gaysknits

maybe sarah can see russia from her back yard...

and i've seen the view of russia she has from alaska and not only is it not even in her back yard but it's got nothing on the view from my back yard this past sunday afternoon!

it is fall here in the burgh and  fall in western pennsylvania brings the most fabulous landscapes and sometimes the most stormy skies.  sunday started out to be a sunny and bright and cloudless day and then suddenly the sky clouded over and the wind kicked up and it seemed certain to be a storm brewing but just as soon as it clouded over the sun broke out again and i happened to look out over the back forty and this is what i saw.  fabulous huh?

my other favorite fall sight is the red maple in my front yard which is electric in fall and lights up the whole front of the house inside and out! occasionally a leaf or two blows around back to mingle with the yelows and browns that lay around there.

nothing amazing here just a few fall hues...makes you want to knit something huh?  later...love g

peppers from the kahuna's garden....

and onions from the shop & save joined together and served with a nice peice of grilled sirloin tip roast made my sunday dinner worth having a glass of wine with!  red meat is not the most healthy meal on earth but sometimes i crave a piece of it and i scored the sirloin tip roast at the shop & save on special...buy one get one free and and i indulged myself and grilled one and made a roast with carrots and potatoes in the crock pot with the other.  both were delish. the grilled one my fav because  i swear it was like eating  steak and made better with a side of home grown spicey poblano peppers and sauteed onion mmmmm.

i scored the peppers because dr ruth thought they were too hot and i thought they were just right.  the kahuna can grow me a pepper any time he wants to!  i also managed to finish the tree jacket later sunday evening and now have a few ends to weave in and another finished project will be ready for the finished project pile.  it will be pictured soon enough. i started my third and final lady eleanor.  this one is for my mom. it is made from rowan tapestry in colors that are more muted than i usualy wear but hopefully will be perfect for her.

she has a lovely taupe shearling jacket that i think will be stunning with this but she will more than likely wear it stand alone over a blazer.  this is to be a christmas present and i think i have plenty of time to finish it...i hope!  i haven't even worn either of my lady e's yet...my favorite of the two is one i made form noro silk garden lite.  this rowan tapestry is a dk weight as was the noro and i made it a little less wide by one rectangle because both me and mom are tiny things and less bulk and less width is best for us.  i was happy with mine.  the first i made is destined to be given away in the great scarf give away of the year 2008.  i have to get all my scarves out of the cedar chest and picture them and decide which are to stay with me and which are to go and then some how come to a decision as to how they will find new homes and then  send them on their way.  they are too lovely to lock up in a chest for their entire lives.  for now i have some knitting to do and some tv to watch and i will see you all later...love   g

have you ever tried to change the sheets on your bed...

with a 95 pound german shorthair pointer laying on the bed  who refuses to get off...while you're taking the sheets off? while your putting them back on? sound impossible?  i am here to tell you it is not...it can be done and it can be done the same amount of time it takes to change the sheets on a bed without a german shorthair pointer on it.  it just looks a little like an odd sort of synchronized dog lovers ballet of sorts. it proves how stubborn and peristent a dog can be when he is convinced that his constitutional right to lay around on the bed during the afternoon in being threatened or violated.  the german thinks the bed belongs to him.  he has allowed that the guy and i can sleep on it at night and he's always happy to have an afternoon nap with one of his humans but during the afternoon it is his domain and no amount of yelling and ordering him about and trying to reason with him will change his mind.  this is a new behavior for him.  he's always been a very eager to please obediant dog but all of a sudden changing the sheets on his bed when he wants to lay on it is something about which he is willing to do battle and to go to the mat about.  ah well.  i'm sure by now he's told miss husky and all the other neighborhood dogs just what a pushover i am.  now they'll be begging for bisquits all the time  not just most of the time like they do now.  i should have been knitting this afternoon.   i am so close to being finished with my  tree jacket.

 

the cuff of the second sleeve and a little weaving in of a few ends is all i have left to do.  maybe tonight i can finish and start winding my black nature cotton into balls.  i have the urge to start knitting a  sweater with that as soon as possible. it is fall here in full force and the wearing of sweaters is in order.  i wore one yesterday as a matter of fact.  i wore my orginal bamboo tree jacket and again the sleeves stretched down to my knees.  it is blocking now as i washed it and it has shrunk to the size of a sweater that looks to be for a 5 year old but it will dry big again and we will start this cycle all over again...i just want it to go on the record that i wore a sweater that i knit myself!   i have  a few  things i need to start but this years xmas knitting is going worse than last years did.  it will be non existant i fear.  i am too too busy.  i bought some rowan tapestry to knit another lady eleanor for my mother and that will get done...i plan to start that next and of course the youngladygrandaughter is expecting a pair of fingerless gloves or at the very least a pair of gauntlets and if she gets a pair the little guy will also want some fingerless gloves and he probably still wants a scarf  and another bracelet so i am very behind on my knitting.  better get to it. later...love   g

sometimes you have so much fun...

doing something that you just don't care how utterly ridiculous you look!

in fact i believe that the more ridiculous you look the more people envy your ability to look riduculous.

it is fall and it is almost halloween and one cannot pass up the opportunity to go to a local farm...either pumpkin or apple or both.

we went to soergels apple orchard this year and while shopping in the store for apples and cider

 we couldn't resist the temptation to buy these lovely wax lips and teeth and of course we had to walk around in them much to the amusement of the many normal people in the crowd.

every time i look at these i laugh out loud.  no knitting was done today at all!  later...love   g

i did not try this...

and i have no excuse other than i just didn't.

 
the little guy was on board for this grand adventure only until he got there...and then he changed his mind when he saw the height of the rock and the lack of foot pegs in the sides of the rock which i am told is an exact replica of the rock they climb out west and they only had foot pegs in the sides of said rock for a short time when they first installed the climbing rock and they do not use them at all anymore...bummer for me!

 
i assured him he did not have to go any higher than he wanted and after he watched a few other novice climbers he decided to give it a go.

i was never on board nor was the guy.

the youngladygrandaughter was using the excuse that she had no socks and that she tried it once and was dropped but i offered my socks and in the end she couldn't resist the tempatation as she is an adventurer at heart.

they both did well and the little guy is already planning his next climb...the guy will probably join him for that one and i may join him too.

wellllll...maybe not someone has to be in charge of bringing the socks and maybe my higher purpose is to be the official bench warmer and cheering squad.  see you next time at the rock...i'll be sitting on the side with the paparazzi!  later...love   g