Playing Catch up!

Ok ok I know I have been a very naughty girl on the blogging scene. It has been weeks. I'm here now though. Since I blogged last we have done loads. This is the crane that we waited for out of Greencastle that went to Baton Rouge, LA.

After we left Baton Rouge we bounced up to Tulsa OK to pick up this beast.

This is a road scraper and it was a PIA. When we loaded in Tulsa it was 107 outside and absolutely horrible. This thing also had no brakes which made it that much more of a pleasure to load. After we finally had the beast on we took off for Redding, CA. Once it was on the truck it wasn't too bad and the trip was pretty. One night we spent the night in a National Forest in Northern California. It was quiet and there were about a million stars in the sky.

After ditching that load we headed down to Southern CA and loaded this.

This is an empty wine storage tank. It was the biggest load we've hauled since I have been on the truck. It was 13'6"wide and 15' tall. It's saving grace was that it was nice and light. This load was an adventure also. Right after we loaded we picked up a pilot car to take us to the AZ line. Then in AZ we were on our own. It turned out that AZ wanted us to have a pilot car for about 20 miles of the trip in the middle of nowhere. Well we made the executive decision to not get the pilot car. We were happily rolling down the road, hadn't seen an AZ cop all day when we come up on a convoy of AZ police escorting a super load down the road. One of the cops rolled down his window and wanted to know where our pilot car was. OOOOOOOppppppps!!!! He sent another cop after us to give us a ticket. We were expecting the worse. It ended up not being a bad deal though. The ticket was $95 and the pilot car would have cost $200. It probably made us grey though. After that the trip was relativly uneventful. We picked up a new pilot car in LA and had him until GA. He was a real piece of work. Then we picked up a another pilot in AL. Having a pilot car was interesting. We hit a nasty nasty thunderstorm in Birmingham and I was glad to have the pilot cars.

Well now we kicked that off and have set up camp at John and Kathis' here in Lithia Springs. We are on the hunt for load going to or thru the house. I promise we are trying to make it home again.

I must mention that I have seen many animal in peoples trucks, Cats, dogs, ferrets. Well we stopped one night and parked next to guy with a MONKEY in his truck with him. A monkey!!!!!!!!!!!! Could you imagine????

Yesterday Kathi and I went and got our toes painted then headed over to the mall for some light shopping.

I could update you on the knitting front but I'm not going to bother since apparently I can not upload any pictures right now. Sorry. This seems to be my new problem.

JACKPOT!!!

Well we are still in Greencastle, believe it or not. We finally loaded our crane yesterday. This morning we ordered our permits and knew that we had the day to kill once again. Hopefully we will get out WV permit and get the heck out of here tomorrow.

Today I hit the jackpot. Chris took me down into MD to do a little shopping. First we went to Y2Knit in Funkstown, MD. Y2Knit was a nice little shop in a cute littlepart of Historic Funkstown. I picked up a couple of magazines and some sock yarn and went along my merry way. I really wanted some 40" addi turbos to knit socks in with the magic loop method so I was hoping that we could stop at another yarn store up in Hagerstown, The Knitting Cottage(sadly they are without a website). Well this was the jackpot. It was owned and run by a nice Mennonite woman. They have a large selection of yarn, tons of addi turbos and the prices were AWESOME. I got 3 skeins of Lambs Pride Bulky for 3.75 a skien. What a deal!!! The addi turbos were only 11.50 and 12.55 each. I also picked up a few more skeins of sock yarn and some books.

( I also had a pic of the rest of my stash but the computer will not upload it. GRRRRRRRRRRR)

So when the day was done I walked home with
Knitters', Crocheters', Weavers', and Spinners' Travel Guide
This book is a guide to shops all around the country. Chris wanted me to have this book which I find funny since I will now be able to look up yarn stores wherever we are without having to turn on the computer.
220- 220 projects for Cascade 220
I have looked at this book for months and months when ever I go into a yarn store. I really like 220 and I figured I could study this book a long time.
Knitscene fall 2006 magazine
knit simple fall 2006 magazine
Interweave Knits fall 2006 magazine
#1 40" Addi Turbo
#2 40" Addi Turbo
3 Skiens of Pink Lambs Pride Bulky
I plan on making a cabled felted bag with this
1 Skien of Fortisima Colori Socka Color
I am going to make my honey yet one more pair of socks with this. It is really cool red, white and blue self striping yarn. It knits up red and white striped alternated with blue and white flecks. It is really really cool!
and
2 Skeins of trekking XXL sock yarn
one in stripy (that's a Laura word!) black, pink, green and white and one is shades of purple. I love this yarn, I made Chris peacock socks with it also.

I am so all set for awhile. Ahh, happy knitting dreams for me now.

You'll find us in Greencastle PA

We have been here too long... The people who work at the little booth in the truckstop who sell phones recognize me and chitty chat with me now. One guy says to me this morning "You guys are still here?"

We have resorted to doing things like this to entertain ourselves...

That was one of Skips contraptions. If you can't tell it's two forks balanced on two toothpicks on top of a salt shaker. The waitress was impressed, she said it was art even!

Since I blogged last we've sat around a whole bunch. Over the weekend we loaded a crane and brought it up to the Philly area. That was a really nice drive up and back. We went right through Lancaster county and I seen more Amish people than I have ever seen in a day.

Sunday morning was exciting. We were eating breakfast in the restaurant when we head some lady yelling at someone in the store. We turned around to see what was going on and a lady ran through the truckstop in just her underwear. Yup, just her panties. You never know what's going to happen next. After streaking through the store she broke a glass case before being hauled off by the cops.

Chris polished the truck one day. I've been knitting and knitting and knitting. I started another of these cabled bags. Here's a pic of it mid-way through. I am working on the lining now and then I just have the finishing and the strap.

I am almost done with one cabled sock for Chris. I think I am at the toe decreases but I really want Chris to try them on before I start the toe decreases. For someone who wants me to knit them socks getting him to try them on is like pulling teeth. Here it is so far. These really are some very nice socks.

Well I think we're going to head over to Grove and see if our crane is ready yet. Wish us luck. Maybe some day we will leave PA.