Sad Day

Don't read this if you don't want to be brought down. I wasn't going to post today because it's been a very sad one. My work day was to start with two dogs coming at 8:30. The new client shows up with only one dog saying that the 15 year old dog isn't doing well. OOOOO.K. Just so happens that our family has decided to put our 15 year old beagle down today because he's not doing so god either. Everyone said good bye to him this morning before school and I was left to do the dirty deed following my work day. Well, my seven dogs are now down to six due to the no show and then the phone rings. It is the man that has the little poodle/shih-tzu that I have been grooming since it was a puppy about 15 years ago. (What is it with 15 today?????) He says he can't make his 9:00 apt. because he has been up with his "puppy" all night. She hasn't eaten in two days and has been throwing up all night. All choked up by this I time, I told him not to worry abot it. He said he'd call me later and let me know what the vet said. Well he called all right, just as I was walking out the door to take care of our crippled up old dog and that was all I could take. Bawled like a baby for the next 45 minutes. When it rains it pours. And why is it that doing something so nice for the dog has to feel so HORRIBLE for me??
Thanks for listening, I feel a little better. On an up note. I went to my quilt meeting and finished a halloween wall hanging. Finishing is good. Will try to get a picture on soon. Don't feel much like racing tonight.
Have a good night.

I'm back:)

Not that I really ever left, have just been soooo busy with the holiday. The company has left, the turkey is soup, kids are in school and I'm back to work. Things are almost back to normal. Now let the Christmas prep begin.
Thanks for all the comments on my finnished sock. I really am proud of it. I was able to knit on it a little over the weekend but ended up tinking more than knitting and messed it up and had to wait for The Sock Doc Arleta to fix it. She left a little bit ago and my sock is all better again:0) Now I'm happy because I can knit again. Let's hope I make no more mistakes.
Have Christmas prep to tend to before school gets out. Have a great day. Off and racing.
P.S. This is a scarf that I'm trying to knit when the sock is in down time. It's going very slow but it will match a headband that Arleta made for me. Now if I get it done before winter I'll be all set.

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Hope everyone is ready for the big day. I'm trying to get to that point. After I groom nine dogs tomorrow I will have half the battle beat. The pies should be done in a couple of minutes and I will make homemade cinnamon applesauce tomorrow. Have to wait for the kids, they like to use the apple corer peeler slicer from Pampered Chef. It is soooo awesome. Company coming tomorrow, so probably won't post much this long weeknd. Hope to get in some knitting though. May everyone have a safe and most enjoyable Thanksgiving weekend. Oh that's the timer!!! Gotta race - Good Night :)

First Sock!!!!:)

OH. MY. GOSH! YIPEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I finished my first SOCK!!!! I'm sooooooooo HAPPY!!!! It fits! It's great and I love everything about it!!!!! Have already made it through half of the ribbing of the second one! I want it done as I sit here with one hand knit sock on and the other kind of sock on. Too bad my knitting will be minimal as heavy work load and Thanksgiving dinner approach. At least it's stared. The challenge will be to get them to match, as the first sock's last row turned out to be red. What are the odds??? I think it will be close. Racing off to dinner now. Keep on knitting.


P.S. Finally changed my profile picture. Guess I have finally excepted the fact that halloween is over:( One of my top favorite holidays, if you hadn't guessed. Anyway, yes that is me. I'm modeling my very first knitting project. A scarf and yes it is made out of Red Heart yarn from a hundred million years ago. But I was pretty certain that I would hate knitting and it would end up in a box somewhere. I wonder what happened? Knitting Rocks! LD took the picture, and either I'm slouching or the room is crooked--Hmmmmmm.
Have a great night!

Tuesday! Day off! Yeah!

You have to love day's off. Especially after yesterday, eight dogs left all clean and beautiful. Alot of hard work but it pays off when the client picks up the dog and is soooo happy. Picture came out a little blurry, but this is some of what I do.

So today I worked my son's class at school for about 45 min. to help out the teacher. Second grade, those kids are so fun:) Now I'm home again and my mission is to get my halloween stuff put away. Yes, I know how bad that sounds because my little 2 year old niece came over the other day and told her mom that she had to tell Aunt Cindy that halloween is over. So that's my goal to finish that before noon. I will treat my self to 15 minute breaks to fit in some knitting, as I did to rows before going to the school this morning. After school we're having the cub scout den meeting, which I will also be cooking dinner for because it will be from 5:15 to 6:30 and then I'm off to a quilt meeting at 7:00.
Here's a picture of my dishcloths that I have made. They are so fast and fun. Have about four more skiens of yarn to make more but I am addicted to my sock right now:)
Hope everyone has a great day and gets a lot of knitting time in. Off and racing:)

Just wanted to say thanks for the comments and that I am having fun hearing from people from all over the place. Had a request to see my sock. So even though it's not done, I took a picture of it. Maybe this will give me a little more insentive on getting it done Wasn't able to knit much on it today. Day off??? What day off??? Did knit a row before my shower and a row at the jewlery party I attended after church. Took it to the cub scout pack meeting but the fire dept. visited, which was interesting and most of all my son earned his bobcat patch:0) I am soooooooo proud of him- purple puddles. Wrapping up dinner now and hope to get in some knitting time before the sandman gets here. Have a good night.

