Water, Water Everywhere

But not a drop to drink.

After a great day Saturday, I came home and added more chili powder to the crock pot.

After supper, I rinsed out the chili pot and Hubby went out to fill cattle water tanks.

A little later, in he came. "What did you do to the water?"

ME? I did nothing. But lo and behold, no water. None in the kitchen, none in the tub, and none, (Yikes!) in the toilet.

Lots of water in the pasture, lots in the ditch out back of the hay field. Lots by the tube under the road. None in our faucets.

Hubby called plumber, left message.

I take my pills with V8 juice. While its good alone, not great with metformin. I decided to pass on brushing my teeth with V8.

Next day, missed church. Still no water. Later Hubby and I head to friends farm. I got 2 gallons of water for consumption. He got a couple big (about 20 gallon?) tanks of water for animals and bathroom.

Ahhhhh, no more fuzzy teeth. Minty fresh. After a sponge bath, I feel almost human.

Monday at 8:00 plumber calls. Finally at noon yesterday, we got water. The cause? A bug (critter, not electronic type) in the switch.

Ain't mother nature wonderful?

Spin In-Knit In

Saturday Sue Ann from our Wooly Friends Spinning Guild organized a gettogether for spinning, knitting and just having fun.

We had a goodly crowd. And quite a variety of spindles and wheels. Several Louets, a couple Kiwi's, a Traveler...

A couple Joys, a Ladybug and more. Christine's granddaughter stopped for a visit. We even had our personal "sherpa" James who worked for the hotel and fetched and carried, directed traffic and was generally amazed at the whole fibery craziness. I can just imagine what he would think about SOAR or even the Allegan Fiber Festival.

While some of us were just there to spin and visit, we also had some vendors like Sue Ann with fiber and handspun yarn. We also had some of the handdyed/handspun of Angie, and Sheila's handspun and fibers. I got some of that green/gold sock yarn of Angies, some of Sue Ann's blended handdyed fiber and some light gray shetland from Sheila.

Amongst the general din there was much showing off of hand knits. Here Evonne models her linen sweater. Lovely.

Mary had another of her handknit, hand spun items. Angie is showing her punched/hooked project.

There was some serious coveting going on.
Just ask Evelyn about her love affair with Tito. Mmmmmmmmm.

What a Great Book!

I find it amazing that I should for the second time in about a year be touting a cook book, but this is great. If you have ever stumbled upon the Pioneer Woman blog you know what I am talking about. She is a sushi loving city girl who fell in love with the Marlboro Man and before she knew it she was riding horses, and cooking beef and feeding cowboys.
I had to wait over a month for the book to become available at my local library, and now that I have it in my hands, I can see why. The pictures are mouthwatering and show every step.
Her blog is also wonderful. If you like pictures, cooking, basset hounds, kids and life in the country, you really need to check it out.
And the book too. I may need to buy this one.

Michigan at Her Finest

Temps hit a low of 15.4 before I left for work this morning, just as the sun was coming up. Back in the winter coat and stuffed mittens! Chilly at 1 when I took a run to the credit union on my lunch--although I cracked open the windows when I came in, because the sun IS shining brightly.
And next week they are calling for 68 degrees at the end of the 7 day forecast. And I've heard rumors of 70 or higher for Easter.
Ahhhh Michigan. Never a dull moment.

Purple Yoke Sweater

Time for an updated picture of the purple yoke raglan sweater. There has been a lot of side knitting, with Angela's shawl, but now I can concentrate on this. Maybe I can finish another sweater before the snow birds venture back home. I think I have at least a month.
I haven't had time to come up with a fancy name for it yet. Maybe marl yoke sweater, how does that sound?

I have about 9 inches knit so far. The stripe is 4 rows of my handspun marl yarn. When I get to about 11 inches from bottom, I plan on adding pocket stitches in waste yarn. Then when all is done, (or when I feel like a challenge.) I can unravel the waste yarn, pick up stitches and knit a couple pockets.
I put on my Old Jeans blue sweater and measured the perfect pocket position on that and will just carry over to this.