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Yarn I custom dyed. The Pansy I am happy with. The other not so much. I am mailed it as mentioned before. Now I wait and see if she wants a redo on the left skein. The dark blue looks VERY black, until you lay it on a pair of of black jeans. Not what she was going for I think....



Logan. Can you believe he will be 13 this month!


And look at Deven!!! 15 in a few days....

I LOVE this picture. My oldest son Derek & youngest nephew Zander. the 2 biggest hams ever ;)

It Almost Time For School Again!

Can you believe it!

Poor Logan is starting to freak out. He did SO well last year at public school. It was his first time. He finished 5th grade. He got the help he needed from the special ed department. He made a few friends. It all worked out. But now He will be going to the Middle School and his "routine" will be drastically different! So the panic is setting in. And the attitude. Poor guy! We keep telling him his friends will be the same and so will his helpers. Just different teachers and a different building. Deven will across the parking lot. Deven was in the Middle School last year. Just ask him, he knows where everything is. :) The people are super nice there. BUT these words aren't helping him LOL. Orientation/schedule pickups are this Thursday.

Deven! on the other hand has been ready to go back for over a month now, Hah! Mr. Socialite.... He will be at the High School this year. He is excited High School yea! Freshman boo! (bottom of heap.) LOL His words in jest. 8th graders were the "big guys on campus" now the 9th grader are the "little guys" he was speculating. Truely he will never be a "little guy". He is already 6ft 4 and 253 lbs at 14yrs old.

Then there is Derek....
He wanted to be an Air Force Pilot. Of high altitude planes. He recently found out that will not be possible. He has asthma. and they won't let him be a navigator for one either :( Now he is looking into Helicoptors ! Looks like he is Homeschooling his last year of school this year too.
Derek has added a few classes to his list. We'll try to get them added in.

Driver's Ed-- Doing now
Government & Politics -- on the way
Intro to Physics -- on the way
Math -- have
Language Arts-- Working on it
Modern History -- Working on it
Spanish -- have
Drafting (1 Semester) -- need to get
C Programming (1 Semester) -- need to get
British Literature -- working on it
Scuba -- PE credit ? Maybe if the college has it. Would be perfect!
Home Economics aka Life Skills -- Have it
Art/Business -- Have it

What's happening today?

For starters I used the air horn to get the boys up this morning haha
Really.... I did! They hate it too. They told me it was "totally unnecessary"
I figure if they would have gotten up on time I wouldn't have had to use it :)

After two months, we got the call to come pick up the plates to the new car today.

My first handspun yarn is hanging in the shower setting it's twist.

I've reskeined 3 hanks of yarn for my Esty 2 more to go. Then I need to take pictures so I can list them for sale. Then I want to reskein some of the ones that are for sale and redo pictures. I think with the new way, they are prettier, and give a better representation of the yarn. I have one listing up that is the new way. It just needs a couple more pictures.

Anona gave me some beautiful wool roving she dyed. I would like to get prepped and start spinning on. Many shades of purple.

I've let the 3 white guineas out of the brooding area, and now they are hiding from me! I can't find them. They are "hopefully" under the truck or in a bush. I can't hear their trill.

We lost one of the newest chicks. It drowned in the last rainstorm. Grandma was right when she said they were so dumb they could drown in a tsp of water. haha. It was pretty windy and may have gotten separated from Goldie (momma hen) . She has 2 chicks left.

I finished a sock at lunch. The boys dyed the yarn for me with kool aid when we first moved here. I need to start the mate to it soon. It's really neat looking. But I won't ever do the pattern again as I am doing it now. I am in a knitting challenge where you use microgauge. 10 stitches or more per inch. That is killing me & my hands (we won't tell Phillip ;)). I have been able to keep gauge. Yay. Normal gauge doesn't bother me, but this micro gauge UGH! The way around it is to knit is short stints.

A while back I started a project for Aunt Shirley. Perfect yarn/perfect pattern. Hah! the yarn was pooling in a way that you couldn't see the pattern at all. So that got frogged. I found a new pattern. Hopefully it will turn out better. (crosses fingers). I'm not saying what it is yet. But it is in Summer 2006 Interweave Knits You'll just have to guess ;)

Time to go do the boring stuff like laundry and make sure Derek loaded the dishwasher. So I can do the fun stuff