Blog update.....

I realize that I have not been posting alot on here lately but the only camera I have is on my Blackberry. Recently, my Blackberry has been on the fritz and I don't like to post without pictures ( I think it makes for better reading) Yet, this is all going to change! This week I am getting a new phone-the EVO SHIFT! I am so excited! Once this phone arrives I will be taking a TON of pictures and my posts will increase! I cannot wait to add clear, beautiful pictures! The pictures I have posted always seem a little blurry to me so being able to post clear, bright, colorful pictures is an exciting prospect! YAY! I like to be able to add pictures of all the fun and pretty things I have knit lately...here is a partial list:
2 Bunnies- 1 white and 1 grey
4 Stegosaurus'-2 lite pink/dark pink and 2 black/grey
A caterpillar
a couple of Bunny Nuggets
my last Special Olympic Scarf
5 hats for a friend


***I will be adding pics of some of these projects as soon as I can! I hope to be able to show you more in the future!***

End of January

GREEN BAY PACKERS ARE GOING TO THE SUPERBOWL!!!! YAY!!!! SUPERBOWL SUNDAY IS NEXT SUNDAY!!!!
GREEN BAY PACKERS!!!! WHOO-HOOO!
Sorry! I got excited!
       I have been a Packer fan since before Favre started to retire the first time and now we are going to the Superbowl! Even if we do not win it is nice that they are there! Here is a funny true story about being a Green Bay Packer fan:
            My niece, Beth, was a Packer fan waaaay before I was. I watched football growing up but my family are die-hard Cowboys fans and I wasn't. One day I watched a Packers game with Beth and they became MY TEAM after that! So we spent years watching Packers games together and everyone in the family knew about our passion for the Packers. Our family still were majority Cowboys fans.
           One Monday night I rushed to my sisters house to watch the Packers game with Beth. As I was finding the game on the television another niece, Krissy, came rushing into the house. "Turn the game on! My team is playing!" she started yelling. I was dumbfounded! Come to find out that Krissy was a Packer fan and I NEVER KNEW IT! Years of watching the Packers and I never knew that my niece was rooting for MY TEAM! AND.....she didn't know I was a Packers fan either!!! SO this Superbowl Sunday is a special time for both of us:
GREEN BAY PACKERS ARE IN THE SUPERBOWL!!

First post of 2011....

       So I know that 2011 has been here for 20 days already and I have yet to post a new blog. I am not one of those people who enjoy listing resolutions that I know I will never even attempt, much less succeed at, and I do not have HUGE plans for 2011 so there was no need for a NEW YEARS post. I have been busy going to school (3 and half classes left!) and knitting. Boy, have I been busy knitting!
      Finished projects since the first of the year include:
1.) My first EVER baby sweater! I got the pattern off of Ravelry and it is named "Baby Wrap" I had a little difficulty with it but love the finished project! As soon as I can I will post pics of it and the name of the author of the pattern.

2.) A "faux" cable baby hat. This matches "Baby Wrap" and is a gift for a friend of my niece, Krissy. This hat is adorable! It really looks like I used a cable needle but I used straight needles to make it! I love it! Pics will

be posted later for this as well.

3.) Cotton washcloths with the letter "E" in the middle...this is also for the friend of my niece. I used Peaches and Creme varigated pink and white, peach and white, and I am also thinking about a gold/yellow color. The baby's name is starts with an "E."
4.) A black ribbed hat for a friends sister....I am trying to find a way to add kitty ears to it because, well...even though I have never met my friends sister, I think she is a kitty ear hat wearing-type person.
5) I am almost done with a beanie for a friend done in a simple brown-nothing fancy. Just warm because he lives in NY and every pic he sends me shows SNOW EVERYWHERE!
         Projects I am going to start soon:
1.) A caterpillar toy. This is going to be in all peach from Pound of Love yarn. I don't know why I am going to make this. I saw the pattern and thought it was cute so I want to try it. I am sure I will find a baby somewhere in the family who likes it or it will keep LOLA the Pig company. Either way it looks fun!

2.) I am also making more Special Olympic scarves. The send-in for Virginia Special Olympics is 2-28 so I am trying to make as many as possible. When I checked the FB page for the Special Olympics scarf count for VA, I was sad to see that out of the 1700 needed for the athletes, their friends, families, and volunteers are only at 116 scarves. Terribly low numbers! I have made a couple already and my sister and her daughter are also working on some.

***Ok so now we are caught up...and I feel like a better blogger for having posted a new blog in the new year. The picture below was taken yesterday in Sussex, Va at around sunset. I was driving and the light was perfect so I snapped the picture with my Blackberry. It is a little fuzzy but I was going 60 mph and its from my phone....until next post!

<--Sunset yesterday-1/19/11

More Blizzard 2010 pics

leaving  Disputanta

Disputanta, Va

Post Office in Disputanta

Disputanta, Va

Another field on 460

Field off of 460

house on 460

Carroll Food Processing plant

Snow on 460

Blizzard 2010

    So recently I posted pics on here of what I thought was a lot of snow....oh how Mother Nature thought that was funny! She sure showed me what SNOW meant! Starting on Christmas of 2010 and ending today Monday, December 27th the Northeastern side of the United States was covered with snow. In Disputanta we had approx. 13 inches and in Waverly there was about 11 inches. Here are some pics:

First Snow of 2010!!!

     Monday morning began like any other...cold and dark. I walked to the wood stove and opened the door. With sleep still in my eyes I began poking the hot embers with the cold metal poker, trying to make room for more wood so that the house would warm up. As I walked to the wood box to grab a few logs the phone rang. At 6:30 in the morning I have very few callers so I was surprised that the phone was ringing. I answered it rather quickly so that the whole house would not get woken up.

     "Hello?" I asked quietly and in disbelief at the early hour of the phone ringing.

     "There is no school this morning. Can you tell Serge?" said the little neighbor boy down the street.

     "Huh? Why?" I said as I watched my breath puff out of my mouth in the cold house.

     "The snow?!?" he said as if I was an idiot.

     "Snow?!? What snow? It snowed?!" I was hearing what the young boy was saying but not quite understanding the words.

     "Ummm....yea. Look outside. Tell Serge I'll call him later. Bye!" and he hung up the phone with an audible click. So....I looked outside....

<----Later that day

<----From my car window

     It is not unusual for snow to fall in Central Virginia....we see a few inches almost every year....but what was shocking is that just the week before the temp outside was in the 80's and 90's! The weatherman is predicting more snow this Thursday...an 80% chance of getting 2 inches or more! Seriously! I will post pictures when I get them!!

More Snow Family and Mr. Mouse pictures!!!

Mr. and Mrs. Snow!

                                                                  

Mr. Mouse----->

                             Snow Family and Mr. Mouse!! One big, happy family!!!