Bear-a-DONE

Some times you just go nuts!

On a girl trip for yarn, golf and Mexican food in Dallas I saw this really cute bear. So I bought the supplies along with some other stuff and off we went. Oh my, as my BGB put it in almost a laughing cackle, "buyers remorse"!!  This was some nasty expensive yarn!!

Well I finally decided to make the dang thing since it wasn't doing any good sitting in the basement or me trying to ignore what I spent on the dang thing.
Well goodness gracious. What I thought was ONE very expensive bear is actually THREE kind a pricy bears. One large on size 9 and the next two will have to be on size 8 to make sure I have enough yarn.  The math of weight verses yardage says I have enough but math doesn't knit!!
 Dont need three bears but it help ease my troubled soul!
Bear-a-Tone (ONE) is done made of Prism Blossom yarn in the Pale Yellow and Mint Green.

AND then there were TWO

Once one VERY long after blocking!  Wow cant believe how it relaxed.  

Doing the split was a little tricky on the one side of the rip.  Having a life line on both sides sure helped.

Now both are done and there is a small crochet edge on each of the short sides.

Cant wait till they are dry!!

Change of plans

After blocking the wrap was WAY too long so...... make it shorter.

Now I will have two, or I will have one and Daugher will have one!

Finally a post

No need for fancy blocking blocks when you have a spare bedroom and a floor!

My poor neglected blog!!

Its been a while since we have chatted.
Oh well... thats the way it goes!

My annual girl trip was to Minnesota.  We headed north to get away from the heat.  Ha... It was 95 degrees and 75% humidity when we landed.  So much for cooler!
We had a wonderful trip in spite of the heat!  Minneapolis was great.  Loved the downtown shopping.  The skywalk was so great with the heat outside.


Minnhaha Falls.

Arch Bridge and Mississippi River

This is for you Lanora

I didn't know you took my picture Wendy!!

Split Rock Light House, north of Duluth

Bye, Duluth....

Bye Minnesota!

Finally....

I was so excited!  I finally saw the Google Street View Car.
 I am not sure he was taking photos since he was in the center lane.
Maybe I will show up on our next street map!!!
Exciting!!

Mega yard work

After four and a half days, its done!!

One of those 'we should have done this sooner' projects.

It was wonderful to have someone else to do all the work too!!

Busy Weekend

Lots going on lately.

Painters were here for two days. All the trim and the inside of the garage were painted.

Lanscapers come on Monday. This one section was about to fall down. We should have gotten someone over here earlier to get this done, but once again time just slipped away.  So we got out the tools and gotter done.

Friday I tore down the fence and thought I had all the post and concret removed. When hubby dug the final hole he found a little more cement. We got the post set Friday night and the fence up on Saturday morning.

Then get the garage door seal replaced. That was a sturborn little stinker.

All chores done .... lets go for a drive.

We drove by the Lew Wentz Golf course in Ponca City that OkieB and I ended up playing golf at a few weeks ago. Then a drive to Stillwater to eat. I was really hungry and that salad was soooo good.

As we headed home we started to drive into the thunder head we had been seeing all day. The storm ended up just east of us all the way home.

A wonderful weekend and its not over.

Happy Fathers Day to my great husband.
Its been a wild, wonderful 37 years of Fathers Days!

Mountains in Oklahoma??

With a three day weekend and a babysitter for our kitty, we took off for a drive to Oklahoma's Wichita Mountains, south west of Oklahoma City by Lawton, OK.

We took the road up to one of the highest peaks, Mt. Scott.

The skies were very hazy. We we got out of the car we figured it out. When we left home about 5 hours prior it was 64 degrees. Top of the mountian at 2464 feet... it was 103!  

Lots of huge bolders and a beautiful drive!
Who would figure we would have such beautiful mountains here on the plains?

Site Seeing

Lots of time was spent on our trip to see our grandson. One day we loaded him up and headed up the mountian.

Here is hubby with General Sherman, aka, worlds largest tree by volume.

As you can see there was snow on the ground and only one path was shoveled. They had 439 inches of snow this winter.

Little guy is ONE!

We made out trip to see the family.  L-Ray is ONE!

It is  hard to get a good photo of a one year old that is constantly moving.
I was lucky to get a picture of him in his hand made hoddie, before he tried to get it off!
The birthday boy had a great party!

Dang Wind!!

