Starting over

Well I was knitting on the mittens I started ages ago, when I discovered that only one mitten was a pop top. Apparently the pattern does that because you only need one hand to operate the camera and thus the pattern only depicts how to knit one of the pair as a pop top. And that is not what I want so I am going to reverse the directions so I can have both be a pop top mitten. I am glad I started over anyways because I was getting really bad laddering too.

Well Joann's Fabrics has always had this Pink Camouflage in Bernat Sox and it was always like 6 bucks, I didn't want to spend that much on one pair of nice socks, so I have always bought stuff around it. Well I got a 50% of a regular priced item and I got them for 3 bucks, yahhh. I bought that in a heartbeat. I know that it isn't any special yarn or extraordinary hand painted yarn but I have always loved the colors.

Well I am going to go apply for a job at the local Department of Human Services, my degree covers quite of few of the jobs they have there. So wish me luck....

I finished the cowl just casted off and here it is...

I knit it out of some leftover Caron Simply Soft worsted weight yarn. It isn't anything special but it is very practical, I think that is why it took so long, because it was a very boring knit. But oh well. I can wear it to Greg's game tonight.
I leave you with this funny picture I got of Slinkie taking a nap this morning.

Amaizen!!

Well on Sunday we went to the corn maze here it was pretty cute, the maze wasn't too difficult, but the kids loved it. They had a sand box there for the kids but instead of sand it was filled with dried corn. They had hay rides there too, although we didn't go. We got the kids some pumpkins while we were there.

Well the winter is finally starting to hit around here. We just got our woodshed completely filled on Sunday so that is good. The last few days have been pretty overcast and today is very windy. We are supposed to get wind gusts up to 40 MPH today. I grew up on the northern Oregon coast where that is the average speed, it can get pretty windy there.

As for knitting progress, I haven't done anything on my mittens but I am five rows from casting off for my cowl. I am sort of excited because the weather is getting chilly and it always nice to have something warm around your neck.

Greg is subbing today at a different school than usual, is the city school district, which means he will get paid a little bit more per hour. Which is always nice to put in the down payment for a house fund.

Anyways I will type more later....

Happy Halloween

I love the holidays!!! I helped my mother-in-law decorate for Halloween yesterday, we couldn't get either of our husbands interested, but oh well. My father-in-law was reading the paper, and my hubs was resting his knee that he wrenched. He tore his lateral miniscus when he was 18 and 7 years later it is better but gets sore when he plays full speed, and when it is cold. It tried to snow yesterday morning but it didn't stick around.
Years ago when I was getting ready to go to college I wrecked my car, we paid to have someone fix it and redo everything. Now as the years have gone by little things are acting up with my car and it makes me mad. First the electric radio antennae broke, then the seal in the back passenger door is sort of loose, so when you drive 50 or faster it sort of whistles. Then the dashboard started to pull away from where the windsheild meets the hood. Then this summer the first 3 of 4 levels of Air conditioning stopped working so if you want to cool the car down you have to sit in an arctic blast the whole time. And now when you are driving the parking break light keeps flickering even though the lever won't go down any more. Anyhoo I am not sure if I should tell the guy to give the money back so I can go get it fixed or have him do it again (although he did a cruddy job the first time).
So no new knitting from me this week so far I have been in a hailstorm of craziness.