Madness

I can't believe I haven't blogged since Easter! Bad Little Ma, bad!
But we've had sick people and hospital visits so I haven't always been here at the computer. Big Pa had a very clever op on some tube in his body - amazing what they can do . He's better now and back working in his shed. He's happy!
Dudette got a bout of kidney infection and was hospitalised. Thankgoodness I had my family helping me with food and staying at the hospital when I had to go and see to stuff at home! She's all better now but it was yuk seeing her so ill and in so much pain. Finding out she has reactions to codiene wasn't pleasant either. Especially as they administered it again when she was on the mend and I had gone home. Needless to say she got pretty sick pretty quickly again. What can you do but roll your eyes.
We didn't get much sleep so in between caring for Dudette I got some knitting done for

Picklesticks

. ( A little beret, poncho and cute little socks. I can't believe socks are so small. ) It was so calming. I didn't need a pattern so I could drop it when I needed to , pick it up again when I just had to sit around and wait. BUT I forgot to take a pic- rats. I'll pop in a photo of something else.


MnM calls this one 'Ying and Yang" obviously!!
Not Knitting but cute anyway!! There's a constant battle of wits for that bed between the 2 dogs. Tan ( the black one - yeah I know but I didn't name him) was so looking forward to Letty going but she caught Kennel Cough from her brother and shared it with Tan so they are both quarantined for 21 days. Which means she missed the intake for her guide dog training and has to wait for the next one . I don't want to think about how far away that is - it's going to be harder when she does go. Oh joy , oh joy.

Huggs Little Ma

Finally some free time : )

Hi everyone.
We have been so busy this month with stuff and this is the first time i've had to just sit.
These are some pics i've been meaning to show you.
This was my first try at knitting a beret. I was stoked to see the finished product.

Here is Dude's first try at knitting and finishing a beanie with no pattern. He used a variety of purls and knit stitches.

Being so cold in the mornings lately Dude decided it was time for a poncho. It's so warm and is sawn half way down the side to made arm holes.

A few months ago we watched Nigella Lawsons cooking show were she used sugar flowers to decorate her home made easy cupcakes. Since then I'm total hooked and make shore i have a good stock of them in the cakes draw. Cupcakes are the easiest cake to make when you have a sweet tooth and a cup of tea.

We went to spotlight the other day and got some very cool coloured sock yarn so I'm off to knit my first pair of sock. Till the next time i have a moment to spear.
MnM : )

March Continued

I've always thought a picture says it all, so here are some more of our March.


This is where we celebrate Easter with our family. This was the only time the camera came out (Too busy having fun), but I think it was worth it. Notice the goose/duck down the bottom. He or she was there to greet us on our arrival.

Last week we visited Miles. His owners, not having a puppy in a while, since Zappa was a 13 year old dog, we decided to supply them with a baby bag - dog style. In it we put a packet of dried liver, gel hand sanitizer, spray disinfectant, paper towels, poop bags, and the essential Kong with a small jar of peanutbutter and vegemite. It really is a great bag to have on hand for little accidents.


He is such a playful little dog.

After he took turns playing in each of our laps for at least 1.5 hours, he fell fast asleep.


Till next time MnM:)

Hiya
I've finally made it to the neck of the Fair Isle Jumper. Those last 6 cms are calling me.
Huggs Little Ma

Little stuff in March!!!!

Hi everyone!!
I just down loaded all our pics from the camera, which has not been done in a while.
So here are some of this months activities.
Spot the fruit. We were all very exited when we saw them. Can't wait to eat them.

Like the blog (life at rosemary hill) we visited the northern lights. The blumen camera batteries ran out half way through, but these are the ones i liked the best.




This month it was Dude's 13th Bday. So to celebrate we had a birthday breakfast with prezzies of course.
He had to wait until everyone was at the table to open his presents.

So when he could open them he got stuck in. Lots of fun.

And for the big day we all had pancakes sprinkled with sugar and orange juice.

He was very happy!!!!

