02.27.08
Posted in Knitting, Redwood Living at 10:55 am by Lynette
I’ve been busy with finalizing housing and the purchase of land and move to Brookings. But it seems we’ve found ourselves in a Catch 22. (For those of you who are of my era, 50+, you will remember the book by the same name.) When I was in high school the book was banned from our reading list. It was removed from the library and anyone caught with the book in their possession was in big trouble brother! So, of course, we all wanted to read the book that much more.
Anyway, the Catch 22 is it seems we cannot finalize the loan until we have a building permit. Makes sense, the bank won’t loan money for a construction loan until they know we can actually build on the site. What doesn’t make sense is the banker told me this just 10 days before we wanted to close. Oh yah, he said getting a building permit can take WEEKS. Do you think he could have mentioned this sooner? Add to that the county won’t actually give us a building permit until we own the property. See the problem? No loan without building permit, no permit without a loan. Akkkk!
Hats off the L, the wonderful friend and seller of said property for working above and beyond her called duties to secure the various signatures for said permit in her name. Hopefully by next week we’ll have everything signed for the permit and will be ready to go forward. Of course we’ll have to pay transfer fees to have the permits moved over into our names but what the heck, it is a money making business for the county.
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Here is the latest picture of the pregnant one. 
Isn’t that just the cutest baby bump you’ve ever seen? The DH and and have commented that I never carried my babies like that. They all wrapped around my waist. I was very w i d e.
She is officially 7 months pregnant. Not only is she pregnant dealing with a nasty cold but she can still teach Algebra 2. Wow, superwoman! I have no idea what the blackboard says. When I eat lunch with her on Wednesdays I sit and scan the board and think, I hope she is available when the two youngest get to high school. I’m lost.
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Here is the latest outfit for the baby bump.
I picked the multi color opal yarn for the pants thinking the pattern would hide spit up.
Always thinking ahead as we all know babies do spit up at the most inopportune times.
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02.19.08
Posted in Redwood Living at 8:32 am by Lynette
Our weekends are filled with the usual non-work day chores. Laundry, grocery shopping, TV watching. But Sunday’s are spent up at our new homesite clearing, chain-sawing, hauling and walking up and down hills.
It was foggy Sunday, as you can see. But loads of progress was made yesterday with the homesite cut into the hill and leveled off, Piles of tree limbs from the previous logging burned and made ready to clear for my garden. The road is cut in and the path down to the garden site is roughed in. Yesterday the kids and I planted 35 lbs of tall fescue grass seed on the hill above where the home will go to try to stabilize it from the rains that are here this week. KT also donated a pound of wildflower seeds sown with her usual random act. (grin) Add to that some lavender, butterfly bushes and the beginnings of heather and it will be very nice, if it roots and doesn’t wash away!
Saturday we took down the greenhouse cover. I have a greenhouse from Farm Tek. I’ve had this one up for 6 years. I love it! It has withstood wind storms in excess of 65 MPH and grown many a lettuce, tomato, pepper crop. We’re taking it with us. While turning over the railroad ties that we use to anchor the sides down I found this.
This little toad was snuggled up inside his hole with lots of bugs to eat.
He was moved to the pond along with 7 salamanders of various sizes. We found many slugs that, I admit, went to the big slug heaven in the sky.
So all in all we had a VERY productive weekend. I am a bit sore today. Not my back, arms or hands but the ankle muscles on the top of my feet from walking up and down those hills.
I’m gonna have very tone calves in a few months from all this up and down walking.
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02.14.08
Posted in Gardening, Knitting, Redwood Living at 9:52 am by Lynette
Thursday, February 14, 2008
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Here is a photo blog of my day.
The cat, Calypso, and is always under my feet. Today she was very interested in my ironing socks.
Yesterday I received this box in the mail from Territorial Seeds with enough seeds to feed the whole town of Brookings.
I have to inventory it and start splitting the order up between me and Linda. See those square pots on the top row? Those are cow pots. If you are a fan of ‘Dirty Jobs’ as we are you will remember the show he did with the Cow Pot guy. I can hardly wait to try them. In fact, if you go to the above link you can actually watch this season’s first 4 episodes.
