Jeffy's garden

Apr. 30, 2010.  Jeffy's garden is looking really pretty today.

For Vicki

Here's a picture for Vicki from my knitting group.  We were talking about home repair and I mentioned that all but 5 of the lamps in our house were made by Paulette, me, or her dad.  Paulette made this lamp out of a spindle:

Yeah, it's an interesting angle in the picture.

I started the bodice of the back of the sweater I am knitting.  It feels like I have been knitting it forever. 

Going, going, gone

Here are pictures of the tree coming down and the aftermath:

I am taking vacation this afternoon to clean this up.  The sawdust is covering up the lilies of the valley that were in front of the tree.  The tree guy told us to get a bag of lime and a bag of topsoil to fill in the stump where he used a grinder on it.

We are planning on planting a pink crabapple tree in it's place.  I am excited about this!

I was impressed that the fence came out okay from the whole ordeal.  There are big holes in the lawn where the large trunk pieces hit when they fell.  We also had a basement window get broken, which is a pain, but not the end of the world.  The window did need replacing anyhow.  When I pried it out so that I could put a piece of wood in the hole, I found that the frame of the actual window was rotten.  Guess we will be making a trip to Menards to see if we can find one to replace it.  If not, I think I can build one to fit.  My real problem is that I am not a good glass cutter.

Sorry there's not much about knitting in this post.  My sweater is coming along.  I only have about 2 inches of lace left to knit on the back until I start the bodice area.  You can see that I have been distracted. 

It's been an interesting weekend...

Well, this morning when I opened the blinds at 7AM in the living room this morning, this is what I saw out the window:

One of the large limbs of the box elder tree in our yard had come down jn all the wind we had.  Joe (our neighbor), Paulette, and I managed to trim the branches that were in the way of the neighbors driveway so that they can at least come and go.  Now we are waiting for the tree man to come and take care of the really large part.  It didn't hurt anything on the way down.  The fence and house are okay.  But I hope the tree man gets here soon so that it doesn't fall from it's perch on the branch of the mulberry tree onto the fence.

We also went to the AFSCME Council 24 Jim Boyd Memorial Bowling Tournament on Friday evening in Beaver Dam.  Here are shots of our team:

Paulette in action.

Scoreboard.

Paulette has fun!

Mike and Jean watch the bowling action.

Paulette and Jean.

I didn't bowl.  However, I did win prizes in the 7:30 PM shift raffle.  I won an tool organizer for the rakes and shovels in the garage and a bypass pruner.  Paulette went back on Saturday afternoon, and she had won a Wii!  With the tree drama outside I haven't gotten a chance to hook it up yet.

I also haven't gotten much knitting done.

Gettin' dizzy

Apr. 23, 2010.  Stop the merry-go-round, I want to get off!

Pictures

Hi there,

Here's progress on my sweater, which is going really slow:

I actually do have about 5 inches of 11.5 done.  It just seems like it's taking a long time.  At least there are no sleeves on this sweater.

The picture of the day for today is the record albums at home.  No remarks about how old I am.

Have a good day!

Confirmation time

Our picture of the day for today is my niece, Melissa, with her cake for her confirmation at her party:

Congratulations, Melissa!