Category: Prattling On

I Got Lucky in Kentucky

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Not that kind of lucky, but the kind of lucky when one finds another great LYS. I was in nearby Glasgow, Kentucky for a press okay and set a spell and knit at  Crafty Hands in Bowling Green both ways to the airport. If I had NOT swung by on my way home I would not have found these great new patterns from Churchmouse Yarns & Teas. This shop is on Bainbridge island near Seattle and am still sad our schedule did not allow a visit when DH and I were in Seattle. Sigh. I'm pretty much in love with all these patterns and showed them to my hometown LYS so she would order some for her shop.

I spent an awful lot of my downtime in Kentucky listening to this while working on yet another Clapotis, and driving around the beautiful countryside.

 
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Close enough to finishing Clapotis to justify starting a new project, Turkish Bed Socks. This one is way fun, perfect little socks for my clogs. First time knitting with Koigu… love it. Picked up a couple skeins of Santa Fe, think it will work nicely for these socks too.

Yarn: Koigu KPPPM
Colorway: 334
Quantity: 1 skein
Size Needles: US 3 DPN


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See? Dangerously close to finishing.

Yarn: Malabrigo Sock yarn
Colorway: Aguas
Quantity: 3 skeins
Size Needles: US 6


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Tobacco country

Wok this way

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I am so in love with my new MIDSOMMAR grill wok from IKEA. Okay, they cal it a BBQ wok, but I live in Texas and have been schooled on the difference between barbecue and grilling. It's a noun, not a verb folks. My friends gifted me with this handy little number when they went to IKEA a few weeks ago. I'm not normally keen on one trick ponies in the kitchen…. but this is $9.99 well spent. I find this so much easier to handle than one of those hinky racks that everything falls through. You just shake the wok pan until you achieve the perfect char on your veggies or shrimp. Seriously, this is a great, inexpensive, and very sturdy product.

Fill it & They Will Come

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Last week I went to Tractor Supply to buy a couple new hummingbird feeders, when I spied a feeder that looked just like one, but bright orange. It was an oriole feeder, hmmm, I want an oriole to come to my yard too. So I brought it home and filled the little pockets with jelly, the reservoir with sugar water ( apparently orioles are sugar freaks),  and skewered a couple orange halves through the hanger. I waited.

Sunday morning I was sitting out back drinking coffee and looked at the gaudy orange plastic thing just hanging there… I shook my head and thought… "what a rip off". Then my eyes moved up a branch or two and there was a FREAKING Baltimore Oriole in my damn tree. Woohoo. I hollered for DH to come look, and we just marveled at how the damn feeder had really worked, and how beautiful the bird was.

I've heard that the same is true for birdhouses… build it and they will come.
DH and I have a cool new birdhouse book and we are planning to have a
birdhouse making party in the next few weeks. We desperately want an
owl house, and a bluebird house.

Yes, I am aware of what an old lady I sound like…. just deal with it. Birds are cool, or there wouldn't be a birding app for my iphone, right?