BALOOOOOONS!!

Thats what The Liam says when he sees them. We were going to my mom's yesterday evening and saw a couple of hot air balloons up in the air. By the time we go to the church on the corner near her house it was obvious that one was going to land in the parking lot there. We pulled in so that the kids could check it out.

Here's my little photo shoot of the evening.


This was just after it landed.



This was the other one flying over...it landed somewhere about a mile further on. My dad saw it and thought it was going to land in the cul de sac near the house, but it kept going.







These are the operators letting the balloon down. They let some bystanders come in and help. This was a company that's in the area that has hot air balloon flights. They are called Balloon Adventures USA I would like to do it sometime. My hometown is the home of the Great Texas Balloon Race and we have several balloon manufacturers in town. I still love to see them.

I realized I've not posted any photos of the Star dog lately. I took a couple of her last night.



She's getting big. She's about 6 months old now.





I'll post photos tomorrow. :)

Its Halloween season

Liam had a halloween party at daycare today.



Yep..he's my froggie.

If you want to see the rest of the pictures..you can go here

Yes..I made the hat...

I have The Liam modeling it for me because I couldn't take a good one myself. I also didn't trust him to take a good photo of me. *grin*

Mittenettes

I made these mittenettes last night while watching britcoms. (Well..I made one and a half and finished the second one this morning)



I made them from some of my handspun yarn. The yarn is partially silk and also has angelina in it so it sparkles. I used this pattern. I think if I do them again I'll use smaller needles for the ribbing at the top and bottom. I have about 100 yards left of the yarn so I think I may make either a hat or a skinny scarf. Tell me which one I should do in the comments. *grin*

Here's a shot of one of the mitts on my hand.



I wish the sparkly stuff showed up better. *harumph*

Long time no post...

Sorry I've not posted in a day or so. Been really busy.

I sent off a package to my secret pal today and also one lil RAOK. Hmm..wonder who I sent it to?? I'm not telling. *grin*

I got the cutest little RAOK today myself.


Front side


Back side!!

HOOK 'EM HORNS!

Thanks so much Carolyn!! I am actually a student in the UT system, but I go to UT Tyler.

What's Irish for "finished"?

I finished the Irish Hiking Scarf last night. I really like it and may make some more in the future. I am going to be making a matching hat to go with it. I'm going to take Coronet pattern from Knitty and put the Irish Hiking Scarf's cable into it instead of the one in the pattern. That way it will match. I think this will be a christmas gift this year.

Without further ado...



Two skeins of Lion Brand Cotton ease in red. (really..its not day-glo..its red)

Here's a closeup of the cables



Again..its not pink..its red.

Why is red so hard to photograph??

No power and Bangladesh simplified my day....

Yep, you read the title of this post right. I am posting right now from a cute little black computer in the
University of Texas at Tyler computer lab. We are driving to school (45 minute one way commute) and we get to the light to turn and head to the school and the light isn't working, then we notice that the Burger King and McDonalds have no lights, same for the convenience store across the street.

We drive on, since we can't purchase breakfast at either of the fast food franchises and head further down the street. The light at the next block is out too. We start to notice that the houses are dark too. We get to the school and head to the Student Center to see if the Subway was open to see if we could get some sustenance but as soon as we got close to the center we could tell that the only lights on were the emergency lights.

We go on over to the building our classes are in and they are dark too. I see my government professor (the first class of the day) and ask him about class. This class is held in a lecture hall and has no windows so he cancelled the 9:30 class.

About 10 minutes later the power came back on. *grin*

Next class should be at 11:00. I end up at the class on time and sit down and we all wait for the professor. In comes in the teacher's aid and says that he is still in Bangladesh doing his flood study, but that he should be back on Thurdsay. She hands us a handout and we are free to go.

So, here I sit, in the computer lab waiting for 12:30 so that I can go to my English class. I know it won't be cancelled. We are getting our portfolios back today with our mid-term grades.*fingers crossed*

Hopefully, I'll post more this evening for you.

Hope you all have a wonderful day.

OK..I have to get a farm...yep...

