Emptyknitster

It was a very quiet Thanksgiving for me this year. Hubby was working and we won't see family until tomorrow. Can't wait to see them but I was thankful for a quiet day, only a few dirty dishes and lots of knitting time. (With Hubby's career one learns that when given lemons you make lemonade!) I was thinking about a particular Thanksgiving not so many years ago. All the family was in attendance including nephew John and Gramma Maida. We had just finished a great meal and were relaxing around the dining room table when I looked up over Gramma's shoulder, into the kitchen. There was Baby Kitty on the kitchen counter with her entire head in the tail end of the turkey carcass! I was shocked and a gasp escaped my lips. Gramma was in her 90's but her hearing was as good as the day she was born and she immediately wanted to know what was going on. She never did quite catch on. The rest of the family was quick enough to look at me and follow my gaze into the kitchen. Our ey...

Last Friday there was a friendly wager made between two friends. Tim and I agreed that the losing fan would wear a tattoo of the winning team. Thankfully, I didn't have to wear the bobcat tattoo! By the end of the day Tim and Monte were becoming fast friends. Monte even gave Tim a pointer or two about betting on the game of football - NEVER bet against the Griz!

ANYONE that has lived in Montana for very long, knows that the Bobcat/Griz game can go either way. No matter how successful or poorly a team has done over the season, either team can win on sure grit and spectator enthusiasm. Griz have won all their football games this season and Bobcats have done very well. It was anybody's game. But in the end, GRIZ triumphed! Score: 33 to 19 . Griz are on their way home tonight with the trophy!

Okay, I'm realizing that perhaps I 'm one of the old hippies hiding out. I just can't get enough of this Tye Dye yarn! I started another pair of socks yesterday with the idea that I would just knit them during lunch at work but I just keep knitting. I love to see how the colors take shape. I'm using one of my favorite sock patterns, Grumperina's jaywalkers.(Ty-Dy Socks in a color combination called Grapes).

We enjoyed the last home game of regular season, Griz won! It was another great season, Bobcat/Griz game next weekend...... On the way home I was able to finish my Missoula tie dyed socks! (Ty-Dy Socks yarn in Tropicale) I thought that they were SO appropriate, if you haven't see a hippie for awhile - they're all in Missoula and very happy!

I just can't believe that another year has gone by and our Chloe is having a birthday today! We love you sweetie. Your smile (sparkly now with the braces) makes us happy!

“’If I should die,” said I to myself, ‘I have left no immortal work behind me – nothing to make my friends proud of my memory – but I have lov’d the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remember’d’” – John Keats Every morning I wake up and look over at a favorite painting that my mother did years ago, before arthritis took control of her hands. I love this painting with its calming powers over me but also because my mother painted it. I think she had a real talent and Mom had wished that she had started painting earlier in her life – I do too. I will remember her always for many reasons, not for just how much she loved and accepted us, or for the fact that she saw beauty and goodness in everyone and everything around her. I don’t paint, nor do I pretend to have any artistic talent. But the Yarn Harlot recently wrote in her daily calendar that: “Nonknitters can think what they will about the value of knitting on the earth, but know this: No k...