I think I'm jinxed!!

Hey, all!  Another day of thinking I was getting somewhere with the 'puter, fixing what I messed up yesterday and hoping to get to amending the shop listings. I actually WAS moving along fairly well and had reinstalled the program that malfunctioned after I messed it up yesterday when the 'puter started talking and telling me "switching to backup power" rather than the little alarm that used to sound.  Argh! We had a POWER OUTAGE.  I still can't believe it because it was still and quiet, and I didn't hear any alarms like there was an accident either. 

I first thought it would just be a few minutes as often happens, but it dragged on for the rest of the afternoon.  We could've BBQ'd the meat for our dinner, but I was dying for a cuppa ... and the thought of just meat and maybe some lettuce quickly grabbed from the fridge (don't keep that door open more than hafta, ya know!) wasn't appealing at all.  I guess it would've been had it included a cuppa....  

So we headed for town and Burger King. Ah, not so bad -- it was a change from our usual fare, and we stopped at the druggist for a refill I needed anyhow.  

By the time we got back home (wasting time and wandering around to do so), the power had returned.  Something happened to the phone with the outtage, though, so tomorrow the repair guy will come about that (not here, at the other place). I just hope there isn't a line down through the woods as that always means an extra day, unpleasant work for the repair guys, and more need to be away from here and accomplishing what I *should* be doing.  

That couple/few days of warm to hot weather we had a week or so ago really spoiled us ... as well as the plant life.  Everything popped out and is glorious, but we've had frost the last two nights now.  I think another is expected tonight.  The lilacs are incredible this year and nearly drooping from the huge amount of blossoms, and even the frosts haven't seemed to hurt them like usually happens.  

I was so intent that I'd work at the 'puter and get things done as needed that I "forbade" myself to knit yesterday and again today.  Gee, it was like withdrawal!!!  When the power went out, though, I plugged myself into the MP3 and knitted away happily ... trying very hard to push away that wouldn't-quit craving for a cuppa.  :P

Guess tomorrow I'll go back to a no knit day 'cause I've gotta get things straightened on here as well as do the maintenance that's ridiculously behind ... plus if I don't soon do laundry we will be unable to leave the house as nothing will be remotely presentable! I'm glad I wasn't doing that when the power went, though, as that's a real bite and aggravation. Hopefully the phone repair doesn't keep me away too very much.  

That's the blab for now! Smiles to y'all!

The Knitwit

Note: My current extra prayer/support list is:

- Lovlee, Rikki, and her family
- Donna, Marley and family
- Gloria
- Gypsy Froggie
- Jacky ... where are you, girl?

Oh, DANG!

Hey, all! Guess this will be a quick rant and then onward with fixing what I messed up today....

I was working along at redoing the shipping quotes for all the stock in my shop, hoping to finish and get to actually amending the listings tonight and tomorrow.  I was cutting and pasting a LOT, and while hurrying (of course), I accidentally deleted the New Clip section of my neato Clipboard Cache that I use for absolutely everything.  I managed to find and save the actual information, but when I recreated that section, the whole program is malfunctioning.  Bottom line ... I hafta uninstall and reinstall.  That's not a big deal, but what IS a big deal is saving all the other info that I've stored in there which is ridiculously voluminous.  I've been at saving and moving for hours now, and I don't know if I'll finish tonight.  

Just when I thought I was getting somewhere......  ARGH! 


So that's me there!  You can see that I've now learned to place a pic in a post somewhere other than at the top ... but I'll hafta do some more reading/learning to see if I can use a .gif animation. That little guy is supposed to be animated -- jumping up and down on the 'puter. 

Smiles to y'all!

The Knitwit


Note: My current extra prayer/support list is:
- Lovlee, Rikki, and her family
- Gloria
- Gypsy Froggie
- Jacky

PS - Welcome home, CB! Glad you made it there and back safely ... and without melting! :P

A Shout Out....

 ... one good and one not so good (complaining!)

The first is, of course, to wish y'all a Happy Mother's Day!  Three cheers for mothers!!

The second, the complaining one, is my frustration with the (stupid) USPS for not updating their site to compute mailing/shipping rates that are raised tomorrow.  I thought I'd (for once) be on top of things and get the shipping costs in the shop updated today so that all would be correct tomorrow ... but the ridiculous PO has only issued a hard-to-follow PDF document listing the new prices.  SO stupid, when they closed business last evening every single thing that would be mailed or picked up the next they were working would be subject to the NEW prices; but did they have the foresite to let us, their customers, know what those charges would be?!?  ARGH!   If they weren't a monopoly, they'd have already put themselves outta business.
 

K, enough of the spouting. :P

Thought you'd like to see the progess my so-loved Thomas Jefferson has made in about a week. Here's a pic:

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Well, as you can see, the pic I tried (and tried and tried!) to put here just refuses to land anywhere but at the top of this post.  I even attempted copy and paste to put it where I wanted, but that just turned it into a little un-clickable thumbnail or something completely unviewable via most browsers.  I checked all through Help and, of course, found nothing about this at all.  I'll hafta go to the Forum later and see if someone there can help.  Hopefully I don't find what was there before -- more ads for international hookers and such than you'd ever get in a year's worth of spam. Ridiculous, and these creeps are absolutely everywhere! :P

Guess I'll close this.  Wishing you all a wonderful day and lots of love for Mother's Day!

