knitmeister

Person, I love you!

I came home this afternoon with a car full of groceries, toiletries, dog supplies, etc. after an afternoon of errand shopping.  I discovered when I got into the kitchen that my phone was missing and started to freak out immediately.  It's my only phone since we no longer have a landline.  I couldn't even call it to see if it was hiding in my car!  I dropped off the dog and made a beeline back to Target since that was my first stop on the outing.  No luck at the Customer Service counter...so I headed back to the dressing rooms, no dice there either.  So, I went back up to the front of the store to see if they'd let me use the phone to call my next try, which is the pet store I work at.... I had them(the pet store) call my phone to see if it was anywhere in their store and voila!!! I hear it ringing AT TARGET!  It had been turned in by some nice nice person (person, I LOVE YOU!).  And dudes, it had tire tracks on the glass and the damn thing still works.  Come to find out later, this saviour had called my neighbor (my last phone call) and notified her that he was turning the phone in at Target for me.  I have no way to find him and express my gratitude because he called her from my phone and neither the folks at Target, or my neighor got his name for me.  I've posted on Craigslist locally hoping he'll read it.  If  you know a guy in Kansas City who picked up an iPhone at the Ward Parkway Target today and turned it in tell him to get ahold of me.  I want to reward him for his honesty and integrity.

I finished another knit!

It's a Jigamathingaroundyourneck.  I received six balls of Rowan Denim recently for renewing my subscription to the magazine and decided to try this pattern out with it.  I only used two of the six balls to complete this neck warmer.  I omitted the baubles at the points and am going to sew some little round silver beads on instead.  I didn't want to crochet them in because I wanted to try the dip bleaching and I was afraid the bleach would ruin the beads.

It really only took me the weekend to whip this puppy out.  I spent a good part of the day Saturday on it, and by Sunday morning my left wrist was in agony.  I couldn't even pick up a coffee cup.  I think I've pretty much come to the conclusion that it only hurts when I knit...so I don't think I'm going to be knitting as much in my future and there is no hope that I will make it through my yarn in my lifetime.  As a result I'm unloading a good portion of my stash.  I'm sorting through the sock yarn first and am leaning towards keeping the solids because I like to use them to do small standed projects like mittens and hats.  I'm going to list everything on Destashforcash first and then I will probably post them to the Destash group on Ravelry if they don't sell the first time around. 

Saving Lucky

...on my way to Michael's tonight to get beads to finish a neck warmer(for the edging) I started at Jimmi's birthday party Saturday night.  I got stopped at the light heading west at 95th and Roe.  It's a pretty busy intersection in the 'burbs.  There was a guy jogger waiting to cross the street on one corner and before the light turned green a beautiful red/white spaniel runs across the street....I though he was with the jogger but no, he turned right and the dog went left and plopped himself in the front yard of the house on the opposite corner.  It only took me about no seconds to decide to turn right so I could whip a u-ey and go back to try to collect the dog.  By the time I got back to his location another car had stopped.  It was a man and woman and their two daughters.  We discovered the dog had a tag with name(Lucky!) phone number AND address, which was a huge relief.  They made the call, the owners didn't answer but they left a message.  We all decided I would take Lucky since they had a dog in the car.  I gave them my phone number in case the owners tried to call them back.   Long story long, I heard from Lucky's owners and was able to reunite him with them shortly after I left.  I was able to make it to Michael's and found some nice beads to complete my project.  It makes me happy to know that that nice man and his family and his two sweet little girls stopped to help a lost dog.  I was feeling a little peeved after having just been at the grocery store and a man rushed to the line next to me that just opened when there were several people nearby him that had been waiting longer.  He also had two little girls with him.  Think of the two different lessons being taught by these two fathers to their two little girls.... There are many elderly people in our neighborhood and they were amongst the people waiting nearby to check out at the grocery store.  What a jerk!

Anyway, tonight I received a call from the little girls who were with the nice man who stopped to help Lucky.  They wanted to know if he made it home ok, and I was able to tell them "yes!", and that I thought it was very nice of them to stop and help.  I have a good warm feeling in my heart tonight thanks to them. 

Sammy's Famous Baroo

What the?

Is this supposed to happen in October in Kansas?

Willy 1989 - 10/01/08