Doesn't feel like Wednesday

Wow, for some reason, it doesn't really feel like it should be Weds just yet. maybe its because Frank was off the last 2 days and they just kind of flew by, or maybe its because he pretty much so slept most of Monday away because of working the night shift, and then getting himself turned around on Tuesday, either way, its Weds!

Well, we got the first part of our Worm Farm set up. Right now we have the Canadian Night Crawlers all set up, and in a nice dark corner. I thought that I was going to put them outside, but it turns out that they do not handle heat well, so, they will be hear in the house.  That doesn't really bother me because they dont have a smell to them or anything. When I checked on them this morning to make sure they were alright and didn't die from the shock of going from a small container into a nice roomy one with lots and lots of food to eat, and poop, and make little worm Babies in, I found that not only were they very active, but some of them made their way on top of the news paper in there and were indeed making little worm babies. YAY!!! (somehow Worm sex does not really look all that fun...lol)

We have our containers ready for the red wigglers once they arrive. We ordered some of them to be delivered. Much easier than trying to dig them up. We ordered 2 packs with 1800 worms in each of them, so I need to go and get 3 more containers. 2 of them will be because we will need 2 seperate wiggler habitats, and the other will be extra for when we have to swap the worms out to harvest their poo. ( I like to call it black gold! LOL) The exciting part is, the Reds will eat their weight in food, so we have about 2 pounds of reds coming, so that means they will eat 2 pounds of food a day, (not that hard to feed them either) and will poop about 2 pounds of food a day, which means we will maybe be able to harvest once a week, we'll have to see I guess.  In my head I have big plans for our worm farm, but in reality I know its not going to work that way! Its always more fun to dream and plan big in your head than what the reality of things are!!!

Since the worm farming doesn't take up that much time, it still leaves lots of time for crocheting. That means that I got 3 more sets of the hat and diapers finished last night. I started on a red set this morning, but probably wont get it done until later because I had to start washing bed lennons so that I can get them out on the line, and back in this evening, AND I'm going out with my mom today. Really I'd rather just go back to bed for a while, but I don't see that happening.

Well thats about all of my excitment for today! I just need to remember to take my cards for www.2comfort2hope.blogspot.com  so that I can share them around.  In fact, I'm going to put them in my line of site so that I do not forget them! I keep them on the table, but somehow our kitchen table has kind of turned into a drop all!!! LOL...well have a great day everybody!!!!

Worms

The hubby and I are going to start our very own worm farm! Its going to be great...were not going to make a fortune off of it, but its going to be enough to maintain it anyways.  Were going to do red wrigglers, and night crawlers.  I dont see us getting enough night crawlers this year to sell, but hopefully by next summer. I'm going to buy about a dozen or two to get them started. 

Well, I dont know what I did, but yesterday I did something to my hip that just hurt like mad. It started when I stepped out of the shower, it just feels like its going to give out, and its insane!!!
Its not bothered me yet this morning, but I haven't been up for too long, and have been afraid to move around too much.

I guess I had better close this up for the moment, as I need to start getting my list of things together for the farm! LOL

Sunday Delights

Well its Sunday morning, I cant believe I'm up so early, but when you have dogs sometimes its expected! I'm still waiting on my husband to get home from work. If he's not home in the next 10 minutes I'm going to call him to make sure he's alright. He worked the night shift, and has technically been off from work for 1 hour and 40 minutes now. I hope he's not sitting down there just chatting away, again, and not bothering to send me some kind of a message to let me know that he's going to be late.

I finished my weekend project yesterday, so I went back to work on the hats and diapers. I'm to the point now where I don't even need a pattern! I'm so proud! LOL

Responsible

So Lindsey and I have decided that we needed to take one of our 2 days off today that we use to do stuff for our charity. The two of us have been neglecting our house work..but thankfully our husbands are really good about the whole thing! :D I think I'm going to have to make my hubby a super special dinner for being such a good sport.

