What, you're still coming here?

I've moved!!!

Change your links!


My new address is:


http://somecallthemsticks.typepad.com

We'll see you there!

Happy Blogiversary!!!

I can't believe I"ve been blogging for two years now. I've really enjoyed my stay in Blogland. I've got such great neighbors! (grin)

As a gift to myself, I got myself a typepad account. I can't believe I put it off this long! It is such a great tool! So, for now I'll be working on transferring this site to that one. Make sure to change your bookmark or feed.

My new address is:

somecallthemsticks.typepad.com

I hope to see you there!

hah! Goes to show how much I know.... I just went back in my archives to double check my blogiversary date, and guess what? I was wrong! At least I'm 10 days early instead of 10 days late! We'll just extend the celebration till then. Maybe I'll make it my goal to have everything transferred to the new site by my official blogiversary....

I'm Baaaa-aaaack!

Whew!


So I guess this has been the greatest annoyance test of our blog-relationship yet. But I'm back now. Okay? And I promise to never leave like that again. Really. Unless it is against my will, like this last time.... So I guess I can't really promise anything. Oh well....


Did you miss me?

I've certainly missed Blogland.


I hate to pop in and out, after it's been so long and all, but I have some motherly duties to attend to. Snack, Diaper, Laundry, etc. etc. Tonight is Downtown Night in Elkhart Lake, and we go every year. We can't wait until 5 o'clock, when all the festivities begin. I'm heading over to Nordic Accents in the middle of it all to pillage her collection of knit books and magazines. There's a rumor that she has one copy left of A Season's Tale by Kim Hargraeves (out of print), and it's MINE-ALL MINE! mwahahahaha!


Please leave a comment, because I read all of your blogs, but my links went to the grave with my last hard drive. So I need to re-build my links. I'll farm through the more recent posts, but if you haven't commented in a while just leave one today. Thanks!!!!

We are experiencing technical difficulties

Like my hard-drive died.

May it rest in peace.

I hope to be back up, at the latest, by the end of the next week. In the mean time I'm blogging from my parents' house.

I must not covet, I must not covet, I must not covet.... My dad has a really nice computer. Really nice.

Now I'm off to cuddle my new niece, the latest and greatest part of my day.

It's Wednesday!

All Day!

Let's see, where do I start....

How about with the best? I stumbled across a knit ring called teje-teje. My favorite ones are Buenas Puntadas, Cafe con Leche, Mi vida con Malgam, Viento del Este, Manos que Tejen, and Los Suenos. But there are many many more, and I have bookmarked them all! Tim and I have been discussing my returning to school to finish my degree (a BA with a major in Spanish and a minor in ?). I planned on starting to fill out the necessary paperwork this week I asked him to seriously look into transferring to an office in a Spanish speaking country, but you all know it's been impossible for us to move even an hour south of here, let alone leave the country. Oh well, it's a nice thing to daydream about....


Last night Tim picked up our box from the garden. So I took a few shots, nothing like Cara, I've got to learn more about my camera.











We have onions, scallions, lettuce, sweet peas, zucchini, snow peas, garlic scapes, summer squash, and strawberries. All organic, all local, all delicious.



I forgot to post last Saturday, but here is my photo for that day:

Have you ever seen such a bright rainbow? It was so beautiful, and it seemed to be a triple rainbow. I can see two on the photo, but in real life there was a very faint one (maybe a reflection) between them. What luck to have a rainbow my first "Saturday" participating! (I really did take it last Saturday.)

This afternoon we're off to see Mr Tom Pease, my daughter's new hero. He's giving 3 concerts today at Mead Public Library at 9:30, 11, and 2. We love his music, they are the only CDs Tim and I don't get sick of listening to in the car. He's hilarious. Iris's fav is the Belly-button song, she sings it non-stop.

Last, but not least, I started the chevron linen hand towel from Mason-Dixon Knitting. No photos, because that would make sense, being a knitting blog and all. Tomorrow, when I have more progress to show. I absolutely LOVE this book! Not only are there great projects, it's a great read. It's the first time in a long time I sat down to read a knitting book. It may even force me to buy something at W*l-M*rt, my knitting group has threatened to follow me and post pics on the net. We'll see....

I guess I'm pretty happy anyway.

You Are 92% Happy

It's unlikely that you know anyone happier than you. You know how to be happy, no matter what life throws at you.