Love Saturday!!!

Such a nice day - Saturday. No dogs to groom. Could almost sleep in too, if the kids didn't wake up earlier on the weekend then they do for school:)
We had a lot of snow fall here last night, O.K., only a couple of inches, but any more than flurries is too much for me:)
Had a really nice time knitting last night on my sock. It is really looking nice. As a newbie, I'm still really impressed with stripping yarn. Hope the second one will sort of match.
Kids had two birthday parties today and then friends over too. I tell you, you better stick a fork in me I'm just about done.
Have been looking at old pics on the puter and thought I'd share a couple of quilt pics.
Have to take kids home now. Have a great night.

Can I post Now???? How about now???

Well, every time I try to post, blogger shuts down:( Hey, we might be on to something here it's letting me type!!!!! It has been horrible not to be able to post.
Finally was able to upload a picture, don't know what happened to the comment part. Anyway, that is a group effort qilt that some friends of mine worked on together at our weekly quilt meeting. Was very cool, kind of like an old time quilting bee. This is a charity quilt for breast cancer, if you hadn't guessed and will be auctioned off in 2007 on Ebay for the Susan B. Kohlman foundation. I will post a more accurate date as I am informed.
Have been working on my first sock, that I am very proud of by the way (mistakes and all). Am turning the heel and made a mistake and was stuck. I REALLY hate when that happens. I feel so helpless. So last night instead of waiting for my teacher, Arleta, I sat down and tinked it myself. Of course I was in fear of dropping a whole lot of stitches and making a worse mess but I carried on and found where I had picked up an extra stitch at the back of the heel. I fixed it!!!:) Have kintted two more rows and it looks good. Would like to knit now but just finished seven dogs and have to get the kids. Start my Mommy job now:)
Off and racing...

Hey! A Picture:)

Way cool! I figured It out. Except every time I try to post blogger shuts me down. So this could take a whlie as I type and save one sentence at a time.

Racing Away

Well, tried to post yesterday twice but blogger wouldn't let me. Shut down twice half way through my typing. Anyway didn't have any me time for crafting the other night because a trip down state came up so I was cram packing.
Did want to post that yesterday morning just before we had to leave for school, my husband spotted a ten point buck standing just beyond the orchard behind our house. What a rack:) Of course he had to try to get pics but couldnn't get close enough. He did say that when he did get near enough to see him he also saw he was with a doe, they were bedding down at the back property line. The doe spooked and ran through the bobbed wire fence (twang) then the buck followed. On the other side of the fence they settled for a bit before the buck spooked. What and awesome site. He reared up turned in the air and started bounding away with the doe following. Very cool to see that out our kitchen window let me tell you. Needless to say the kids were a little late for school. OOPS:( Oh well, sometimes you just have to stop and enjoy God's creations. We don't hunt at all, but we do have a lick stone in the orchard just so we can watch them. The kids think it is to cool.
Hope everyone has a great weekend and I'll try to post again on Monday. Off and running again.
Well back again, just a quick note about a typical day down state.
Sewing store to drop off machine for cleaning, then Sam's for eye exam and stuff, then Optimeyes for glasses (BUMMER)-but it is nice to see. Back to Mom's and grabbed kids and took them to Chuckie Cheese's for lunch, took son to get hair cut and dropped them off at brothers, then picked up sewing machine, back to pick up glasses, then to Walmart to clothes shop, then home again to get family to go to dinner, then FINALLY back home to mom's to rest. Lasted maybe 15 minutes or so and decided to groom their dog. Is there any reason I should not be having this glass of wine??? Have a goodnight, I will and I will try hard not to race until morning:)

Made it through another day

Here I am again. Almost same time and definately the same place. ( wish this had spell check) Six more cute doggies walked proudly fresh and clean out into the day and my shop is even swept already:) Kids are doing homework, dinner is almost done, no where to be tonight. Hummmmm, Knit? Quilt?? Knit?? Quilt?? Probably quilt, as my first sock I have ever tried to knit is at turn the heel and my teacher from Arleta's Motley Wool has to help me with it. Oh yeah, there is that dish cloth and the scarf and the...... Yes, I am one whom likes to start and start and start. So when I learn how to put pics on here it will usually be something and a cause for celebration when I acually do finish something.
Did try to give blood today. It's been almost eight years since I've been. Boy, kids keep ya busy:) Anyways they turned me down:( Due to a head cold. They said to come back next month. And I will.
Off to slop the kids, tame the laundry and then maybe some time for me:) Gotta race.

So Much Time on my Hands

I can't believe I am starting a blog as it seems like most of the time I hardly have time to breath, but a friend of mine posts on her blog and when I do get a minute I do like to read it and a few others as well, so here I am. I can't promise how often I will post for as I sit here I still have a bunch of dog hair to sweep up in my grooming salon. Six dogs and what a mess!!! Kids are doing homework and need showers, laundry to be folded etc. etc. etc. Gotta race:)