As the title announces, I am renewing my dedication to my blog page. I haven't forgotten you all, although that may be difficult for you to believe since it's been ages and ages since my last post! And for anyone that actually read my posts, I thank you for your loyalty and I hope that you will continue to visit my little blog from time to time because I really do enjoy sharing the things that go on in my little neck of the prairie with all my friends and family!
My good life is still very good! And very busy! But also very normal and perhaps to many, not so terribly exciting. But it'a a good life and I am enjoying it very much. As some of you know, my son and his family live in Alaska and my daughter and her husband live in KS. They all are doing very well and recently had the opportunity to visit with each other. My Baby-girl and her hubby went to Alaska for a week and went sightseeing with her older brother, Dilly-girl and grand babies and spent a fun time with them all! And I would normally add a photo of this event but I can't seem to figure out how to do that. Not sure if it's my computer or if it has to do with the (ever better) Blogger. But I do have lovely photo's of all of them together for the first time since a few christmas's ago!
In June our Son, Dilly-girl and grand-babies will visit us here! (I hope to have figured out this photo upload by then). And it will be so much fun! They will be here in time to be in the Springfield Days Children's Parade, which I am leading again this year! And we'll do all the fun things like going to the Omaha Zoo, and Laurenzen Garden, Soaring Wings Winery, and so on and so forth. Then Son and Dilly-girl will go to K.C. and spend a weekend with Baby-girl and Son-in-law and Granddaddy and I will get to spend the whole weekend with our little Grand babies! YAY!!!!!
Then...... at the end of July my Honey and I will go to Alaska and see more sights and do lots more exploring AND we'll get to be there for our grandsons 3rd birthday! We are SO excited for all the fun to begin. But in the mean time... We will be working on getting our garden up and running again. We've had some late snow fall and freezes so we haven't done much of anything in our garden and flower beds other than clean it up and till the soil in the garden bed. We thought about planting rows of greens, but decided not to and now we are ever so glad we waited since that night we had a deluge of rain and it's been stormy off and on for the past week! But, if all goes well, we hope to get those seeds in by next week. And the serious gardening will not begin until after the 1st of May, which is not unusual for these parts!
I have been doing some knitting still. I am currently working on another sock for myself. It's a long slow process since I tend to work on it rather sporadically. I have also started a Knitting Ministry in our church. We knit together every other week for now and we have three organizations that we knit for. The three projects are each for a different skill level which makes it very easy for anyone to join us. And then, I recently purchased an antique spinning wheel. It's a Canadian Production Wheel and it's designed to make lace weight and sock weight yarns. Which is exactly the types of yarns I enjoy working with. But, to make them is a whole other story!!! I've been a bit frustrated with the learning process, but I keep telling myself that when these wheel's were made, little children were learning how to spin on just this type of wheel! And if they could do it, then by golly, I can do it! I'm beginning to believe, those children were MUCH brighter than me! So, when ever I become too frustrated, I fall back on working with my drop spindle, just so I feel like I am being somewhat productive. I've made one ball of single ply yarn and am working on another and hope to be able to ply the two together soon so I'll have a ball of working yarn to make mittens with (eventually). My goal is to make thrummed mittens with my drop spindle yarn. Perhaps you all can help me stay dedicated to that goal by asking me about it from time to time! You know, to keep my on track. ;-) And my second goal is to make a ball of spinning wheel yarn by the end of the summer!
So, I will leave you all now to digest this first blog of this year. I hope it wasn't too terribly boring and I hope to figure out the photo issues so that I will be able to post photo's in my next blog post.
I hope you all are doing well and I will write again next week! Thank you all!
Have a wonderful day!
My good life is still very good! And very busy! But also very normal and perhaps to many, not so terribly exciting. But it'a a good life and I am enjoying it very much. As some of you know, my son and his family live in Alaska and my daughter and her husband live in KS. They all are doing very well and recently had the opportunity to visit with each other. My Baby-girl and her hubby went to Alaska for a week and went sightseeing with her older brother, Dilly-girl and grand babies and spent a fun time with them all! And I would normally add a photo of this event but I can't seem to figure out how to do that. Not sure if it's my computer or if it has to do with the (ever better) Blogger. But I do have lovely photo's of all of them together for the first time since a few christmas's ago!
In June our Son, Dilly-girl and grand-babies will visit us here! (I hope to have figured out this photo upload by then). And it will be so much fun! They will be here in time to be in the Springfield Days Children's Parade, which I am leading again this year! And we'll do all the fun things like going to the Omaha Zoo, and Laurenzen Garden, Soaring Wings Winery, and so on and so forth. Then Son and Dilly-girl will go to K.C. and spend a weekend with Baby-girl and Son-in-law and Granddaddy and I will get to spend the whole weekend with our little Grand babies! YAY!!!!!
Then...... at the end of July my Honey and I will go to Alaska and see more sights and do lots more exploring AND we'll get to be there for our grandsons 3rd birthday! We are SO excited for all the fun to begin. But in the mean time... We will be working on getting our garden up and running again. We've had some late snow fall and freezes so we haven't done much of anything in our garden and flower beds other than clean it up and till the soil in the garden bed. We thought about planting rows of greens, but decided not to and now we are ever so glad we waited since that night we had a deluge of rain and it's been stormy off and on for the past week! But, if all goes well, we hope to get those seeds in by next week. And the serious gardening will not begin until after the 1st of May, which is not unusual for these parts!
I have been doing some knitting still. I am currently working on another sock for myself. It's a long slow process since I tend to work on it rather sporadically. I have also started a Knitting Ministry in our church. We knit together every other week for now and we have three organizations that we knit for. The three projects are each for a different skill level which makes it very easy for anyone to join us. And then, I recently purchased an antique spinning wheel. It's a Canadian Production Wheel and it's designed to make lace weight and sock weight yarns. Which is exactly the types of yarns I enjoy working with. But, to make them is a whole other story!!! I've been a bit frustrated with the learning process, but I keep telling myself that when these wheel's were made, little children were learning how to spin on just this type of wheel! And if they could do it, then by golly, I can do it! I'm beginning to believe, those children were MUCH brighter than me! So, when ever I become too frustrated, I fall back on working with my drop spindle, just so I feel like I am being somewhat productive. I've made one ball of single ply yarn and am working on another and hope to be able to ply the two together soon so I'll have a ball of working yarn to make mittens with (eventually). My goal is to make thrummed mittens with my drop spindle yarn. Perhaps you all can help me stay dedicated to that goal by asking me about it from time to time! You know, to keep my on track. ;-) And my second goal is to make a ball of spinning wheel yarn by the end of the summer!
So, I will leave you all now to digest this first blog of this year. I hope it wasn't too terribly boring and I hope to figure out the photo issues so that I will be able to post photo's in my next blog post.
I hope you all are doing well and I will write again next week! Thank you all!
Have a wonderful day!
