Garden

This is my beautiful red lily.

These are my day lilies.

These are tomatoes and lettuce.

More tomatoes and lettuce and some herbs.

These are squash and lavender.

And it is all in my front yard.

I love this time of year.

 I've been busy.

This is Pete.

 This is Mandy and Pete.

This is a Pink and black afghan that I started for a friend

of Rachel.  I gave the friend a different one.

I found it in the basement and decided to finish it.

I made it WIP Wednesday. 

 This is called Spider Web Doily.

I made it red for the fun of it.

 These are net stockings for Rachel.  I hope she really

wears them some time.

 These are socks for me.

There is a way to make the stripes match, but I

really didn't want that.  I like them this way

This is a shawl that I started just to use up some of

the thread I have on cones.  It's done with 3 strands,

Navy blue, aqua, and purple.

I think Rachel has her eye on it.

This is a vintage pattern that I have always wanted to

make.  I reminds me of some Aunt Letha used to make.

She taught me how to crochet.  I think of her alot while

I crochet. 

OOOPS...computer strikes again.

Found this one hiding on this stupid computer. I'll just keep plugging along and maybe I'll get better at this.


I posted 9 more pictures of Hawaii and when I tried to publish the post...the whole damn thing vanished. I hate computers some days.

Anyway Hawaii was wonderful.

I came home and went to work as a door greeter. It's kinda fun. Everyone at the store is very helpful and polite. They are really nice to the "new" kid on the block. I'm old enough to be the grandmother of most of these kids.

I called Social Security right after my birthday and was told that I needed one more quarter to qualify to receive Social Security. So...I'm back to work. Russ and I decided that I can use that money as well as the government. Maybe even better.

OOPS! Had to go

This is the resort where we stayed. The Royal Kona Resort. The other shots are from our balcany window.

This is where I drank tea every morning, and listened to the ocean and enjoyed Hawaii in all her glory.

These are from the drive we took to the black sand beach.

I found this hiding on my computer.  Someday I may figure out this thing.

Just catching up

This is My Friend Mandy, made by Fisher-Price back in the '70's.

I picked her up at the second-hand store about 5 years ago.

She has been waiting in my basement for me to dress her.

Well, Since I have been laid up with recovering from surgery, I dressed her.

I went to JoAnn's to pick up some shoes.  American Girls dolls are 18" and Mandy

is only 16.  So the shoes were too big.

I picked up a piece of black felt and came home and made her shoes.

This is my columbine.

I have been watching her grow for 3 years. 

And the year she bloomed.

AND Bloomed, and bloomed.

Isn't she beautiful!

This is Diablo.

He showed up today and informed me that I needed a little devil

in my life.

He wanted to show off his tail.

I'm feeling so much better.  Still get tired easily, but...enough of that.

I'll keep my crochet hooks busy and make some more little pretties.

Rachel wants some fishnet stockings, so that is my next project.

The date on the devil is wrong.  I don't know what happened, because I took the

picture this morning.

May 11, 2012.

I'll try to fix it for next time.

Dog Rug

I had this lovely green rug yarn...I wanted to try a new stitch...  What to make????   A Dog Rug.
I know the colors are a bit out there, but I understand dogs don't see color.

This handsome guy is Grizz.

This is Chevy. He thinks that he is in charge.

 The dog rug is now in the kennel where Grizz and Chevy sleep.  They seem to like it.

Link?

On my last post, I put in a Link to Caron.com.  Well, it didn't work.  So I'm going to try it again.  Try going to Caron Connections.  Or  naturally caron.com. 
Good Luck.

Thanks to Rachel for getting my picutres to work again. .