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Cone of Shame, 2000Leagues, and Last Night

1. Smooshed ears.  2. Gazing out over her domain.  3.  Can't. Quite. Get. That.  ITCH!!!!!!

Somebody got fixed last week, and it wasn't me. Poor little girl.  For a bit she would NOT walk with this thing on, and in fact, just stood like a statue only moving her eyes and whining.  Today she gets her stitches out and looses her, "cone of shame." Most likely this will cause an overflow of energy, and crazy running in circles.  Like I said in my last post, she keeps running into the back of our legs and this HURTS!

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This is 2000Leagues. I spun this lace weight awhile back, but now it's time to put it to work. As I have "start-itis" for lace projects these days I've decided that I'm going to knit this  (Slowly....Carefully.....)

 

Photo by clothesdoc

It's Carcia by Ann of Knitspot.  It's soooooo pretty!  So, since I'm NO lace expert, we shall see how this will go.  I started last night, so I'll knit a bit on it today and report back.

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Stay tuned for a MAJOR de-stash that I'll be doing soon. I'm not kidding.  It's SERIOUSLY HUGE!!!

Knit on sista's

And, that's all she wrote!

Ulmus, Gluten Free Eating, and My Morning Ritual

So, I'll start with Ulmus (Ravelry Link).  I think this shawl is amazingly beautiful and I love the colors I picked out. I started last night, but had to stop to run the kiddos around. I'm knitting very, very, very,

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these days, just so I don't re-do my funky bad right arm, but you can see I've gotten a little ways through it.  It's not so bad, and it's a very easy knit.

 

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So, this morning I made my first Gluten Free Banana Bread and boy was it a hit.  SOOOOOO good!

 

I've gotten some great books on Celiac Disease, eating G-Free, and was even sent a book by a VERY thoughtful reader who works for the publisher. (Thanks SOOOO much Jennifer!!!! Look for something coming your way....) It's the top book in the photo below. I just got it last night, and I'm about 1/4 of the way through.  GREAT book.

Today I go in for another round of tests at the Dr's. We'll see what happens!!!!

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In the mornings I like to get up before the sun rises (sometimes later...hee). I get my bible and my coffee and go find somewhere cool to read and study the Lords Word.  I'm in John right now and it's rockin' my world.  Today the day started out great weather wise, so I got out my "softball-watching" chair and found some shade. It's one of my most favorite things to do.

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So, since I'm semi-knitting away (very carefully) I guess I can say, once again, "KNIT ON SISTA'S!"

And, that's all she wrote!

I forgot to update on the baby fawn!

Sorry guys,

Yesterday in my post I forgot to update you on the baby fawn in our yard.  The mom came to get him/her around sundown and we haven't seen them since.  It's still too early in the season (at least around here) to see the babies since they are all still being hidden. I got several emails and posts about how the moms hide the babies during the day and go feed.  And, I've viewed this happen for several years, it's just that this one was BRAND spanking new, and it's Mommy was gone ALL day, and he/she was crying!!!!!  I could hardly stand it! So, no rescue had to happen, thank goodness.  But boy was I tempted.

Have a great day everyone!

Mary-Kay

Some Things.....

I've been doing some painting/sketching lately.  This is our ranch foreman Ed.  Wait until you see him without his winter beard.  GORGEOUS! This one was signed and given to my parents for the ranch house.

Pastel on Hard Press.

And, here's a dandylion from our front yard.  Very stylized and fast. Again Pastel on Hard Press

 

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On my own health front, I've found out some news. I think I mentioned it a little bit in the last post but I"ve been not doing so well lately and on Saturday I finally met with a Naturalpath Doctor who was able to see me.  I was also able to see my family doctor, and it turns out I have Celiac Disease.  Now, my sister has been telling me this FOREVER, and even my mom has told me.  She even bought a book for me to read and that just sealed the deal.  I have a few tests that I need to have done, my doctor says that now my family needs to be tested, as it is hereditary.  Also, there is a high risk of Diabeties Type 1 (kids get this), and many other factors that can happen because of it. 

Every thing pointed right to Celiac.  Well, there's a problem with that.  I bake my own bread using organic wheat, spelt, gluten, etc for my family, but that will be no more.  I LOVE to eat anyting bread-y, cake-y, cookie-y, etc.  It's in everything you guys!  Gluten is EVERYwhere! I sure pay the high price when I do eat this stuff though.

