Taking Stock - November

Making :  lists for a little holiday.
Cooking :  do you cook salad?  
Drinking :  water.  Lots of water.  
Reading:  Delicious! by Ruth Reichl....  finished it really quickly.  Nicest book I've read in a long time.
Trawling:  knitting patterns.
Wanting:  it to cool off a bit.
Looking:  at the garden to decide which bit to do first
Deciding:  what to pack for our holiday.
Wishing:  it wasn't quite so hot already.
Waiting:  for calls back from techies on the phone..  so much time wasted...  
Wondering:  how the next couple of weeks will go for BJ before our holiday.
Pondering:  how fast Christmas will come after our little holiday.
Considering:  Christmas
Buying:  not much for Christmas yet.
Watching:  the temperature go up & possibly set new 130 year records.
Hoping:  it isn't tooooo hot on holiday.  
Needing:  lots & lots of bark for the garden.
Questioning: our sanity in buying this house all those years ago!  lol
Smelling:  a clean chook house.
Wearing:  summer clothing!
Bookmarking:
Feeling:  overwhelmed!
Pretending:  that Christmas isn't less than a month away...
Embracing:  Christmas preparations.

Thursday Thanks

• Garden finishes.
• Garden goals.
• Settled boys.
• A friend for the big boy.
• A holiday on the horizon!
• Helpful call centre staff from a couple of different companies! 
• Call centre staff that really know their business.
• All is good on Fell Farm.

748/1000

Finally A Finish

I have been knitting off & on, but not as much as before.  I don't know why.  Just different things going on I guess.

Anyhoo...  these are helical socks again.  So a round of 2 balls at a time.  A plain green & a very fun variegated though it does have long changes that one.

It's done anyway.  Not sure if they are keeps or not.  Will see next year.

Socks #18 - 2017

Feels Like Summer

It was hot today!  After taking care of all the trees & plants that needed water, the boys needed some.  They spent a bit of time here but then the sprinkler went under the trampoline & they were in there for nearly an hour I think.  It was fun listening to them play a lot together.  

In the meantime we got a job done that had been quite time some in the making.  I had weeded it a few times before ready for the mat & bark.  But well it never got that but now it was weeded again it was not growing again!  Done.  Yay!  

Rock-ing

We've been playing with rocks still.  Well DJ & I do.  BJ has lost interest.  Oh well, That's ok.  

DJ is funny though.  He tries new designs that take him an age & then he rushes in with another & just puts marks on it.  Oh well.  

I'm still doing spiders.  They are easy now.  Also the penguins & owls are nice & effective.  Tried a few house types, & they aren't great, but aren't horrible either.  I do like my little red & white people though.  So much so that I couldn't even hide them when we went to do a big drop yesterday.  I think we dropped about 50 in 2 different parks that we hadn't been at yet.  Was a lot of fun.  We did find 9 though so that was cool.  

Party Pillow

Another party!

Another pillow!

It's got to the point where I can now ask the mum's of the little kids what the children are really into cos yeah, you know your child will get a pillow!  This particular mum has been at about all the parties we've been too. Spiderman was this choice!  Cool too as I hadn't done one of those! 

Pillow present # 16

Thoughtful Ideas

The other day BJ asked me if he could make a dinosaur for a friend at school who broke his leg at school last week.  I said he could of course.  

So today was it.  It was such a cold day today!  We stayed in for the day & BJ got started.  Cutting out, pinning together & machine sewing.  Then the stuffing!  He can have that job any day!  

I did help with attaching the legs to the body.  That is a rotten job too.   But he's done it! 

I really hope this boy appreciates it.