Gloves for Christmas

One day this summer at work during lunch I was perusing my Vogue Knitting magazine. Being summer they had lots of projects that did not require you melting while knitting. There was a pair of fabulous fingerless gloves. One of the guys said could you knit me a pair of those for my girlfriend for Christmas, sure no problem, what color of yarn and what do you want it made of and what size. Well here are the gloves. I had Enchanted Hues on Etsy spin the yarn for me, and it is so sofy and yummy. Thanks Leann for the yarn and I hope the girlfriend loves the gloves. BTW the pattern is easy once you get going.

Turtle Sweaters

Ok so the turtle sweaters are done and the hats are to match. They were a lot of work but a lot of fun. The hardest part was the colorwork involved in the making the turtles, 17 rows of oh crap the foot does not belong under the neck, but... they are finally done.

My own Bucky Cat

Here is my very own Bucky Cat, she is every bit as onery as Bucky in the Get Fuzzy cartoons, and will get into any kind of trouble, in fact trouble finds her.

Christmas Swap

My online knitting group had yet another swap well this was the last one of the year. Send yarn and a pattern, one skein, something to eat and drink, and a Christmas gift to be opened on Christmas Day. Well my box came today and as you can tell I was beyond spoiled. I LOVE IT ALL. ONe more week and I can open the big blue box, hmmmm wonder what it is.

Meadow Muffins

Two days in a row there are questionable front page stories. What are meadow muffins, you ask? Cow Patties.

I suppose Meadow Muffins is the PC term for cow patties cos that just conjures up big ole steaming piles you don't want to step in. Now they think meadow muffins can produce electricity, yep there is a use for them other than throwing contests.

Southwest Kansas has tons of feedlots, just drive through, roll down the window and breathe in, that is the smell of money so they say. Early next year equipment at a cattle feedlot will begin turning manure into fuel that could make electricity for 30 homes. If the demo project is successful larger units could be placed at feedlots to take advantage of the state's abundant supplies.

Kansas has two cows/human in the state. One cow can produce enough muffins that are equal to 140 gallons of gasoline. 50,000 cows could provide enough muffins to power 24,000 homes.

Missouri chicken farmers have approached KCP&L about adding manure as fuel to coal fired power plants. Minnesota uses turkey manure for a 55 megawatt plant.

Makes me wonder with 4 cats what I can do and make some money.

Recycled Toilet Paper

Here I am eating breakfast and on the front page of the local liberal rag is an article on recycled toilet paper. My first thought is oh gross is there a little elf sitting at the end of the sewer pipes collecting my toilet paper and taking it to some factory somewhere to recycle it. Of course not but what a thing to put on the front page. Well I guess it is better than another picture of the Imposter spewing lies.

Greenpeace is pushing TP manufacturers to stop using wood from virgin forests to make tissue products. They want them to take the paper we set out at the curb every week and make TP out of it. So if each family bought just one roll of recycled TP it would save 400K trees. The problem is each time paper gets shredded the fibers get shorter and therefore the TP gets rougher.

I don't know about you but I want a little soft on those parts of my body. So next time you go to the store bypass that green stuff unless you want a little chafing.

Christmas Ornament Swap

We are crazy swappers in an online knitting group I belong to. Seems like we no more than get one done and off we go to another one. This one consisted of sending a handmade ornament, another ornament and some goodies. Well I love my little knitting basket, so much so I need another xmas tree, so after xmas, off I go to buy a cheap tree and begin to decorate for next year. I have that pattern for the basket so now I have a whole year to decorate. Look at those needles, aren't they cute.