Happy Birthday!!!

Well, today is Nathan's birthday! He turns 20 today. Later today we'll be driving down to Kennesaw to meet him for a late lunch. Wanna see what we got him for his birthday?

He knows he is getting it (because he asked for it since his last one crapped out) but he should still be really excited about it!!!

OK - moving on to the Thanksgiving report. So, on Thursday we went to my dad's house for Thanksgiving dinner. Remember way back when when I told you he was getting ready to add on to his house? This is what the house looked like then.

This is what it looks like now!!!

They have been really delayed because of how much rain we have had in the past few months but things are finally coming along. Here are some of the view out of the 2nd story windows:

Nice views of the farm life, eh?

It is amazing how small the slab looked when they poured it and how HUGE the addition is now that they have walls built.

Monday already?

Wow. Here it is Monday and I am completely unprepared with a blog post for you. I have lots of pictures for you I just need to get them organized!! I will work on them tonight so you will have some interesting reading for the rest of the week. I realize interesting is a relative term...........

We had a great Thanksgiving holiday and I hope you all did too!!! We had fun at my dad's. We didn't play cards so that was good - Wayne and I got to hold onto our $6 until the next meetup. We had another Thanksgiving dinner again yesterday with our neighbor. Our poor neighbor had family staying at her house for the weekend and she was about to go over the edge having to deal with them. I won't go into all the details but let's suffice it to say that by the time they left yesterday morning she was thoroughly fed up! So, we made dinner and poured her several glasses of wine so she appears to be making a recovery from them this morning!

Later last night I spent some time ripping out about 10 inches on one of the Girl Friday sleeves. Yeah, fun right? It wasn't until I finished and had bound off that I realized............hmmmmm - I did the DECREASES for the sleeve cap but I don't think I did the INCREASES for the upper arm! Sure enough my sleeve did not appear to look like the schematic in the pattern. So.........RIBBIT! Oh WHY did I not take pictures for you?!?! I spent some time working on the sleeve correctly last night and will hopefully have the first sleeve finished tonight.

OK - I have a major announcement on the 2010 clubs coming up this week so stay tuned for that. Also, I'll be announcing our December charity plans tomorrow.

Happy Holidays to Me!

Look what came in the mail for me!


Want a hint?


It's a fancy bronzy color!




I figured it was about time for an upgrade. Wayne found a great deal on this for me at TigerDirect. The computer came with Windows Vista so I opted for an upgrade to Windows 7 because of all the negative things I have heard about Vista. I also bought the new versions of the Microsoft Office software.

Now, of course when you get new programs and a new computer there is always a learning curve, right? Well, how is this for annoying - there is no "save as" feature in Word or Excel!!! I don't know about you but I use this feature A LOT. So now, if I want to create a similar document I will have to copy all, paste it to a new document and then save it. This is going to be a challenge to remember so that I don't rewrite the original document. I use this a lot - especially when I am printing up yarn labels. If anyone has any secret trick about there being a "save as" feature somewhere - please share!!!

Other than that it's just a matter of getting used to where everything is I think. The menu looks pretty different so again, learning curve. I still have Windows XP and the previous Office versions on my desktop so I'll have to keep going back and forth between them. But, no biggie there. I'm just a little annoyed about the "save as" thing. I mean, why would they get rid of a feature like that????? Obviously, they don't print many yarn labels.

Check out this teeny tiny remote control that came with it.


I mean, this thing is SMALL. It must weigh about 1/4oz or something.


Wanna place some bets on how long it will be before I can't find this anymore?

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

I hope everyone has safe travels and a great day with friends and family. We are in Alpharetta for the day visiting my dad and hopefully not losing more money in cards!!! I'll have some farm animal pictures for you next week as well as a progress report on the home addition!

WIP Wednesday

Amazingly enough there is actual progress on the Girl Friday sweater. I have finished the back, the left side and most of the right side.