It was a very windy Friday!
I spent most the day being the general contractor - "supervisor".
Then came the math time.  Sure hope we got those post where they are suppose to be?!!
Big question of the day..... why were there 4x4 posts in there, but when we put in 4x4 post they are really 3 1/2 x 3 1/2??  The math doesn't work when trying to duplicate a previous fence line!
Managed to get a few rows done on my shawl.  Its from Gourmet Yarn in OKC.  MG wrote the pattern, which is wonderful.  No errors!  LOVE that.  The yarn is Fiesta, Boomerang.  So wonderful to work with!

Done

The photo doesn't do this sweater justice! You can tell the size again the tiles that are 12 inch squares.  This hoodie is for a special little someone, our grandson.
The yarn is Marble Chunky by James C. Brett.  Really like this yarn I got at our LYS Twist!
Book the pattern was in is 'the yarn girls' guide to kid knits'.  Bought that on my trip to NYC at the Yarn Girls shop!  Pretty neat to have an autographed knitting pattern book.

Class Project

I finished my first ever crochet class.  It was at our LYS Twist.

(only been crocheting 40 years)

After a few patter adjustments and finding the correct weight yarn I now have a hat for Princess M!

I am sure she it will be in her dress up wardrobe!!

Busy weekend

Its crazy how there is so much one weekend to do then nothing the next.

Friday night was a short drive to Oklahoma to try for the first time a concert at First Council Casino.

John Anderson opened for Clint Black.  We had seen Clint before but not John.  Good music!!!

John Anderson

Clint Black

Saturday afternoon we went to the Sport Boat and Travel show.  Lots of information on fishing location all around the area.  Saw a beautiful split hull boat with a huge engine, just a mere $106,000 --  ??for a boat??!
Saturday night was out semi monthly dinner out with the neighborhood boys my husband grew up with.
We went to the Hereford House.  They didn't have our reservation so we got the VIP room -- Our own dinning room.  It was great.  Quiet enough we all could hear when someone was talking.  Wonderful evening.

I married a great guy!

There were two of those candys... not sure what happened the other one??

37 years with a wonderful guy!

New Projects

Its time to have some new projects.
I have worked on a couple of stash item.  The intarsia is one of those that you just have to be in the mood.  Mood has passed!  LOL!
Instead of intarsia -- I knitted a few cat toys,  felted and stuffed with cat nip.  (The yellow was from an old sweater)

I decided its time to be a 'joiner' and get back to the LYS knitting.
It was 2nd Saturday sale day.  I had gotten and email from some company with an infants hoodie.  The light came on!  Go get your Yarn Girls book and see if they have a hoodie.  YEP!
I draged hubby to the yarn shop on the way to the Home Show to make a purchase!!
Now on the needles is James C. Brett - Marble Chunky in a gray/orange.  Pattern is in the book "the yarn girls guide to kid knits"  Pattern - "triple the fun".  Finally something to knit for a grandson in California weather.

Then I got an email from Twist, my LYS, with the cutest little girls hat that made me think of Princess M!

It is a pattern used for a class and the pattern is not for sale.  So I figured, what the hey, and signed up for the class.  I have to say this will be odd.  I have NEVER taken a crochet class in my 40 years of crocheting.  I have taught a few classes but not taken any.

It is very much a time in my life to make some major changes.  This is a start!

Look what I found

Since the Midwest Blizzard of 2011 has given me a reason to stay inside again, below zero wind chills are no fun, its time to dig through what projects I have here!

Awe....  a forgotten treasure.
Nicky Epstein's Jacobean.

Well not totally forgotten.

Lets see if we can finish -  not toss this hibernating project!!

I wish it already looked like that photo..... Like her hair color too?  Hummm?




Here is where I found it, plus about an inch .....

Plane with skis

This is my dad probably 1938. 

 I am assuming just after he got his pilots license.

Sure hope with this storm we have coming in we dont need a plane like that!!!

More bald eagles

We went for our weekend drive to check on the eagle nest.  No-body-home!

Then went for a drive down the river, struck out again on Saturday.

Sunday we tried again.  Once again nest empty.

Down to the river.  Saw one in a tree - too bad it was overcast.  Just not as great a photo with the gray sky.

We tried to find a place to turn around and then saw these guys

Made our turn to take the first photo and to head back to the dual tree sitters when we saw one flying over our head.  I was so in awe I didn't even lift my camera to take a photo!  Using the Nikon with the telephoto lens this time.

Tried to get a bit closer to the mates in the tree, but they picked a great spot that you just could get too close

I just *L*O*V*E* nature!
We saw a total of FOUR Bald Eagles along the river all in about a half mile stretch.  So neat!