I'm thinking about the fact that I really do need to take a day and post some pictures of things I've been working on. I love crochet, and am glad to have that craft in my life. Its such a calming thing to do. I guess its my bad habit! LOL. As soon as I get my kitchen back in order again, I think I'm going to work on the clutter I have going on in my sewing/craft room upstairs. It really has gotten out of hand, really bad. I just kind of shove stuff in there. I may work on that some tonight. Especially since we have decided to start sewing some blankets. That and I have some sewing projects I want to work on as well.

Our cards we had made for 2comfort2hope came in the mail yesterday. They turned out beautifully. Now I just have to start distributing them. I really want this to turn out to be a great success!!!!

Well I guess I should close this up and get back to work on my kitchen so that maybe I can spend an hour working upstairs this evening.

Everybody have a great weekend!!!!

Its kinda foggy outside this morning

Tuesday is upon us! Not such a bad thing, that means we survived Monday!!! I'm pretty sure Lindsey is glad of that ...I stopped by her office for a quick visit and to shower her an idea I had, and we managed to really turn it into something great!!!! But while I was there her phone was ringing non stop!!!! Shew...she's good with that phone!!!

Sam and Jasper are a little wound up this morning. I guess after having been inside for most of the day yesterday due to some super heavy rain, I can understand why!!! They are outside running around like maniacs!!! I love my dogs!!! I guess I should quit calling them puppies now, they are about 17 months old now, so they are pretty much so grown up, and rather large.

My hair is a lot longer than it has been in a really long time. I hate it. I'm not really a long hair kind of gal, but I don't really go anywhere, so I'm just letting it grow. I pull it back into a pony tail, or twist it up in a hair band. Its working out for me alright I guess.

Well guess I should get off of here for the time being, I need to put away a basket of laundry and do a little bit of housework!!! :D

Over and out
me

argh!

So, I spent the weekend working on a sleeve that goes to the sweater jacket I've been sort of working on for a long while...well...last night I'm sitting there looking at what I have done, and realized...I have been doing the increases wrong, and it was WAAAAAAAAAAY bigger than it needed to be...SO...looks like I'm going to be pulling it out to work on all over again. Its my weekend project. I figure if I just work on it on the weekends I wont get so frustrated with it. Well, I was pretty frustrated with it last night. But I'm not going to call it quites on that thing just yet. I'll pull it out Friday night and start over again. I think I need to sit down and read the instructions over again.
For now, its back to work on those adorable little comfort sets. I just finished one this morning in a blue green color. I love it! I'm working on another one in a variegated yarn right now. (well not this second obviously, but you get the point.)
Anyways, looks like its going to be a rainy inside kind of a day today. I'm glad its raining though because we need it! I want to get more raspberries, so we need it for sure! Oh, the garden needs it too. So I'm pretty glad for the rain.

When we got home yesterday from my hubby's parents house, I noticed that Nikki had actually managed to get into the pool that we have for the dogs. Poor girl...she's really stiff and sore from it. I'm not sure how she even managed to get in there as the sides are a bit high. She's curled up in my chair right now, so I'm hoping that she just kind of takes it easy today.

Sometime today I need to get to the grocery store. Need bread, and laundry soap. (now theres a combo for ya) I may not be able to go until tomorrow though. I don't like to make the dogs go out in the rain, and I'm not completely ready to leave them in the house for shopping trips. Although they do OK. I know they sleep mostly. I can always tell they have been sleeping by the way they look when I get home when I do leave them in. Its kind of cute!

ahh well guess I should get off of here and get my hooks a blazing!
Have a great Monday!

