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Halloween Zumba!

We had a great time this morning!

Halloween Boutique Chic

Scary yarn left over in the stash sale at Ft. Worden, so Jessica decided we needed to knit with it after our Show & Tell event.... scary scarf with furry balls......Major Eeew!

Happy Halloween ~

We had a spontaneous pumpkin carving event in our garage... with very scary results.This event took about a half hour to plan and get some of our neighborhood kids over.We took this 45 pound pumpkin from our own pumpkin patch, and set up the kids and pumpkins in our garage.plus took the other, smaller pumpkins out of our pumpkin patch...and fired up the power tools.....After three large pizzas, the results were wonderful!The kids had a blast, carved with little saws and power tools and danced around to Pandora's Halloween soundrtack - what a blast we had!!!Bonus, there was a visit by our very own Super Chicken!

Halloween heels ~

While waiting for trick or treaters, I was able to turn both heels on the day-care socks.

They look great! The yarn is so beautiful!

Pumpkin heads ~

Happy Halloween, from all our pumpkin heads to yours...

I hope you get to knit while waiting for the kids trick or treating!

Losing Jed ~

We had a bit of sadness over Halloween weekend. We lost our sweet banty rooster, Jed. He died from an unknown cause and he is missed by all of us. He'd lived with us for a day short of two years.

We first learned about the possibility of adopting Jed and his hens while we were in Ocean Shores, just before Halloween in 2007. While I was at work, my sweeties picked up Jed and his hens and brought them to our chicken coup on Halloween. Come to think of it, John named him Jed when he first saw him ~ I'm not sure what his name had been before...when I first saw Jed, I thought he was stunning, worthy of a magazine cover. I knew I'd seen him on calendars already ~ he was a beauty with his long shimmering tail feathers of emerald green and his white plumage around his head!


He didn't crow when he first arrived. His previous family said he didn't make any noise at all. Our Richie soon taught him how to crow (above picture), and Jed had a great crowing sound ~ not as loud as Richie, but forceful all the same. He wasn't aggressive like Richie, yet no one seemed to mess with him.


His ladies stayed with him, and yet their flock seemed to blend with the original flock fairly well.


I still look for him when I visit the coup. I miss him, his sweetness and his regal good looks...

Trick or Treat ~

For Halloween, I thought I would post some pictures of a scary knitting combination that I witnessed this week. My sweetie E was sick this week, and so she had on many layers to keep her warm.



Although she tried to nab my Apple Laine Funny Lady socks as soon as I cast them off, I loaned her another pair for getting well. These are knit out of Knit Picks Andean Alpaca, and they are cozy warm. I have a few pairs that I've knit, and they are my favorite for wearing in the snow. These are a peachy shade of warm & cozy ~ a favorite color of mine....



The Fuzzy Feet were knit a few years ago as well and I'm so pleased to see the kids wearing them still. The turquoise and hot pick are favorite colors of sweetie E....and a bit scary matched with my peach alpaca!!!


Happy Halloween! May your scariest "Trick" be nabbed socks and your "Treat" be alpaca!

Halloween Deadline

(get it? dead line ~ get it ~ Halloween ~ spooky...dead....get it?) Remember when I was sewing a Halloween costume the night before Halloween (instead of knitting)? Without the correct pattern and without much time to figure out how to "wing it" as the dead-line loomed? Well, here is rockin'13 daughter in her elf costume ~ not Nordstrom's, but the greatest red flannel elf costume around! Pretty cute, eh? Wait until next year!!!

Halloween Fun

Tonight we trick or treated in our wonderful neighborhood and in my sister's neighborhood. Rockin10 daughter, shown here, received lots of candy, but no yarn... I would like to invent a holiday where we go door to door and collect yarn from all the homes. Hmmm, what would we call that holiday? Let's start it in 2009!

Early Bird

Well, whoops anyway.... I thought our Yarn & Yak was today, as I was so excited to be knitting. It is really next Monday... so I was early ~ by just a week. So here is my Monday knitting gathering this week ~ not a lot of conversation with my halloween friends, so "we" listened to an audio book, Fearless Fourteen by Janet Evanovich.