I'm back... twice in a month... main reason is I'm bored... Larry is watching "Jail".. i get tired of watching all the drunks and druggies go thru jail.... so I have been knitting... got 3 shawlets done,one for my partner at the Food Bank, and one for a silent auction, and the one for Joe's Theresa.... and have started another one... Garter and Lace... plain garter stitch with lace around the edge, in dark brown alpaca, machine spun by Crofton wool Mills, no longer in business, and i do miss Marie and her fibre...
got my Knit Pick needle set... i do love them... but couldn't believe that they didn't include the connectors for the long cords... have to order some...

Count down to the 65th birthday... got my Gold card a couple of weeks ago, now i am really old... I am
going over to Nanaimo June the 5th..going to spend my birthday with my spinny friends on the island.  There is going to be the Regional Dog Agility that weekend, so plan on spending time with Toni and then spend a day at the Trial, and then on Sunday, I get to volunteer.. the dogs come from all over BC and the Yukon, I will never be good enough to run in that trial, but i really want to see them.. Wynn is doing better, got her on MSM, condrotin, and glucosamin (spelling  ?????), I am too lazy to get up to get the bottle to check out the spelling.  She is not limping, so i will start her doing agility again, Levi has been going to her class, I just couldn't miss any classes.  He has been doing good, but I won't trial him as he always did well at class, but messed up at Trials..I won't tell ya how many 100's of dollars i spent for 5 Qualifying scores... I had planned on running Wynn in April but had to cx as she was limping so bad...  There will be a few trials during the summer that i would like to do, but we will see..i need to win the Lottery, so  i can go to more trials..

Green House is doing good.. although even under plastic i lost 4 pepper plants and one tomato to frost.. so we put a little heater in to keep the frost at bay... tomatoes are starting to flower, and the one pepper that didn't freeze is starting to bloom.. The fruit trees here in the Nicola Valley are blooming like crazy, I have never seen so many blooms on some the old apple trees beside the Hwy.. even our two baby apple trees are covered with flowers, and my cherry trees are covered with baby cherries, I can hardly wait for them to ripen..  The saskatoons and choke cherrys are really blooming, i hope that doesn't mean it is going to be a bad winter..(lots of food for the wild critters)

My camera isn't working, so I have to use Larry's, i just change the memory card, so will take some pictures of the green house tomorrow...

I have had lots of emails from spinners wanting to know when the invites for the fall retreat will be going out.. Andrea Lawrence has sold her business, so not sure if the new girl is interested in vendoring...  Well I am off to bed, I have been waking up at 5 am this past week... need to read a bit, and hope i don't drop my book...

Take care   S

PS... this is the farm house that Larry was born in,  they had a dairy farm in Fort Langley in the 40's.. now it is a turf farm... lovely old house...

Hi... okay, I changed the picture, now i have to write something... okay, that's it... I'm done

Okay, just kidding... nothing on the TV for me anyway.. Larry is watching "Swamp People"... dumb, dumb show... all they do is shot alligators..again and again and again..

Got a New computer /lap top... love it, it is so fast..even backed it up on to a memory stick... don't want to loose all my pictures... been going thru them to get rid of the ones i don't want, or the out of focus ones..
Weather has been okay, very little sun, and it is pouring rain right now..need it to warm up so i can go rake the lawn..

Agility hasn't been going too well either... Wynn is limping, so no agility until it is better, but i have been taking Levi, as i had paid for the month, and i didn't want to miss classes that i paid for... He is enjoying himself, I guess he need the winter off... now have to decide if i pay for the next month and wait to see if Wynn is better or take Levi until she is better... have to decide soon.. and the knee has been acting up too... need to go to Dr and see if he can make my boo boo better

Larry and I both had the flu, mine last about 5 days, (I had flu shot), and his lasted 3 weeks, (no flu shot), and he still if feeling weak, he lost 12 pounds, and he can't afford to loose weight.. he is going  to Dr tomorrow, I think he is low on iron...but we will see..

Youngest son is moving again...was in an apartment in Coquitlam, and it had  ROACHES.. just bout drove him nuts, of course he had never even seen one... he had signed a year lease on the apartment, he complained so much they released him from his contract..and is moving into a new building next week... he is so paranoid that he is washing all his clothes and making sure there is no bugs, and then putting them in a box, and duct taping every opening...poor boy..

Desert Mesa Spring Retreat is just around the corner, sure looking forward to it... it is a much smaller retreat, but i like it better, alots of fun..more intimate....got to go thru my fibres to see what i have left to spin...don't need to buy anything... I have been knitting a shawlette for Joe's girlfriend.. it was suppose to be for her birthday, in Feb... doing the Flower basket, and it is turning out great.. should have it finished before the retreat for a show and tell..