I'm totally insane, but I want to move to a farm now. I just spent the afternoon with a bunch of ladies at another lady's farm. She raises angora goats, french and english angora rabbits, different breeds of goats, a couple of sheep and some burros. Oh..chickens and dogs and cats too.

I am going to be getting an angora bunny from her in the next week or so. He or she will look something like this BUNNY!!

I know you guys are going to kill me, but I didn't get ANY photos during the spinning day. I took my camera, but went to take a photo of one of the bunnies and there was no memory card in my camera. *headdesk* I promise that when I go out there again I will get photos.

One of the ladies brought an electric drum carder and she and another lady were carding a mixture of shetland ( I think) and llama wool. OMG that stuff was sooo soft.

I bought some charcoal colored Llama fiber from this lady for $1.50 an oz. I got $10 worth.



YUMMY!!!

wheee!!

You appear to be a Knitting Adventurer.
You are through those knitting growing pains and
feeling more adventurous. You can follow a
standard pattern if it's not too complicated
and know where to go to get help. Maybe you've
started to experiment with different fibers and
you might be eyeing a book with a cool
technique you've never tried. Perhaps you
prefer to stick to other people's patterns but
you are trying to challenge yourself more.
Regardless of your preference, you are
continually trying to grow as a knitter, and as
well you should since your non-knitting friends
are probably dropping some serious hints, these
days.


What Kind of Knitter Are You?
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AND

My secret pal sent me FOUR!!!! skeins of Noro Kureyon!! I'm such a Norowhore! Thanks sooo much! *goes looking for patterns*

oo...I feel like a teenager again...

Duran Duran is on Regis and Kelly.

*le sigh* I had the biggest crush on Nick. My bedroom walls were plastered with Duran Duran posters (and Billy Idol too)

*boogies*

I am about a ball and a half into the Irish Hiking Scarf. I'll post a photo when I'm done.

I will be mailing out a small RAOK today. I have some more to send out and my secret pal gift, but I need to wait til next week (payday) to send the rest.

This weekend I get to go meet up with some nice ladies and their spinning wheels. It's about an hour away in a small town and the lady who is hosting raises goats and bunnies. I'll make sure to take photos to share with you all. We're supposed to do a potluck type lunch thing so I'm trying to figure out what to take.

This story almost made me cry....

Homecoming Queen

I'm so glad that the students in that school realized what was important in life. This girl will remember this for the rest of her life. This has totally restored my faith that teens can do the right thing.

Knitblogger's Cookbook

Elizabeth is planning on making a cookbook with recipes from all the KnitBloggers out there. If you want more details check out her post here for an explanation. I have submitted two recipes so far. She needs alot more people to submit recipes to get enough for a book, so everyone SEND HER YOUR RECIPES!! I think this is a wonderful idea!

After you've sent in your recipe, spread the word around so that she gets tons of recipes for the book.

More knitty posting later.

yeah...I'm bored

I figured I would score higher...(and who is the girl in the picture - Kirsten Dunst??)

You are 32% geek

You are a geek liaison, which means you go both ways. You can hang out with normal people or you can hang out with geeks which means you often have geeks as friends and/or have a job where you have to mediate between geeks and normal people. This is an important role and one of which you should be proud. In fact, you can make a good deal of money as a translator. Normal: Tell our geek we need him to work this weekend. You [to Geek]: We need more than that, Scotty. You'll have to stay until you can squeeze more outta them engines! Geek [to You]: I'm givin' her all she's got, Captain, but we need more dilithium crystals! You [to Normal]: He wants to know if he gets overtime.

Take the Polygeek Quiz at Thudfactor.com

I'm KnittingAlong again....

I joined the Irish HIking Scarf KnitAlong. I'm making mine from red Lion Brand Cotton Ease. I've tried photographing this yarn a hundred ways and it still looks dayglow. You'll just have to trust me that its just regular old red. :)

WOOHOO! I have photos

The sleeve and the cuff of the other sleeve of the aran sweater for the Liam.



and since everyone is doing it..heres the sky over my house on Wednesday morning.



This is the yarn that I spun last weekend. The green blue and black are dragonhair and have sparkles in them. The orange is a romney mohair blend. I need to recount the yardage.



