Knitting Tea Party, Friday 17th March, 2023

darowil said:

I had to work out how to start a topic on the new format- don't think I have done it yet.
Kate is in England with her whole family in a very large house for a few days- celebrating her 70th birthday.
Should be about 1pm EST (well about 4am EST in Australia!) but as I am heading to bed now I don't anticipate being up to post for a while so here is this weeks new Tea Party. Half way through March already!

Summary of Friday 10th March, 2023 by Darowil

The summary and following lists are a summary of last week's Tea Party and are of more value to the regulars here unable to keep up with all the chatter than to newbies - who are very welcome to join us at any time just by speaking up and making yourself known. All the pages etc refer to last week’s Tea Party Knitting Tea Party, Friday 10th March, 2023

Sassafras’s DGD has been accepted into Notre Dame Law School.

Jazzy’s DH and his brother are working hard on getting their father’s house ready to sell-hope to have it on the market early next week- and then He will be able to return home and stay put. The funeral was this morning so probably finshed by now

Pearl Girls DH has had 3 teeth removed- and He already seems brighter.

Swedenme’s sinuses have been playing up for about a week and seem to be finally settling

PHOTOS

3 - Swedenme - Onesies and booties

7 - Kate - Baby cardigans

8 - Bonnie - Neighbour and calf

10 - Poledra - Mattie the birthday boy

11 - Bonnie - Socks

12 - Swedenme - Onesie with mock cable pattern

23 - Swedenme - Onesie and booties

25 - Fan - Booties

25 - Diana - First knitting!

27 - Poledra - Waterfall

31 - Fan - Meringue and Pixy

41- Poledra - Hat and socks

43- Kiwi - New Zealand scenery

45- Poledra - New socks on her feet

RECIPES

18 - Bonnie - Smoked cheese

42- Poledra -Chicken Cacciatore

43- Bonnie-Chicken Cacciatore



OTHERS

34 - Bonnie - TENS machine (link)

46- Bonnie- frontal access clear stackable containers

51- Darowil - frontal access stackable containers

53- Mindy - The Medium is the Message

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Fan said:

Thank you Margaret for the new week, wondered why you were up so early.
‘Yes it’s nearly 6.30am Saturday morning here.
‘Happy St Patrick’s Day to all in northern hemisphere. Green beer was on the menu here but not for me, much prefer corned beef with cabbage potato carrots and a honey mustard cheese sauce. Yum!

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Jazzynitter said:

More snow -- holy crap 🤯 When is it going to end? We're getting drizzly rain and it is sooooo gloomy and depressing 😟. I really don't like being stuck indoors for so long but the weather is just too miserable to even think about going out. Good thing I don't have a dog here. Getting the roses trimmed is a good spring project, you'll have to post photos when they're blooming.
Thanks to Margaret for getting us going for another week. Much appreciated, and I hope Kate is having a wonderful birthday celebration with her family.
Saw this shawl in the latest Knitty.com. Totally in love with it, absolutely do not need it but will probably make it anyways if I can find the yarn.
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KateB said:

Not me this week, it was Margaret.

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tami_ohio said:

The new color to finish the socks is going to work great! The other colors look good, too.

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Swedenme said:

Good morning ladies, bit grey here this morning which is a lot different from the beautiful bright blue skies of yesterday , completely ignored my stuffed nose and went for a drive inland rather than to the coast , ended up at Low Force a waterfall 60 minutes from where i live, its in the middle of a forest and so peaceful, I was going to go on up to High Force which obviously by its name tells you it s higher up and a higher fall , but was quite happy were I was till I decided to go up on Wynch bridge , stupid thought as I do not like that bridge but the view is beautiful so i decided to put my brave head on and go for it , Lol that bravery lasted right till I got to the middle of the bridge and looked down i couldnt move quick enough to get off as i started to think how old the bridge is and why only one person at a time can cross 🤣, Force is an old word used for waterfall here in northeast England , the picture of the bridge is an old one as i was to grateful to get back on firm landto take a new one

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Maatje said:

I love corned beef also. There was some at the potluck last night which was very good. But something I ate sure didn’t agree with me. I woke up a couple of hours later with the worst gas I’ve ever had! Maybe the cabbage? Snd of course at a potluck one eats a bit of everything, so difficult to know. Sorry, Tmi I’m sure.

