4-22-2015 Window Replacements

Remember the 2 double-paned windows

that had broken seals and things growing inside?

(See 4-7-2015 post.)

Well, the replacements finally arrived today

and they were FREE (to us)!!!

The company actually honored their 

lifetime warranty!

Awesome!

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Made some cupcakes

and wrapped up 3 little kitty babies

for GD for her 3rd birthday today.

 GD showing her babies

how to play on the tablet...

4-21-2015 Green Grass

Finally got some green grass

for my kitty to eat!

4-20-2015 Missing Library Book

More tulips...

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Spent today tearing apart the car

looking for a lost library book...

GD was reading it in her infant-seat

while we were driving home from the library

and by the time we got home

it was no where to be found!

(And no, she did not throw it out the window!)

After removing the infant-seats

and taking them apart

we decided to look under the actual car seats

thinking that maybe the book had slipped down

between/under the car seats

but no book was found.

We decided to spring clean the car

while we had it torn apart.

Guess we are buying a library book!

4-19-2015 More Tulips

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Sooooo sad this happened...

 Soooo GLAD it did NOT happen on MY watch!!!

4-18-2015 Tulip Time

Since the tulips by my front door (above)

are blooming THIS weekend,

DH & I decided to make the 3 hour drive (one way)

to Pella Iowa

to see if their tulips were in bloom

even though their Tulip Time Festival

is not scheduled until May 1st.

We were in luck...

they were in full bloom!!!

Woo-hoo!!!

So beautiful...

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And Happy 10 month birthday to my precious GS!!!

(And thank you to my wonderful D-I-L for sending me pictures!!!)

4-17-2015 Spring Poncho Finished!

This morning 

I bound off my Spring Lacy Waves Poncho!

Woo-hoo!!!

All that is left is to

weave in the loose ends

and block it!

4-16-2015 Footprint/Handprint Butterfly Flowerpots

4-15-2015 Oma's Teddy

Today I finished sewing together

a teddy bear for myself!

It's purple, of course!

4-14-2015 Perfect Night for...

...burning our fire pit!

No wind or breeze at all...

50*F...

lots of scrap lumber

from our son's recent construction project!

Thanks!

4-13-2015 Sky Dog

While playing outdoors with the GDs

I happened to look up and see

this sky dog / mini rainbow

and pointed it out to the GDs

who then got so excited they started

hopping all over the deck

and yelling at the top of their lungs

"Rainbow! Rainbow!"

4-12-2015 Chicago, Here We Come!

Today I got some Oma time

with my grandsons. :*)

Love my family sooooooo much!!!

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We started out today with blue skies,

then had white skies the rest of the day

while driving to and from my son's house,

so, today's color in my sky scarf was blue.

(See post on 4-8-2015)

Here is a sneak peak at how the scarf looks so far...

4-11-2015 Tree Climber

GD's favorite new outdoor pastime...

And today's Sky Scarf stripe is partly cloudy GREEN...

4-10-2015 Clear and Cold

Clear skies today

following yesterday's storm...

(also temps below freezing!)

so today's Sky Scarf Row is purple!

4-9-2015 Seeing RED

Well... starting my scarf today...

guess it is a RED yarn day...

the sirens just went off and we are headed to the basement!

4-8-2015 Sky Scarf

I am wanting to knit a scarf to wear with my

purple cabled helmet hat

and

I have always wanted to knit a

Sky Scarf

so I decided to use the purple yarn I used for my hat

and add some jewel toned yarns

and start a Sky Scarf...

which will be a year in the making.

Each day, you knit one row

after looking at the sky that day.

Red is for angry, stormy, skies with

dark gray clouds/rain/hail/tornados/sirens.

Purple is for clear blue skies.

Green is for partly cloudy/partly sunny skies

that have white cotton ball clouds.

Blue is for skies completely filled with white clouds

(think high cirrus and stratus clouds).

4-7-2015 Out, damned spot! Out, I say!

See these big spots?

I've been doing a bit of Spring cleaning window washing

and discovered two double paned windows

with broken seals and fog and spot

BETWEEN the double paned windows.

ARGH! I hate it when that happens.

Like Lady Macbeth,

I want the spots gone

but there is no way to wash them away!

So, DH & I drove to IL

to order some new IGUs

(Insulated Glass Units)

or double paned windows

to replace these two.

4-6-2015 Looking Forward...

...to seeing these boys 

(my dear grandsons)

in a few days...

and their parents too, of course!!!

4-5-2015 Happy Easter!

4-4-2015 Easter Egg Hunt at the Zoo

...27*F outside...Brrrr...

The girls made out pretty well...

3 finger puppets,

4 stamps,

stickers,

tootsie rolls and chocolate gold coins

and a zoo gift shop coupon!

Also...

4-3-2015 What Would You Do?

Went to the vet

to buy some cat food for my cat

and saw this woman with an opossum

that had been hit by a car and badly injured...

she wanted to have it put down

to end its suffering.

poor thing...

She was told that the vets there do not handle opossums

as they carry rabies...

which they did not want to risk passing on

to themselves or all their dog and cat clients.

Had I come across this little guy,

I too would have wanted to end its suffering

but I probably would have whacked it over the head

with a shovel to get the job done.

Does that make me a bad person?

4-2-2015 Surprise Capelet

This past weekend while DH drove us to a knife show

I knitted this 

Ruffled Capelet with LionBrand Homespun yarn

for a friend (Diane) in Tuesday morning Bible Class

who had been admiring all the knitted 

scarves, mittens, hats and cowls 

I've made and been wearing to class this winter...

said it inspired her to start crocheting again after many years.

So, she purchased this LionBrand Homespun yarn

and decided to crochet a scarf for her daughter.

Finding it IMPOSSIBLE to crochet with this yarn

she brought it to class

and handed it to me with a look of disgust on her face

and said, "Here, you take this! I hate this yarn!"

So, I decided to knit her this Capelet from her yarn

and surprise her with it next week.

Still need to weave in the ends and add a button. 

Hope she likes it!

4-1-2015 Zoo

Today was the first perfect spring day!

Sunny and almost 70*F!

Time for a trip to the zoo...