lifelong knitter

Lenten Rose

Today would have been my Daddy's birthday.

I tried to keep really REALLY busy to keep from bursting into tears....

I went to a Prayer Shawl meeting at the church of the Holy Family.

Knit for an hour with red sparkly yarn, as his favorite image as HE was dying

was Dorothy's red shoes.....

I fussed over the doggies.

I mailed the baby package.

I went with the Garden Club to Plant Delights Nursery,

home of the amazing and hilarious Tony Avent

and his stupendous plant collection, including greenhouses (PLURAL)

filled with these beauties.

As I snapped this photo, I knew my Dad would have loved it.

My Office has arrived!

The Ultimate recycling project

the building was going to be destroyed

so it got MOVED to Bee Happy Farm, and it will be my Office! Such a Happy Day!

Shelves and windows included ;)

See that light coming through the wall? Insulation and tin siding should help with THAT!

Ash Wednesday....

I went and heard the words *Repent, and hear the Good News*

and kept the mark of ashes until after sundown.

Fasted from meat today

and spent many hours in self-reflective repentance.

I'm giving up something for Lent...

are you?

Fat Tuesday....

Instead of indulging in pancakes...I filled up on APPLEs ;)

Bee Happy Farm now has it's own domain,

my laptop has Leopard and iWork and iLife '09...

and I have a backup hard drive.

WOOT!

 

An hour with the business consultant at the Apple Store was

SO productive!

He totally *got* the mission statement of Bee Happy Farm:

"Everybody has the right to useful, productive work. Our mission is to identify strengths,

create strategies to minimize deficits and bee happy while growing job skills."

 

He also had the grace to giggle when I listed my job title as Queen Bee.

 

heh.

 

The pain meds worked. I got a good night's sleep, and when I got up, the headache was GONE.

xox

Worst headache, ever!

My reading glasses are supposed to come in this week....not a moment too soon, if you ask me! For some reason I've had a TERRIBLE headache ever since I tried the contacts last week.

I used to have these headaches when I was waiting for the pterygium surgery, but this one is

up a notch even from those.

sigh.

Enough whining...I'm going to take some pain meds and go to sleep.

Hopefully I'll feel better in the morning.

Curl up and Knit....

PeeWee warms up my knitting chair

that's the afghan my Grandmother made me when I was in fourth grade...

 

Hope you have a lovely warm place to curl up and knit....

 

Namaste.

 

xox

The Pattern for the Baby boots...

is THIS ONE.

I left the *straps* off...

and I wasn't too overly thrilled with the directions for the *tuck*.

I think next time I'll try a different pattern,

but I do LOVE the Tiger striped yarn from Opal!

For the Modern Baby.....

Tiger boots!

in Opal sock yarn ;)

I think I'm going to make myself a pair of TIGER socks, too!

To Roomba or not to Roomba...

that is the Question!

One of the things that really aggravates my excruciating back pain

is the daily vacuum/sweep up required with two doggies in and out of the house

all day long. (They LOVE to bring in sticks and chew them to shreds...)

Please comment if you have Roomba/pet

experience...a particular model that you HIGHLY recommend?

The Boybird and I had a most EXCELLENT adventure this afternoon to

Golden Corral and Target...

AND, the LA baby was born, and everyone is doing well

and feeling FINE...so I can go ahead and FINISH those booties and take pictures,

hopefully tomorrow.

The LIGHT this morning was amazing....

a truly wonderful sight in between storms.

If at first you don't succeed....

try, TRY Again!

sigh. The contacts did NOT work out.

I was SO disappointed. I tried not to get my hopes up,

but secretly I had been thinking how AWESOME it would be to

see up close again....to actually READ without glasses.

The eye doctor was disappointed, too.

He's sending off for another pair in a different profile,

thicker lenses to compensate for the astigmatism and

HOPEFULLY not so thick as to irritate the pteryigium.

 

It was a Very Rainy day, so hopefully the grass seed and the

clover cover that has been sown got a good deep watering

at the Farm....which now has a new phone number

and an iphone3G.

Such elegant technology!

 

xox