Lots of hugs MnM:)

Miles and Happy Foody

Hey

Our friends who lost Zappa last year have just found themselves a new puppy - Miles. Anticipating this happy event we bought them a Dog food recipe Book with heaps of Fancy Fussy Recipes for dogs ( the sushi for dogs really tickled me). So here is a pic of probably the best cared for Pup in Australia. He's a beautiful little Kelpie. Isn't he cute as?



Well the dog's got good food I better check out our diet! I've been meaning to add more vegetarian meals but they have to be tasty especially for the carnivores in the house. Eating veg for them is punishment. But they will drink smoothies and veg dips like hummous, red kidney bean dip or skordalia. There's a few recipes at the

Happy Foody

I want to try. (Followed by some delicious Burnt butter Biscuits just in case it's all too healthy)

On the knitting front , I've managed to graft the sleeves onto the main part of the jumper and now have to work out a fair isle pattern. I'm so excited 'cos when it's done I want to finish the Ice Queen shawly thing.
I went back to the Button Bar to finally get my replacement needles. I don't think I'll be going back there. I just got the feeling that the lady just wasn't really interested in fixing the faulty needle issue and that I was really just a nuisance - oh well.

Things I'm chuffed about this week - Rain, rain and cold weather.

Huggs Little Ma

Wonders of the Industrial World

Hey Happy Easter!

Just watched a show about how they built the Panama Canal. Anyone else catch it? Supposedly one of the 7 Wonders of the Industrial World. The French failed, leaving a great ecological mess. The Americans took over and blasted their way through. I'm still waiting to be suitably impressed. Apparently 20.000 people died while the French tried building it and 5000 when the Americans took over. Okay they did prove that the mozzies were to blame for the yellow fever but have I missed something? People died to make someone else rich - crazy-stupid! I'm going back to my knitting that makes sense most of the time.
Still working on the Fair Isle jumper and some crocheted/felted bags. We're hoping to have a good amount of stuff ready by mid April and set up a stall at Prospect.
One thing I want to do this year is get a bit fitter. and the year did start off well with bike rides etc but since The Boss had surgery I did get a bit slack so today I tried out a Billy Blanks Ab Bootcamp DVD. It was good. Had a lot of AB exercise's while standing which I really liked. It finished just as I was getting bored, which is fantastic. Must have a short attention span. I'd rather garden or do dvd stuff than go to a gym. But my favourite exercise is to dance around the room. Gets your heart pumping and some of those hippy shake moves do wonders for your waist. Doesn't impress the beloveds though - oh well . I know my dancing is cool in my own mind. Who cares what anyone else thinks! Yeah Man, crazy! : )

Huggs Little Ma

Who left the heater on?

Not me. someone in the cosmos is playing a joke right? Luckily we can turn on the air conditioner when it's utterly unbearable. I try hard not to use it too often for both environmental and economic reasons but I am really grateful that we have it. Growing up there was no airconditioning so to stay we cool we did several things.
Sat in the dark a lot. Had quick cold showers (we were very clean), Sat around with very little on ( obviously when no-one was home!). At school we'd take frozen water bottles, ate Snips and took a towel to sit on 'cos the seats were that horrible skin-ripping plastic. My favourite now though is going to bed with a wet flannel and the fan on.

This month has gone by so quickly. We've been busy with learning new things. I'm really enjoying the programming course. Family has been visiting from overseas and I've finally started ripping down the vine on the fence in the dust bowl. Of course the fence is coming down too, followed by the rails. It's going from bad to worse. But I'm NOT panicking . This stupid heat limits how much I do but if I do a bit at a time one day I will have a lovely spot for fruit trees and veg and a place for my chookies.











They've been moved to the front yard temporarily - they seem to like it out there. As they finish clearing each spot I'll move them.
I just need to get a small cage for night for them. They're still living in the rabbit hutch . Their day run is just chicken wire and a few star droppers. Works a treat. I just move the uncurled bit of wire to get them out at night ( watching out for spiders )

Craft wise I haven't done too much knitting. Still working on the yoked fair isle jumper and making friendship bracelets. They're fun and quick too. This one's MnM is making atm. I'm wearing mine around my ankle and feeling very Hippyish!