world wide water day

how can you save water?
use low flow toilets and shower heads
replace washers or faucets
Turn off the faucet while brushing your teeth
If it's mellow let it yellow if it's brown flush it down
shower with a friend ;-)

for even more (and better) suggestions visit
Water: Use it wisely
Save water 49 ways
Think at the sink
Think of how you can save this precious resource.. we all need it!

how many pointy sticks

does it take a knitter to make gloves?


well this one uses too many. I need to put the unworking stitches on a circular, less points to jab myself with. But I have to say I'm loving those 5" for doing the fingers... works out much easier than with the 7" that I used last year. Yes, E, if you're reading this, it IS your Christmas present... the knitted finger you see is the trigger fingers. The rest will be made for the convertible glove/mitten part and the left hand will be completely convertible. Hope you like them my dear!

Other news.... the plumbing is fixed (cross fingers please) THe plumber has been to my house 4 times in the past 2 weeks. Twice because of back-up in the toilets and shower in the basement and off-kitchen bathrooms, once to check out the leak inthe bathroom tub that made the dining room cieling start to fall (yes... that's fixed now too thank you very much... should have taken a picture when the hole was still there!) and once to put a camera down the main to check to see if there were any problems that could be related to the first and third visits.... He's a nice man, but I hope I don't see him again for quite some time.

ON the LIzard Ridge front, I finished square #2. I was going to frog it, because I wasn't sure I liked all the greens together. But now that it's finished, it's growing on me.... I like how it's almost symmetrical
I almost have enough skeins of Noro to complete this project now :-) All I need is the time LOL

I've been spending way too much time on ravelry, just trying to get my stuff up. I started taking new pictures of the stash, because of the way that whole area is set up. What a great website... have I told you that I love it there?

DD and I went to Michael's to get ribbons that I needed for school on Sat. Serendipitously they were on sale :-) so I had to use my 40% off coupon from ACMoore for something else. I bought Nicky Epstein's Knitting on the Edge. THey didn't have much of a selection and that book has been on my list for quite some time. I also bought a skein of Bernat bamboo yarn (also on sale) to try out.

I volunteered for the crisis committee for our teacher's union. I hope that it is time spent that we really don't need....


And last but not least, my periodic insomnia kept me up last night... at least I worked on this:

water, water everywhere

but it's not to drink!

Today was a wierd water day.
• We're redoing the back bedroom which was formerly an office into a bedroom for the boys. DH was draining the radiator but it wouldn't stop draining.
• My SIL knocked over a full glass of water onto the hardwood floor in that room.
• The swimming pool closed just as we got there (3 hours early)
• All the kids were thrilled with their baths
• They were also playing with tea party and DS2 insisted that real water be put in the teapot
• and the final straw, the heater blew it's top and water was everywhere in that room in the basement, which of course is where all my yarn is, fleeces too... fortunately in plastic bags or bins... but I moved it all out anyway. The heater man comes tomorrow but the heat is shut off now... guess it's a good thing that it's warm outside.

It's a good excuse to organize the stash. And take some pictures...

The bad part is that now DH KNOWS how much yarn there is.... My DD said "mom, why do you have so much yarn? You have to stop buying yarn....." She's right. It's time to lose some weight... sigh