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angelam said:

Thanks for that information. I have a clematis growing on the wall between me and my neighbours, it’s been there for at least 20 years. I keep threatening to prune it but it’s got so big now I’m not sure if the wall is holding the clematis up or the other way round. I think I might cut it through just above ground level and then pull it off bit by bit as it dies off. That way I won’t be tugging at the wall too much. It’s got two chances!🙄

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Gweniepooh said:

BEAUTIFUL shawl Jazzy. I know you will do a fabulous job on it.

Lynnette it sounds like you are really having a wonderful visit.

Thank you Margaret for taking it all on this week with Kate on a holiday. Both of your are magnificent.
I tried to get back here last week but life had other plans. I ended up with a whopper of a cold; think it was greatly affected by the huge amount of pollen this past week. Also had to get my hearing aids replaced. The bluetooth on them kept going out so they replaced them entirely. I also got a haircut, manicure, and new tattoo. DH had given me a gift certificate for Valentine's so I was spoiled indeed; probably why I ended up with the cold. I was out and about (masked) way too much)
In addition, we finally heard from the urologist concerning DH's biopsy. Long explanation short 4 of the 12 samples showed up positive for cancer with a level of intermediate. This next week we will be scheduling a bone scan and a ct scan to be sure it hasn't spread anywhere else in his body. Bad news for sure but the positive side it has been caught early. Dr. said emphatically he will not die from this; it is treatable and we'll decide treatment after the next two scans. Certainly not what we wanted to hear but thank God it is treatable and the doctor is right on top of everything at this point. Neither of us are overly stress by this as it is treatable. They don't remove the prostate gland in men his age (over 70) because the patient usually ends up with other problems (won't go into those) but use the radioactive seeds or radiation treatment. Prayers that it has not spread would be appreciate and the doctor said he doubt it has.

Like Fan, I made corned beef and cabbage for St. Patrick's Day. Usually add the potatoes and carrots like Fan but when I went to get the carrots out of the fridge they had become a "science experiment" so I tossed them. I was waiting until later to add the potatoes to the crockpot and a friend came over and I forgot to put them in.
It was still very good. There is plenty of corned beef leftover for sandwiches or another meal too.

I managed to make a wine cozy to give to one of the Craftaholics member's birthday along with a bottle of wine. Will give it to her when we meet Monday. I'm pretty pleased with it seeing how other than a simple blanket this is the only other crocheted item I've made. Learned a couple of new stitches too. Far from perfect but never expected it to be. I am satisfied with it though; I even made a slight modification to the pattern. The vines were written to go straight up but the author even said she would twist them after putting in the bottle of wine. Rather than that I just offset them to begin with.
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Jazzy please accept my condolences on the passing of your FIL. I am glad he didn't have to suffer long and is at peace now. Prayers also for comfort for your DH (Mike?) and his brother as well as for you.

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Maatje said:

mine starts beginning of July and through out the month. And mine blooms on new growth. You’d have to look it up sure don’t want to tell you wrong.

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Bonnie7591 said:

Belated Happy Birthday.
How is your shoulder doing?
Im having trouble with the latest set of exercises. She didn’t give me the rubber band for doing them & I didn’t think to ask until I was on the way home. I thought DS would have one but the things he has are too hard, they are labelled 10, 20, 30 & 40 pounds. I have to go back on Monday so will have to get the right band then.

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Jazzynitter said:

Another project over and done with. I remember now why it's been several years since I've knit prayer shawls for this group. Sixty inches of garter stitch, and Homespun is so hard to knit evenly that I'm never really happy with the end result. But it's done, my good deed for this week 😁
Just looked out the window -- horizontal whiteout 👎 We've been having lake effect snow squalls all afternoon and evening. I pity anyone out on the highways right now.

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Maatje said:

ha, we have a little boy in church whose name is Angus. Didn’t know that until after I had named him Gus. oh well….he seems better this evening. I wish he’d drink more…water that is. Maybe you should teach me some of those drinking songs. I wonder if it would help? Gus has never been a great one for drinking water but since his episodes one would think he’d want some water. He hasn’t had any all day. I have filled his dish with fresh water several times today to entice him but no luck. But he seems perky enough.

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Jazzynitter said:

The problem with train travel in Canada now is that it's incredibly expensive to go any distance at all. It wasn't like that when I was a teenager but now it's more than double the cost of flying.

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KateB said:

Home again after the weekend away, happy but tired! We had a lovely time and the kids had a ball! We took them on a forest walk (where it rained constantly, but didn’t dampen our spirits!) and to a Birds of Prey show. We also spent time in the hot tub and just generally lying about chatting and eating, very enjoyable and relaxing. View attachment 1287085 View attachment 1287086 View attachment 1287087 View attachment 1287088 View attachment 1287090

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Bonnie7591 said:

I quit doing yoga because my shoulders just couldn’t take it & the last class I took the teacher had us sit cross legged on the tile on cement floor for a good portion of the class so not exactly great. A couple of my neighbors were going but quit too.

