Global warming??

Right now I'm not sure you could convince me about global warming...lol.

It's cold enough here to require a fire almost every day now. Sheesh, not sure my 3 bush cords is gonna last the winter! I like to hold off until the end of October before I start burning fire wood.

I was to a wedding in Collingwood yesterday. It was a lovely ceremony of James and Meegan, new friends from town. They were married outside so weather was a factor. It was quite overcast, windy and cold yesterday but just before the ceremony was about to begin, there was a break in the clouds and the sun even showed up for a while. It was very beautiful but still a tad chilly. The altar where the ceremony took place was only a few feet from Georgian Bay! Just at the end of the ceremony, two Trumpeter Swans landed on the bay behind the altar!! Holy crap, I asked them how much they had to pay for that!! hahahah.

Unfortunately my hubby was still sick with the flu/cold so I went stag. He would have been my DD so I had to be a good girl and keep it to two beers. Those who know me should be proud of me! I stuck to my guns, and had only the two.

Today I decided it's time to start planning the lamps for the house. I want to make one that will hang above the love seat in the living room and another one for a wonderful glass lamp that a friend (Jimmy-bob) gave me. It has a large round clear yellow glass base on it so I'd like to make a shade that would match.

Rusty is outside fixing my old truck. The solenoid went in it last week. Of course this happened when I was in town WITH one of my dogs. It would turn over but the started wouldn't catch. I called the tow truck guy I know and then went to the bank machine to get some cash to pay him. When I got back to the truck (remember now, I cranked it over for about 20 minutes) I thought I'd try..."One last time" Well, lo and behold ~ it started! I quickly called the tow guy back and canceled the truck. I guess it's a good thing that we replaced the battery in the truck last year. I'm concerned that now it's gonna start nickel and diming me now. The old F150 has very few clicks on it (123K) but it's getting a little long in the tooth. It's now 18 years old! I hope it makes it through another winter. Even though it's 2WD, I just toss in 3-400 lbs of sand/gravel in bags into the box strategically placed over the rear axle and it just plows through everything! It's a great old truck even though it has a crappy, easily misaligned front end.

Well, I guess I better get into the pattern books and check out what I can make for a hanging lamp. It's so dark on the love seat that it makes it hard to knit at night and that's where I like to sit and there's no room for a side table there really.

Have a great day, keep warm!
:o)

Um, yup...I'm still alive.

Wow, been a long time since I blogged. I've got blogstipation.

Been busy lately.

My oldest lad, Mike and I went on a wee road trip to visit a friend near North Bay. We had a great time. I got to properly meet my friend Loony and her family. Mike went fishing from the shore of Callander Bay. He caught a 10 pound Northern Pike! Wowee...that's a biggie.

Here's a pic of the fish:

Once back here, the work began.

First I got a commission to do a stained glass corner piece. It's been a while since I made a 120 piece item. My hands got a little sore! I love the piece he selected and the glasses we used just made the piece. Here's a picture of the completed Grapevine Corner piece:



In addition to stained glass, I have many knitting projects on the go and I'm also the webmaster for my local yarn store. I've been updating their website and hope to be publishing a large group of changes early next week. Stay tuned for the new Woollys Yarns Website.

This weekend is busy too. Tomorrow we have a wedding to attend in Collingwood. I need to get to Orangeville in the morning to weigh-in and then stop by the yarn store to pick up a ball of yarn to finish the socks I'm making for Loony's hubby. It's a great yarn that I'm using on these socks, looks wonderful worked up and feels really warm. My youngest son saw the one sock that's already made and asked who it was for...hahaha. "Hint, hint." he said to me!

Here's a picture of the first sock completed. I'm at the heel flap on the second one.



I'll try to be a good blogger and blog more often. It's one of those things that is on the To Do list but keeps getting bumped to the next day's list.

Have a nice weekend!!
B :o)