Knit Chat Patty Wack!

Knit Chat Patty Wack...

What an action packed weekend! Saturday was out first Knit Chat Patty Wack meeting. I could not make it to the trip to the yarn store beforehand but was there for the meeting. We started this knitting group to get together once a month and knit and chat and apparently wack patty...


Look at Kari's finished scarf!!! Her first big project finished! She is working on a swatch for a hat that she is making for Brad.

And here is Betsy who is just casting on for a pair of yummy Mittens! I worked on these socks I am just about done with them. I can't wait! I should have them done tonight! I also cast on these socksSorry the picture really sucks. I will get a better picture when I get a little further along. These are toe up socks knit with Mountain Colors Bearfoot. I really wanted to make some toe up socks so I could try a different bind off that Wendy posted on her blog. I even went so far as to weigh and divide the yarn into two skeins.

Super Bowl

Sunday was The Colts vs. The Bears. Nannies really wanted to go over to Karis for the Superbowl party so mama whipped up this colts mane to wear so he could get in the spirit.

We ate lots of food and had a good time. There was never a doubt in our minds that Payton would lead the Colts to Victory!Kari even managed to keep her jersey on the whole game. (she doesn't usually strip during football games (that I'm aware of anyways) she just usually has to take it off because it brings bad luck to the colts)

Shoes

I have been on a quest for months to find clear shoes to wear with my socks. I finally found them last week. I ordered them from here and they arrived this week.

Here they are on my feet being modeled with my lovely carnival jaywalkers. I like them a lot. Although I wonder how big of a dork I am for buying them.

Socks socks socks!

I finally finished these socks
I had named these "Spring Time in Missouri". Kari told me that she would have named them the NFC North socks. So needless to say I have been refering to them as the NFC North socks. I needed to finish these before Sunday becauce it would be wrong to work on NFC North socks when you want the Colts to whip the Bears.

I did not try in the least to make these socks match up and I succeded. They are about the most mismatched socks that I have ever made. I love them and am wearing them right now.

I am also well on my way with my next pair of socks.

These are the baby cable rib from Sensational Knitted Socks. The yarn is Brown Sheep Wildfoot. I also added a picot edge to these. The picture doesn't really show it but it's there.

Hey check this out!!!! I asked Wendy a question and she answered me and there is even the hyperlink to my blog. I feel cool. I am suck a dork!!!!!!!

I am a naughty knitter...

I am in a surprisingly good mood today. I woke up bright and shiny early this morning with relative ease, today is meeting day, my new shoes are finally fitting well on my feet, Chris is on his way home and I am just in a good mood in general. So at lunch today I decided that I would skip the walk down to the coffee shop to knit and I would just sit in the lunchroom here at work and knit and listen to my book. I thought I would save myself two bucks and have a few extra minutes to knit instead of walking down there and back. Well I was listening to my Ipod and knitting away when I realized that there was no point in trying to listen to my book because everyone wanted to talk to me. So I gave that up. Well pretty soon one of my coworkers came in the lunch room and was very interested in my knitting. Well she wants me to teach her how to knit.
I don't want to teach her...
I am selfish, I enjoy my knitting time at work as just some time to knit with out dogs and other household distractions. Also this particular coworker drives me nuts. I can't see myself sitting in the lunchroom with her on my precious hour away from hell (that would be my desk) to instruct a girl who I don't really like and barely speaks English on how to knit. Like I said, I am a naughty knitter. I read books and blogs and everyone is always anxious to teach to anyone who is interested how to knit. Not me. Don't get me wrong, I will teach YOU how to knit if you ask nicely, but not at work.

Hello Again

I know I have been absent from the blogging world for awhile. I am going to work on getting back on the blogging bandwagon. As you may know I have gone back to work and am no longer traveling around the country. Be warned that I am going to use this blog mostly to ramble on about my knitting and whatever random thing goes through my head.

Socks you have not seen

Well I was counting up the number of socks that I have knit since last April (18 pairs! 9 for me, 3 for Kari, 3 for Chris, 2 for my Mom and 1 for Disa) and realized that there are 3 pairs that are not on the blog! So here they are in all there glory!


These are what I am calling my fire socks. They are knit in Cherry Tree Hill Supersock. This yarn is super stretchy. I also made the spring socks from this yarn. Well anywho, I ended up making these a whole size smaller than I was really getting gauge for because they really stretch once you've had them on your feet for a couple of hours. These fit great so I am pleased that I made a mental note and re sized the.

These are my bells and whistles socks. I knit these with Schaffer Yarns, Anne. The pattern is from the interweave knits Holiday issue. I love these socks but the pattern did have all the bells and whistles! There are even little cable crosses every couple of rows. You can barely see them but I was plenty aware of them when I had to grab the cable needle every couple of rows!

These are Kari's blue socks. She received one and one half finished sock for Christmas. I had to promptly take them back after she looked at them so I could finish them. I got this yarn at the 3 Kitten yarn sale when they were changing ownership. It is Happy Trails sock yarn. These socks are thick, I would consider them more of slipper socks than everyday socks.

