Wishing

Poor Phantom can only dream of going outside. 

Spring has sprung!

Finally!

It's beach time

At the beach Dunkin walks himself while Dougal goes swimming, at least as far as Mr. Truck will let him, and I search for sea glass.

What I Learned After Almost 13 Days Without Power

Get a generator and learn how to hook up your furnace to it.
Boiling pots of water on your stove does heat up your house.
Fill up you car and your gas cans. Have lots of gas cans.
Get a smart phone.
Get a car charger for your smart phone.
Sign up for twitter & Facebook. Follow your town, power company, local radio station. Social media is faster and more accurate than anything I heard on the radio.
Have a battery radio and batteries.
Flashlights are lifesavers in the bathroom.
Help your neighbors.
Call your power company every day. Sometimes they think you have power when you don't. (I'm talking about you PSE&G)
Texting works even when the phone doesn't.
Fill your freezer with anything you can fill up with water: Tupperware
and containers from the recycling bin work great and keep the door shut.
You can vacuum, watch DVD's and charge your nook with a generator.
Have lots of candles and not all scented. Vanilla, pumpkin,cranberry, apple, cookie dough all at the same time is bad.
And you can knit in the dark.

Days 4- 8

We're in Delaware for a bit of a vacation but I'm still spinning. It's a beautiful merino from a vendor I found at the NJ Sheep & Fiber Festival last year. She didn't have her cards with her so I took a picture of her sign. Sadly, this sheep is no longer with us but if all her fiber is like this I'll definitely be looking for her again.

Tour de Fleece Day 1 & 2

Tour de Fleece Day 1

Last year I did a whole fleece. Never again! My goal this time is much more modest: 4 ounces of this beautiful super wash BFL from Zarzuela's Fibers. So my wheel is cleaned and oiled and I'm ready to go.

Have I Shown You My Grandchildren Lately?

It's Hot and I'm knitting dish cloths

Too hot to touch wool so cotton it is. But the Tour de Fleece starts Saturday so it will be wool then. I can't wait.

We have twins!

After 38 weeks and one day BDE did the best job ever. Two perfect little ones.

Jude Ryan, 5 pounds 13 ounces


Leighton Elizabeth, 6 pounds 5 ounces.



They go home tomorrow and then the fun begins!