Rough Haus

Hubba was featured on Season 2, Episode 2 of Rough Haus earlier this month.

I can not tell you how much I enjoy sharing my life with this amazing person.  :-D

Rough Haus is a locally produced television show, airing on KCDO - Denver/Sterling, CO.

Fiber Arts Friday: Fiber Celebration, part 5

Now that I have two skeins finished, I can start getting ready to knit the final project... swatching with the intended yarn comes next.

Knowing that the twined stitches are tighter, I started with standard knit and the assumption that US6 would be too big, but close.

This is a nice fabric, but definitely too loose for mittens.  So I need smaller needles.

According to Ravelry, I don't have any US4 or US5 needles, but I have a set of US3.  Now to figure out what they're doing since they are not in my box of available needles and hooks.

Happy Fiber Arts Friday!

Keyboards

Over the last month or so, I've been using several different computers, and therefore different keyboards.

All of these are QWERTY keyboards and all are on PCs, but the Control button, while always in the lower left corner, is not always in the same place.

And just because it's frustrating... All of the photos were taken landscape, they all show as landscape on both my phone and PC, but they import at portrait.  smh

Fiber Arts Friday: Fiber Celebration, part 4

After finishing my technique swatches, I was antsy to start knitting for real.  So I wound off single #6.

Plied it with with singles #1, 4 and 5.

... and finished skein #2.

Current Status:

• 3-5/8 oz, 196.5 yd complete in 2 skeins
• 7/8 oz in singles
• 6-3/8 oz remaining

Happy Fiber Arts Friday!

Apples, 2018

Our apples have been ready to be processed since August and our tree was especially full this year.  Which is nice given all of the hail we had over the summer.

Normally the apples are not ready until October.... which I think is predicting an early and harsh winter.

We've given a lot of apples away, since I haven't had time for processing.  But I borrowed my neighbor's orchard ladder (now on my to acquire list) over the weekend.  I picked 8 grocery sacks-full, gave a few sacks away and processed several batches.

I started with our favorite applesauce and tried apple pie filling and pickled apples.

I'm super excited about the pickled apples!  I wish I had time to make more.

In the last week we've had our first snow (10/10), first frost (10/12), +60F shorts and flip-flops weather (10/13), and first hard freeze (10/14).  It's back in the 50's-60's for the next several days.

I love this time of year.

Fiber Arts Friday: Still More Pink

It's Fiber Arts Friday, and I'm still making these.  :-/

Time for Reading

One nice thing about travelling for work is that the transit time is well-suited for reading.

I've finished a few books already.

You can see I've been pretty focused on Change Management.