Yankee has been talking up a storm...  he is so funny... Wynn doesn't like Cleo the cat... so we are always watching her with the cat... and I am always telling Wynn "Leave her alone"..One day last week, Cleo was driving me nuts, she wanted out, but won't come to the door... so when Larry came in for lunch, i asked him to put her out (Cleo is his cat), he picked her up and walked past the bird cage, and the crazy bird yelled at him  "leave her alone"... we laughed so hard, he almost dropped the cat... today he kept say.."What ya barking at"..he is picking up our every words so easy now..  I get "Morning Dear" every morning..He is always asking the dogs "do ya want out" Larry taught him to say "abandon ship" abandon ship"..it is hard to find little sayings for him... if ya think of anything interesting let me know..
okay, off to bed... need to go read for a bit... take care everyone, and I will be BACK.. i promise... nite nite..

So Sorry, but life got in the way

I have been busy, but haven't gotten much accomplished... I did muck out my bedroom... tons of shoes, and other stuff (crap) went to the food bank... ie.. a pair of slippers that had batteries in them, to keep your feet warm,  a cute pair of cowboy boots that i only wore once, (they were red), and it was tough getting rid of them, but they were a hand me down....a set of 4 pictures of exotic flowers that were still in it wrapping cello..that i really like when i bought them, but didn't like when i got home... one of those big body pillows that someone gave Larry...the closet sure does look better...

Well that was written a month ago and that was as far are i got... I am just getting over the cold/flu what ever ya want to call it..started on Tuesday night, and just starting to feel like i will live...only thing i did today was strip the bed and wash the sheets... of course Larry, Joe and Theresa all had it too... only Larry is still ill.. and of course you know what men are like when they get sick..  I would be so much better if i could quit coughing..I was so sick i even cx my agility class and you know how hard that is for me..
Got a lovely new laptop 2 weeks ago... so sleek and so fast.. bought Larry a wireless mouse..he complained that the old computer was slow, now he complains that the mouse moves too fast..just can't make him happy...
Dogs are all fine, although they miss being out with Larry..Yankee has learned some new words this month... first one being "abandon ship" "abandon ship".. and the other wasnt a new word, he just said it at the appropraite time... we yell at the dogs to leave the cat alone, one night Larry picked her up to put her outside, and as he walked by the cage, Yankee yelled at him "leave her alone"  we laughed so hard i almost peed myself..
Snow is almost gone, although it did snow in Kamloops about 18 inches last week.. not a flake here..
have been spinning up some lovely white blue faced Leicester, love that stuff.. I have done 2 pounds, now i have to find something to make out of it..promised my son's girl a shawlette or shawl depending on how i am feeling...  better go... i need to change the picture, but my mind isn't too clear today..

Okay i am still alive

Sorry that i haven't been writing again.... i have been playing Scrabble on FB, and love it... trying to keep my mind young, as i am getting old..will be 65 this year... Planning on spending my Birthday weekend with Toni, Melody, and Marie, and my agility buddies.  The BC Alberta Yukon Dog Agility Regional will be in Naniamo this June... so would love to go down to my Moms, spend the night with her, catch the Ferry over to Naniamo, spend the day with Toni and my spinny friends, and then volunteer at the Regional.. it is on for 3 days so will try to volunteer or a day or two...then head back to Mom's on the Monday, and then back to Merritt on the Tuesday.. talked to Larry about it today, and he said he was fine with it...
Our Christmas was very quiet, Matt was home from the coast and Joe and Teresa were here for the day, we had a home grown turkey and my goodness is was perfect.. moist and lot of favour.. Larry did a good job of feeding them..Larry of course had no idea what to give me for Christmas, he ended up buying me some Montana silver earrings (2 pair), very nice, i have tried for years to convince him that jewellery is always a good gift..

Wynn has been going great in her agility classes, we have been really luck this winter, only 4 dogs in our class and they haven't been coming so Wynn and I have PRIVATE lessons...works out good..i love it... going to put her into her first trial in April, the weekend after Desert Mesa Retreat, just one day, it should be fun.. i am really looking forward to taking her... Levi is doing okay.. although he does miss going to classes, I will take him when the weather warms up a bit.. it is cold for him to just sit and wait for us...
Just went looking for a picture of Kayda, the Min Pin..couldn't find any... she has finally decided that this is home.. although she goes wild when Matt comes for a visit.. she jumps into his arms, and he is over 6 feet tall.. she sticks to him like glue.. he does miss her, but he lives in an apartment now..the cold was very hard on her -30 for a couple of days..she was wearing her winter coat and i made a mohair sweater for her (hand spun of course), she looked like a football.. just out long enough to pee and then back in.. I had better get my camera charged up and that some pictures of all of them..

Larry is staying busy in the shop, rebuilding all his old motors and drag saws..this is a picture of one of the drag saws he rebuilt.. it was used for cutting logs into lengths before there were chain saws.. so actually they were the first chain saws..  oh ya, there's Kayda...
Better go, time to go feed the pack.. Kayda in the house, Levi in the back porch, Wynn, Dixie and Jackson in the shop... i promise i will be back soon.... S