10 Random Tidbits

1. The weather is pretty mild here right now, but a month or so ago we had some snow, and I couldn't help but notice how pretty it looked in our wrought iron door mat.

2. The steroid injection did not seem to help my shoulder. The general consensus seems to be that it's a torn rotator cuff. A second visit to the doctor resulted in another injection.....

...and a referral for an MRI.

3. If you don't cut back all of your primrose foliage before Winter sets in, and the temperature drops below freezing, and it thaws back out again, the ones you missed will turn to mush and look like this....

Gross. Cut back your primroses in the Fall.

4. Leeks don't seem to mind cold weather. These leeks have been in this pot for months, through freezing weather and rain, and they still look great!

5. Levi's bear came back from the tannery. The hide looks great, but I think the face looks so hilarious and goofy at this stage! It's on it's way to the taxidermist now.

Oh my, I just noticed that in this photo it looks like the bear has horns.......HA!

6. Sometimes when I crochet my knees get really hot

I wonder why?

7. And speaking of the cat, the other day he found the cozy Alpaca baby sweater I had just made, and he claimed it for the rest of the day.

8. After suffering another rejection by Leisure Arts, this time for my crochet mitten designs, I decided to write up my own patterns and try to sell them online at Ravelry.com . It takes quite a bit of work to write up a crazy person's methods in madness, so I am feeling quite overwhelmed. When you write up a pattern, every stitch has to be accounted for and you can't just hook into random places at a whim... every stitch has to make sense. Today I spent the whole day in front of the computer.

Crochet is math, and math is not my strongsuit.

9. No matter how long you garden, every gardening season there seems to be a new random, weird thing that shows up, either an unusual bug or weed, or some strange plant formation. This last year there were tomatoes growing on our potato plants (seed pods)....

.....and these strange brown mushrooms.......everywhere...all over town!

10. Mr. Adams and Levi each asked me to write my recipes down in books for them for when they are cooking away from the house....

Easier said than done. Once again, it takes quite a bit of work to write up a crazy person's methods in madness. I am not a very precise cook. I remember one time I was showing Levi how to cook something in the kitchen and he said sarcastically, "I just love how you don't measure ANYTHING!"  

Wish me luck.