Dec 14th, 2010

Wow. Almost a year since the last post. We have been thru the rest of winter 2010, spring, summer, fall and now the winter again. There is snow on the ground, not much, just residual from the other day. It is so cold though, we have single digits. I hate cold weather, especially single digits. The sun comes in and out of the clouds, very sneaky because when it is out it seems it should be warm. It isn't.
11 days til Christmas. I have some gifts purchased, but not all and none wrapped. After my workout today, Jeff and I are will go do a bit of shopping, we need to get Emma's package in the mail. Rest of the kids and grandson will be in Springfield for Christmas, so we will give them their presents then. I am not sure if Canaan and Hannah will want to open up presents at home before we leave or wait and open them on Christmas eve or Christmas morning. The stockings will wait til Christmas morning this I know for sure.
Tonight is the knitting group get together, we are going to Pot Pie. I think I am the only one who has eaten there. It will be a good time.
I really am loving my life. It is the year /life of Pam.

Jan 3, 2010

Jan 3,2010: sounds like a science fiction date, twenty-ten. Here in KC we have another day of snow falling. It is a fine snow, doesn't seem like much until you get out there and shovel. Jeff had just come back from his run, shoveled some of the drive but not all. Wanted to leave some for the kids to shovel.
Still working on my sweater, the pattern (for me) wasn't very simple to read, so a friend deciphered it. It is easy to follow but I am just a slow knitter. Plus I don't give myself alot of time to sit and knit.

December 3- 22 days til Christmas

Wow, Time sure has flown since I last posted. I am currently working on a sweater, my first.

I will take a picture and post as it progresses.

Happy Easter

Today is Easter. The first Easter in 26 years that I haven't put candy in easter baskets that my kids fixed up for the easter bunny. I did put candy in a community basket lined with easter grass. Still a bit different than years past. I don't know if it was because Easter came around so early this year, or because my kids are getting older and didn't mention dying eggs, or what. Anyway. Felicia (oldest daughter) called and wished us/me a happy easter, she was on her way to the in-laws for the day. I am glad she has her DH's family close by, since we are not. My grandbaby is due in Aug, hopefully I will get to see he/she (they don't know yet if it is a girl or boy) enough that it will know I am grandma.
Yesterday, was a day of cleaning. Jeff (DH) and I cleaned from top to bottom. Then he and DS went to the hardware store to get a few items needed to fix some areas. Last night we went out to eat at a local barbecue place, then to the store. Bottom line the family spent the entire day together. It was fun and full of laughter.

I have finished oldest daughters 'Lucy Bag' , I am now working on a scarf 'My so called
scarf'.
My knitting club met on Thursday night at Starbucks, and Mary pointed out why I was screwing up on my scarf- kudos to Mary.

There was a great picture in the KC Star paper in the Home section, it was a young woman holding a goat, the story was about her organic vegetable farmers market.
I would so love to have a place that I can have goats and chickens, a few Alpacas.
I am hanging on to that idea.

Jan 18th

It is snowing again today. Yesterday the kids had the day off due to snow/cold temperatures. The forecast today is flurries, with occasional heavy snow. I almost wish if were going to snow it would just snow big, and then be done, and it would be spring.
I live in the midwest though, so that will never happen.
Today, I ran errands which included getting my hair cut. It always feels so great to get your hair shampooed by someone else, and feels so much better when you get a cut.
One of the blogs I always read is the pioneer woman I love keeping up with what she is doing, and looking at her great pictures. Tonight I am making her lasagna recipe. Dana, my friend made the lasagna last night, her family loved it. Hopefully mine will too.

I will leave you with a picture my daughter took this morning at sunrise.

Monday Nov 12th

I don't have pictures, but Sat we visited another Alpaca Ranch not too far from us. Who knew that these Alpaca farms were so close, I figured if you had livestock that would require living outside the city limits but these folks don't.
We are visiting these farms so we can get an idea of what becoming an Alpaca farmer entails. So far it is so doable, and we want to do it. Since we don't have land (yet), we can agist or board our Alpacas at another farm.
I hope to meet with yet another Alpaca farmer soon, who has the most Alpacas in our area and boards all of them, she doesn't have land of her own.
Our long term plan is to buy some land, build a much smaller house, and raise Alpacas.

On another note, I guess my SP has sent a package of Oct, but not sure. I have not received it as yet.

What I did today

We visited this Alpaca ranch not too far from where we live. It was so cool.
She had some great fiber, from roving up to the finished knitted or woven item.