Today is packaging day. Here is an image of the socks I knit for a customer. These are all Lana Grossa, expect for the one Toofootsies which is a yarn made from shrimp. If you are interested in me knitting socks from your yarn, you can go here to print out the form to mail with your yarn. My current lead time is 4 - 6 weeks.
Finally, the Rainy Day Yarn Club packets are going out today. I’m a bit behind due to several reasons but never fear, they are on their way.
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02.12.08
Posted in Redwood Living at 9:59 am by Lynette
Birds on a wire. These Oregon Junco’s are so cautious. They wait in line to take seeds from the feeder. I’ve always thought they act on the military procedure of send out the private and if something doesn’t ‘get’ him, it is good to go.
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Posted in Knitting, Redwood Living at 7:22 am by Lynette
I’ve seen it all
I don’t know if it is a phenomenon here in rural America or what. But it is very common to see senior adults driving around town with their small dogs standing in the lap, driving their car with their paws in the steering wheel or sitting on the dash board. What is most concerning is when these dogs are doing any of the above while some 80+ guy is driving a big honken motor home down the road with his significant other pointing out the sites. It is just scary.
Now I’ve seen it all. While taking more sock packages to the post office the other day a car pulled up next to me. A lady got out and said “I’ll be right back dear”. I thought she was talking to a DH but when I didn’t see a person I figured it was a dog. No, try another guess. A bird. Yes a bird, not in a cage like she was transporting it to the vet, but a bird on a perch in the front seat with the seat belt holding said perch in place.
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A Horse. No, not a horse in the front seat, a horse in my neighbors yard. Weird? Yes because no one owns a horse anywhere in our surrounding area. He called the radio station. Everyone listens to the radio station here. If the power goes out, tune in KPOD. If there is a good highschool football, basketball game, spin the dial to KPOD. IF you have a horse in your yard, OR are missing a horse, call KPOD.
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Picture this. Me measuring out the ‘footprint’ for our home-site. Walking along pulling the tape measure when my left foot sinks down about 2 feet into quicksand/mud. I lose my balance when trying to pull out the foot. The boot stays and I next put my foot, sans boot, down into the same mud. What to do? Borrow a socks from the DS. The only problem? Now she is minus one sock. My husband says “You’d think someone who makes socks for a living would have a spare pair in the car”. Guess what is now in my glove box!
Finally, thanks to Dale the wonder guy for the help putting the Socks Knit From YOUR Yarn form on my web page. This will allow customers to go right the the web store and print out their own forms. Check it out here.
The color designer for Fernwood Woolworks, Angie Banana Designs, has developed some great colorways for 2008.
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02.06.08
Posted in Knitting at 2:14 pm by Lynette
Lookie what came in the mail. JB from Omaha Nebraska sent her 18 skeins of sock yarn to be knit into socks in this pretty gold bag. It sure brightened my day.
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02.04.08
Posted in Redwood Living at 9:14 am by Lynette
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02.02.08
Posted in Redwood Living at 8:20 am by Lynette
Unfortunately we had a whale wash up on South Beach Friday morning.
I took the kids and drove down to see. We didn’t plan on getting out of the car but we did. Seeing a bunch of folks walking toward the beach - it just seemed like the thing to do. This was a once in a lifetime teachable moment. To see a sperm whale (though dead) only 10 feet away was amazing. The smell was something I would rather forget. In fact my tummy has not been the same for the past 12 hours. The kids now know the definition of ‘down wind’. And the reason Mom said, better wear a coat.
As in most things, the powers that be are fighting over who’s responsibility it is. Just bury the thing. Get a good ole boy to bring his tractor and dig a hole. I can’t believe it. The city says it doesn’t fall under their umbrella, it is the Harbor. The Harbor says it is not their responsibility, it is the County. The County says it isn’t their problem, it is the National Park. The National Park says not on our watch, it is the City. JUST DIG A HOLE GUYS!
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