tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12005622013000991402024-03-13T12:32:16.978-05:00Knit Witch BlogKnit Witchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10400889613172852942noreply@blogger.comBlogger782125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1200562201300099140.post-20485083204128115742011-06-23T18:33:00.001-05:002011-06-23T18:35:12.240-05:00Remember me?Wow! It's been a while, eh? It just seems like life has been moving at lightning speed lately! We have been spending a lot of time in Atlanta over the summer while I work clinical hours at the free clinic in downtown (always interesting!) and teach a community clinical class for Emory. I LOVE the community clinical! It has been really nice to actually have time to talk to the students and work Knit Witchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10400889613172852942noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1200562201300099140.post-11494713586586596762011-05-05T05:00:00.000-05:002011-05-05T05:00:11.132-05:00Work Day!We have some friends who are trying to sell a house for a friend of theirs that passed away some time ago. They asked for some help in getting the place "spruced up" a bit in exchange for donating some of the money from the sale towards the purchase of a much needed tractor for us at Feed Fannin. The house is really cute, is on a great piece of property and has beautiful landscaping and a creek. Knit Witchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10400889613172852942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1200562201300099140.post-56077181230929110632011-05-04T05:00:00.002-05:002011-05-04T05:00:05.736-05:00EasterSo, last Saturday my dad called me. This is how the conversation went:
Dad: Hey! Do you guys want to come over for Easter lunch?
Me: Sure! Uhhhh.......when is Easter?
Dad: Tomorrow!
Me: Oh. Oh! Sure!
Luckily, we didn't have any other plans so we were able to go! We had a great time and Nathan and Tiana were able to join us too. One of my dad's business partners showed up dressed as the Knit Witchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10400889613172852942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1200562201300099140.post-52148382356335171602011-05-03T05:00:00.001-05:002011-05-03T05:00:02.349-05:00Stitches SouthI know you have all been anxiously awaiting some pictures from Stitches South! We had an AMAZING time as always. It is always great to see good friends. Of course, the Scalini's dinner was totally awesome and I think we had a record crowd this year! We completely packed the banquet room and I think everyone had a really good time. Per usual, it seems I am always the one taking the pictures and Knit Witchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10400889613172852942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1200562201300099140.post-69696499188304434472011-05-02T05:00:00.000-05:002011-05-02T05:00:12.821-05:00New kid on the block!Remember poor Red, our rooster that never really amounted to being much of a rooster? Red was our special needs chicken that just was never right. He had a good life with us until he ended up getting ill. As quirky as he was, we loved that rooster and he was very entertaining! Well, the girls have been without a rooster now for about 6 months and haven't seemed to mind not having a man Knit Witchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10400889613172852942noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1200562201300099140.post-10205942114296415902011-04-29T05:00:00.002-05:002011-04-29T05:00:04.687-05:00Happy Anniversary!!Happy anniversary to my sweet husband! Today marks the beginning of our 7th year married. So, 6 years under our belt so far! Honestly, this is one of the better decisions I have made in my life. Thank you sweetheart for being my best friend and always being here. I am enjoying the ride. I look forward to MANY more anniversaries with you!! :) I love you Wayne!!
These pictures Knit Witchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10400889613172852942noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1200562201300099140.post-83739678499230694622011-04-28T05:00:00.000-05:002011-04-28T05:00:12.697-05:00Optimistic hunting
The other day I was walking around downstairs in our house and I happened to look out the window. I noticed what appeared to be a huge bird on top of our shed. At first, I thought it looked like a pretty chunky heron because of the shadows. But as I moved around a bit to get a better look, I could see it was one of our Canada Geese that frequent our pond. I have never seen them hanging out on Knit Witchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10400889613172852942noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1200562201300099140.post-20627562741855629002011-04-27T05:00:00.002-05:002011-04-27T05:00:13.494-05:00ShitakesWayne and I decided to try our hand at raising some shitake mushrooms. Our friends Reggie and Sheila raise them and they are DELICIOUS! The taste between home-grown and store bought shitakes is pretty amazing. Reggie and Sheila had a party over at their house a few weeks ago and several of us brought logs to inoculate with mushroom spores. This was a serious undertaking and it took us all day to Knit Witchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10400889613172852942noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1200562201300099140.post-81144892215814793102011-04-26T05:00:00.000-05:002011-04-26T05:00:13.860-05:00Dirt BathI tell ya. These chickens sure do love a good dirt bath. Look how happy they look!