These are some cute little booties that I knit up with some Angora. The pattern is from Last Minute Knitted Gifts. These were interesting to make since you knit them in one piece starting with some double knitting. A special little baby will be wearing these soon ;)

Other Things

I have also been working away on finishing things up that I have already started. I am working on getting my UFO's under control. I finished this bag...

I started this bag in 2003. I knew I was almost done with it and had gathered all the previously knitted pieces and the pattern together and had planned to finish it this summer while I was in truck. Well it never made it in the truck so I finished it the other weekend. It was kind of like getting a free bonus bag. I had about 1 hour of knitting left on it when I picked it back up. I popped it into the washing machine to felt it and then had a zillion hours of finishing on it. Well now it has turned into my work bag.

I also finished this butterfly shawl.

It is the same pattern as this one. I got this yarn at the 3 kitten sale also. That may be why I chose this funky colors (lack of choice). Well I ran out of some of that fuzzy yarn that trims that shawl and had to go buy more which is why this project was put on hold. Once I finished the shawl I tried in on and came to the realization that I would never really wear this. It is just a little too loud for my tastes. Oh well it is wonderful for sitting on couch when I need something to wrap around my shoulders.

Well that's all for now. I have 2 more pairs of socks on the needles and some other things in the works but I will save those for next time. Working has drastically cut into my knitting time so I can not crank things out as quick as I did this summer!

On the road again

In case you didn't know I am on the road again. We are currently in Mebane, NC.

The weather is nice here. Thank god. I am hoping to stay out of the nasty weather the whole time I am in the truck.

Earlier this week poor little Nannies was not feeling so well. I am happy to report that he is feeling like his normal little self again. Let me tell you that a sick dog in the truck is NOT a fun thing. Yesterday we spent a good deal of the day washing ALL of the bedding in the truck. I will spare you the details.

Oscar is doing well. He has taken life in the truck back to his normal self. He has been snoozing all day long and chowing on his food and making a mess with the kibble right before bed. It's like nothing has changed.

HEY! I wrote a song this morning. We have heard tons and tons of Christmas music and it get stuck in your head and I have to change the words to suit me better. Ok here gos...

(in the tune of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer)

You know Oscar
And Nannies
And Marlie
And Mugsy
But do you recall the most famous doggie of all?
Lassie the Border Collie...

That's all I've got for that one. I also wrote one for all you cat lovers too.


You know Vickie
And Princie
And Sebastian
And Spooky
But do you recall the most loving Kitty of all?
Willie the black nosed kitty...

Ya like?

In the good news category, Chris found my Garmin Forerunner under the mattress in the truck. I was thrilled. I have looked all over for it and was really mad at myself that I could not find it. I kept hoping it would turn up and it finally did.

Well not much else new with us.

SMILE!!!

Ketchup Blog

This is the Ketchup Blog. I hope you like pictures because that is what this will mostly be.

Tom Kat's Halloween Party

Our Lovely Hosts Tom and Kat aka Kari and Brad

Kari "Katie I mean Kate Holmes" And Laura the Flapper

Steve The Hawian Dude and Betsy ready for the Slumber Party

Laura The Flapper with Little Sister Disa the Sex Kitten!!!

Everybodys fav celebrity couple! Starring Tara as Brittney Spears and Josh as K Fed.

Laura Again with Drew as Captain Spaulding. Scary!

That concludes our people section of this blog entry. Now we will move onto the knitting section.

Purplie Wurplie Sock (Yup I finnally finished these. It's been months in the process!)

The Autum Socks (they are the tallest socks I have ever knit)

Dishclothes galore and more in the works.

Scarf. I don't really have a name for this. I love it though and have another one on the needles!

Close up of the almighty scarf

My latest pair of sock. Thanks for the pattern Betsy. I am using the Sundra pattern you gave me!

That concludes the knitting section of this blog entry. Now we will move onto my random thoughts...

• I wish Chris was home. He's been gone a month and still has not seen the house.
• I miss my big brown dog.
• I wish I could cook all the stuff on the food network and eat it and not gain an ounce.
• I wish I could knit in my sleep.
• I'm glad my cold is going away.
• Why is Nannies such a little pig?

Greetings from Woodbury

Well here I am. Sitting in the livingroon of our new home, blogging. Here it is...

You may be surprised to see that our house number is 2208. Well let me tell you I was pretty surprised myself when I came to walk through the house at 2375 and discovered that it had no breakfast nook.

The plan was to put the office in the breakfast nook. When I walked into the new house and there was no nook it through the plans big time. Well I went to the rental office and told them what was going on. I came back Saturday and talked to Dana (who we rented the TH from originally) and started looking at some of the other units. We ended up with this one. I am thrilled thrilled thrilled with this house. We did sacrifice our fireplace to get into this house but I think it is 100% worth it. We have a wonderful view of the woods directly behind our house. Here is a pic of the living room. Can you see the awesome woods right out the giant sliding glass door?