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Jazzynitter said:

I thought at first it might be Murano but there are no markings on it. Mike remembers it from when he was quite young so it's been around for a while.

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tami_ohio said:

This is what I find on Google:









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Drunken Sailor
Song by The Irish Rovers









Lyrics

What will we do with a drunken sailor?
What will we do with a drunken sailor?
What will we do with a drunken sailor?
Early in the morning!
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Early in the morning!
Shave his belly with a rusty razor
Shave his belly with a rusty razor
Shave his belly with a rusty razor
Early in the morning!
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Early in the morning!
Put him in a long boat till his sober
Put him in a long boat till his sober
Put him in a long boat till his sober
Early in the morning!
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Early in the morning!
Stick him in a scupper with a hosepipe bottom
Stick him in a scupper with a hosepipe bottom
Stick him in a scupper with a hosepipe bottom
Early in the morning!
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Early in the morning!
Put him in the bed with the captains daughter
Put him in the bed with the captains daughter
Put him in the bed with the captains daughter
Early in the morning!
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Early in the morning!
That's what we do with a drunken sailor
That's what we do with a drunken sailor
That's what we do with a drunken sailor
Early in the morning!
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Early in the morning!
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Early in the morning!
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That's very familiar 🥰

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tami_ohio said:

Page 29 and finally caught up. Yesterday was an off day and walking was not easy, and of course I left my stick in the truck. Legs felt like limp noodles. But we did tour the Tobasco hot sauce factory and the Jungle Gardens. Interesting tour, and the gardens were pretty, and would be really pretty when in bloom. I was glad that the garden tour is a drive through with places to pull off and explore a little bit. I didn't get out, but DH did in the Budda Exibit and took some pictures.

Today was better until this afternoon when the motion sickness started. We drove all over and to the Roosevelt Wildlife Refuge. DH stopped and got out for a few minutes and when he started moving the truck I glanced in the mirror. Told him to stop that back tire doesn't look right. He then saw the low tire light on on the dash. Yep. Flat as it could get. He had trouble getting the jack where he needed it, but a young man with the Refuge came along and asked if we needed help or would we be ok. He happened to have a small floor jack with him, that actually looked brand new when I saw him take it out of the box, and with that and DH's bottle jack the tire was changed very quickly. Nice young man. And he visited with me while DH changed the tire. There wasn't anything either of us could do to help. When DH was finished and put the jack back in the truck for the young man off he went, knowing we would be good to go. Once we got close to the next town, DH called a tire place. They closed in an hour. So we get there in half an hour, and they tell him that they are closing early and can't look at it. Well, I will remember the name of that place! And it won't get good reviews! And it's a small local company, who just didn't want to be bothered. So DH looked up the next closest place. Pulls in and parks. Came back in 2 minutes and says they are going to look at the tire. No kidding. The tire was inspected, patched, and we were back on the road in less than 15 minutes. And even better? NO CHARGE!!!! The man who fixed it got a $5 tip for his efforts. I will remember that name also, and they will get a great review! Back to camp and DH changed the spare for the repaired tire, and off we went to supper. While he changed the tire, I switched laundry. Last load is in the dryer now. And then I am headed to bed. It's already tomorrow at 12:20am. We move campgrounds again tomorrow. About 100 miles, and still will be in Louisiana. I am ready to be back in Alabama for a month. I'm beat. I need to stay in one place for awhile again. I was doing really good, but the last 2 days have kicked my butt. Don't know if it's the change in humidity, & weather, or what it is, but I'm ready. Oh, and we saw an alligator that we could get a picture of, then we started seeing them at the edge of the water on the banks. That's about when my head decided it didn't want to be in a moving vehicle anymore. And after the tire went flat. I tried uploading a couple of pictures but it's not working. I think it's all trying to save to One Drive. so maybe tomorrow. View attachment 1287367
There was actually a dark irridescent blue bird, almost black, in the reeds in the back. And, yes, I know the date is wrong on the picture. I now have it fixed, but not until tonight!

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DH estimates the length of the alligator at about 6".

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Egret Sanctuary
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Opossum and Egret

Night!

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tami_ohio said:

Can anyone tell me what year I hosted KAP? I'm trying to figure out how old my laptop is. The screen keeps going black on me, and am probably going to have to replace the darn thing. I bought it right before KAP that year.

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