Month: June 2019

Koco Java now has new cups with their logo, handmade by Greyfox Pottery….in fact, they have several types of cups. I liked this one.

The weather map is showing a huge storm system moving our way. Now I know there is an actual reason for feeling like someone beat me with a sack of nickels. I have to use two hands to hold my coffee cup……….forget knitting until I limber up or the storm passes.

Yesterday I went shopping for some organizers at Dollar Tree. Of course, I found so much more there. What a fun place to play. Then I went and played at Michaels and bought some more blue yarn for the Lion Brand Anti-Bullying Campaign. http://www.lionbrand.com/blog/end-bullying-hat-not-hate/

My fingers are very stiff. Even having a hard time typing this morning. I know I would not be able to knit for a bit. I have to laugh. My mom used to say….whenever and whatever you wound up with an injury of any kind….could be a cut finger or a skinned knee…she’d say, “Know what’s good for that ? Soaking your hands in hot dish water.”…..for once, I think she would be right.

I wish my superpower was to divide myself into many likenesses of myself and each of us do something……think of how many books I could read, or quilts I could make, or projects I could cast on and knit and FINISH…..then I could truthfully say I had “split personalities”.

I missed my appointment with my VA therapist yesterday. I wrote the wrong week on my calendar that he would be away. I went shopping and treated myself to lunch…isn’t that called ‘retail therapy’ ? It was a good day.

They will be delivering my riding mower tomorrow. My friend, Lizz, and her father got a new mower last week. When she finished her yard, she came down the street and did mine. On her third round of the front yard, she ran over something hidden in the grass. It made the most godawful sound….like a wounded animal and just quit.

My landlord’s helper had been over and left a water key lying in the front yard. Just walked off and left it. Yes, that is how long my grass had grown, and no, we didn’t think to walk the lawn as we were not expecting anything to be in it. She started the mower and it seemed to be working so she finished the lawn with no problem. She did call the home visiting John Deere people and they came and picked it up to make sure nothing was bent….like the drive shaft. All I could hear was my Grandfather Moffitt saying, “No good deed goes unpunished.” They had had the mower a little over an hour. I feel so bad about it.

I think I will try the dishwater cure for my fingers and then cast on another blue hat.

oh, look………shiny

June already. Wow…….so much done this past month. Every month (but especially July 1st) I ask how many of the goals I’ve set for myself have I accomplished or at least started. I try not to beat myself up about what was not done, and celebrate any forward movement made. This morning I celebrated that I woke up on the green side of the grass.

I am completely moved to my new space. All ties severed to the old one except for the return of my deposit. Unpacking and placement of favored objects are ongoing adventures.

She was a Christmas ornament that I fell in love with and keep out all year. I love her confidence.

I have always been drawn to bears and roosters. My son was drawn to pigs. He even named a dog ‘Pig’. We were in a Chinese restaurant once and read the place mats and realized I was born in the year of the rooster and he was born in the year of the pig. The bear…..someone once told me it was my spirit animal.

My neighbors were tossing out this little wooden set. I asked if I could buy it and they said no, but I could have it if I carried it away. I grabbed the two benches and as I am rounding the corner for home, my neighbor on the corner asked if I was taking the table, too. I told him as soon as my friend with a truck got off work and he said, “I’ll bring it over for you.”……..and I met two new, friendly/helpful neighbors. It was nice. I figure a quick coat of paint and a little tightening of the table….maybe an umbrella from Big Lots or WallyWorld and it will be good to go.

My daughter brought over the gift of two porch chairs and a 100 foot hose with nozzles. She said she could hear my plants crying all the way to her house. It is a lovely spot to sit and breathe (and knit).

Getting there. The more I knit with this yarn, the more I like it. I don’t know if I will be able to match it for the second sock or not. If they are ‘fraternal twins’ and don’t match, I really don’t much care…..they are for me.

Lion Brand yarns is having an anti-bullying campaign for the month of June. Knit and/or crochet blue hats and mail to them to distribute to schools. They do not have to be worked in Lion Brand yarns, either. I think I will be working in blue yarn this month. It’s a great cause. My fear would be if you were wearing one of them, you would be a huge target for bullies, unless they get entire schools to wear them. They are aiming for 25K hats….and by the looks of it, they will exceed that number. They have free patterns for hats at their website.

oh, look………shiny