So Excited

I'm one of those people who is connected to the Internet at all times. I have a blackberry which I totally hate because its a piece of junk. I cannot wait till its time to upgrade. I could have replaced it at any time, if I wanted to pay full price for a phone. I'd rather just upgrade so that I don't have to pay 500 bucks for a new phone! 
Anyways, last night I was watching Lifetime Movie network, and it was commercial time and I noticed that my phone was blinking letting me know that I had some kind of message or alert or notification or something, and it was email...so i looked, and it seems that my cards for 2comfort2 hope are on their way!!! HOORAY!!! I am really excited about this, that means that things are moving along even quicker!!! So much excitement!!!
Today has been laundry and random cleaning of things day so I haven't really worked on getting anything crocheted. But I do know I need to try and work on that sweater jacket I started on over the winter. I still need to do the sleeves, and then the edging, and its done. Its really not that much, I think its just a motivational thing at this point. I got kind of bored with it because I don't really like the color as much as I did when I started it. Strawberry pink is a very pretty color but when your making a big project with it, it starts to make you think of pepto bismal after a while! LOL...I would like to have it done though before it starts cooling off. (yes I know, its just June, but in the crochet world that means almost Christmas!)
Anywho, that's about all that's going on in my world today!!!
Happy weekend everybody!!!

Decisions Decisions

So, yes, I know that its only June, but for a crocheter, that means its time to start thinking hard about whatever gifts you may be making for Christmas.  I have a 2 year old niece and a 7 year old nephew that are indeed brother and sister.  Faith will be 3 in October though, and is roughly the size of a 5 year old. She's not fat, she's just very tall.  In all honesty she's as smart as her brother, and it looks like she can actually write letters. (she goes to a very good day care.)

I was flipping through one of my newest crochet magazines, crochet world, and they have these adorable hoodies in there. They are actually for fall, and I guess I could make them for the start of the school season, but that would mean I would really need to get hooking quite quickly on those, but for some reason I keep thinking Christmas gifts with those. I was thinking a blue for Naason, and a pink for Faith. Not sure yet though, but I do know I need to make some decisions here soon.

My mom has been hinting that she would like for me to make her an afghan to fit her bed. I have a pattern for one, that's a rippled afghan, BUT she wouldn't be able to keep it on her bed because of her dog who gets up there and digs around, so I'm not sure what the point in making something that she wants to put on the bed, but would have to keep it up in the closet and not use would be.

Lindsey and I have been making great progress with our stash of comfort sets we have been working on. We have been working just as hard as we possibly can!!!! Thankfully though now that we have everything together, and have everything up, and have shared the site with people in crochet groups, it looks like we may be getting a bit of help. (YAY!!!) 

My 12 year old Siberian Husky Nikki has been lots of fun here lately. She's so funny. I don't know how she does it, but she will hold her bladder and not go out until she decides everything is just right for her to want to go out. Some times we have to actually go outside with her to talk her into going out. She makes my bladder hurt the way she holds hers! (whew)

Well guess I should make myself get away from this computer for a while and get some laundry or something done!!!

Happy Hooking!

Many Random things

I have so many different things that I think about during the day its not funny. Some times, my thoughts wake me up...they get so loud that its hard for me to turn them down, or to even tune them out.  Once I get a thought going, at times its hard for me to stop this thought.

I'm 32 years old, and  have been married for 7 years to a really wonderful man, who is 38. Time is not waiting for us. I had always imagined that I would be a mother by now. Unfortunately thanks to some curse, or jinx, or just whatever I'm not a mother.  I do not have that child of my own, and it does not look like I'm going to be able to be a biological mother to any child.  That thought hurts me more than anybody could ever imagine. Some times, I sit down, and I cry. I cant help but wonder why with all of the physical things my body has been through, things that are not productive or wonderful, or nice, why couldn't I have that one miracle.  But as I am getting older, and yes I know, 32 is not that old. But physically my body is closer to 45 than 32 when it comes to the way things work from the waist down. 