I would much rather have this beautiful view than the fireplace. Our rent will also be $20 less a month without the fireplace. Here is the kitchen...

We don't have a trashcan yet. Hence the wonderful trashbag by the dishwasher!

I got the keys to the house Saturday afternoon and moved the stuff that has been living in my car into the house then. Sunday my Mom and I moved 4 car loads of stuff in and gave the kitchen and bathrooms a little spruce. Yesterday, Kari came over to be there with me when the movers were moving the stuff in. Thank god for movers. It was worth every penny to have all of the stuff brought in the house. I don't think I would have survived yesterday without Kari though. Today I have continued to unpack. I have the down stairs in pretty good shape. I am ignoring upstairs so far. I will start working on that later this week. Here is another pic of the living room. This is taken from the kitchen into the living room.

Well that's all for now. I think it's time to veg in front of the TV for awhile.

Nannie Lion

Disas Paper Bag Collection

Apparently she has even more in the basement

Our Next Load!

This is our next load. It is another lorax machine. It is a john deer clearing machine. We are bringing it to ashland WI. I am blogging this from my phone! How freaking cool is that?

Another Test

Nannies

You have new Picture Mail!

Another test of my mobile blogging

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PICTURES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pictures, pictures lots and lots of pictures! Lots of patients brings you lots of pictures. Lets start where I left off being pictureless. This is the Grove Crane that we brought from Shady Grove, PA to Baton Rouge, LA. It is 62,000 pounds and besides the wait for it it was a pretty painless load.
This is the scraper that we brought from Tulsa to Redding, CA. This beast almost killed us. It was 107 outside when we loaded it and it had no brakes. It weighed in at 67,000 pounds was 41' long, and was 11'6" wide. This is my wine tank. It was full of delish wine when we picked it up and I drank it all. Well I shared a little bit with Nannies ;) This load was pretty cool actually. This tank was 13'6" wide and 13' tall. We had to have escorts for part of the trip.Arrr arr arr. Nannies is singing to you. Arr arr arr. Good morning to you! Good morning to you! You look like a monkey and you smell like one too! Arohhhhhhh!!!!After the tank we hauled a Oshkosh truck back up to Oshkosh WI. I think I was so happy to be going home that I forgot to take a picture of that load. Opps.

This is the "lorax" machine that we hauled out of WI to CA. That attachment at the end grabs the tree and cuts it down. That's why I call it the Lorax machine. This thing was 69,000 pounds.Here's Chris yapping on the phone in Reno. I'm sure he's talking to Skip. Hi Skip! It was cold up in NV. Hence the long sleeved shirt. We even had to wear jackets.And that brings us to now. We picked up this Komatsu PC300 in Chino, CA and we are going to be dumping it in Grand Prairie, TX in the morning. This biggie was supposed to weigh 70,000 pounds but with that big ole' bucket on it it weighed in closer to 74,000 pounds. This is the heaviest thing we have hauled so far and we are probably pushing our luck.

We are in Weatherford, TX right now. We pulled in yesterday and selected a premo parking spot with Idle Aire. Yesterday we watched the Busch race then the truck race and today we are watching the Cup race, yipee, and tonight we will take off to camp out at the consignees doorstep so we can start the hunt for another load.I also have some knitting pictures. YEAH!!!!!! It feels like forever since I posted knitting pictures but I feel like I should have a lot more to show you. Oh well this is what I've got.

This is Chriss red white and blue socks. The yarn is self patterning so I just knit these around and around to showcase just the fun yarn. I'm sure the only time you will ever see these crazy socks on Chriss feet is if you are over at the house.
These are my autumn socks. I bought this yarn at depth of field in Minneapolis when I was still working at Admiral. I was with Betsy when I bought it. Remember Betsy???? I just didn't feel like knitting it this summer. Once we got up to Reno and it was cool and fall like I knew it was time to start these socks! I am working them from the toe up with Brown Sheep Wildfoote. I have two skeins of this yarn so I am going to just keep knitting until I run out of yarn.

Here is another pair I have been working on. I don't really have a name for these. I just call them my purple socks. I am working these from the toe up also. I feel like I have been working on them forever. They just aren't holding my attention. I wonder why some projects are like that? I have one done and slowly but surely I will get the other one done.

This is another pair of yummy mittens. They are going to be nice. The blue is the inner mitten and is baby alpaca and is super soft. The green is the outer mitten and is cascade quatro Peruvian wool. I like these because the inside will be super soft and the outside will be warm and durable.

Well that's all folks. I hope you enjoyed all the pictures. Sharing them with you ate up hours of my life. hehe.

PS. I think I'm going to look into this mobile blogging thing that blogger offers. I can take pictures with my phone and then send them right to the blog. So check back and don't be surprised if there are some blog entries that are just pictures with out any comments.