Well, I’ve got things to do so this will be short again. This is one of the days that I wouldn’t have posted if it weren’t for the fact that I said I would do it every day for a year.
It rained during the night and all morning so we got the cats drug which is always a lot of fun. Maude tried to get into my squares and went to sleep.
I finished one sock. It was fun to make. The yarn is a bit wonky, but it should soften after washing.The yarn is 30% nylon so I am assuming they will last. The yarn over have me worried. Maybe I will give them to someone and let them worry about it.
I spent a long time going through the new software and moving things around to where I liked them. I have a better understanding of what it can do and I am beginning to like it.
I got this from my children. It’s really great because it is actually five potted flowers that I can plant outside and enjoy for months to come. Do they know me or what?
I have never been big on Mother’s Day and they know it, but sometimes I get something neat like this and that what makes it really special. When they were little, I didn’t really have any money for extras. We celebrated birthdays and Christmas and I made them up for Halloween. I told them that I knew they loved me as much as I loved them and gifts were not necessary. When they started school, they brought me homemade cards that I still have ’somewhere’.
Are those walls too pink? They make me feel happy. It beats the crap out of the nothing color that was up there before.
Isn’t this a great card? Socks are very important to me. I have two drawers of them. I can’t stand getting my feet dirty.
Set your machine on HOT. Add a little soap or detergent. Don’t let it fill too much. Set it on Small or Medium. Remember, you will be sticking your hand in there. Set for at least 15 minutes. Stop it before it changes cycle. Pull it out and take a look. It probably won’t be shrunk enough yet. It usually takes my washer at least two cycles before it’s felted to where I want it. I also put in the empty Downy ball to help knock it around. I just stop the machine and reset it. After 5 minutes into the second cycle, I’ll start pulling it out at 5 minute intervals until it gets to where I want it. Then I let the machine do it’s thing. I set mine on two rinses. After the final spin, I shape it and stuff it with plastic bags to dry. I also stick a pen in the buttonhole.
becomes this. 
I should have done this earlier, but I was busy sewing. Now, I have a sinus headache and I don’t feel like it. It’s almost 9PM and I haven’t done the dishes yet.
You know, you can fiddle with it just so long and then you have to do something else. I downloaded more pictures and video this morning. I had gotten into the habit of deleting pictures after I downloaded them, but now I don’t know how. I am so blind that I needed a full size picture in order to decide. I also need to figure out how to put videos into my blog. I tried to get Maude screaming to go out, but she just looked at me like I was some kind of idiot. I guess I will have to go get the manual and give up playing around, but not today.
Here’s some of the goslings with Mama. There are three families that come through. It’s usually in the early morning or evening, but these were kind enough to stop by in the middle of the afternoon.
Here’s a young Great Blue Heron. This was taken during low tide. He was walking along the edge of our little island.
Do you see why it is hard to get me to go anywhere?
I think I should have made the flap a little bigger. At least I remembered to put in a buttonhole. I have the pattern about half written with the rest in scribbly note form. I’ll have to work on that. I also need to make a free pattern page.
I was going along minding my own business, cleaning the toilets, scrubbing the shower, felting my shoulder bag, when my new camera came. Well, new to me anyway. So, of course I had to play with it. Here’s some of what it can do.
The first is looking across two yards to the river. The second are some white Irises that I thought was some trash. It also takes video, but I haven’t played with it yet.
I’m not sure. It’s always on Wednesday in May. It’s around the Washington Monument in downtown Baltimore. I went a few times when I was little with Nanny. She was so much fun. We were always taking buses and streetcars. I had no idea where I was going most of the time. Sometimes we went shopping, but often we looked at houses. My mother said they moved a lot when she was growing up. Nanny made me feel special. She taught me how to embroider and how to sew. She often cut things out for me because she said I always looked like I was in pain. Actually, this was true because I am left-handed and I never had a pair of right-handed scissors until I was an adult. She also tried to teach me how to crochet right-handed, but she gave up. I finally learned left-handed when I was in my late twenties. Nanny loved flowers. These pictures are for her. I felt loved and I loved her.
