Happy Halloween

Sunday, October 30    11p.m.

We are ready for Halloween.   Candy is  bought .  A huge bag of candy because we get lots of trick or treaters   every year.  

Tonight Kris and I carved pumpkins

Notice he has a power tool for this task. 

This is  his pumpkin;

This is my pumpkin:

Happy Halloween!!

Casting on and binding off

projects are cycling off and on my size 5 and size 7   40 inch circulars.

finished Lauren's mukluks.   working on socks for the guys and mitts for me  and cast on   an orange hat for Kris.  I'm using the WWII watch cap pattern.   

Saw Sherlock Holmes at the community Theater yesterday.   it was fun.

news last week:  Glenn will stay in Charleston for another three months  but the good news is he will be able to come home for Christmas.  

On the nightstand:  the mistress of the Vatican  and   South of Broad by Conroy.   I really enjoy his prose.
Some recently finished projects

                                                                    Trenton's mitts

                                                mukluks for the women's shelter

                                                               mukluks for  Lauren

Tried two new recipes this  month   shirl's apple cake  which is really good .  the dough is so hard that Kris has to stir in the apples and walnuts.   He doesn't mind this.     I also tried a Turkey and  Quinoa  meatloaf that  was great.   

See you all in the funny  papers.

Sunny Day and Mondays

October 3, 2011

The Joy:  Beautiful warm sunny day.   the leaves on the trees are colors only God can make.
The  Challenge:   a nasty cold.

news this past week:

Glenn is nearly set to  head to  New York.   He can hardly wait. 

Ryan  is back from yakima, WA and is training his soldiers. 

Kris and I spent Saturday at the Mpls farmer's market.

I finished a few projects this past week.  and I can only show one of them. Kris' mukluks are done.  the rest are birthday and/or Christmas gifts.  I may not be able to show many of my FOs for a while  most of my projects on the needles are gifts.

Looking forward to   the Motherbear tea on Friday.  

saturday night's all right with me

September 24, 2011

A beautiful fall day  high of 60 degrees and sunny with  a  bright blue sky.   the leaves are are  shaking off the  summer green  and slipping on the vibrant shades of yellow and red

On Thursday,  Kris came home with a  huge bag filled with goodies from General Mills products from the United Way Fund Drive. he also stopped at the farmer's market and picked up  potatoes, squash and flowers 

As  some you know  Ryan will be going to Afghanistan.   A friend  from the Ravelry's Mothers of Soldiers group  posted this photo  last week.   I thought I would share it with you.

tonight my  honey took me to see Contagion.   We enjoyed the story  and  the acting was fantastic.   Glenn strongly recommended the film.  He enjoyed that Minneapolis  was one of the featured cities in the movie.   Matt Damon and  Gwyneth Paltrow's characters  reside  in our metro area.  

Mitts dropping from my needles

September 16, 2011

Another  Friday  night   bringing us closer to winter  so   I'm happily working on fall fingerless mitts and slippers for my family.

I made four pairs so far this month  two for Pine Ridge , one for our nephew and one for Kris..

finished the first  mukluk  for kris

Alas it looks like  Ronald McDonald's foot.   

 It's   Friday night,  Kris is working out and I'm hanging around watching Pride and Prejudice while knitting Christmas gifts.

I was thinking  this week  how much has changed in the last 10 yrs.   Ten yrs ago   we had  a teen ager and near teenager in the house and a dog and a cat.  Two boys playing football and hockey.  We consumed 8  gallons of milk every week. drove 22,000 miles  a year, milk was more expensive   per  gallon than gas.  Now it's just the two of us  we use up 1 gallon of milk a week  drive 10,000 miles a year  and Gasoline is more Expensive than Milk..  Strange how things change.  Life  is calmer and quieter and I haven't seen the inside of hockey rink in   7 years  or sat in the  high school football stand in 6 years.   

Take me out to the Ball Game

August  26, 2011

Kris worked very hard on a work project this week.   TPTB  decided to reward him with two tickets to the Twins Game.   Very  good seats  with passes for the champions club.   Awesome food,  great service,
a wonderful time was had by all.    Twins lost.  

I started a new project.  Fall is coming and we must put vegetable hats on the babies.

other events this week   include a short visit to the Mercy"Spa"   I've removed the work hospital from my vocabulary and am  replacing it with the word Spa.    Doesn't it sound so much better to say spa  than hospital.   Yeah ,  I think so too.  

Glenn's home

Glenn got home  and we've been bumming around with him.   He's been reading and sleeping in late.
My Mom and Dad came to visit  on Tuesday afternoon.   Supper at Outback during a major rainstorm.
Wednesday we went to the Mn History Center  and for a stroll along  Minnehaha Falls

Mom  and Dad

Glenn

Kris and I at the Falls
We took the scenic tour home    then   home for  homemade Chicken Enchiladas.  

Thursday  Mom , Dad, Glenn and I went shopping.  The guys went off to Borders to snag a deal at Border's. Mom and I found cute sweaters for Fall at Christopher& Banks  and  CJ Banks.
Lunch at Dickie's.    Then   Kris, Glenn and Dad went to the Twins game.   Mom and I went to dinner and to see the Help. 

Mom and Dad headed home on Friday.    Glenn leaves tomorrow.   We will miss him  so much.