I got suspicious when I decided on April 1st to cut out bread, bread products, and sugar.  I have since lost 30 lbs!  Woo Hoo!  I'm eating all kinds of berries, nuts, carrots, celery, and protien.  But when I snuck a cookie after about 5 weeks in I got violently ill, when I ate chinese food (lemon chicken) I did the same.  I had to find out the problem and now I have....

Is anyone out there Celiac?  Any tips? I've got a LONG row to hoe ahead of me of learning, and re-training to go.  The nautralpath I'm meeting with is going to take me shopping so that will be GREAT! Whole Foods here we come!

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My parents both came for Kid 2's dance recital and so we got to have them here for a week.  Some of you know their story, both have been VERY ill lately, but they did great while they were here.  We kept it very low key, and mostly hung around and did stuff with the kiddos. 

But, I taught my mom how to spin on a spindle!  Ok, I've taught quite a few people.  I've only taught ONE other person that got things this fast.  It was amazing.  Within 1 minute she had it down and really enjoyed it!

 

(My proud Mom with her yarn with Dad looking on)

 

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And, now here's Miss Quincy sleeping in her bed. Man, I LOVE her!

A more current picture (two day's later) would have shown her with a big cone on her head because last Thursday she was "fixed." She was a bit punky for a few days, but seems to be just fine now.  That cone hurts though, she keeps running into walls, the couch, the floor, and the back of my legs.  Yeeouch!  She's gotten so big now, at a whopping 13.4 lbs. (Remember we were used to Missy at 110 lbs.) so I'm being sarcastic here.  But, we think she is going to be the PERFECT size.... Yea!

 

Have a GREAT week!!!!

We Have Nature

Now, would 'ya look at that!  A new baby fawn born right in our very own backyard.  We think he's less than a day old. He gets up every once in awhile to call for his mama, and then he hides again. At this point we found his hiding place, snapped some photos and left him alone.  If his mom doesn't come by tonight, it'll be rescue time over here.

 

He's about 10 in. long all folded up like this in a little package.  Ohhhh, did I ever want to pick him up and cuddle him.....

Here's some old guys roaming around that you've all seen before.  They decided to eat some of the new leaves off of our trees.

 

 

And, we've been having some extreme weather around here. Check out this sky directly over our house.

It doesn't even capture the green color there in the middle, but boy it was there.  Later, my friends at knitting told me that a green sky means TORNADO.  I don't doubt it....while taking these pictures there was NO wind, but strangely, there were no birds chirping, no sound at all.  About 50 pics later, and about 2 minutes later, we had rain flying sideways and wind up the wazoo.  Within 15 min. the basement was flooding, and we were busy hiding from the lightening and thunder that were happening simultaneously. That's never happened here before! Crazy stuff man, weather.

It's been tooooo long....

But, I've been gone for some pretty good reasons.  I haven't been all that happy with some things lately that have been out of my hands, Friend changes, work changes, family illness, my own strange illnesses, and general changes all around.  So I've decided to make some changes that I CAN CONTROL ON MY OWN. I'm not going to go into it all right now- and maybe never, but non the less, things are changing for me good and bad. I'm having fun with my husband and my girls, and really now, isn't that what it's all about anyway?????

One bad thing is that my strange-arm-thing-that-has-stopped-my-knitting is still going on.  It's been about 4 months now, and it's really starting to cramp my knitting style.  I mean - I'M NOT KNITTING AT ALL! But, a great thing that has happened is that I've started weaving! I signed up for "Beginning 4 Shaft Weaving" with Judy Steinkoenig up at Shuttles Spindles and Skeins in Boulder.  Blew my mind.  Right out of the water.

 

Going from Left to Right, Top to Bottom

1. A finished gamp on the new loom.

2. Kid 2's Barbie Doll holding up a loose warp thread.  Doesn't everyone use this for tension?

3. My class projects.

4. Overshot Wrap in Berrocco yarn

5. Plain weave scarf out of Red Rocks Fiber Works.

6. The Cross.

7. Hand dyed (by me) warp thread.

8 Warp for Overshot Wrap

9. A messed up project but it's pretty anyway!

Enough for today!  Don't worry, I'll be back....

And, that's all she wrote!