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...

Oophs...  I haven't written since April.. so sorry... I have been busy... great excuse eh...I have been doing a lot of knitting, "flower basket shawl" for Joe's Theresa, swallow tail shawl for friend's birthday, and another "flower basket shawl" for a blind auction..(hmmm not sure that is the right word).. got the word..."SILENT" auction... those shawls are very easy, and only a 9 row repeat, so it is easy to remember..  Spring has been very slow coming this year..both my cherry trees are blooming.. yipee... i love cherries.. both apple trees are showing buds..a granny smith, and an Ambrosa... 

Larry decided that he was going to build me a green house this year, I have been waiting for 20+ years.. what do ya think... We have a company here in Merritt, called "good earth"..they compost soil and all kinds of good stuff, so we got a dump truck load... beautiful black stuff... you mix it 1 to 3of your own dirt.. then he got carried away (no picture yet).. he built a potatoe box (we have a tough time growing spuds in my garden boxs, they get really mushy when cooked, I think they get too much water when we water the rest of the boxes) so this box will only get water when i want it... and then he got carried away again, he wants strawberries, I hate them as they are so hard to weed, so he built another box for his strawberries, and put a heavy duty tarp on the ground.. so will go look for some plants today... I have kept him busy the last couple of weeks, meat chicks are coming today, and then the turkeys and the laying hens  are coming near the end of June..Larry wanted "Rhode Island Red chickens"  and of course the chicks are not sexed, so ya get roosters and hens, so we are hoping to get at least 12 hens, the roosters are raised for meat birds..

Picked up the chicks, they were 3 hours late.. brought them home, and of course all the dogs where under foot, I went thru the gate at the shop, turned to the left toward the chick house, and Dixie (the border collie) was waiting at the door of the chick house..   she laid in the door way while i watered and feed them... went back in a couple of hours, she won't let any of the other dogs near her CHICKS..  Joe teases her while she is in the house, he calls her and yells "Chickens" and she is at the door waiting for us... silly old girl....
Yankee has been talking up a storm, he makes us laugh every day...He has figured out when Cleo (the cat) is in... as soon as i take the dogs to bed, and Cleo is in the house, he starts calling 'Cleo, Cleo, and she comes out for her bedtime treat... and if she isn't in, he calls Levi... and believe it or not, he really knows when she in the house..  When the dogs are in trouble, and i call them, and they come right away, they get a "Yippee" and they get a treat for coming so good...now Yankee asks for a cookie (at treat time for the dogs) and yells 'Yippee'... he is waiting for the weather to warm up, so he can go outside..    Okay.. i have written enough today... although i need to change my picture..nite