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 This month I'm "traveling" to Norway and taking a mitten class from the lovely Patricia. Patricia raises a heritage breed of sheep on her farm across the lake from Selbu, Norway. The class has been broken down into weekly lessons which can be viewed over and over if necessary. Norwegian cast on, double pointed needles, setting up the the back and palm of the mitten as well as a few Norwegian words have been learned.  If any difficulty arises she will pop up an additional tutorial. I thought I'd properly completed my thumb gussets until I viewed a tutorial Patricia had uploaded. She explained how to use your phone to flip the mitten chart and BAM, I realized the left mitten gusset was wrong! I ripped it out and completed it correctly, learning a valuable lesson.    Class will be completed the middle of October but I've signed up for Patricia's next class, Selbu Socks.

Officially gave up on Stash Dash this year. Here are some socks I finished... Pattern: Groovy Socks by Caroline Hegwer Yarn: Schachenmayr Regia Tweed Color 4 fadig Colorway: 07497 green-blue Needle Size: US 1  Pattern: Over The River and Through The Woods, Vanilla Socks and Summer Sunset Socks Yarn: Schachenmayr Regia Colorway: ?? Covid Brain, I lost the yarn band... Needle Size: US Size1  

  On May 11, 2012 the family attended Berkley's graduation ceremonies for our daughter who was receiving her law degree. The commencement speaker was Kamala Harris. She was introduced, as "the future first female President of the Unites States" among other positive accolades. And now Kamala IS running for Vice President! Tonight, it was reassuring to hear Kamala speak with such joy, enthusiasm, honesty, and hope for our country and its citizens.    It's been a difficult three and a half years to swallow.   We need Joe and Kamala in DC working for the future of our children, grandchildren and country! VOTE IN THE NOVEMBER ELECTION!! YOUR VOTE DOES MAKE A DIFFERENCE!!!

It's been very quiet around the homestead since Christmas. We now realize just how lucky we were to have everyone home then and aren't sure when we'll be able to be together again in the cold of winter.  Usually various family members are here for Easter and a bit of summer but not this year. With August rounding the bend we all were beginning to feel a bit lonesome and beginning to think of the coming winter cold and how the holidays won't have the same look.  With some discussion we decided to have a rather impromptu gathering in the front yard! We have a sunlight basement with an exit door so the NorDak family stayed in the basement, and the Chick stayed in the trailer. I made casseroles, French dip sandwiches and burgers which I put them in the freezer. There were plenty of paper plates and serving the pre-made food with salads made meals so easy! Kids were in charge of activities and the first thing they wanted to do was go paddle boarding... The rest of our days w...

Each year in early August the babies begin to be paraded around the neighborhood. Today we caught sight of 26 baby turkeys and a very inquisitive fawn.

I happened to win the Bunco booby price in February 2019. It is a cute little trailer-birdhouse.  Last summer it remained empty, the birds preferring to live in the belly of the orange cat-birdhouse. This year we had noticed quite a lot of activity around both of the birdhouses with the cat-birdhouse quickly becoming inhabited and producing babies. The trailer was a bit later in the month and when the chatter finally quieted down I thought I'd make sure they were gone only to find these... It didn't take but another day or two and the little birdies had flown the coop!