This project is moving along fairly quickly (for me anyway). I would have had the right side finished last night but we were watching Angels and Demons and I didn't want to leave the movie long enough to go get another ball of yarn! Yes, I know I could have paused it but that would have ruined the momentum, ya know? It was a pretty good movie! It actually followed the book really well. Of course, you don't get the level of detail in the movie that you get in the book but it was definitely an action packed thriller!

Today Wayne will be baking more apple pies to take to my dad's house tomorrow. We are expecting a pretty laid back day. We'll be going over there early and visiting and then probably heading back fairly early as well since we'll be leaving Petey here.

Speaking of Petey - here's a few shots of the Petemeister:

Lounging on the dock



Swimming after his toy in our pond



Lounging on the patio with his BFF Slim

What a life, eh?

Early Thanksgiving

First of all - there are new yarn bowls up on the site again!

We headed out to my cousin's house in Rome, GA for an early Thanksgiving celebration with the family. However, we are terrible bloggers because I don't think a single one of us took any pictures! We had a great time though. As predicted, Wayne and I again lost all of our money to the family peeps in cards. Good thing we only pay $3 to get in a game! So, we lost a total of $6 - not too bad but ya know - we never win! I think it's fixed.

Amazingly, I didn't even eat too much! Which really wasn't too difficult since there was a lot of meat involved. Wayne made his famous homemade apple pie! We figured that if we made two and generously brought both we would end up going home with at least one. Not so. Our other pie was confiscated by my cousin - she didn't even ask either - just told us - "Oh, I'll be keeping that pie!". It's probably best. We don't need to be eating all of that pie anyway!

As always we had a great time playing cards with a lot of laughing, goofing off and making fun of each other - it isn't really too hard with our crowd. We had a healthy mix of Democrats and Republicans so that always makes for a lively debate. Seriously - I don't understand how some of these people even stay married! :) It was a good time - even though the Redskins lost - AGAIN. Sheesh. I have actually seen that some people have Redskins related projects on Ravelry that are in hibernation until the Redskins start playing like a real team! Guess they will be hibernating until next season.

My son and his girlfriend got to go with us so it was nice to visit with them for a while. My elusive brother actually showed up as well with his new girlfriend. My cousin said to me "Well, do you know if Bob is bringing Paige?" I was like - ummmm........who's Paige? That made her feel better because she had only found out the day before about my brother's girlfriend Paige who he has been dating for 8 months apparently. She felt out of the loop but when she realized that I was even MORE out of the loop she felt much better. He does not really tell us much as you can see!

For the "real" Thanksgiving we are headed to my dad's house so that will be fun too. Until then I'll be finishing my wholesale yarn order for Only Ewe and Cotton Too and working on the new club project which we will hopefully be able to launch next week!!! What's everyone else up to this week???

Updates!

Knit Witch 2010 Club News

We have made some changes to our clubs for 2010. Namely, we have made a definitive sign up period instead of having rolling sign up (namely to save my own sanity - I’ll be completely honest with you!). The sign ups for all of the clubs are now up and sign up for 2010 will be open until December 15th. There will also be a limit on the number of people that I accept into the club this time so if you are REALLY interested be sure you sign up before December 15th. There will be more luxury fibers in next year's sock club!

If you need to know when your current club membership expires just email me at theknitwitch@gmail.com and I'll be glad to let you know.

Also - we have another club surprise coming up soon so I’ll let you know about it as soon as I have the details. We are working furiously on this project. So, don’t rush into purchasing the club just yet because you are going to have one more option soon!!!

IF YOU ARE ALREADY SIGNED UP FOR A CLUB - you are already in - assuming that your club membership extends into 2010, so not to worry. We will make special arrangements with you if your membership runs out in 2010 and you would like to continue.

Shipping changes

Knit Witch is now offering a flat $3 shipping price on ALL PRODUCTS!! Knit Witch yarn bowls and yarn make great gifts for your friends.......just sayin'...............