happy easter to you all

 here are some shots of damask, at about row 48 or so, i used beads instead of nupps, the first set of nupps are yellow topaz beads. the second are ruby (you can't see them in these pictures as it's like row 67 for the second set) and the third set of nupps will either be purple or orange..........sounds awful but works very well.  i really like this shawl pattern, and i really like this yarn colorway.... it's so me! (a muddle of all the colors under the sun no?, yup.......me !!!)
i am so glad i have more cause i want a hat to match this one so bad,........at least i won't look like the mismatched crazy old bag lady then .............just look like a crazy old lady?
hahahahahaha
(sometimes i really wonder how bernie puts up with me?.........oye)



i really need to get the ham defrosted today.
and maybe i should color some eggies? we got eggs now........boy do we have eggs
i wish that we could eat on the deck but there is going to be rain i hear
we really need to cover that damn deck with a roof
now this morning so far, i have gone down to retrieve an egg from the 5000 year old chickens......... dulcette is laying but if i leave them after she announced .......henrietta the senile 5000 year old chicken who thinks she is a rooster EATS the damn egg.......so since normally it's death for chickens to eat eggs......i schlep down and get the still warm egg before that senile chicken gets it in her head.

i am still working on the old computer, now i think it's the power supply and the memory.....so i think it's an under a 100.00 fix......
i was also doing a logo for a start up with a friend of mine, only to discover that i can't access any programs from the laptop......... so now the tower really needs to be fixed NOW.......
i wonder if i can rig up FRANKEN-tower..........just to crank up my hard drive?
my font catalog is on there, and i didn't get it off yet.

i have to say, i burnt supper sorta last night......i was busy working on fonts for a logo, and forgot the sausage and peppers were still simmering....
bernie got home and i realized it
he said it was great and didn't taste burnt at all (he actually said it was good)
but i felt terrible about it
now tonight i think is pizza but we'll see

we both forgot to get buckets and pans in last night so i am thinking my day pens will be a wreak today.....overnight raccoon damage............or skunk etc.
i thought he would do pails and pans, he thought i had already done it.
that doesn't happen often thank goodness but it did last night

i just hope i remembered to close the garden gate too...........i hope so or the new plantings will all be gone.

i keep getting up to the rumble of the oil furnace. i can't stoke the wood stove as it's way too warm out to get draft now, but it's apparently too cold to go without heat. oye
THIS is when i wish we had solar, just a greenhouse really....... with a nice heat sink ......(like, mmmmmmm, i don't know...maybe the stone walls on the south side of the HOUSE?)

now just a fast off track ramble........i want to make more stitch markers, cause i CAN.........and cause they are fast fun. so maybe i need to get more beads?
it was relaxing making them last weekend (was it last weekend?) i think so--
plus they are so pretty to use on whatever a person is knitting......you know?
(if you don't knit, just nod knowingly ok?)
anyway i still have not picked up the flat black spray paint yet...... (for the bird cages to house the black faux crows for halloween...........) so maybe another short road trip is in order......don't tell thaddeaus or he'll not speak to me again for a week

ok i have to start the day offically now
ttyl
and have happy holidays

vi