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photo take from WGN TV website (For non Cub fans these kids are former  announcer Harry Carey ) *Tricks!  Many tricks last night at the Cubs World Series game.  Did you see the catcher Ross catch and drop a foul pop up only to have Rizzo catch it before it hit the ground? ( Of course I did.  Thanks for all the good karma, bloggy pals. Last night was just so crazy for Cub fans......We are still in this!) *Are you planning to have a Halloween Candy today?   (No but I'm stopping at the apple orchard and I may buy a cookie for my TREAT or a carmel apple)  * Would you knit an accessory for your pumpkin.  No judgement I promise! (Um No. But these are adorable)   Did you carve a pumpkin? (You see I did!  I cleaned up the vomit like a good nurse and my pumpkin just smiled thereafter.  Fireman and I will enjoy the pumpkins more tonight.  I love a lit jackolantern even if we dont get a single country trick or treater!)...

Minnie and Maxie Tank in his best pose.  Yesterday was just chock full of life lessons.  The ying and the yang, the good and the bad. Oh, but first, lest you think I'm going around with a chainsaw in the woods for snicks, I need to set the record straight. We only take down dead trees or hazard trees.  I'm not starting my own wooden needle factory or anything cuckoo like that.... There are other cuckoo things I spend my time doing.  ahem Yesterday a very handsome Fezzik was dragged from his early morning slumber, taken in a car ride for 1 and a half hours that had to seem an eternity to him and asked to be both stunningly beautiful and  happy about it on a photo shoot.  I don't think Hollywood is in the cards.  Suffice to say I was thrilled when he was chosen by a major pet food company to be photographed.  I can't tell you anything more specific. We may or may not see his face on a product.  We h...

This is the Ravine Hat.  I think I love it.  I'm looking for a cloche pattern that I can knit.  Hats hats hats ... they are all I want to knit.  I wore a hat I knit last year in millamia today. Toss up between millamia and zara for hat yarn favorites.  So soft,( merino)....does not feel like wool.  Fireman and I  took down 3 more 40ft pine trees.  Seriously.  We finished.  We have taken 11 trees down since September.  Who knew I'd move to Wisconsin and get all flannel,  work glove and Hat crazy. ? I LOVE IT. I'm exhausted afterwards.  We heard some strange baying as we started this morning. I think it was a deer in rut.  Whatever it was it was cool!    Mr. Halloween has his very own perch at this new house. He  is so smart!   We have nuthatches, bluejays, cardinals, chickadees, hawks, crows and an occasional woodpecker.  Something large k...

  Al sent this photo of her Oklahoma Fog this morning.  Rather spooky! Are you ready for Halloween? Have you eaten any CANDY yet? I've been good but I will have a baby ruth bite at some point... Here's your awe photo for today. Puppy at the shelter yesterday.  Look at that brindle! I think we had 6 puppies from two different litters . Generally the puppies go to home fast.  Don't let his worried eyes worry you.  Okay,   Looking at Hat patterns again yesterday, I realized: *I love Wooly Wormhead patterns. *If the pattern says short rows...I'm out *If the hat includes a seam...I'm usually not interested with the exception of the THAT EASY GANSEY HAT pattern *If Kitchener is involved. ...blech (see above) *If I can use Zara then it is a yes! *Zach is my hat guy.  By far and away he has worn the hats I've knitted him over and over again.   *I'd like to see more patterns with  sock yar...

I happen to LOVE this pattern. It is free.  It is fun to knit I have a new baby gift  in pink, and a big sister in purple so far. I'm working on a denim blue one....for ME! Gotta love zara yarn. Tried a date bread from scratch yesterday. Fireman is loving it.  Very moist.  If anyone wants the recipe just search for one with coffee in it.  Off to the shelter to assist the Vet.  More later.  Oh my CUbs......last night was difficult

Chicago Botanic Gardens had a pumpkin event last week. A friend sent me this photo from the event.  ****** I'm here to tell you I'm almost finished with my second Seventh hat.  Love the pattern, the Zara yarn and the negative ease. I really didn't understand the negative ease idea until this hat.  I'd explain it as a way to get a perfect fit on a warm hat that won't fall off. Negative ease is only a knit term,  or so I've read. You can't obtain negative ease with fabric and sewing. It is a way of assuring things will be hugging your body. Be it a sweater that shows your curves, or a hat that really really works.   So if the hat is knitted with a stretchy yarn, like Zara, it is created with fewer stitches in the pattern than you would normally cast on.  This is how the negative ease is achieved.  In other words, it won't work with cotton or a yarn that does not have any spring in it.  Don't even try it frien...

Good Morning!   1 ?What is your favorite fabric to wear? (mine: cotton, flannel is a favorite)  2 Who woke you up this morning? (Miss Pie.  She got through the gate . It has taken her 8 weeks to figure this out.  She jumped triumphantly on the bed and began meowing and rollling and celebrating)  3 Last time you had to turn off the announcers and turn on the radio for a sports event? (I know many of you don't do the sports thing.  Joe Buck drives me crazy if you know baseball.  I turn him off and listen to Chicago Cubs radio announcers. Plus the feed is ahead, so Im not as nervous)  4 Last fast food item you ate? (Starbucks frappacino light)  5 Last item you had knit regrets about? (I have never worn my Skydive Stole.  It is so pretty, but, it itches me.  What should I do with it? ) 6 Last time  a family member said to you, "When are  you going to finish that thing?" (r...