The Knitwit


Note: My current extra prayer/support list is:
- Lovlee, Rikki, and her family
- Gloria
- Gypsy Froggie
- Jacky

Still a bit nervous about this.....

Hey, y'all!

I finally got the notes to y'all to tell you I'm here, and I had such a great day receiving emails from some of you and, most exciting of all, even a phone call to hear a sweet voice I hadn't heard in I can't remember how long. :D

Since I mentioned the amazing springing of Spring the other day, I thought I'd show you a couple pics that were taken just one day apart (4/25 and 4/26). This is my so-lovely Thomas Jefferson that's one of the first bloomers of the season, leaving amazing butterfly shaped leaves for the rest of the summer.  In the first pic, you can see that the other things in the bed are just showing wrinkly trying to push outta the dirt. In the second, they've not only emerged, but they're lush and filling in -- and the Trillium is blooming.

Since then the lilacs are blooming, our trees are (finally!) pushing their leaf buds out, the Day Lilies are up mid-shin high, the Narcissus are blooming, and it's so nice to see as much green as brown when looking out.

Better shove off for the day. Smiles and hugs to each of you!

The Knitwit


Note: My current extra prayer/support list is:
- Lovlee, Rikki, and her family
- Gloria
- Gypsy Froggie
- Jacky

By George, I think she's got it!

Well, I think I've finished with the fussing and adjusting to compile this blog. It's not exactly how I wanted, but it's functional this way. Trying to add a slideshow, badge or other active content made the blog inaccessible through Internet Explorer. (Thanks to Donna for checking and re-checking for me!) I didn't want to write y'all till I could be at least fairly certain that you could get here without aggravation. Now that it's done, I'll be writing to ya so you know where you can find me. :D

On "fronts" other than the blog, shop, and 'puter, I'm (of course!) still knitting away but accomplishing only the minimal otherwise. I was already spoiled 'fore Bobby retired, and now I'm getting even MORE spoiled. :P I've readily fallen into the "it'll wait for me to get around to it" excuse, and I allow more things into that category constantly. Worst of all is that I've continued to let the correspondence and contact with friends slip ... and I'm hoping this blog fills at least some of that gap.

Spring is finally springing here with dramatic changes this past week, and it's lovely to watch the changes right before your eyes ... like time-lapse photography. We're fighting nasty colds, though; and just when we thought we were on the slide to it being gone, it 360'd on us and reared up again with a vengeance.

Today's Derby Day, and I don't know if I'll watch the race or not. I would never miss it in the past; but it seems that the last three times I watched an important race, one of the horses was seriously hurt or died. I just can't see another go down and flail in pain. Maybe I'll wait till it's over, insure that none of the horses was hurt, and then watch it recorded. If one was hurt, I'll pass.

I'm off to write y'all with news that I'm here! Smiles to each of you!
The Knitwit


Note: My current extra prayer/support list is:
- Lovlee, Rikki, and her family
- Gloria

Still setting this up ...

I'm still working at setting this blog up how I want ... and I'm searching everywhere to find how to do this and that.  I've had some success and some failure.  

I updated my Flickr Account and uploaded all the pics I'd like to show on here, preferably in the form of a Flickr Badge like SimplyLovlee's got on her blog. I can only find the Slideshow option, though; so for the time being, I'm going with that. I've tried several times to get that to show all my pics, but it seems to be stuck showing just the last 15 or so that were uploaded. I allowed it to save for a LONG time, but it's still stuck on those same pics. I can't find any info if there's a limit to the number of pics that'll be streamed through to the blog.  

I've done a lot of hunting for how to get a Flickr Badge added rather than the slideshow.  I find great instructions on making one (easy) and have the code to post it to the blog, but I can't figure out how to put it into the blog except perhaps as a post, which I don't want.  I want it to be a widget along the side like the slideshow.  If I can't figure this out for myself, I'll ask Lovlee to help me (in her completely non-existant free time!  LOLOLOL)  

Other than that, I've been knitting still and worked at trying to better the pics in my Etsy shop as well as redoing lots of the descriptions there 'cause I just can't keep myself from being overly blabby.  But there's still (as always) an overflowing bag of FO's sitting here for me to write up and weigh and all to get 'em into the shop. I'm so slow at this that the things I make as season-specific end up hitting the shop in the NEXT season! :P

I've tons of stuff to get at 'round here that's home related rather than 'puter or Etsy related ... and I know I'm gonna hafta force myself to set this aside and work at least some of them before too much longer.

I haven't yet written to y'all to let you know I'm here, so with the exception of Susan (gee, you're amazing to have noticed me pop back here after a 2-year absence!!), I don't think anybody else realizes yet that I'm attempting to roll with this. I think tonight I will get notes out to everyone .....

Guess I'll sign off for now. Smiles to y'all ... even if it's only you, Susan, who sees them just yet! LOL

The Knitwit

I really AM still here!

Yeow! Nearly two years since I last posted to this, my blog! I shouldn't be surprised ... nor should you if you know me much at all!

I'm becoming more and more aware ... and more and more guilty ... at my lack of keeping up with all the wonderful people I'm proud to call my friends. I think of you all every day but just end up completely overwhelmed when I sit down and realize just how many individual letters it takes to keep up any semblance of contact. So here I am trying once again to get my nerve to ask y'all to check here when you have the chance or are in the mood just to see that I really AM still kicking ... and knitting! :D

I'll be dropping a line to lots of you to let you know I'm attempting to give this a go again.

That's it for tonight. I send you smiles and waves!

The Knitwit