Another Lamb



Coal is a two-year-old (Ember's daughter), and this is her first baby. He's a gorgeous little moorit ram lamb, born 3/16/2004. That happens to be Mark's and my 14th anniversary.

Star and her lamb wanted their picture taken too. Coal is the darker ewe and her baby, of course, is the smaller one. He runs around with the rest of the lambs already, but still panics if his mama gets too far from him.

Thanks for hanging around

It's been a couple of weeks since the last entry here. Tell you what! I'll make up for it by attempting to blog almost every day for this week. How about that? I'm also going to be working on the other pages, like the links, and if I get ambitious enough I might add something else too. So don't give up on me yet!

Two Needle Opal Socks



They have been finished for a while. I think they are a little big for Jonathan, but he wears them constantly anyway, except for the day that Carol beat him to them.

Binding off is a little bit tricky with this method of knitting socks. It takes a third needle, and goes like this:

• Knit the first stitch
• Slip the next stitch onto the back needle
• Knit the third stitch
• Slip first stitch over last stitch
• Continue in this manner, LOOSELY
• Once both socks have one side bound off, the other side is much easier to finish.

Also see this picture and this one too.

There turned out to be two places where I was distracted and slipped with the yarn in back instead of in front. Repairing them was not a really big deal. Turn the sock inside out to the point of the error. Snip the offending yarn. Repair as you would if your sock had gotten a hole in it in any other way. I might have snipped the wrong side, as I wound up having two holes to repair for each error.


Between Projects Now

I have already finished an additional pair of socks, which I will tell you about later.



Petting Zoo



Angela, Joe, and Andrei came out to visit at the end of February. It was lots of fun, and even though it was the off season for tourism in Vernal, we found things to do. We went to the Dinosaur Monument, and of course took advantage of our very own petting zoo in the back yard.