April showers bring May flowers...

It finally stopped raining!! YAY!! Walking dogs in the rain sucks. Running them in the mud sucks even more. Charlie loves every second of everything but this isn't his blog so we're sticking with how much it sucks. However, there are now flowers everywhere looking beautiful in their silky petal dresses bursting with colors that never go out of season. Speaking of which, due to the rain I broke out the raincoats. I have a purple (I thought it looked springy) two piece rain set and I am so completely satisfied with how brilliant that buy was. With that and my waterproof stand in a puddle all day but have dry feet boots I am just about untouchable. It's my mood that seems to be effected the most you know. The boys also have rain gear and I got pictures of them one day while walking about in high winds and pouring rain. It lifted my spirits so it was worth it. Hopefully it does the same for you. Obviously, Charlie isn't worried about Charlie being wet, I am. Jimmy however, relishes his rain coat as he does not like the wet one bit...



Due to the buckets of water coming from the sky, our morning run field now has a small body of water in the middle of it. I say small as compared to an actual lake/pond that one would swim in. It's astounding how everyone but Charles is able to go around this massive puddle. He likes to cut staight through it... That's Jim at the edge so you have an idea of it's size. This is still the driest place I can find to run the dogs. Wowser.


HOLY KNIT!! I forgot to tell you! I was cleaning my room, which is a feat all unto itself. I must clean my room... oh... about every three or four months. It looks like I never left adolescence. I might not have. There are usually clothes and such everywhere. Anyway, beneath this huge pile of clothes was a Christmas present from my aunt and uncle. I had forgotten all about it!! They gave me looms with which to knit. Since everyone keeps going on and on about this need to knit, I thought I would give it a whirl. TO MUCH FUN! Sure sure, I'm sort of cheating with the looms but I fucking HATE counting stitches and all that SHIT that you usually have to do. So this is awesome for me. I finally see why everyone says it's so relaxing. The first hat I made ended up being super tiny. Here it is on the loom when it was just started...

Here's the loom, the yarn and my little tool that helps me pull the yarn over the spokes. Ha ha, spokes. I love that word.

And the finished project on ONLY THE SUPER FAMOUS SOON TO BE ON THE NET MODELING THINGS JIMBO!!! Side note: His photoshoot has been moved to May 11 at 3 p.m..

This is clearly the face that shows how not impressed he is over being roused by a crazy woman, a little tiny hat on his head and a flash in his face. Two words: Poor sport.


Once I had the idea down I moved onto bigger and better. The bigger was needed anyway and the better was a wing it plan that totally worked out. Which ruled. Not only was the next hat larger but it also has a big old stripe in it. NICE! The rim is also larger as to keep the wearers ears nice and toasty...


The next step was to feel like I could probably knit steel wool into a stove if I wanted to. Commence going out and getting a shitload of yarn. So pretty, so functional. And the project then took over my life. Since my aunt and uncle are from VT, I am making them both matching hats and scarves. Well, matching meaning the hats and scarves match, not that they'll be wearing the exact same thing. That's not very fair to my uncle as I wanted to knit something with sparkles in it. Here is the finished hat.

See the sparkles? So cool. The looms make knitting with that hard to use but super neat design yarn so much easier to work with... I just put it right next to the orange yarn and wah lah! Sparklies.


The matching scarf is still in progress but coming along nicely. The scarves take waaaay longer to make but I am tenacious.


I believe my uncles will either be blues or greens. I haven't decided yet. All I know is it will kick some serious knitting ass once complete. And they'll get to their destination right in time for summer! YES!!

Okay... the birds are being difficult. Everyone is sitting vigil. Any time I go to take pictures one of the Bob's is in the way and sitting on the little ones. I guess I'll have to scare them out and then get the babies to think it's feeding time. Then they'll stick their little scrawny ugly necks up and I'll be able to snap a picture of their little tiny gross baby bird faces. Lets face it, baby birds are not a pretty thing in the beginning. Everyone is caring for them. I don't know who's they are or what they are going to look like. Since Bob is having sex with everyone, it could be anyone's guess. I am guessing it is probably him and Bob again though. I'll keep trying to get pictures and post them once this is accomplished.

Oooo... one more thing... I started grappling. I like it because I feel after one class that I could be incredible at it. The biggest thing is that I lose focus while wrestling as I am focusing all my energy toward *not* biting my opponent. It's so hard for me to keep my teeth from ripping into flesh when it is stuck against my face and I am trying to get it off. Again, I think this gives me the edge. I am all teeth, nails and fury. I do not enjoy the close physical contact one bit. I am going to try only having M as a partner and see how I do. I'll just sit out the times we have to switch partners. I'm sooo not into the whole strange sweaty body on mine unless it was all my idea and we have less clothes on. I also enjoy that better when it doesn't involve the gym and numerous other people. Hmmm... yeah, I guess I'll have to sit out the times I have to be with someone else. Otherwise I can always go kick and punch while they swap about the people with sweaty bodies... Oooo... good one! High five!