I have recently found out that diabetics can now adopt children. This thought makes me happier than anything. They could always adopt privately, for a very large sum of money, which is way more than what we make in a year.  But I guess due to the fact that there are so many children out that that need forever parents, they have opened it up. I have to admit though, its sad, because they allow single people, and gay people (nothing wrong with gay people, I have no problems with any of them) but they wouldn't let diabetics. Part of the problem was "something could happen, and it would leave the child with one parent" OK, whats so different about that than letting a single parent adopt, when that single parent could walk out that door and get struck by a falling asteroid and die. 
I do plan on researching my options, and maybe talking to a couple of social workers, and finding out what my options are, and how to go about the process. I don't plan on starting this process this year however, because I know that I need to start a savings account to save the money we would need for the fee's and such.

Other things that are constantly going through my head are, working on getting my crochet patterns published, cooking, cleaning, the dogs, the laundry, my mother, and is she going to make it through my brother living at home. And of course now that the regional jail is going through, what does this mean for my husbands job future. So very very many things. I think the most important thing right now is, my friend Lindsey. I worry about her very much. I worry about am I being a good enough friend, could I do more, and I really want to go and beat up all of those people who are saying mean things to her and expecting things that they shouldn't. I don't think those people have been what she has been through. I also don't think they have a filter that goes from what little bit of brains they have to their mouth.  And of course the Zombie Apocalypse...am I ready...??????

Crochet and Computers....

Who would have thought that the two could go hand in hand???? I'll bet my Grandmother who passed away a couple of years ago now never would have. She was a crocheter from way back! She was good with her hooks!!! I don't think my mother Grandmother would have either, she died in 2001, and I'm pretty sure had never ever even touched a computer.

What I love about the Internet for my crochet is all of the FREE patterns that are out there. I have three ring binders packed full of free patterns that I have printed off through the years, its awesome!!! (of course there are also tons of websites full of patterns that you can buy as well)

Lindsey and I are going to be working on all of our Internet stuff that we need to get done for the charity we are working on. Once we have that complete and running I will be linking my page to it, and it to my page. We are also going to start a facebook page for this as well. I truly believe that this is one of the most important things I have ever done in my entire life. I am 100% lucky that Lindsey let me be her partner.

I am also planning on writing some more patterns for this site as well. I love to write patterns, and this just feel so much more than right!!!! It feels perfect!!!

Writing reviews

So, I'm one of those people who complain because nobody around here writes reviews for local businesses online, making it impossible to find online reviews for things in this area. Well, duh...the fact that I'm complaining and haven't been writing reviews has left me realizing I'm as bad as what I'm complaining about, so I just spent the last hour going through different review sites, and writing reviews! LOL...crazy me.

The Granny Square

The granny square is my favorite thing to crochet in this whole wide world. I know that sounds funny to some of you, but maybe those of you who have been crocheting for many years can understand my love for this simple square that can be used for so many things. It can be used in blankets, clothes, home decor, and for just so many things.  It can be made in many different sizes, and some even love to just make one giant square, like my pal Lindsey who has made some absolutely beautiful blankets using this technique.

But for those of you who can read patterns, here is the basic pattern. You can use any weight yarn, and any size hook, it just depends on what you want to do with it.

Here are some links to some great how to sites.

this first one has some video's for those of you who are visual learners.

http://www.crochetcabana.com/tutorials/granny_square.htm

and this one talks about multi colored grannies

http://crochet.about.com/od/learntocrochet/ss/Crochet_Granny_Square.htm

I don't know if you guys will love the Granny as much as I do...but enjoy, and happy hooking!

Too much sleep

I have made the discovery that if I sleep over 7 hours, I wake up with a horrid headache that makes the back of my skull feel like its going to crack open...it doesn't usually go away until about my second cup of coffee. Unfortunately this is what happened to me last night. I decided to take some night time cold medicine, and not only did I not get up with the hubby this morning, but I also did not get out of bed until after 9.  So, maybe I would do better to just not take the night time cold medicine anymore.

ANYWAYS...laundry is calling my name!

Beautiful Day today!

