It is telling that I finally received my Ravelry invitation on September 15th and my last blog post is dated the 14th. Everything takes a bite of time. Lately, the time eating monsters have been ravenous.
There’s always more to it. Last Monday I hit the road and drove south to take care of business stuff. Nice drive. Here in the northeast, it is "high season", peak color should be this week and next. All the way into Massachusetts the leaves were turning red. In the south, the Swamp Maple shows the most color early, in the north, the Sugar Maples. Seems early for so much southern color but the summer was dry for a lot of the northeast. I’ve heard that forces early color. Not my hill, to the contrary, we were wet. While I was in the office, I took advantage of the FAST internet and finally finished loading the data, the jpgs (read that yarn), the software patches and all the other stuff that takes forever on dial up, into the new store. Check it out, Ball and Skein now has a proper online shopping cart and address: ballandskein.com
The pictures on the sidebar of the blog link to it. Hopefully, without any problems. Most everything is there now, the skein winders, the Spindler’s Kate, yarn… all the stuff.
Note to Manise: You are amazing. You should be a detective, you saw it immediately. And yes, that IS what I have been doing. lol…!
The apples are "in". I’m peeling and bagging apples for pies and freezing others already sauced. It is so nice to be able to pull bags of ‘pie ready’ apples from the freezer all winter. Takes most of the work out of it. If I could only get the crust down…
I’ve been sticking to simple knitting, the monkey socks and the tashi scarf, things I don’t have to think about. The second sock needs a toe. The scarf…. half done. I’m playing with fringe ideas. Beads, of course.
A present to myself arrived while I was out of town.. These are now my new favorite needles (from Knit Picks). Wonderful finish, sharp tips and fun!!!
The radio dogs are everywhere. Seems the combine farm operator wants the bear out of the corn. The hunters know about the mama and the three cubs, and they are all looking for her. Damn them.
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So what’s your Ravelry name? Gotta “friend” you!
I bet I can help you with your pie crust issues.
Manise *is* a detective! 🙂
Love the new scarf. And I’ll have to check out those pretty needles.
oooo..those needles do look like fun! (as do the beads..nice project!)
Congrats on getting all the work on your store complete!
Ha! You crack me up. I’ve gotten to know you pretty well eh? Those new needles are pretty and swirly! Off to check too! Cool scarf- you do have a thing about beads eh? Great placement of them!
I’m intrigued. How do you do your pie apples so that you can just pull them out of the freezer and go bake? It’s prime apple season here and I would love to have a good idea for preserving them.
I so miss New England, and most of all in the fall. Enjoy!
What kind of monsters would want to kill a mother of three… I feel your anger and worry. These needles are quite impressive!
I thought it was illegal to kill a mama, even in hunting season! Sickos. I hope she comes in the night and poops in their hunting boots.
The shop looks good !
Sure hope mama bear will get away safe with her cubs.
We also have apple trees in our garden but they are not good enough to eat or make pies out of them.
Wow! You have been busy!! I’m so happy for you that you got your “real” shop set up and rolling. I refuse to think about how utterly gorgeous it is in your neck of the woods right now. Even if we did get snow here last night…..
You’re right about Manise. The stuff that that girl can sleuth out is really amazing. I’ve seen it first hand!
As a big fan of click-to-pay, I’m very excited about your store’s “upgrade”. 🙂
And the scarf is looking lovely! The beads for your fringe are just perfect.
Glad to hear the weather report. The sock needles (tried them out last night courtesy of Lorrie) are SHARP and good. Tip is quite tapered, and needs getting used to.
The store looks great, much easier to navigate.
I like those needles too… but…do you really like them? Is the color distracting? What size are you using?
Pie crust: if you have something along the food processor lines, the steel blade and the butter/lard/whatever/and the flour into breadcrumb-size works really well and very fast.
I may get me some of those needles but every time I think about putting my stash on Ravelry I know I have been a Bad Girl for a very long time.