jbarrett5: May 2011

Thursday, June 9, 2011

6-9 hospital award ceremony

my certificate for 8100 hours for my knitting

two grocery green shopping bags, shining star logo on them

booklet of events for the ceremony, compilation of hours

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food was excellent, the servers came coming around with shrimp, bruscita, sliders and a few other platters. that is besides the hand sandwich buffet. topped it off with lots of fun stories from others at the table and tea and listening to the hummingbird trio sing all night long.

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

charity projects, forest farm items

4 afghans and 3 washcloths for forest farm

Friday, June 3, 2011

yarn

insane, 42 skeins of yarn was given to me, whoa!

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

books i read in may 2011

books i read in may 2011
daniel's desire by sherryl woods
seth's reckoning
catering to nobody by diane mott davidson
dying for chocolate
chopping spree
trading places by fern michaels
the grilling season by diane mott davidson
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
the angel by carla neggers
themist by carla neggers
dark torte by diane mott davidson
one day by david Nicholls
Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book by Dr. Seuss
Hawksmaid- The Untold Story of Robin Hood and Maid Marian by Kathryn Lasky
Things That Sometimes Happen- Very Short Stories for Little Listeners by Avi
burning up by susan andersen
The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner- An Eclipse Novella by Stephenie Meyer
All the Right Angles by stef ann Holm
bnding the rules by susan andersen
cutting loose by susan andersen
green eggs and ham by dr seuss
i am not going to get up today
Lilies, Rabbits, and Painted Eggs- The Story of the Easter Symbols by Edna Barth
A Summer to Remember- The Bedwyn Family by Mary Balogh
The Best of Friends by susan Mallery
Ask Mariah by Freethy, Barbara
My Many Colored Days Dr. Seuss
The Reversal by Michael Connelly
Hop on pop by dr seuss
Daisy-Head Mayzie by dr Seuss
Bartholomew and the Oobleck by Dr Seuss
Daniel's Gift by Barbara Freethy
Island Magic by Elizabeth Goudge

Saturday, May 28, 2011

gardens

started pulling weeds from vegetable garden. my neighbor brought us over a few instant packets of seeds from mcdonalds. i guess you jsut plant them in the dirt and cover them and water them. one tomato and one carrot.

also scrubbed down north side of the house with bleach. had to sop after a while, the spray from the bottle was too close to what i was doing with a scrub brush. looks nice again.

daisies in the front yard are very tall again this year.

charity projects, hospital

6 birght mint green booties and one pale blue set of booties. to the right shows how they double over the top edge to form the bootie/sock. also good for covering the infants little hands with sharp fingernails.

project completed

forest farm gave me this unfinished shawl so i finished the last 3/4 of it. it's white yarn and black fun fur throughout it.

Thursday, May 26, 2011

new projects

got a call this morning from forest farm nursing facility and the administrator told me she had gotten some yarn and many unfinished projects, still on the needles. she doesn't know of anyone but me and i told her i'd take a look at them and try to complete them. i had planned on calling her to ask for more yarn as we were going to drop off 2 afghans i had completed.

the yarn, well it smells like smoke, she told me it would. there's some projects with instructions from 1955 jack frost books. one particular afghan pattern, called petal afghan is a knit pattern and sounded like something i'd like to try. there were many patterns for berets and slippers and 2 needle mittens. some of the finished sweater pieces must've been done using size 2 needles. but the unfinished prujects were on very large needles.

there was box of wood that slid open and it had knitting needles in it. similar to salted cod fish we used to buy. got talking to nana and she remembered it was a deeper box. it also had some long crochet hooks.

gonna be interesting as i go through the items.