Today was  a pretty nice day! I didn't do much in the way of crochet, but I did do a few things. Went and checked out a new consignment shop...well its been there for a few months now, but still...I had not been there before. I got Nikki some sponge bob dvd's (yes i buy cartoons for my dog), and a pair of dress capri pants for almost nothing! I was pretty happy about that, because the ones I have now, are starting to look kind of ragged! LOL...ahhh thats the way of it.

Anyways, that was my day...smooches to all!!!

yay....monday...

Well, its 6:30 AM, and Frank is off to work...Sam and Jasper are outside doing the things that young boy dogs like to do in the yard...dig holes, play in the dirt, and pull up stuff out of the ground. Nikki is on her big cushy bed asleep, and here I am...the house is all nice and quiet with the exception of the fridge. there is always something to do, so staying busy wont be a problem. What I will probably do is pop in something in the DVD player for the noise, and just kind of go here and there and get a few things done without injuring myself.  Its calling for rain today, so my hips are a little achy, but that comes with age I guess.

Lindsey and I have made a pretty good sized mountain of those little diapers, and hats, and some little blankets. I think we are making great progress. I'm not quite sure how much we want to have on hand before we start sending things out though. I know we are probably going to have to put word out soon though that we are in need of some help getting these things made. Once we get rolling the demand will probably be higher than the production.

Oh well, guess that's about it for now, need to start getting a few things done before the day gets ahead of me.
So, happy Monday!

Sunday Drives

The hubby and I went on a nice Sunday drive. It was great. Its been a while since we've just done that. We talked some, and laughed, and then kind of rode around in a nice comfortable silence at other moments, kind of like the moment was so great that we didn't really have to fill it in with words.  I love when we have moments like that, where we are just happy and free to ride.

Of course when we pulled into the driveway, we were greeted by our three very exuberant 4 legged fuzzy creatures, Sam, Jasper, and Nikki...who are all now sleeping in various places around the house.
Its always nice to feel that kind of a welcome when we come home...although sometimes I wish they wouldn't make it so difficult to get into the driveway!

Saturday

Well, Saturday is here, again or already, not sure which. Franks outside mowing the lawn, which hopefully he will be able to get done before it starts to rain. Its not calling for it but it sure as heck looks like it.
Even though Frank is home, and everything, for some reason, Saturdays just seem so empty, and lonly. I mean, I have my house work, and my laundry which I have going right now...and of course the dogs, and my crochet, it just feels like Saturdays are empty and pointless. Its almost lonly. Frank and I dont really do anything any more. We watch a lot of movies, and some times we go shopping together...I mean that is something. It feels like all of our old friends have drifted off. We only have one set of friends who we do anything with.  (Lindsey and Eric of course...they are some of the BEST people I have ever known.)
I cant help but wonder though, what happened to all of my dreams, and my plans that I had when I was a kid.
OK, here is the truth...when I was a kid, I had these big plans...big big big plans. I was going to move to Texas, and live on a Ranch, I'm not quite sure what I had planned to do on the ranch seeing as I'm scared to death of horses. I was going to marry a cowboy,  and cook outside on a big fire pitt.  I was going to go to dances every saturday night, and go to church every sunday, and do all the churchy type things that texas women do. Yup, I was going to be a texan, a cowgirl of sorts...not quite sure what changed all of that...not sure if I just gave up on that dream, or if I just changed my mind....but even now, I would love to go out dancing, or something. But I guess thats kind of out of the question. My husband doesn't like to dance, doesn't like most music that you can dance to, and doesn't really want to do much of anything really. Dont get me wrong, I love him more than life itself, and would do anything for him, I really would, I just dont know where I changed. He does like to go fishing and camping and all of that kind of stuff, and I knew that when I married him, and I even loved it and did it with him, and really did enjoy it...but I dont think I ever told him about my dreams, or anything quite like that, after all I was only a kid when I dreamed these things up....but still, I cant help but wonder on this first Satruday In June, just what did happen to Brandi L. Jensen....did she give up, or just grow up????