Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Happy Birthday to Me

So I broke my yarn diet. But I had Two Good Reasons.

1) Yesterday was my birthday. I had the day off and I visited two "new to me" Yarn stores. String in Highland's Ranch (nice), and Knitty Cat in Centennial (very VERY nice!). And then I went to the Llama Store.

2) I found out last week I will not be going to the Estes Park Wool Market :( :( The Sangre de Cristo Kennel Club moved their show to that weekend and... the dogs always come first.

So I took the money I would probably have spent at Estes Park and spent it yesterday.



5 skeins of Cherry Tree Hill Laceweight Suri Alpaca in three different colors

1 skein of Lorna's Laces Helen's Lace in Black Purl

3 skeins of Cascade 220 in flamingo pink to make, what else, a felted flamingo. (How did I miss this pattern when it came out????!!)

8 skeins of Cascade 220 to make the pink aran sweater I've been craving.

10 skeins of pinkish Rowan Silk Aran that was supposed to be for Bonne Marie's new pattern, But I CAN'T GET GAUGE! Anyone have any suggestions on what to do with 700 yards of aran weight silk that was Very Expensive???

3 skeins of SWTC Karaoke to make a felted bag.

3 books, inluding the long out of print Jean Moss Sculptured Knits.

3 patterns.

New Addition

Yesterday when I went out my front door I scared a bird that I thought had been on the eve of the porch. A half hour later when I went out the door again I scared another bird.

It was then that I noticed we had a nest perched on top of our porch light right outside the door. And the birds had been taking off from the nest, not the edge of the porch.


Note the Samoyed hair lining the nest!! How cool is that?

I have no idea what kind of birds these are. They are small and sort of spotted looking with orangey colored chests. The weirdest thing is that there appears to be not one, not two, but three birds taking care of this nest. I looked out the window this morning (and of course scared them again) and there were three birds sitting on the nest!

Is this normal bird behavior????

Anne at 11:10 AM        
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