…my life in the country
Posted in Uncategorized on May 28th, 2006
Randy and the boys drove up to Mt. Meadow today, just to look. He said the road is open but a muddy mess. Didn’t take any ‘snow’ pics because it was all brown! But our southern crackers counted it as snow, anyway! They all enjoyed the ride and Gramma stayed home and enjoyed the quiet! [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 28th, 2006
Can you spot Mrs. Stellar Jay? Randy tore the nest efforts out of here once> It’s in a high traffic area between the loom shop and his ‘junk/wood’ shed and he thought it not a good place to rear young, but it’s been pretty wet lately and while he was feeling smug about having discouraged [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 25th, 2006
Daughter and two grandsons are here for the summer and the youngest had a surprise for Gramma. The poncho I made him in 1998 is too small and he wanted me to repair the little tear and make it bigger. I was able to kitchener the tear and am now knitting away like a good [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 22nd, 2006
Coffee Creek is at it’s highest after two weeks of rain on top of a massive snow-melt. The lake is two feet above full and they are pumping water down the Trinity to the Klamath and the pacific and also though the Clear Creek tunnel to Whiskeytown lake, the Sacramento river and the Pacific via [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 18th, 2006
Or something like that! :laugh: Anyway, the baby tomatoes are just about right for my grandson gardener to plant out next week. Daughter and the two boys arrive on Tuesday, we go to Medford to pick them up. Their original tickets had them arriving at 6:30 pm which was great but they have been rescheduled [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 11th, 2006
It’s done and it only took a bit over 4 months! Not too shabby. I was sure the border alone would take that long! :laugh: I am pleased with the way it looks tho the yarn is just a tad scratchy. If I ever get around to making another PI I’ll use some handspun to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 11th, 2006
It was in the Barbara Walker book, one or the other of them, called Tulip Buds, but I thought it looked more leaf-like. Anyway, I like how it turned out.
Posted in Uncategorized on May 5th, 2006
Randy’s building a two story log house on the airport in Trinity Center and today he took some pictures from up there of the view the people will have. The redbud is blooming and the lake it only 5 foot below the glory hole, as full as it’s been in a long time. The rivers [...]