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.

Day to Day

How often we turn minor challenges into monumental barriers by giving them undue attention, forgetting that within any problem lie its solution

I read this on another blog and felt it had meaning not only today but always.

Bad Blogger

I have no excuse except life itself, sometimes the day to day just gets in the way. I have been reading blogs, just not posting on my own.
I have been knitting, and finishing stuff. I am working on a 'Lucy Bag' for my oldest daughter, and finished socks for my youngest daughter.
Here is proof.