mandy pie & sweater , plus easter ,& winters end

i think i walked into a house where everyone there was very tired out. something to do with a birthday party sleep over and staying up until 5 am. that was enough to put Timmy on the couch in sleep mode until dinner and mike on the carpet in front of the TV sleeping away too for his own excuses not to far off from the others. those of us with any energy. put eggs together for the big Easter egg hunt . but peaches had a tough one going there with all the snow still outside there was no place safe to hide anything. so the egg hunt happened in doors. Mandy pie found all the peeps LOL i had no clue what a peep was just never paid attention to them until this year when they came up on get stitchy in the form of u tube shows. so when i saw Mandy pies peeps i had fun grabbing one up and running to the kitchen and stuffing it onto a plate and into the microwave for one min which was the smallest amount of time i could get on peaches microwave. know i too know what peeps do in microwaves. LOL my son in law was standing behind me and he couldn't believe what he saw either. so i grabbed another because the kids hadn't seen yet and they squealed and laughed and couldn't believe what they saw too. and then peaches said if that blows up your going to clean it . hummmmmmm.........not a problem........... don't worry.......... it didn't ........... and that was it ... Laura got on line with her buddies and they were all over the Internet looking at the peep shows on u tube. having a blast . so the peep shows came to our town LOL maybe a few years late. but even we got in on the fun this year.

i got my stitch markers from G-Girl in the mail there just lovely totally and she sent me some other beads to use for anything i wanted along with . i still have to take pictures of it all so i can share those.

i sent out my stitch markers ( surprise not telling what else ) to her today she should get that in a week.

and i sent out my stitch markers to the other gal today too.

hubby had fun at the yarn store shopping and fun at the grocery store too, shopping we talked about this stitch marker thing he really got into it so said ok hon you can do this one once a year only because he doesnt want to be left out. he had way way to much fun LOL and i am leaving it at that i am also limited from here on out to one stitch marker exchange buddy at a time. so my next stitch marker exchange that i can get invloved in may be this coming christmas or could be next easter. we will see. and it will depend on who is throwing one around that time .

meanwhile i am still knitting on this sock here got it to the toe and realized i had gone to far so its alittle to long so frogged back a few inches to make it right. once done with this i have the other one to do.

its been a real struggle with this knitting socks with real sock yarn and someone else's pattern other then plain but hey well worth it. and of course i changed it to suit me i don't like socks that come above my ankle because they tend to fall down and bunch up so i always knit ankle length to begin with . so these while same in the exact pattern are ankle length of course.

reminds me of the time i first learned how to knit socks took me a month to figure out the pattern. that is just about how long its taken me to figure out this one LOL so it feels but its worth it. allot of it is the constant frogging. one of those ugh another mistake oh goodie rip rip rip. nothing like do overs. LOL

but i am so so close to the end of this first one. so so close.

oh yea and DA Egg didn't make it . the gal who brought in the lovely pillow at the end and was asked to put a bird in the middle won. sigh oh well. easy come easy go. i had fun that is what counts. i haven't gotten the egg back yet still have to ask when that is happening. not worried about it i will stop in and ask soon again. just not today.

this past week found us with tons of rain and warmer weather. so once we step outside the whole world seems so ugly right now. at least out neck of the woods is . i cant begin to tell you about the amount of serious clean up that i have to do out there this year. its simply awful. allot of trash blew into our yard this winter i know people don't walk around here dumping stuff i know it blows in. and the amount of dog pooh. well i know it wasn't all my dogs it sure is a ton. and i know that fence we talked about is seriously going in this coming summer to end that right now. LOL

so hubby has today off and i hope he isn't thinking of running a muck cause i want to clean that front yard up best i can. rake all that trash and ugh yuk away. so it isn't depressing to walk past the front door.

and that way i can enjoy looking at the pretty rhubarb peeking through the ground.

oh yea and we have some repair work to do on our patio some of the beams hold it up didn't make it through the heavy amount of snow fall so the patio is off limits until that is repaired.

oh well there is always the beach.