Our Graduate!

Congratulations to the Class of 2010

He is bound for the STATE golf tournament!

Confirmation - May 2010

What a lucky young man to have so many people in his life who love him!

One of his 2 Godfathers - Uncle DJ:


Grandma A:


Grandpa and Grandma R:


And last but certainly not least... Great Grandma - how lucky are we that she is still such an active and special part of our lives!

Prom 2010

Slipper Mania....

Intervention needed?

Pair number 3 and 4 are drying and my mind is playing with my stash for the next pair - help! Join me in my "addiction" and take the class we are offering next weekend

Man vs Tree

I am working over at another facility this week in a real office with the entire wall behind me a glass window – LOVE IT! With this window, I daydreamed all afternoon about the evening I was going to have that involved meat on the grill, a glass of wine and the Adirondack chair on the deck… or a round of golf. Since I’m leaving for Idaho again on Sunday it was my last free night to just relax…. The golf course didn’t have any tee times until after 7 pm, so I decided to relaxe on the deck.

When I got home, T. had just finished mowing the lawn - good sign for my night! He wasn’t even asked to do it :-)

I changed clothes, grabbed a book and started to go out on the deck to wait for hubby to get home and heard a vehicle coming up the alley. The vehicle turned out to be T.’s truck – bad sign! He decided it would be a great night to take down that big maple that died last spring from our yard.

Needless to say it was almost 8 pm when I called Godfather’s for pizza and attempted to get the slivers out of my hands and clean up all the scratches on my arms. UGH We will definitely have more sunshine on the flower beds this year!

Graduation Open House

The open house invitations are almost complete - I can't believe his graduation is almost here!

New Project

I'm making some felted slippers for a friend's birthday... they look so odd in pieces.

"Wool" commercial for NATURAL GAS in Belgium by TBWABRUSSELS

So cool - check this out!

Flooding..... luckily a minor story.

Luckily our area is pretty well prepared for the flood waters of the Minnesota river.... I really shouldn't complain about the extra 5 miles I have to drive out of my way to get to work over a bridge that's open.

Egg bake - yum!

Tom made egg bake for us on Sunday morning - I wanted to show you my view when I went back for my 2nd piece!

I remember when we use to get TWO meals out of one pan!

Hockey Banquet

Hockey banquet was last night so the season is officially over.... Here's some shots of our seniors with their Mom's and Dad's!

I finished the Olympic Hat!

The boys had hockey games at 5:30 and 7:30 last night way over west of us so I wasn't able to attend. (Jim was there to cheer them on). The good part about that is that I could sit on the couch and FINISH my Olympic hat.

Overall I am very pleased with it. I have definitely come a very long way in my color work. There is hardly any puckering and with the exceptionally long floats, that's very good. You can see the navy blue through the white in places but I think that's to be expected in such high contrast yarns. If I were to make it again, I may try duplicate stitch instead to see if that's better but then I worry about the original white stitches showing - 6 of one, half dozen of another? ;-) (don't ya love those old expressions?)

I used Cascade 220 yarn for everything. The red started to bleed a tiny bit in a warm soak but unless you look for it, you wouldn't notice. The hat fits me nicely and is a little roomy at the top of the head but based on the pictures of the US athletes, theirs does too.

Details on Ravelry

Olympic Hat continues

The hat is coming along slowly but steady. We have 4 JV/Varsity hockey games this week so I am not having a lot of knitting time....