Knitting And Eye Update…

…among a few other this ‘n that sort of things.

By the way, I am well aware that it is Friday today, couldn’t miss this week, for I have thought everyday was Friday ever since Monday.  That is what comes of Dirt being gone doing schoolish sort of things all last weekend.  It has been as long a week as the last two weeks were short. 

I’ve finished the main part of the small blanket, I love twined knitting!  But the blanket isn’t done, now I’m looking for and teaching myself how to put a crocheted edging all around the blanket.  I want just a thin band down the sides but I’d like to put a fairly wide band of shell stitching on both ends to extend the length of the blanket. 

I’ve enjoyed learning something entirely new, I think I like projects like that the best.  Sometimes it can be a bugger to pick up a new project and “not get it” from the instructions you were given.  Like what happened when I bought a pattern and wool yarn for a ear flap hats that used the twine method.  I struggled with the instructions forever!

But now that I taught myself by accident how to knit twine method I have started my ear flap hat project. When I purchased the pattern I bought enough yarn to make three different ear flap hats, Bet is doing one of them in a lovely blue and brown.

“But you haven’t finished your blanket,” you say.  Well, along with having projects that I learn something new from, I like having more than one project.  Very quickly the blanket turned into a project that needed to stay home because of its size.  So I like to have different projects so that I have something to take with me when I know I’ll have to sit or on a long drive, when I’m not driving.

Speaking of driving, when I’m done with the blanket, it is going to live on the back rest of the bench seat in the Exploder. I used wool yarns I had from a long while ago, it is a bit itchy so not really suitable for a baby.  I was going to have it for a throw in my bed room but it is the wrong purple, too blue.

And They always say that a car should have a blanket in it, it won’t be a big blanket just enough to cover someone’s shoulders or lap if the car isn’t warm enough or if we’re stranded.

Which could be today, since I have to try and drive to town with these terrible glasses.  I hate them!  Not because they are a horrible fashion statement, which they are, but because I can’t really see with them any way. 

I cracked Dirt up one day because right in front of him in a span of about ten minutes or less, I couldn’t find them, I found them, wore them for about five minutes and then took them off.  He had a hearty laugh. 

Mostly I work without them on at all or on top of my head.  It isn’t because I’m doing close up work, they drive me nutz!  Not only can I not really see out of them but they give me vertigo to boot.  Part of it could be because they are such and old prescription but I remember not really using this particular pair of glasses very much because they made me feel like I’d been riding in the Twirly Top.

How does my eye, the one I hurt feel?  Like some one punched me in the eye.  Sometimes it stings. No more sharp stabbing pain any more, thankfully.   And no, I don’t use the lubricating eye drops as much as the doc said I should.  I’m not always by a box of tissue.  But I do put the drops in my pocket with my inhaler and I try to remember to use them.

Far Side asked about the long stick like things in my potato picture.  Those are metal skewers.  And yes I use them to put the taters on when I bake them.    They pierce the skin so the potato doesn’t blow up while it cooks (though I’ve never seen one actually do that when I just throw it in un-poked) and because it is metal, helps get the center done faster.  

My mom used to use big nails.  I sure hope that they were made for that use and not just some random big nail she stole from my dad’s workshop.  Otherwise I’ll have something else to blame besides my mercury fillings for all my odd nerve health troubles.  But I do think I would like to find some thicker heavier nails for my bakers, just to help that center thing along.  But these have a nice loop and so I can hang them and not lose them in the bottom of a drawer.  And they have other uses as well so they are not uni-taskers.

Bettikins and I are headed into town for a very quick trip today.  Mainly picking up glasses at Costco.  It will be about another two weeks for my contacts, I sure hope this prescription is better than the last.  I might swing down near the tide flats for some Rite-in-the-Rain notepads and pens.  On our way home we’ll swing into the Saddlery for a new blanket for Marvy, the baby horse, and destroyer of all things.  

That’s pretty much the whole of the trip, too many things need us here at the farm.  We’ll leave after noon and Dirt will be home shortly after we leave, so no one will be left with a foot hanging from their hindend for long any way.  Well, he is home already, home sick from school.  Poor fellow, I’ll throw him some vitamin C and water to be sure, but I’m not going near him.

We’re down to only two ewes to lamb, maybe only one, we don’t hold out much hope for the wool breed with a tail.  Our ram apparently doesn’t “do” tails.  Or at least he hasn’t up till this year.  We’ll see.  Just another reason to hate tails on sheep for us, I know they don’t bother some people but they drive us crazy, nasty in the way unhealthy things.

And AnnaColleen wanted me to say that she finally has a new post up.  They received quite a bit of snow and her angora rabbit kindled, so she has pictures of her new house in the snow and a pic or two of her rat-like baby bunnies. 

And, yes, I won the header Challenge for this week with all my taters.  And yes, I will put up my definite opinion on the fine art of roasting taters, but first I will be yappin’ soon about how to grow the dear things.  Lanny style.