And not a thing got done.
Firstly had extra 3 days holidays to spring clean house, DH had accident at work, rolled the bull dozer completely over...result soft tissue neck injuries, broken elbow and ligament damage, 3 days in hospital. No spring cleaning done.
Bike long long weekend should have started on thursday to ride to Lennox Head for a HOG National Rally over the long weekend, couldn't go, as DH can't ride, bath himself or do much else with arm in plaster. A friend gave me a hug on Wednesday night at HOG meeting and told me he would have a great time for us, and would tell us all about it when they got home. Thursday afternoon received a phone call from the group were were suppose to be riding with, that same friend had an accident, his bike went in front of a car and he died instantly, so shocked I still can't believe it.
Decided to go to friends at The Rock (near Wagga Wagga), drove down friday, friends father had a heart attach a few days before, was air lifted to a Sydney private hospital, had a qaudruple heart by-pass on Monday.
We went to Beechworth in Victoria on Monday with our friends, it was so cold. All the wonderful shops had wood fires going, so warm inside.
The Beechworth Sweet Co. was great, it had beautiful, colourful gollywogs, I wanted one for Grand-daughter, but at $79.50 for the girl doll it was a bit too much, it was so bright and lovely though, I will have to look around for one later on. I went to
the Ardent Alpaca store, wonderful, it had lovely clothes, blankets etc in Alpaca, and they had a yarn and pattern section too, now I was smiling. I did buy some yarn to do the keyhole scarf pattern, I got a really nice wooden button and I joined their knitting club and got samples of the colours and yarns they stock. They have a 1ply alpaca yarn, you should have seen the scarf knitted in it. It looked lacey but wasn't.
Forgot something funny, on our way to Beechworth, we ran out of petrol in Albury, at traffic lights, thank goodness they now have a by-pass as we were on the old highway when it happened, not much traffic around, so here were 3 nearly 50 year olds, pushing the car while DH jumped in drivers seat and steered the car, with his good arm, around the corner. We laughed so hard I nearly wet myself. Girls stayed in car while guys walked for petrol. Had a good storm on the drive back to The Rock, put the wood fire on, oh so cosy and nice. Next, kettle on, hot chocolate and coffee all around, and some chocolate to eat....nice!
Got home tuesday afternoon, help #1 son mow lawns, did some washing, rang work to organise thursday and friday off, so no work until next monday. Doctor's appointments for DH on thursday and friday and a funeral on friday aswell.
And to top that off, #2 son and fiance are moving back home in December and he wants his room downstairs back (not that it has been used by anyone else, it is still how they left it. I want to put grand-daughter in it, #2 son wants him and his fiance to share the living area downstairs with #1 son, daughter-in-law and grand-daughter. I want him to use the bedrooms upstairs. Family... I wish I could just get him to agree, telling him hasn't made him realise it won't work with the lot of them downstairs, and he won't budge about giving his room up, even when I told him it was just storing his stuff and he would need to move it upstairs....oh the joy of adult children moving back home. Oh damn I have missed Packed to the Rafters again tonight, I guess I should just look at my life at the moment, that would probably be pretty close.
As for me, at this moment I have a very tight chest, this worry isn't going to be doing me any good.
As for knitting, I have finished the 100% bamboo cardigan, very nice I must say, I finished off a cotton bandage for charity for leprosy aid overseas, and have managed to knit a bit more on the baby blanket in powder puff. I just don't have photos yet.
t a baby blanket for his brother's baby. Photo is about the same professional picture that I normally manage to get. I need to really brush up on photo taking skills.
e pattern is looking very nice, and is an easy knit. 
e pattern is looking very nice, and is an easy knit. 
attern knitting on the top, I am trying to do a few rows each night after putting the top knitting away. It is actually twice as long as the picture now, it took 21 minutes for the 3 pictures to load, and what do knitters do when waiting for something, they knit!
attern knitting on the top, I am trying to do a few rows each night after putting the top knitting away. It is actually twice as long as the picture now, it took 21 minutes for the 3 pictures to load, and what do knitters do when waiting for something, they knit!
