Happy Birthday Darlene!

Hey everyone!  How are you?  Today is Darlene's birthday and I am going to be late with her present...more on her present later....but here is why I will be late

 Yup, another busted (well, leaking) pipe....this is the 3rd time this pipe has leaked in the last 4 years.  It seems the cold weather causes pressure on the pipe or the tree roots....I am honestly not sure which is the bigger culprit.

We got snow....and while it was below freezing, I had a humming bird come to my feeder.  I was SHOCKED!

Since my last post, I have pretty much done nothing but work on Darlene's birthday present.  So much that my hands were hurting from all the knitting, so I took a short break to crochet 2 dishcloths that look like they have a knit stitch row in them.

Crumbl had their tres leches back this week, but not just regular tres leches, but COOKIE BUTTER tres leches....so this happened

I got that new yarn I ordered from Hobbii.  This will (one day) be a blanket/throw in my living room.

My aunt Natasha was in town from Washington State, so we had a great dinner at my sister's house

Okay.....now for Darlene's present.  The knitting is done, but with lack of water (from leaking pipe), I could not block it.....but now it is blocking and I will give it to her tomorrow!!

That is all I have.  Have a great week!

Happy Happy Happy Knitting!

The joys of being a homeowner!

 Well, I knew it was just a matter of time......My AC went kaputt.  It was installed by my late husband approx 2003-2004, it was a 2001 unit.  In the last couple of years, I have had to call out a friend of his who had an AC company and he had told me in the past that I needed to save some money because it was on it's last leg.....well, that last leg broke!  LOL!  Did you notice I said he "had" an AC company?  Well, I texted him (like I usually do) and I got a reply that is was a new company and my friend, Brent, retired.  I am so happy for him!!  And now I have a brand new unit so I am hoping I do not need any service calls for a long time!

I got to pick between Rudd, Goodman and York.....well, Darlene's last name is York so.....

Isn't she pretty??

On to knitting.....

I also have 3 baby girl blankets I need to make.  I wanted to make Glamping blanket like I made for Amira....but I would need approx $240 of yarn (and now with the new AC, I have no money for yarn!)...maybe a little less if I had enough left overs....so I started to do some searching and playing around in ravelry and in my stash.  I have a ton of Linen Quill and I had the Four Corners blanket saved in my favorites......this is a picture from a ravelry user called emmaylor (copyright to her)

This user used Madelinetosh Wool and Cotton....which I have some of, but I had planned a shawl with it...well, we all know I have more than enough shawls so this is an option

The original pattern calls for Linen Quill, but I wonder if the alpaca in it is too fuzzy

Then I pulled some cotton out from my stash

Then some cotton linen blend

For now, I have started with the cotton one

I am enjoying it!

My cousin was in town from Germany with his husband (Marius and Sven....Marius on the left is my cousin).  I always love seeing them!

They brought my favorite chap stick for everyone

We had a fabulous family dinner with everyone....Amira and Antonio have both grown so much!

We had a fabulous dinner by Jim & Janice (I had to take leftovers to Lupe, he cannot leave on weekends(yet))

Here is everyone <3

That is all I have......Have a great week everyone!

Happy Happy Happy Knitting!