…my life in the country
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 30th, 2004
Well, I got my topsey truvey doll done at last. I’m still not happy with the faces, but if I keep changing them I’m going to wear hole in them! lol It’s Cinderella as the poor sister and as the future Mrs. Charming. Ella in her apron looks okay, but in her ball gown she [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 28th, 2004
That berm is as solid as cement! There is so much water in this snow that when you make a bootprint the water runs into it immediately and about 6″ deep. There’s a good 14″ or more of it on the level. Well, at least it isn’t raining this morning, but the forecast though next [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 26th, 2004
Been snowing all day and still at it heavily. Forecast for more. Randy has almost finished both the books he bought me for Xmas. I got started on one. Made this block for my Crazy Quilt using some small diamonds I wove for the web page picture. I think it’s cute. It’s about 10″ square, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 20th, 2004
Here’s my latest project. I decided to use up some of these demo blocks we’ve woven the last 3 years at fiber fairs. I’m doing a single crochet around the blocks and the putting them together with a slip stitch. It makes a nice fat dark border between them. As you may have noticed I’ve [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 8th, 2004
More stuff out of Nicky’s book. The poncho is not quite hers. I modified her pattern and knitted it on dps. Barbie got a hat to match (my design… that was a tricky one! LOL) and a new skirt. Joe was in desperate need of civvies so I got out the left-over sock yarn and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 8th, 2004
I bought these little guys (they’re 5″ tall less the hair) in one of those stores that sell stuff that didn’t sell elsewhere and one of those times when Himself was gone from home I spent my evenings knitting them a wardrobe with left-over sock yarns. I think they’re awfully cute little dust collectors! :rolleyes:
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 8th, 2004
We got the rest of the predicted foot last night and then it started raining so it’s a real sloppy mess. Power went out again about 2:30 am and just came on again (and off and on lol) about 2 pm.So I got the dishwasher & the vacuuming done in a hurry… just in case! [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 7th, 2004
Well, you can see in this picture why our power was out for 20 hours. We got about 4″ of this heavy, very wet stuff. I’ll bet those line men are home in bed shivering now! It’s snowing again, off and on… Hope they don’t have to get out of their warm beds again tonight! [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 6th, 2004
We’ve got about 3″ now… 4pm… and it’s coming down heavily. If we get the 9 to 11″ predicted tonight we’ll surely be out of power by morning. It’s already blinked off twice so if I’m incommunicado you’ll know what happened.
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 6th, 2004
Here’s our first snow. It’s been at it less than an hour and they are predicting up to a foot. Of course, their predictions have been pretty much dead wrong so far! lol Like this wasn’t due until this evening. Or sometime last week… Oh well, it’s fine and dry, the squeaky kind of snow, [...]