How Happy Are You?

No se....

Estoy tan animada, porque encontre un ring de blogs de tejendo en Espanol. Es comico, porques estoy hablando cada dia de completando mi titulo de Espanol.

Estudiaba Espanol por 7 anos, pero cuando nos casemos y nos mudemos aqui, no conoci ningunos hispanohablantes. Ahora tengo mi amiga Maria, y hablamos cada dia, pero 13 anos han pasado y mi Espanol es horrible! (como no puedes saber esto, leyendo mis errores....)

Necesito regresar a la universidad, necesito completar mi titulo, y quiero mudarnos a Espana, o Costa Rica, o Ecuador, o algun lugar donde tienen una oficina de Compuware donde mi marido esta trabajando. Pero si nos conoces, sabes que tenemos problemas mudandonos una hora al sud de aqui, menos saliendo el pais.

Busy Busy Weekend! (last weekend)

I suppose, it must have been busy if I blog about it 4 days later! Tim took Friday off and we headed "up north" to the Green Bay Railroad Museum to see Thomas!

It was the epoch of Harrison's 3 years on this earth, he was on cloud 9 the whole day! There were a ton of activities to keep the kids busy, and everything was reasonably priced. I highly recommend it!

Unfortunately, while we were riding on the vintage 1917 passenger coach, which was full of spiders, I think Harry got bit. By the time we got home, the bite had started to swell and was the size of a silver dollar, with a purplish center. By the next morning, half of his shin was swollen, and the center was a yellowish color. I took him in to see his doctor, who just said it was just a nasty bite. I guess she has seen a lot of them this year. He was already on Clariten (antihistimine) and Augmenten (antibiotic) for a sinus thing he developed earlier in the week, so we were fine. Oh, and she mentioned it would get worse before it got better. Which it did. Fortunately for him, by Monday it was pretty much gone. Whew!

Then my dad went into the Hospital Friday night. He has Cellulitis in his leg (he had a few moles removed earlier in the week.) They wanted to keep him, but he hates hospitals. So he went home... and was back Saturday night. They let him go home Tuesday. Cellulitis can be life threatening, so we were worried, to say the least.

While I was visiting my dad Sunday morning, our Ford Escort (affectionately called "the Beast") decided to give up the ghost in the hospital's parking lot. So we are back down to one car. That's okay with me, it's summer, we can get around. The Beast was a tremendous blessing while it was with us, but won't be too sorely missed.

That evening we had a Tornado Warning. "Cleaning the Basement" has moved higher on our to-do list after spending half an hour in the closet under the basement stairs. Yuck! We went up on our 2nd story porch afterwards, to look at the sky (like any intelligent adults would do) and I was "fortunate" enough to get a photo of a funnel cloud! It was definitely moving in a spiral motion, but slowly. Within 2 minutes it slowed to a stop and turned into wisps of clouds.


I know I heard there is some connection between changes in barometric pressure and women going into labor, and now we have proof! My sister went into labor about half an hour before the funnel-cloud producing storm went through! Alicia Ellen was born early Monday morning!!!!

Isn't she beautiful?? She is such a little peanut! Well, not so little-she was 8 lbs 8 oz, and 22 inches long! (My sister is 6 ft tall, and I think her hubby is 6'5"). About an hour or two after birth they discover Alicia has a Cleft Palate. Pretty much all of her soft palate and most of her hard palate are missing (basically the entire roof of her mouth). So we've spent the last 3 days learning everything we can about that. She will be just fine. And they will fix everything with one or more surgeries after she is a year old. Before she even realizes she's a human being, it will all be fixed. My sister is amazing, as well as her hubby, and they are doing a spectacular job. Alicia is healthy, and the "only" thing really affected for now is her eating. She is a little barracuda though, and seems to have adapted marvelously to the special bottles they will be using. My sis is a real trooper, and true to our heritage, producing more milk than a Holstein Cow. Which is perfectly perfect for little Al!

The only knitting I've done in the past few days is this. For Alicia of course!

I'm going to write up a pattern, because it turned out too darn cute! (I've got to learn how to adjust the flash on our camera!) I used Manos Cotton Stria, and size 5 needles. (Hah! I bet you thought there'd be no knitting content!)

So now I'm enjoying a boring week of nothing but cleaning, cooking, and my favorite form of therapy, KNITTING!