Friday roundup

Well,

here we are again it's Friday.

I don't know why it strikes me

more than any other day

but it does.

It is also the last day

of the

fourth month of the year.

It's May Day tomorrow.

My oldest son

is going to be 37 years old this month.

I was a mere child when I had him

that is why

I am not old

he is!!!

And my second born

in June

he will be 33.

But in reality

he will never

be older than 12!!

They are both wonderful

gorgeous

handsome

lovely (?)

young men

and I am proud to be their Mum.

I don't see them nearly as often as I'd like,

but they are on the other end of the phone

or computer screen

so they aren't that far away.

This is beginning to sound like

a Mother's Day post..

it isn't.

I just wrote what came to me.

Anyway...

back to Friday again.

This morning it was gorgeous

not as cold as the previous two nights

so the sun broke on a warm

Spring day

and I took my walk

and came back with these.

The spiderwort hadn't woken up yet

an hour later she had

the colombine too!!

My, getting to be a very old lady

fern, in the morning light.

Free grass seed here.

I made some little doilies

different colours

and did a little sorting out

of the yarn barn

that is better known

as

room on the left!!

Have a good evening

and a better

weekend.

:)

A huge touch of the uglies

There is a fable that travels amongst
us hookers of yarn,
about gremlins and goblins
sneeking into one's hook work
and messing things up.

These little blighters can

move in fast

and move on

with great speed.

There are tales of them being in

Australia

and showing up in Latvia

that same night,

mixing colours that don't go together,
stealing

blocks

or causing

the inability

to count

properly.

WELL,

and you knew there would be a

WELL,

(or a

BUT),

they showed up here yesterday

and caused the ugliest

creation ever

made in

all the

history

of hooking

yarn

together.

Wanna see,

are you sure??

Sit down,

take a deep breath

and look at this.

:0

I will defeat them,

I will,

and I will take back my work

and make it mine again!!!

Wish me luck.

Who needs a flower shop

When you

have

a

meadow

full

of wild flowers

Blogger burped....

and

the

world

came

to

 a

standstill!!!

Well, not really,

but it sounded

dramatic.

Blogger tried to change the way we upload

our photos,

you know the photos

that show all of you,

our lovely readers,

the sheer excitment

that is our lives!!

But it didn't work,

because

not one photo

could be loaded,

not one

link

could be...

well, linked

so after a few hours,

of,

I am sure,

more people than me,

cursing and berating

Blogger,

they gave us back our

button

that links us to links

and our

photo loader thingy

that brings up the

magnificent

views

that our dear readers

come flocking in to see

on

each

and every

blog on blogger

to join in on the

absolute

sheer

enthralling

excitment

that is the

Land

Of

Blog-

err!

Welcome back

one and all...

We are

back together again,

even though

I don't know who most of you are

and most of you don't know me

but here we sit

you over there

and

me over here

connected

by the

marvels of

modern marvels

until

blogger burps

and interrupts

our,

mostly

 one sided,(on my blog)

conversation!!!

Nice to see

you,

well, I don't actually see you,

maybe in a way I do

when I see the little flags

a'flyin'

on the globe.

Yes,

sometimes I see the flags

flying and it's a wonder to me who is there

reading this

load

of

.....

blogging.

But I'm glad you are there,

because,

otherwise,

as has been said before and will be said

again...

I'd be talking to myself!!!

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THANKS

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Blogger

People

for fixing

the "probs"

so quickly

so we could all get back

to our

"peeps"

 :) :) :) :) :)

It isn't all crochet and knitting....

over on Flickr...

there is a young lady who has become enamoured with

toilet paper rolls.

Yes, you heard me!!

In this day of using absolutely everything

and not tossing anything into the land fills

she was inspired to make these.

I really, really, like them.

a view of her tatto'd foot!!

a mask

love the play of light and shadow

and this

that tempts me no end!!!

Her name is Daniela,

I'm not sure where she is,

but where ever it is,

she's having fun and doing something

unusual.

Thought I'd show you

there is more

than just the

hooks

working!!!

The Rose...

(US terms used)

 

chain 40 and dc across

 

roll it up and sew it to keep it together

 

make 6 ch3 loops in the back

and make 6dc in each loop

 

make 6 ch3 loops again

joining into the middle of each petal

 

 

 

make 3dc ch2 3dc into

each loop

and you will have the hexagon

behind the flower.

 

 

if you want to join them it can be done by the join-as-you-go method

 

 

 

 

 

Japanese book....

Here are some pictures from the book.

Let me know which you like!!

I'll post some more later.

Monday, Monday..

It was foggy this morning

and very quiet and wet.

But out of the fog on the lake

came a single goose.

Alone and silent. I hope the others show up soon,

he looks lonely!

The Colombine is swelling

and should burst open

any day now...

maybe today.

This Hosta is unfurling

wet from the rain shower

we just had.

He sang me the most beautiful song

so I took his portrait.

He just told me about the tomato burrito

again.

And him....

he reminds us that

there is a

Panda Watch

going on at the DC Zoo.

Have a good day

everyone,

we are off to do what's necessary

to get through the day!!!

Lots of nothing...but

It's the little things that count.

My little corner of the world....

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one day rain one day sun

Have a good week end......