Beautiful Blog

Here is a beautiful blog I want to share with all of my bloggy friends. She has wonderful photo's of the her world on the blog. I believe she lives out in Montana. A place I wouldn't mind seeing someday. Anways, here she is Knitting Iris.

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Right now I am knitting my Bella sweater.

Yarn: Knit Picks Shine Worsted
Colorway: Terra Cotta and
Needles: US 5 and 4
Size: 38 1/2

I love this yarn but I have noticed it gets a bit heavy after I get about 5 inches of the sweater done. I am having to knit it on straight needles, which I don't really like, because my Knit Picks options are metal and they were just too slippery for this yarn. My hands were starting to hurt and I figured out it was because I was physically trying to keep the loops up on the needle while trying to also keep it from sliding completely off the needles. So I switched to some generic size 5's I had laying around. I now know that I have to buy a set of wooden needle points too in case the yarn is too slippery on the metal ones.


All that to say, when this project gets too heavy for me I switch to a pair of socks. Love these socks btw. I think they are my best ever.

Getting old and a couple of books...

I don't know what it is with a lot of elderly people but why do they have to talk about their health? I mean it's ok if like you are asking for someone to pray for you but when ALL you talk about is what hurts and what doesn't it gets a little annoying. I get a little annoyed cause I have no clue what to say. I also feel bad cause I am in such a good mood and exercises everyday so I won't grow old and have aches and pains. I love older people don't get me wrong and there are a lot that I know that don't talk about how bad their arthritis hurts but some I just don't like and I really feel bad cause I don't like them. My Grandpa's new wife is like this. She has really bad health problems and I happen to get in the room alone with her all she talks about is her surgery. I don't even want to think about surgery let a lone know what all is entailed in having heart surgery. The thing is the lady is really sweet but I just don't want to be a lone with her. One thing is for sure if I grow old and all I talk about is how sick I am then someone better slap me out of it. I don't want to leave this life with every young person avoiding me cause I talk about things that make them feel badly.......

I got a new knitting book this week Charmed Knits. They are patterns based on the Harry Potter movies. I am going to make Liam the Ron sweater with and L on the front instead of a R. He will like that. He loves to see his name on things. He's at that age. LOL Liam just tried to come into the house with a dead bird. SIGH boys are so gross.

Now onto vacuums. I bought one about 10 years ago it cost me over 200 bucks. I bought it at Sears they said we carry the filter so I wouldn't have to worry about it when I replaced it. A year later I went back to the store to buy a new filter. Oh no we discontinued that vacuum. So I bought a 50 dollar Eureka. Fast forward 5 years. I buy a Hoover. I love this vacuum. I need to buy a new filter 6 months into owning it. Can't find the filter anywhere even on the Hoover website. Sigh that's it I am done paying for electronics for 200 + bucks just to have them break after 6 months. I will just pay 50 for something that will last a couple years. So tired of shoddy workmanship now a days.

Best Friends Part 2

Today I talked to my best friend Stacy. After 12 years of not know what she was doing or where she was we finally found each other. We talked for 1 1/2 blissful hours. I think we were both talking so fast we could hardly get any words in. It was exciting and wonderful. It was everything I had imagined it would be thinking about the first time I would get to hear her voice again. It was like we were in our 20's talking about boyfriends and our futures. All this time has passed and it didn't even matter. Over the years I dreamed that this would be. I wondered if our friendship was the kind that no matter what would last til the end of time. I always wanted a friendship that would be forever no matter how far apart we are or how long its been we would still be the best of friends. Well I found out today I have that kind of friend in Stacy. She is and always will be the best friend anyone could have. I love you Stace!!!! You are the best.

Now I have to knit her a best friend sweater since she lives in Mass. now and it's COOOOOOOOOLD up there! They talk funny too! Haha