RSB Guide dog update!!!!

Hi everyone!!!
As some of you would know our first ever blog published was of Little Letty. Exactly 37 weeks ago our family decided we'd ( I mean Dudette) would train a guide dog. And exactly 29 weeks ago we picked up our "Little Letty". I thought it would be nice to do a two part special of her progress in the past 29 weeks. This post will be of the cheeky, mischievous, funny puppy we've come to know and love. This side is the side we see every day, and the side most other people won't get to see once she's out of the house and working. When we first got Letty she did a lot of sleeping, and us being softies took lots of pics. These are my faves.








Tim Tan enjoyed having Letty for the first few weeks, that is until she stopped needing so much sleep. He is 8 years old and needs 4 or 5 'Nanna' naps a day, Letty had other ideas about that and would bug him till she got what she wanted. However after the initial shock he has enjoyed having her here, and especially because we've had to give him more food because of the amount of exercise Letty has made him do.


Since then Letty has done lots of growing up, and when I say lots I mean lots.



Letty is a very interactive dog and is always trying to tempt someone to play with her. She loves toys. They've both been going through toys faster than a rocket over the last few months, and is starting to cost a bit. While shopping at Big W we found a very big Nyla-bone which is great for both of them because they can walk each other around without pulling it in two, which has been the fate of all the previous toys.



For Xmas she got the squeakiest toy ever. And will sit just out of reach in the middle of a movie and squeak it, either with her nose or in her mouth. Then run off just as you get up to stop her. It's also the longest lasting rubber toy.



I swear that dog was a seal in a previous life. Water. She loves it. When ever she hears the hose on she's right behind, ready to eat, catch and bite it. We took her to the beach for a swim the other day. I had to force her to sit on my lap in the water or she probably would have swum to the end of the earth. She quite likes to stop the sprinkler with her nose, and jump and run rings around it. (If you're from the RSB - we do stop her : )



Stay tuned for next months issue "Letty on the job" Got to get some pics first.
Sayounora MnM!!!!!!!!!!!

Little Ma here, To all those people who say to me "oh I couldn't do it. I couldn't give them up".... I Knoooow. I'm having heartbreak moments already just thinking about it. So I'm busy trying not to think about it.

Knitting Bags

Hey
Another hot day. Anything over 40 celsius and I stop listening. I get it . It's hot.
I've just read an article (Knitters Winter 1997)
about cellular automaton knitting and the snakeskin rule where you knit the stitch according to what is on the row below.

ie Look at the 3 stitches in the row below - directly and on either side. If its got exactly 1 B, Knit a B. If it has 0,2,3 of B, Knit an A. (A and B can be colours or knit & purl or lace stitches) anyway I'm trying it out but I think I made a mistake 'cos it ain't workin'. Actually I think , no, I know I need glasses for knitting.

I don't feel like concentrating today. So I thought I'd organise our knitting bags. Favourite ones are the embroidered one and the rhinstoney ones and the Airline giveaway ones ( they come with handy little goodies like hand cream) and ... and ... any bag really. We've even used the plastic shopping bags . Each has a different project. I'd like to hang them up somewhere to make it easy to grab and run. Love to know what everyone's knitting bags are like!

At

Chris Knits

blog there's a "blessings' at the bottom . I like that idea! I read somewhere you should think of 3 things you're grateful for before you go to sleep even if it's that you're still breathing LOL
So what am I grateful for? apart from all the obvious - I love being able to watch video/dvds- whenever. Weren't around when I was little. Heck I remember the intro of colour TV! and Itunes. I even got that song 'Convoy" - I loved that growing up!! The boss, kids and I were in stitches trying to sing along . Found an old tape that I had made up as a teenager and it was songs taped from the radio - what a hoot. It was pretty crappy but hey it worked. Yep even though I could kick technology sometimes . Today I love it!

Short Huggs (as its hot) Little Ma

Best Blogs

The best blog I write usually happens - in the shower , while washing dishes, in the garden but never at the computer! The older I get the harder it seems to keep thoughts in my head. LOL and I'm planning to do a programming course this year. Is this wise?
The Boss wants me to do web design - I don't really want to. So that was my compromise. Let's hope it pays off. I need more knitting time not computing time. Just reading a book called

Internet Forensic

Easy intro into internet/email scams.

I get the Daily Knitting (see new button) emails but there's a folder full of the ones I haven't had a chance to look at. I love the gallery photos of the same pattern worn by different people. It made me realise that it's not my knitting that's the problem but my sizing. So that's my next thing to do - measure and think about the sizing before I knit the next garment.
ATM I'm knitting a Tree Top Angel ( bit late or a lot early) but the stitches kept slipping off the steel dpns so I'm using some toothpicks. It works well until they split or roughen up, but they're cheap to change.



They're arms (in case you couldn't tell : ) The right one was done on the steel and is knobbly , the left on the toothpicks and is much smoother.

I'm having words with the pattern too. There are bits that just don't add up. Drives me crazy!!
I've come across a quite a few patterns that either are wrong or talk about the pattern but don't actually write it out. I've got 2 theories, Either I'm not advanced enough or it's a conspiracy so you can't reproduce their design. 1 in particular, an Adelusian pattern book. There were a couple patterns in there that just didn't work - drove me nuts. I thought it was me till I took it to an expert. Luckily I got that at the library. It makes me wary of buying pattern books.
Happy New Year ,
huggs Little Ma (Oh and that's official now - Apart from the little creatures, I am the shortest in the house - but I'm the widest too . Does that make up for any height deficiency?