The other ones were out wandering around in the yard close by awaiting their turn for the fun.
I love watching the chickens take pleasure in the simple things in life! It really does not take much to make them happy.Knit Witchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10400889613172852942noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1200562201300099140.post-86452500915811984532011-04-25T05:00:00.001-05:002011-04-25T05:00:09.412-05:00Finally!Poor Wayne built this cute little island for our pond so that the frogs and birds would have a safe place to hang out. We haven't seen anyone use it except for one bullfrog last year. Finally, we saw one of the geese on it the other morning! I wish we had a better place out there for them to nest so we would have some baby geese soon!Here he is out there looking for his buddy.Knit Witchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10400889613172852942noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1200562201300099140.post-45193180640094807742011-04-22T05:00:00.000-05:002011-04-22T05:00:13.576-05:00WindyWe had some severe wind here a few weeks ago. We are in this little valley between mountains and the wind really whips through here. It was especially bad one night and we were under tornado warnings. It was a little scary.This flower pot full of lavender got blown over. I know this does not seem like a big deal but this thing is heavy. I tried to move it a few days before the storm and I Knit Witchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10400889613172852942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1200562201300099140.post-31658848160467954552011-04-21T05:00:00.000-05:002011-04-21T05:00:08.728-05:00This is whyWe have a lot of people ask us WHY we live in Blue Ridge. It does seem to be sort of a pain with me working in Atlanta. However, I'm only working one day a week and we have an apartment there so it really isn't a big deal. We enjoy the chance to get back to the city to see friends and family on a regular basis.I took some pictures of our place the other day. It was about 75 degrees and beautiful Knit Witchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10400889613172852942noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1200562201300099140.post-39662619600957566652011-04-19T05:00:00.000-05:002011-04-19T05:00:05.350-05:00Spring!YAY! It's so exciting to finally have some nice warm temperatures out there! A few weeks ago we had a warm snap and the toads got right to work. Now, since we have no fish left in our little pond because the snakes ate them all, we have a bumpercrop of toadpoles! There are like a zillion of them......see?We have a few flowers coming up.And the fish in our big pond are asking for handouts again!Knit Witchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10400889613172852942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1200562201300099140.post-40360072734030177992011-04-18T05:00:00.001-05:002011-04-18T05:00:04.561-05:00Wild AdventuresMiss Nessie has been an indoor cat since day 1. However, our other two cats go in and out as they please and we bring them in at night to save them from being eaten by coyotes. Keeping one cat in while the other two go in and out has been a major pain. Plus, Nessie is fast. She can scoot around you faster than you can say "lightning". So, we are worried that she is going to scoot out the door Knit Witchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10400889613172852942noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1200562201300099140.post-23139336777050228652011-04-15T13:35:00.001-05:002011-04-15T13:38:55.894-05:00Still AliveI know, you are all wondering if we are still alive, right? Well, maybe not but I'm letting you know that we are anyway. I do have several blog posts ready to go (and have for about 2 weeks now!) but I keep forgetting to ask my husband to resize the pictures for me so I can put them up. So, consider this my official picture asking procedure Mr. Newberry! :)Yesterday, we drove to Atlanta to Knit Witchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10400889613172852942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1200562201300099140.post-74077004285015987512011-03-31T05:00:00.001-05:002011-03-31T07:31:05.229-05:00App World and ResearchResearch. That seems to be the story of my life lately, which is fine with me because I actually really like research! Tomorrow begins my journey into phase II of III in my PhD program. It feels good to actually feel like I am making some progress! Tomorrow begins the research courses for my dissertation. There are 4 classes and they end with the semester long comprehensive exam that moves me Knit Witchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10400889613172852942noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1200562201300099140.post-17882085160939236022011-03-30T05:00:00.000-05:002011-03-30T05:00:10.772-05:00Nessie UpdateRemember this?And this?Here are a couple of updated Nessie (and Petey!) pictures!!Knit Witchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10400889613172852942noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1200562201300099140.post-27118146546037171832011-03-29T05:00:00.000-05:002011-03-29T05:00:05.892-05:00UpdatesWe have had a lot of stuff going on around here lately, as you saw yesterday. Unfortunately, one of the things that is suffering is dyeing yarn for Knit Witch! We have managed to get some done though and put on the website. You can find it HERE! There are still some yarn bowls available on the website as well HERE.Here's a few of the yarns we put up:Of course, there are a few others there as Knit Witchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10400889613172852942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1200562201300099140.post-15690745565808410352011-03-28T05:00:00.001-05:002011-03-29T05:08:29.491-05:00New ProjectsWe have a new project going......surprise, surprise, right? A couple of my students are involved with the Atlanta Day Shelter and started a rudimentary garden for the people who come there. The Atlanta Day Shelter is a place for women and children to go during the day who stay in the homeless shelters at night. Here is what the students put together for a garden last year:Not necessarily Knit Witchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10400889613172852942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1200562201300099140.post-23330186111827866632011-03-16T05:00:00.001-05:002011-03-16T05:00:09.568-05:00Roku!!A VERY cool friend of mine recommended this awesome new product to me called a Roku box. Have you heard of this? It's a little box that you hook to your tv and can stream hulu, netflix, and a variety of other streaming channels through. She told me it was SO easy to set up and worked great and just works with your wireless internet.I was like "RIGHT". Nothing works that easy when it comes to Knit Witchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10400889613172852942noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1200562201300099140.post-68927640968121260802011-03-15T05:00:00.000-05:002011-03-15T05:00:06.883-05:00Hooray for DK!!!I got this new yummy MCN (80/10/10 merino/cashmere/nylon) DK weight yarn and decided to see what this would look like knit up in a sock. I like it! I'm telling you, you can shave YEARS off of your life by knitting socks with DK weight rather than fingering weight yarn! The problem, usually, is that the fabric ends up too dense to be a comfortable sock. I knit these on size 3 needles and they are Knit Witchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10400889613172852942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1200562201300099140.post-44319270802385156052011-03-14T05:00:00.002-05:002011-03-14T05:00:07.487-05:00Finito!Yay! Wayne's sweater is finished and I think it looks pretty darn good myself! This is the Rugby sweater in a past issue of Knit Simple. I have knit this pattern twice now so I know it's a good pattern. The only modification I made on this one is that I made the collar brown instead of green on Wayne's. I came PRECARIOUSLY close to running out of green yarn but I actually like the brown collar Knit Witchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10400889613172852942noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1200562201300099140.post-72076992672929691652011-03-11T05:00:00.003-05:002011-03-11T05:00:04.576-05:00More video informationI guess I should have given you the link to the videos in the previous blog post, eh? You can view the new (and old) videos HERE. We re-uploaded a couple of them because the video quality was a little wonky so they are better now. All together we ended up with 11 new videos - woo hoo!!I am still planning to do videos on:Entrelac knittingShort rowsSeamingThese will have to be on a future upload. Knit Witchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10400889613172852942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1200562201300099140.post-68113944003829332702011-03-10T05:00:00.000-05:002011-03-10T05:00:06.088-05:00Videos!Hello out there! Wayne and I have been hard at work on some new videos. We SERIOUSLY need a new video camera because the one we have sucks (you know, ancient technology from like 5 years ago). So, as soon as we get everything downloaded and edited (THANK YOU wonderful husband for doing all of that so that I may remain ignorant and less stressed about the videos) we'll have them up on YouTube. Knit Witchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10400889613172852942noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1200562201300099140.post-71954984771008037842011-03-04T05:00:00.001-05:002011-03-04T05:00:14.144-05:00HelenOn the way to Clarkesville, we stopped in Helen, GA. If you have never been there, it is a quaint, interesting little town. The whole place it set up like a little German village (or at least what Americans perceive a little German village would be like).Sort of a weird thing to find in the middle of GA but, there ya have it! This place was packed with people and it was pretty chilly outside. Knit Witchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10400889613172852942noreply@blogger.com3