May? No! June? No! July? You just made it!!!!

Time flys! I knew I was ignoring my blog. But wow! Where did the summer go?
Actually I do know where it went. When school finished the first week of June I knew I had 4 weeks to get a whole summer in to. We did a pretty good job of squeezing 10 weeks of fun into 4. We made a family reunion in June. 3 days of camping there. Sent Wild Bill home with his Aunt and Uncle for 10 days to visit Hubby's side of the family. That was fun for the kid. His Aunt and Uncle gave him the keys to the riding lawn mower and set him loose on the farm. They were ready to get rid of him after 7 days as he had locked both out of the house just for kicks. Hummmm I didn't warn them how he got his kicks, do you suppose that was wrong of me? Hello!? Where do you think he aquired the prankster side from? He's becoming my best student yet. Ha!

Son number 2 and I drove back Home (It always will be home to me), picked up the brat and continued on to my sisters. It is not far from the in-laws, but far enough to seem like forever. I had wanted to get to my sister's the day before as she had 19 puppies in the kennels and they were to start leaaving that day. By the time we got there We could only be loved on by 7. Oh well Seven puppies with puppy breath would have to do. When we arrived there was a couple looking at a puppy. Seems that one of the already solds had fell through. As luck would have it, the couple looking even decided to wait a while longer to get a new puppy. They had just lost their dog 2 weeks before and it was too soon for the husband.

The luck part of it was on my side. One unclaimed puppy. A male. Yellow, and it was Elle's. Turns out this puppy kept dropping back in my sisters hands. She had a list of people wanting pups, and this little guy was going to become a hot item if I didn't speak up now.
When she sent me the pics of Elle's and Berber's litters I emailed back I wanted one just like Hank, who is Elle's brother. She thought I was teasing. I figured she would have puppies running out of her ears and surely there would be plenty to choose from. Ha Ha on me. She still has a list a mile long waiting on pups from her girls. I knew her dogs were sweethearts, I just didn't know how many other people knew this. Only 4 of the puppies remain local enough for her to see, and mine of course. One went to the Dakota's, A couple who had camped by a couple who has one of Elle's first litter. Perhaps one day in our camping excursions we may run across Sonny's litter mate.

That's him and his new buddy, Spike. This was taken as we were camping the weekend we came home with Sonny.

My latest scientific test.

Sounds scary if you knew me. It's not going to be anything dangerous. I promise. I have some tea and coffee stained dishcloths. A couple are new and haven't even seen the dishes and they found a coffee spill. Thank You Target.


Who me? I was sleeping right here on the back of the couch. As always.


Wasn't me!! Claims Teddy Bear. He was busy washing his belly, and looking for a dog to blame it on.

So what I've decided to do is soak them in a warm water bath with Oxyclean in it. In the past I've immediatly got the wet stain in water and washed it out. letting it lay and dry. These cloths have been washed and dryed a few times, so if it comes out great. If not I have dingy dishrags to wipe up coffee spills and I need to make sure and save a few back for show. I really loved the red and yellow one and when hubby poured yesterdays coffee on it and then left it to soak.....Well there just wasn't any way to save it. It's made with Lion Brand cotton and it has stood up very well without looseing its color. We will see what happens with the Oxyclean. I've been very careful about using any bleach in any form to try and keep them colorfast.

I'll have to post the results tomorrow with comparing pics so we can see the difference.
Now I need to get at Sue's birthday cloth before she comes home from work.

Beck

So what have I been so Busy with.

I have been knitting a lot of different things. JoJo's shrug has turned into shrugs. One is simple, made with bulky yarn the other is going to take me some time. I have to frog it too. All the way back. ARRRGGGGG. This one in blue was progressing fast and I thought good I'll have it done tonight and she can wear it to school this week. NOT!!! I didn't figure right on the added stitches for the arm and now it's way to big. So into the pond we go and frog that back to the wrist again, wish there was a way to just take 12 stitches off the side and skip the frogging. Oh no that would be too easy. Boy I hope she knows how much I adore her sweet smiling face. That was said through gritted teeth. (smile).

Then there is this never ending baby blanket. It's a simple mindless pattern but I always seem to pick it up when I am looking for something mindless and it shows. The next time I pick it up I have to frog it because I goofed something. I got it with an auction off of ebay. It came with some books and yarn and a knitting stand. Since I knew the pattern I thought great a blanket about 1/3 done would be easy to finish. Now I have been working on it 3 months and I've yet to get through the skeins(dbl yrn.) that were started when I got it. With that kind of luck I should probably frog it and do something else with the yarn. Ahhh but I love a challenge!! We'll see if I can get a new pair of skeins going soon.

Beck

Where have I been!!!

Wow time has flown. I didn't realize it has been that long since I took time to get on here.

Just a normal busy life and not feeling the greatest has really set me back. The weather is just beautiful today and although I'd love to be outside I just have to finish a couple things before 3pm.

One being the Birthday cloth for my friend Sue. I started it last night late since I couldn't sleep and I have frogged it twice because of mistakes in the pattern. ARRRRRRGGG. Now that the 8th line is straight, and yes I tryed to just tink the line back to the 5 stitches that were wrong, but things just got loose and tacky looking. So I frogged a half done cloth back to row 7 and redid the booboo. While I was at it I tweeked it to look more even spaced too. I'll have to drop an email to the original writer of the pattern so she can correct it.
Oh and Happy Birthday Sue!!!

Beck

Lucy Von Dracula

Finally got the camera and snuck up on Lucy while she was eating. She has a strange habit of hanging upside down to eat. Now she was born and raised in captivity so I can't explain it away with the "wild instinct" of hanging to eat fruit and seeds. I think she's just a bit quirky that's all.



And heres a current pic of the two older babies. The oldest is such a georgeous yellow. Hope it stays that way. The middle oldest is showing a bit of green so I believe it will be like Gooseberry. They don't look so much like teryldactyls anymore.







Beck