Gloves for Christmas

One day this summer at work during lunch I was perusing my Vogue Knitting magazine. Being summer they had lots of projects that did not require you melting while knitting. There was a pair of fabulous fingerless gloves. One of the guys said could you knit me a pair of those for my girlfriend for Christmas, sure no problem, what color of yarn and what do you want it made of and what size. Well here are the gloves. I had Enchanted Hues on Etsy spin the yarn for me, and it is so sofy and yummy. Thanks Leann for the yarn and I hope the girlfriend loves the gloves. BTW the pattern is easy once you get going.

Turtle Sweaters

Ok so the turtle sweaters are done and the hats are to match. They were a lot of work but a lot of fun. The hardest part was the colorwork involved in the making the turtles, 17 rows of oh crap the foot does not belong under the neck, but... they are finally done.

My own Bucky Cat

Here is my very own Bucky Cat, she is every bit as onery as Bucky in the Get Fuzzy cartoons, and will get into any kind of trouble, in fact trouble finds her.

Christmas Swap

My online knitting group had yet another swap well this was the last one of the year. Send yarn and a pattern, one skein, something to eat and drink, and a Christmas gift to be opened on Christmas Day. Well my box came today and as you can tell I was beyond spoiled. I LOVE IT ALL. ONe more week and I can open the big blue box, hmmmm wonder what it is.

Meadow Muffins

Two days in a row there are questionable front page stories. What are meadow muffins, you ask? Cow Patties.

I suppose Meadow Muffins is the PC term for cow patties cos that just conjures up big ole steaming piles you don't want to step in. Now they think meadow muffins can produce electricity, yep there is a use for them other than throwing contests.

Southwest Kansas has tons of feedlots, just drive through, roll down the window and breathe in, that is the smell of money so they say. Early next year equipment at a cattle feedlot will begin turning manure into fuel that could make electricity for 30 homes. If the demo project is successful larger units could be placed at feedlots to take advantage of the state's abundant supplies.

Kansas has two cows/human in the state. One cow can produce enough muffins that are equal to 140 gallons of gasoline. 50,000 cows could provide enough muffins to power 24,000 homes.

Missouri chicken farmers have approached KCP&L about adding manure as fuel to coal fired power plants. Minnesota uses turkey manure for a 55 megawatt plant.

Makes me wonder with 4 cats what I can do and make some money.

Recycled Toilet Paper

Here I am eating breakfast and on the front page of the local liberal rag is an article on recycled toilet paper. My first thought is oh gross is there a little elf sitting at the end of the sewer pipes collecting my toilet paper and taking it to some factory somewhere to recycle it. Of course not but what a thing to put on the front page. Well I guess it is better than another picture of the Imposter spewing lies.

Greenpeace is pushing TP manufacturers to stop using wood from virgin forests to make tissue products. They want them to take the paper we set out at the curb every week and make TP out of it. So if each family bought just one roll of recycled TP it would save 400K trees. The problem is each time paper gets shredded the fibers get shorter and therefore the TP gets rougher.

I don't know about you but I want a little soft on those parts of my body. So next time you go to the store bypass that green stuff unless you want a little chafing.

Christmas Ornament Swap

We are crazy swappers in an online knitting group I belong to. Seems like we no more than get one done and off we go to another one. This one consisted of sending a handmade ornament, another ornament and some goodies. Well I love my little knitting basket, so much so I need another xmas tree, so after xmas, off I go to buy a cheap tree and begin to decorate for next year. I have that pattern for the basket so now I have a whole year to decorate. Look at those needles, aren't they cute.

Fun Thanksgiving Facts

70 million pies are sold in grocery stores every year at Thanksgiving, at 300 million people here that is 1 pie for every 4 people. I like them odds, that means we all get 1/4 of a pie, bring on the whip cream.

Pecans contain more than 19 vitamins and minerals. Hey if we eat 70 million pecan pies with whip cream (our Vitamin D) just think how healthy we will be.

5 million gallons of cranberry sauce is eaten by Americans every year. Hey more healthy stuff, fruit that helps flush out our kidneys.

And that green bean casserole costs an average of $4.50 for all the ingredients, hey here is our serving of veggies.

Just think how healthy we will be the day after.

Cash for Cars and Houses

So now we know the cash for clunkers actually cost $24K per vehicle. This was so successful that we now have cash for new home buyers, but wait there is no reliable way to tell whether someone is buying a home for the first time and worse, the law did not give the IRS the authority to demand documentation that a home had been purchased at all. When the Treasury Department investigated the checks being passed out they found out 19,300 claims had not purchases homes yet; 74,000 clains were not first time buyers, and more than 580 claims were made by taxpayers younger than 18 (one as young as 4). This amounted to about $504 million in stolen taxpayer money.

So what is next, cash for ? How about cash for knitters, you know how expensive yarn is these days, I want some quiviut at $90/ounce, so how about divvying up that leftover porkulous money for us knitters, I promise it will be put to good use and yo can be assured we will spend the money for yarn.

Dishcloth Swap

Knit a dishcloth, send the pattern, and a skein of yarn. The Darrel Waltrip stitch makes a beautiful dishcloth in variegated yarn.

Staycation Swap

Many of us can not afford to take a vacation nor do we have taxpayer dollars to fly our jets across the country, so we did a staycation. I went to Michigan, some place I have always wanted to go, so Mackinac Island and Stitches n Things go on my bucket list. My wonderful box, btw the caramel corn was very yummy, you could feel your arteries slam shut for the butter and the chocolate cherry sauce made vanilla ice cream go down even better.

Warm Coaster and Mug Cozy Swap

Another swap I was involved in you had to make either a mug cozy or coaster and send it along with yummy eats and something to drink. My wonderful box I received.

Kinnearing

I went to my brothers this summer for a long weekend. Some pictures just need to be taken and shared.

If you have back boobies no one wants to see them. Please hide them. Also the pocket on the seat in front of you is not for your dirty smelly feet, people put things in there that they don't want feet on.
Just because you drive a Mercedes and it is raining does not mean you can drive on the sidewalk so you don't get wet.

Harvest Swap

I belong to an online knitting group and every so often we do a swap. This particular swap was the harvest swap. H-Halloween, A-aroma, R-Thanksgiving recipe of your family tradition, V-Veteran's Day, E-Eats, S-something squishy, and T for tacky.

I got a diy pumpkin kit where you paint it green and then decorate, I have some fake pumpkins, dark hot chocolate, 3 recipes, flags, peeps, some gorgeous yarn, and tacky halloween items. Thanks for my great box.