Where have I been? Where do I start..

Ive been busy and blog lazy....



Ok this is in no order whatsoever, but here goes.



Congratulations Jeff, Tulare County Fire Officer of the year!














I found a dog, named Max, he was in our front yard and his owners didn't want him, told us to "let him go they were going to get rid of him anyways because they had to move"



Well I said "What the %#$*&^@^! are you kidding" Well fortunately they allowed us to see if they could try to find him a home. ( I reeeaaaaalllly wanted him! but Riley was not having it) And thanks to a mass email to my knitting group someone called right away and a great family with 3 children took him. I was also surprised to receive multiple calls from people who had seen and forwarded my email. What a great response, Thank You and Max now has a great home!



Here he is. Ok those who know me, doesn't he kinda look like Spike? He had the same squishy face, even tho he was a boxer not a bulldog. He was so cute and wiggly.

















And very important news, I took a solo mini yarn vacation and went to Stitches West....



http://www.knittinguniverse.com/ you can read about it here



O my it was GREAT. I drove up on Friday and stayed with Jeff's parents since it was in Santa Clara near their home. Robin was generous enough to go with me even though she is not a knitter, but she said she had fun and was greatly surprised by the shear number of people.



I saw Cookie A. and Casey from Ravelry (very cool)














And Vicky Howell.... (she's a famous knitter for all of you non-knitters) Don't look at my work jacket I forgot to take it off.

I won this in the Ravelry raffle... Sheep to Shoe kit from Blue Moon Fiber Arts.

Robin and Rodney took me to the Fish Market in Foster City and I had the Cioppino. People were eyeballing my plate wishing they had gotten my dish as they walked by. It was delicious. Thank you Rodney and especially Robin for making my mini vacation so much fun!

Jeff and I along with Danny, Jackie, Vince and his girlfriend went to a Fresno Falcons hockey game. It was fun

I took this along to do during the game














And son of a biscuit if I didn't finish, and had to look up this on my phone during the game to finish it.










Yea the Kitchener stitch, I really have to get one of those dog tag thingies to memorize it, this is ridiculous. It is good to know that knitting stitches are available at a moments notice. :)

I was also up to different ways to make self striping sock yarn. Love the results



































I re-dyed the Kid Mohair, The rose thing wasn't working for me, now its Fabulous!



I attended a dye workshop at the Weavers and Hand spinners guild that Cheryl invited me to. I had tons of fun, and am now an official guild member!











Here are one of the many skeins Cheryl dyed













And what about this! Cutie Patooties, Happy Birthday Emy & Carley (belated) and Mason you're a good sport for putting up with the "hat thing".