Socks for Sanity!

At this point in the school year, I'm so tired and so brain-dead, that I can't do any really complicated projects. I need something easy, cheerful, and amusing to work on. So I dug into my stash and founds some Online Supersocke 100 sock yarn. This yarn is dyed to be self-striping and contains many fun colors. I never know what color is coming next, so I'm totally amused with little to no effort.

Here's the first sock to date:
The color is called Tropic, and I bought it at Webs long ago. (Let's not talk about the length of time some things have been in my stash.)

With a sock like this to play with, I may survive the school year!

Duncan and Jenna

I love Teddy Bears. I have a whole collection of them. A couple have even found their way to our bed. One of these is my one and only Build A Bear Workshop bear, Jenna Marissa Jane. She used to be mine, but now she's been adopted.
Jenna is the only bear Duncan will sleep with. He absolutely loves her, and will even hold paws with her at times. Duncan is a one bear cat!

Never Judge a Cat by His Cover

This is Mikey:

Isn't he adorable? Doesn't look like the sweetest, most innocent thing you've ever seen?

This is what Mikey did to my knitting needles last night. Look closely at the tips.

Good thing he's cute.

I Think I Grew Something!

I am easily the world's worst gardener. I hate to garden, but I love pretty flowers and fresh produce. It's too early for produce, although my lettuce is coming along, but I actually have some flowers!

Maybe it's not hopeless after all.

It's a Sweater!

I'm back. I finally have a new camera, so I feel like I can really blog. I didn't realize I was so photo dependent!

Lately I've been working on a new sweater. Of course we all know how important it will be for me to have a new wool and alpaca sweater in July, which is probably when it will get done. However, that's irrelevant. The sweater needed knitting immediately. What can I say? You can't reason with knitting.

I have both the back and front done. One sleeve is also done, and the other is getting close. Here's what I have so far:

This is the front of the sweater. What you can't tell from this picture, is that the length from the armhole to the shoulder seems waaaayyy too long. Not sure what I'm going to do about that.

Here's the neckline. This is what drew me to the pattern in the first place.

And here's the sleeve. I had to shorten it some. I sure hope I did that right.

Now to finish up the other sleeve and face the terrifying makeing up. I hope it all works, because you never know when you'll need a heavy sweater in July!

PS I didn't bother to show the back, because it's boring.

Cats 101

Our Scottish Folds and I had quite an experience. Back in September, I got a phone call from someone from Animal Planet. They were doing a series called Cats 101, and they had heard that my Folds teach my class. What started as a few shots and an interview ended up as three really cool people coming to school at about 11:00 am, staying there until 6:00 pm, then coming to our house until the cats decided it was bedtime at about 9:15. The result was a really cool segment on the show which first aired in December, and continues to pop up when I least expect it.

Here are some scenes from Cats 101:

The Guys playing on the stairs. They sure thought that camera man was nuts to watch them for so long!

Mikey was described has having round cheeks. I guess that goes along with his nickname "Squirrel".
Yes, Duncan does need a bib when he eats. He's rather sloppy!

DK was the purr boy. The funny thing is that he was the worst behaved on that day, but they made him look like the perfect cat. He always comes out smelling like a rose!

Cats 101 was fun, but I'm glad it's over. The cats are back to their regular jobs teaching second graders. They like that, because their pictures do all the work. Hmm, too bad that doesn't work for humans!