oye

just oye.

now today is saturday, bernie is working.
i tried to read but fawnie in her infinite cat wisdom decided (as cats do) that books will keep but little brown kitties won't and plopped her furry rug like butt on the book.
i spent an hour kissing her little head and petting her and all that.....she licked my eyebrow
and told me that it was a start...

i came down to find the woodstove pretty much out, the back door open, and thaddeaus with his nose out of joint..........HIS woodstove wasn't hot enough
the budgies weren't active enough

the good thing is bernie brought small splits in last night, to help the pile of large stuff i got off the deck
so lighting the stove wasn't bad
it was weirdly quiet outside this morning too, no bird noise, not a traffic sound either..........

now in knitting, i am knitting an 'emily dickenson' at first i thought the directions were wildly messed up.
i showed a knitter friend and she said that it was knit from the bottom up
i had been looking at the charts and it wasn't making sense....
it came to me last night
i am so used to looking at shetland lace charts or even estonia lace charts and edgings that i was looking for a regular edging chart, and this wasn't one
it's sort of an all in one....... as if you outlined the edging in one continuous line
i at first thought there was an easier way, but now that i am knitting it, i am thinking......'you know what.... it's maybe a 'cleaner' way' that doesn't mean that the shetland or estonia knitters somehow muddied up a simple process.........but for this it is a clean line-less solution....... without a provisional cast on

yes mo, i am an experienced knitter but i am used to picking up stitches to knit on an edging or even to have it knitted as one but a clearly DEFINED edging and this isn't
i guess i am trying to say it has 'flow'
so after this i am thinking of knitting one of the more traditional shawls to see the contrast, (although i have a lot of lacey scarfy amounts of yarn floating around)

when i get to the fiber festivals this year, i am going to pick up some cobweb and do another one of these i think.
i am also debating on another ice queen for my sister in law, this one in pink- and since she is a girly girl, most likely with pale pinkish pearls for beads

i am sorry about yesterday's post, it was sort of disjointed, i was running late EVEN though i had gotten up at 4:30......... and then i got a few phone calls....and had to make a few.
and i think i also forgot a few
oye
i had a bad shock when i discovered that our insurance no longer covers 100% of diagnostic, it has a 1000 per person deductible now, and it costs more as well.
i found OUT when i got billed!
another bill i was not expecting
this was for all that genetic testing......which isn't cheap btw.
i have never HEARD of insurance having a deductible just on diagnostics.......have any of you?
so this means no mammography, no biopsy on my thyroid, no T-3/T-4 tests for my levels for my meds
cause we can't afford it!
bernie won't be able to get his physical either, we don't have the money!
so effectively we are paying for insurance we can't use.

now, donald, i can't put a web cam up, i am going to have to get new batteries for the camera and do a few video's of the duckies..........and when the weather gets warmer and i can take the budgies out i will also do a few of them
the cats are pretty boring, they just basically sleep alot unless they are getting into trouble
ok so that would be DA BOY getting into trouble-- and then i am normally trying to rescue either one of the girls he's beating up or something he's not supposed to play with
oye

now it's going to be cold it looks like, all day.........so all day will be stoking the stove
i hope my baby plants outside are ok
i still can't believe that the back door was opened all night
oye

i am drinking Puerto Rican coffee this morning
vickie brought it back from puerto rico for me, i think that it was grown there, and it's really good......
it's a tiny packet so it won't be around too long but every once in a while i brew up a pot and today was the day.

i am hoping to get back to the drawing board over the weekend
i have two drawings waiting to be laid out
and as soon as the endless nightmare of tax season, and renew the insurances season is all over, i hope to make an art supply order....... bristol board, ink, watercolor papers (the good stuff) qouashe, brushes, and some odds and ends ...........meanwhile i am working on the paper doll clothing sheets and i will finish up the bristol with the next few drawings (i want the high end bristol now, i have been using the pro grade but now i want the next grade up......what's it called?  'insane artist' grade? and a plate finish)
i could use some drawing pencils as well.......not many, a couple of the higher range H
and one or two of the B's
like a B4 and maybe a B7
and a sharpener, as i am SICK of using the Exacto knife to sharpen the pencils

i really need to bake bernie some snickerdoodles........and my cousin nick as well.
i am going to put a few rolls of cookie dough in the freezer too
it will actually save me TIME that way.......do a few days of big batch stuff and then have it
oye
i need three of me.......... younger, stronger and with a lot more energy