Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

So, the first snow of the year (well, we passed through some snow in the swiss alps, but the first snow of the year here) fell two days ago, on November 27th, which happens to be Thanksgiving, which also happens to be my birthday. So, there was a dusting of snow then. Yesterday, though, it snowed maybe three inches or so, and I started a snowman, got tired of it, and moved onto a snow fort. Which didn't get finished either. Ah well. The snow's melting right now, but maybe it will snow again later.

The Christmas tree has been up since Tuesday, and we're all ready for Christmas to come. Most of my presents for people are going to be knitted or crocheted this year, but some are store bought. Next weekend we're going down to Oregon for my Grandpa's seventieth birthday, which means that I really really need to finish his birthday scarf. Oh well, it's an eight hour drive, so I'll have plenty of time. The scarf is knitted in Red Heart Soft Yarn, in a wine red colorway. About five inches from the end there's a one inch black stripe, and there will be the same on the other end. The stitch pattern is pretty basic - just k2 p1. Its called "squishy scarf", I think? I don't know.

Oh dear

Oh dear, I've got a hamster. I just clicked on the link from the fish, and I found everything else... So now there's a hamster too. To feed him, click, and click in the wheel center to make him go back on it.

Fish

I can't think of anything of any interest to say today, except that I have begun making a pig, so I thought I'd take this post to draw your attention towards the fish. I've noticed that people seem to enjoy the fish, and so I've changed them a bit. Those of you who saw the previous fish might have noticed that there were five, maybe six - well, now there's ten, in all the colors of the rainbow. The food is also a different color. Thanks for feeding the fish!

As well as the fish, I'd like to point out the guestbook, underneath the blog archive. If you pop by, please sign your name - I love to know who's been visiting. (Yes, by the way, I have been searching for gadgets recently.)

I haven't done much knitting today, but I was going to go and look at a spinning wheel. Sadly, I couldn't go today, so I'm going to go and look at it this weekend. It's a Ashford Traditional, and comes with a niddy noddy, lazy kate, and a bulky head (I think that's the word.) Have you ever used this wheel? What do you think of it?

To purchase a sheep

I'm back again for the second time today, interrupting my regularly scheduled novelling to bring you this. Produced by my Grandpa (an avid tracer of our family tree) and written on a typewriter, I personally find it incredibly amusing.

Goodnoe Hills, Washington
May 11 1933

Mr. William Kennedy,
Portland, Oregon.

Dear Mr. Kennedy:

I have your literature concerning your sheep company, and I am quite interested inasmuch as I am thinking I would like to get a sheep and go into the sheep business this summer.

I wonder if you have and sample sheep you give away. Even a small one would be all right, as I will have to keep it in my office until I can get some pasture for it, where I can put it out and have it pasturized.

I would like a nice medium-weight, all-wool sheep in stripes, if you have them - one I can skin and make a Pendleton jacket out of later on.

When you skin a sheep once is that the end of it, or can they be skinned regularly like a human being?

I have an old sheepskin in my office I have been living off for twenty-seven years, and I thought that if I had a whole sheep I might do better.

I see by the papers that there is a lot of trouble these days about the tariff on wool; so, if you can pick out a sheep that hasn't any tariff on the wool, it might save me cleaning it when it comes here. Does this tariff come back after you have once got rid of it?

And another thing, don't send me a U sheep because they have signs on the street here that say that you can't make a U turn and I couldn't get one to the office very well if I couldn't make it turn.

Write further particulars.

Very respectfully,

Wooden U. Liketono (sgd)

This is exactly as I got it - maybe the 1933 version of a trick email?
Annie

A little doggy and friends

Ok, today I'll post pictures of some of the other little toys. I started them in Malta, and have been going ever since! Some of them have Christmas gear, some don't. Here's the little dalmation


as in the title, sorry about the picture quality.

Next, there's a tiny tiger, swinging from a white piece of yarn, because I couldn't think of a better way, and the light is dreadful.



Again, not a very good picture at all, but you get the idea. Here's the very first one that I made, posing on a white ball of yarn.



A little dolphin, far away from the sea. There's more, though... of course there's more. Only one of the acrylic little critters is left within easy reach though - three have gone to new homes, and one is somewhere. But here's this one, which is actually the only one shown so far that is mine, although the elephant may become so. But anyway, here's Albert.



He's huddled up in a corner, trying to hide from the unfamiliar light which is blowing out his beak and nose - really, they're much more orange.

Anyway, I hope you've enjoyed seeing these pictures - there's more on the way tommorow!

Oh, and one more thing - see my fish, over on the sidebar? If you come by, please feed them by clicking. They'll like it.

Hey, I'm back!

Greetings to the world out there who probably isn't even reading this. I'm back. I've been gone for over three months travelling Europe with my family, and it's been a blast. I returned to the blog today, and I noticed it covered with cobwebs and mothballs. Ah well, at least I haven't got any moths in my yarn! So, here I am, and I'm going to do my best to post more frequently. I'll post lots of pictures of everything that I've been doing (at the same time as updating my ravelry profile) soon, probably tommorow. In the meantime, here's a lousy picture of a little kitty I made, with a christmas hat and scarf. I took the picture with my webcam, so it's pretty rubbish, but it's better than nothing.


See, isn't he cute? The kitty is actually one of my least favourites, but more pictures tommorow. All right, one more...



Well, there we go. I'll show more pictures tommorow, hopefully, and then I'll be caught up. Anyway, if anyone reads this, then thank you very much. Please come back.
Annie

Oops, I forgot to add this little thingy ma bob from the nano wrimo site . Yes, I'm doing nano again, for the second year. I'm doing pretty well, and unless something major comes up, I should be good! Anyway, sorry to have to add this on. Here it is!

Annie