Knitting Success!

So yesterday I finished my first knitting project, a scarf for H.D. Then I started my first dishcloth. I did half last night and the other half tonight.



I guess I am officially a knitter!!! I can't wait to learn how to do more stitches and make afghans, cardigans, and socks.

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Great Blog

I think I have posted this before, and it is on the list of blogs I read, but it is worth a seperate post. I know that different regions of the US and even the world with much more well developed neighborhoods have a lot of pedestrians and dogs. I love how this blogger has a unique spin on blogging and captures dogs being dogs. His comments are humorous and usually spot on.

Check it out.

http://www.automatedredemption.com/flavorcountry/dogblog/

Try to create a Dog Blog caption for this one...I dare ya.
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Snow or freezing fog

I am not sure which we really had today, snow or freezing fog. Yesterday we had frozen fog and it was gorgeous. I still do not really have a digital camera (looked at one today while buying chicken at Cost-co), I still need to roll pennies to get a good camera. Thankfully, Scott's phone has a pretty darn good one.

I took some shots of H and Lena playing and having a ball in the snow, and some nature pictures. Enjoy.

It was snowing in this one.

Snowy Tug O' War

"I declare this snow mount H"

Kids @ Christmas

Another snow day today, well inclimate weather. It was blowing, drifting, and dangerously cold today. We will have another tomorrow because it is supposed to be again, dangerously cold. I had to go in to school today (don't tomorrow wooohooo!), but had a lot of stuff done today. I even cleaned out my desk a task normally reserved until about May.

I was cleaning up the files on my computer this evening and saw this Holiday picture.

Here are all the kiddos. H.D. holding E2 and E1 holding R.V.

A darn cute bunch don't you agree?

E2 spent all of Christmas running around in nothing but a diaper. She really reminds me a lot of Dink when she was that age.

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WORMS and SNOW?

I got worms for Christmas. Don't get me wrong, I didn't say I have worms.

I bought a worm farm some months ago. I set it up and then vowed to wait until I had extra cash to buy the worms. It seems like that day never comes, so I asked Santa (okay Oma and Papa) to bring red wiggler worms for Christmas.

They came in the mail today, after a little shipping snafu. The first batch was accidentally shipped to my mom and dad's house. Luckily, Oma and Papa are going to keep them in worm bedding and well tended to until they see me again.

We decided to chronicle the set up for all the people who think worms in your basement are a weird thing to WANT.

While H and I were getting the worms' bedding ready, Lena was frolicking in the snow. Yep...more snow... :o(

So the first batch of worm bedding that came with the worm farm is coconut coir. I took care of moistening that and H brought the worms down to the basement. Here they are tossed on their bed.
The light brown is the coconut coir and the darker brown is the bedding that the worms were shipped in with a half cup water added to moisten them after their trip. Hard to believe there are 1000 worms in there.

Next we prepped a little food for these guys.

I won't add much more in for a few weeks until they are established, but the menu for worms today was...


Banana peeling, a moldy tomato (just bought those...DARN IT), a crust of bread, and a lone bean. Where the heck did the bean come from??? Additionally we threw some coffee grounds with an unbleached filter in for fun. Notice the food chopper in the first food picture? The food scraps are processed faster by the worms if chopped up a bit. I wanted to make their first meal especially easy!

Doesn't it look delicious?
Scott thinks so...
Ewwwwwww

Tonight the worms are all snug in their bed. I shredded some paper bag (with no print) and tossed that on the top of their bed to give them a little more cover because it didn't seem like the bedding was very deep.

So begins the Wegener vermicomposting experience.

More to come.

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Happy 2010

Happy Holidays from The Wegeners

Knitting Continued...

So last night I knitted until I could knit no more. I hit an enormous tangle in the yarn. My knitting mentor, Kathy, said that is called "Yarn Barf" and I think that is a fitting name. I decided that since I was not able to proceed past the tangle that I would try casting off. I watched a video on YouTube and I was able to do it! Yay me!

Here is the result of my first knitting attempt.

WARNING...

What you are about to see is pretty ugly. LOL. You can see how uneven and wonky it is.

I am knitting though.

Knitting...

A while ago I decided that I wanted to learn to knit. Today, I took the first step with the help of Kathy of the Nebraska Knit and Crochet Guild. Kathy generously gave me some knitting needles and practice yarn to start with. I am doing it. Not exactly beautiful yet, but I am getting there!

I ran into these women a couple of months ago in Whole Foods, and got their card. I met with them today and I am currently working on a small practice swatch. I am excited and can't wait to be good enough to try making a scarf or other small (aka easy) project. Kathy suggested that I make some dishrags (practice, functional, and an accomplishment) and that sounds like a great first project.

One of the knitters had a GORGEOUS sweater there today that she finished recently. It really made me want to be successful...

More to come...
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