And this is my Topher cub scout on the way to our Den Meeting this evening.

I'm tired and I'm going to knit now. :)

*whew*

It's Wednesday already.

My sister brought me her camera, but forgot to bring the card reader. DOH! Her husband will bring it up on Friday when he comes up for the weekend. Hopefully I'll have photos for you on Saturday. Maybe Friday night, but I'm not making any promises.

I took some photos this morning though. I took picutres of all the yarn that I made this weekend and of the sleeve and the start of the next sleeve of Liam's Aran. I also took a photo of the sky. So, those things, among others will be posted here in a few days.

The RAOK ring is now closed again. We set the new cap at 150 but there were a few more in the queue when we approved so we are at 153. We are nice like that. *grin* It is closed for now though. If you want in the ring sometime in the future, go ahead and sign up on the ringsurf page and put the code on your blog. When someone has to leave the group, we approve people on a first come first serve basis IF THEY HAVE THE CODE. You could be first in line, but if there's no code, you won't get approved. We have also implemented an "active blog" rule. If a members blog is not updated in a month, without notice to the moderators, they will be removed from the ring. Notice we said "without notice to the moderators", we understand that there could be an illness, natural disaster, or something that prevents someone from blogging for a while, we are just asking for members to contact us. If there's no contact and no blogging, then a new spot will open up on the ring.

We are also recommending that the members use Bloglines to keep up with their blog reading. I really love it. It saves me a lot of time since I no longer have to click through blogs that haven't been updated. There are only about 15 members of the RAOK ring that don't have feeds so they don't work with bloglines, but it does make keeping up with the others easier. Theres also a notifier that you can download and it will alert you when people have updated their blogs.

I have to get moving, I have to take the 7 year old to his first speech therapy appointment in a few and get The Liam up and to daycare before that. I have to revise an english essay and write the final draft of another when I get back. *sigh*

I'll leave you on this note...silly soapy boys....

A blustery day!

Hum dum dum ditty dum
Hum dum dum

Oh the wind is lashing lustily
And the trees are thrashing thrustily
And the leaves are rustling gustily
So it's rather safe to say
That it seems that it may turn out to be
It feels that it will undoubtedly
It looks like a rather blustery day, today
It sounds that it may turn out to be
Feels that it will undoubtedly
Looks like a rather blustery day today

If you want to see how blustery...


Click for a bigger view.

So...I'm lounging around and going to try to do fibery stuff today. I've been working on Liam's Aran Sweater. I'm doing the raglan shaping on one sleeve. Still have the other sleeve to make and then I'll be joining it all up. *gulp* I did alot of spinning this weekend. I spun and plied the blue dragonhair that I got from Kae. Also plied the green dragon hair that I had spun on my spindle and spun and plied the obsidian dragonhair. I also spun and plied some of the orangey romney/mohair blend that I have. I've got 94 yards done so far. My sister will be letting me use her digital camera for a while so hopefully I'll have photos of all this for you tomorrow.

I just had to share this with everyone. Whose Panties Are These? I've been laughing ever since I saw it.

We got a bunch of new members to FiberRAOK Welcome to all of the newbies!! Right now we have 135 active members and there are 7 in the queue. We will cap the group again at 150. If you'd like to be a member I'd suggest you go ahead and sign up.

*bangs head on desk over and over*

If you don't like whining, don't read this. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

Why is it that EVERYTHING has to break at about the same time.

First it was the dryer, then the car, then the toilet. If all that wasn't expensive enough, now the toilet is stopped up again and my digital camera took a crap. I turn the thing on and it says "card full" even when I have an empty card in the slot. Yeah....oh..and the kids bathroom faucet won't turn off all the way. EDIT: I forgot that my sewing machine is broken too.

Of course I need the camera, not only to post lovely knitting photos *cough*, but today is homecoming and I need to photo my lovely daughter with her ginormous mum. *le sigh* Guess I'll be using a disposable and getting a cd when I get it developed. Don't expect a lovely photo filled blog for a long long time.

END WHINE

I did ply up some pretty yarn last night.

The picture would normally be here.

I'll try to get a shot of it with the damn disposable