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Celebration Time

As you may know, my husband had to have emergency back surgery the first week of January.  It was a huge surprise to us, one minute he was fine, next minute he needed surgery.  So we did the surgery and prepared for it, but we didn’t even think about the recovery time or what recovery meant.  It turned into a 3 month stint on disability for my hubby and alot of personal loving nurse care from me  for him.     We were concerned for awhile but after therapy and regaining his strength, he actually returned to his job, in full capacity, in mid-March.  He’s got full mobility and we do our regular running every other day.  Were so grateful for his recovery, believe me we heard horror stories about back surgery.  Anyways, the weekend prior to his return to work, we celebrated with a mini-honeymoon celebration in San Francisco.

Here are some pics to share:

Che’ and I by Neptune’s Palace

Do you see that knitted shrug I’m wearing?  I’m so bad, I haven’t shared this FO yet, but I love it!  I need to take better pics so I can do it justice.

I just had to take a picture of this guy, it was so odd, he wasn’t scared of anybody.  I literally walked right up to him.

Ooh, it was St. Patrick’s, look at the bread in the shape of a clover!

Check out this little guy!  They had larger ones, but I just couldn’t resist me a wee-baby turtle!

Now this was pretty cool, you may have caught on my FB page.  I almost took a picture with him!

So what’s on the next post, some fun FO’s to share.  I’ll try to get another post out this Friday!

Looking back at 2009

I apologize for being gone, the holidays took their toll. I enjoyed my time off and also started 2010 with alot of new developments.

Here’s a quick look at some of the items I knitted, crocheted, etc. in 2009.

Happy New Year Everyone!!!

~~ Rocky

A quick look back at 2009

I apologize for being gone, the holidays took their toll. I enjoyed my time off and also started 2010 with alot of new developments.

Here’s a quick look at some of the items I knitted, crocheted, etc. in 2009.

Happy New Year Everyone!!!

~~ Rocky

3 bad things 3 good things

Which do you want know about first? The Good or the Bad?

I’ll start with the Bad so you can leave the post with the Good

I’ve been offline for awhile because my first issue was that my camera stopped working. I kept messing with it trying to bring it back to life, but no luck. I still have some kind of hope that it will start working *fingers crossed*. I delayed posting because it’s sad to post a crappy picture when you put your heart into your knitting.

My second issue, which actually turned out to be a bigger issue than my camera ,my damn wireless router died on me. It is over 4 years old, about the lifespan of your average router. I had to order a new one, and I had requested overnight shipping over the phone about 6 p.m. about a week ago. I opted to pay the extra fee for shipping. Well, Friday came along and guess what, no router still. I contacted the company and come to find that because I ordered after 6 p.m., overnight shipping isn’t allowed and I get the standard shipping. I didn’t get charged the extra fee, but it meant I would be without internet that much longer.

After I realized I would be without internet longer that I anticipated, I actually tried to use the backup dialup # I have! UGH! So I get the backup dial up phone numbers and connect my modem and setup my connection, I had the nostalgic sense of my early years in IT *sigh*. I was prompted for my username and password, and I input my info, and BAM! Rejected!.. Seems I forgot my passsword for my main account, so no luck. After messing around with different passwords, I just called it quits, and figured I’d have to stick it out. Today I finally received my router, YAY!, and now I’m back, online and happy to be posting.

Onto my 3rd bad issue, so yesterday my husband and I got up early and went to get some coffee, and them came back to make breakfast. I made my usual, over easy eggs for my hubby, scrambled eggs for me and the kids, turkey bacon, and homemade potatoes with fresh tortillas and juice. We about ready to go eat breakfast when I went to check on something in my bedroom, I walked by my bathroom, and glanced at the floor, to my horror, there was water and cruddy overflow of gunk everywhere! It was coming out of the shower drain, and the toilet was empty! I went to the 2 other bathrooms, and sure enough the same damn thing. Well, after the initial shock, we called an emergency plumber who gave us a 45 minute window to be on-site, so we ate breakfast and waited.

Plumber got here and he asked us where’s our main line, and we looked everywhere, nothing. We got the landlord on the line, he doesn’t know, so he calls the former tenant, who coincidentally lives down the street. She was kind enough to walk over and show us where the main line was. I can’t thank her enough, because we would’ve never found it. It was literally hidden by overgrown grass on the front lawn, smack in the middle! The Plumber was like “That really should be in plain view, if we didn’t find it, the work would be way more complicated”. Phew! About 30 minutes later, everything was fixed. We finally got to use the bathroom! I had to run to Safeway to use the bathroom during all this, which was a pain. My work wasn’t over though, I had to sterilize and clean all 3 bathrooms now. I spent the next 2 hours with bleach, comet, scrubbers, and plastic gloves cleaning the showers and toilets, mopping, you name it. So that’s my 3rd!

Enough bad, now onto the good…

I have been getting some knitting done, and I’ve got these 3 wonderful FO’s here:

From left to right, clockwise

1) Swallowtail Shawl in Madeline Tosh Merino “Arabian Nights”

2) Elm Row Scarf in Scout’s Swag “Peach Pit”

3) Karma Tank in Sundara Yarn ” Brown Sugar Over Buttermilk”

All three are complete, and need blocking, but a blocking kit is one highly needed tool this knitter doesn’t have 8-( I’ll be investing on one in the next few weeks, until then, these 3 precious garments bring me happy FO eye candy and I can’t wait to show off the how they’ll transform. I’ve already tried on the Karma tank so many times, and it fits perfect. I can’t wait!

For the pictures I’m using my backup video camera, which doesn’t take the best picture but will just have to do until I can get a new camera.

Even though I have these 3 FO’s waiting in the wings, I went and started a new project, with more Sundara Yarn. I’m happy to be back online and hope I’m past the “3’s”, at least the bad ones!

Happy August everyone!

What a surprise!

Today I came home for lunch, as I usually do to make me a quick bite to eat, and there was a package waiting for me. I was caught completely off guard as I had swaps going on and no orders I’m waiting for. What did I get?

My Aunt Virgie from Bremington, Washington sent me the best gift, just because It is my very own “Edward” Apple paperweight! I love it! Something so simple and little yet so wonderful! I, as you know, am a Twilight fan, and this is super. I’ve placed it atop the top shelf of my book case in my office next to all my other Twilight paraphernalia.

I’ll have to call my Auntie tomorrow to give her a HUGE thank you!

In other fibery news, what’s on new on my needles?

The “Aztec” beanie, this is my own design, I’m knitting this for my husband. I’m using Cascade Yarns Venezia Worsted Weight yarn in color #131. This yarn is Merino Silk; the color is an ash gray, perfect for a man. My husband named it “Aztec” because it reminds him of the Aztec calendar. I’ve been meaning to knit him a beanie of his own for awhile now, and I did try with a different yarn, Black Malabrigo yarn, but I just wasn’t getting the right stitch definition from the Malabrigo, so I frogged it.

I started this version the other day, but haven’t made much progress because I need shorter circulars, these are 24′inch, and it’s rather slow knitting because I to constantly adjust the stitches as I knit. I’ll be picking the right length US7’s up tomorrow to finish the “Aztec”. I really like the way the stitch definition is coming out with this yarn. I really can’t wait to get the right needles so I can finish this.

I’ll keep you posted on the progress of this, I hope to finish it this weekend, but I have allot planned that won’t involve knitting 8( We’ll see if I can squeeze in an FO!

Have a good weekend!

~Rocky

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