webecca says: Tilta Swift
This is a link to a fellow blogger's post with directions to make a fabulous swift out of very inexpensive items. I will be making one of these very soon. Had to share
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Two years is a long time
While looking through some knitting related blogs, I rediscovered my own neglected, forgotten blog. How sad...
My last post was written more than two years ago, and a kind blogger left a comment a couple of weeks ago, "Welcome Back." I guess I was back for a fleeting moment, then gone again. This was written two years ago, and I had forgotten about my little blog. I realized that I guess I really should get back to posting again. It does help to put things down on paper, so to speak. The relative anonymity of the internet helps the cathartic process a bit too, although I am fully aware that whatever is posted is here to stay. After all, my little blog has survived all this time, all alone.
A lot has happened in the last two+ years too, though nothing as tragic as losing my Dad, thank goodness.
Friendships came and went, some of those considered friends came and went too. Sad to say that at times not all who claim to be friends truly have your back when it comes to that moment of truth. But with time and experience, eventually we learn to tell the difference between true friends and acquaintances.
I have been slowly, much too slowly, recovering and regaining strength after a femur fracture back in April. Loss of a well loved job and a move back to the home neighborhood all i the last 7 moths- a lot of change. I am working on ridding myself of the cane and really strengthening my muscles so I can get back to taking care of patients again.
I taught myself to knit, have not done any ceramics in a while, but will resume this when I am finished with some repairs on my house. then I will be able to move back home and have my space again. Still enjoy photography, but have not shot much since I fell, as managing a camera, bag, equipment and getting into quite a bit of stooping, kneeling, climbing, etc to get that shot would be somewhat difficult when using a walker or cane. So, that will also be resumed in the next few months if all goes according to plan.
In the interim, I will continue to knit and crochet.
There have been a few changes in the makeup of my little family, mainly the furry kiddos. I lost two of my loved Boston Terriers a year or so ago. My Mackie boy, a rescue from a puppy mill, had intestinal cancer and we had to say goodbye to home in November 2011, then the following early fall, I lost my baby girl, Frannie Rose, also adopted from American Boston Terrier Rescue. She was my first transport/foster failure and such a special girl, I loved her so. When I felt I was ready to adopt another Boston, I started looking on the website and fell in love with a fuzzy little puppy, a Boston mix.
Josie is lovingly nicknamed the FuzzButt and is a typical wild and crazy playful puppy. We think the puppy daddy might have been a Shih-Tzu because of her long body and fuzzy coat, but it seems that her personality and energy level is typical Boston.
So, I still have Turbeaux, who will be 13 in December, Libby who is 6 as of September, Zoe Claire, We think she is 6 or 7 and her birthday/gotcha day is in July(another AmBTR foster/adopted kiddo, and the Fuzzbutt- Josie, who will be a year old mid November. My grand puppy, my daughter's dobie, also is here. Pippin gets along wonderfully with all the Bostons and BT wannabes in the house. I think sometimes that he doesn't realize that he is a big dog, he gets on the floor and plays with them, especially the puppy, Boston-style. I have to try to video the two of them playing bitey-face, it is so funny to watch!
Anywho, hope that you and your families are well and peaceful.
Might try to post some more about my newfound hobby- knitting as well. Thank goodness for you tube and other video tutorials, that's all I have to say. My motherinlaw tried unsuccessfully to teach me to knit in the early 70s. Let's just say that this is much more enjoyable. ;-)
Karen
My last post was written more than two years ago, and a kind blogger left a comment a couple of weeks ago, "Welcome Back." I guess I was back for a fleeting moment, then gone again. This was written two years ago, and I had forgotten about my little blog. I realized that I guess I really should get back to posting again. It does help to put things down on paper, so to speak. The relative anonymity of the internet helps the cathartic process a bit too, although I am fully aware that whatever is posted is here to stay. After all, my little blog has survived all this time, all alone.
A lot has happened in the last two+ years too, though nothing as tragic as losing my Dad, thank goodness.
Friendships came and went, some of those considered friends came and went too. Sad to say that at times not all who claim to be friends truly have your back when it comes to that moment of truth. But with time and experience, eventually we learn to tell the difference between true friends and acquaintances.
I have been slowly, much too slowly, recovering and regaining strength after a femur fracture back in April. Loss of a well loved job and a move back to the home neighborhood all i the last 7 moths- a lot of change. I am working on ridding myself of the cane and really strengthening my muscles so I can get back to taking care of patients again.
I taught myself to knit, have not done any ceramics in a while, but will resume this when I am finished with some repairs on my house. then I will be able to move back home and have my space again. Still enjoy photography, but have not shot much since I fell, as managing a camera, bag, equipment and getting into quite a bit of stooping, kneeling, climbing, etc to get that shot would be somewhat difficult when using a walker or cane. So, that will also be resumed in the next few months if all goes according to plan.
In the interim, I will continue to knit and crochet.
There have been a few changes in the makeup of my little family, mainly the furry kiddos. I lost two of my loved Boston Terriers a year or so ago. My Mackie boy, a rescue from a puppy mill, had intestinal cancer and we had to say goodbye to home in November 2011, then the following early fall, I lost my baby girl, Frannie Rose, also adopted from American Boston Terrier Rescue. She was my first transport/foster failure and such a special girl, I loved her so. When I felt I was ready to adopt another Boston, I started looking on the website and fell in love with a fuzzy little puppy, a Boston mix.
Josie is lovingly nicknamed the FuzzButt and is a typical wild and crazy playful puppy. We think the puppy daddy might have been a Shih-Tzu because of her long body and fuzzy coat, but it seems that her personality and energy level is typical Boston.
So, I still have Turbeaux, who will be 13 in December, Libby who is 6 as of September, Zoe Claire, We think she is 6 or 7 and her birthday/gotcha day is in July(another AmBTR foster/adopted kiddo, and the Fuzzbutt- Josie, who will be a year old mid November. My grand puppy, my daughter's dobie, also is here. Pippin gets along wonderfully with all the Bostons and BT wannabes in the house. I think sometimes that he doesn't realize that he is a big dog, he gets on the floor and plays with them, especially the puppy, Boston-style. I have to try to video the two of them playing bitey-face, it is so funny to watch!
Anywho, hope that you and your families are well and peaceful.
Might try to post some more about my newfound hobby- knitting as well. Thank goodness for you tube and other video tutorials, that's all I have to say. My motherinlaw tried unsuccessfully to teach me to knit in the early 70s. Let's just say that this is much more enjoyable. ;-)
Karen
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