
*someday* going to the British Isles and Europe to travel around... who knows, it might happen someday.
LOL This reminded me of Matthew thinking that I had left him in the car ALONE one night when we ran out of gas on the way home from the hospital after seeing my Dad. Matthew was 10 then and it was pitch black outside. We were about 2 1/2 miles from home on a dark road when the car ran out of gas (the gas gauge was broken and didn't move, so if you didn't remember when you put gas in it was easy to run out). We had my Dad's car at home, as well as another car that someone had given to my Mom (she never drove... so my Dad & I had used it until his stroke), so I locked the doors to the car and left Matthew *and* my Mom there while I walked home to get one of the other cars to come back and get them. My Mom really didn't want me walking all that way in the dark on a virtually deserted road... but there was no other choice. A couple of years ago we were talking and Matthew said "Yeah, remember the time we ran out of gas on this road and you left me in the car by myself?" I responded "NOOOOOO.... I *never* left you alone in the car. Why would you think that you and I went to see Poppa without Ahna being with us anyway?" Then it clicked with him that someone else had actually been there. It was likely because when she had her stroke it had taken the volume from her voice and she could only speak in a whisper... so it was probably so quiet that it felt like he was alone. ;o)
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