Today, I...

Bought groceries.
Divided up the jumbo package of hot dogs into 3 meal-sized portions.
Chopped 3 green peppers for the freezer (first I've had to buy since, well, I can't 'member when thanks to the garden)
Planted lettuce and radishes outside.
Started peppers (bell and banana), tomatoes (rutgers and beefsteak) and lavender in the Jiffy greenhouse on my desk.
Washed and hung out 4 loads of laundry.
Appliqued a butterfly onto one of E's new shirts to cover a small hole.
Worked on altering a friend's wedding gown...wedding is in 12 days, thank goodness the changes are minor.
Worked in the yard doing the usual spring clean-up type stuff.

No wonder I'm beat and it's only 5:19PM.

250th Post ~Ravelry

I tend to think of myself as a non-joiner. I'm usually the last knitter to jump on a pattern bandwagon, I rarely join KALs and I do not belong to a guild or attend SnB. When Ravelry came out, I thought just what we need, another knitter thing to tell us the same sh*t we've already heard. Boy, was I wrong! My invite came today and every possible spare minute has been spent exploring it today. My Ravelry name is: JACTTD (the ancroynm for this blog!). My adding things will be slow with the LG now toddling about much of my time is spent chasing him. That is when I'm not teaching lessons.

Since when do 2nd graders need to know Order of Operations in a modified format? Seriously, am I that old already that "math in my day" is the same as my father's "I walked 17 miles to school in 4 feet of snow with only one shoe"?

Babbling is only good if you are a bubbling brook winding through the mountains so I am going to bed now. Good-night all!

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Snarky Old School. You may be old, you may be young, but you're the knitter that puts us all to shame with your amazing skills. Novelty yarns that NOT your gig. Your knitting library probably out does most, especially with the old but goodies, like Alice Starmore and the original editons of Barbara Walker's books. You're cool, but you scare me.
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I always knew I was old school something.

Thrift Score!

Our town lacks good thrift stores. We now have 3. One I won't go to unless Hubster goes along because the owner/managers give me the serious creeps. Another one is mostly clothes but not in sizes any of us wear. The remaining one is the Goodwill which finally reopened in a new spot after a yearlong absence. I stop there from time to time because it's on the way to Aldi's, WM and KM. Most days I don't find much but in the past 2 weeks I've scored big. An excersaucer (baby thing) for $4.99. I am NOT pregnant. I am doing daycare again for a little guy my friend is fostering. Then today, I found an ancient GE Food Processor for $2.99...it had all these "extra" parts with it for the price and I couldn't figure out how this was supposed to use the extra blades, etc. Turns out I bought a GE Processor and an accessory set for an OSTER Regency Kitchen Center. Seems like those accessories are going for about $10 on ebay so if I get my rear in gear,list the set before the 30th and they sell, my food processor will be "free". Which I love. Typically, I try to avoid too many small appliances in my tiny kitchen but when I want to whip up large batches of things, a processor comes in handy.

In other not newsworthy news, I finished a pair of mittens for the parish mitten tree, MARIAH is now done except the zipper but R's wearing her just the same and I'm making apple butter because the local grocery store had apples on special this week. I wanted to try a small batch before I go to the orchard and buy a van load of apples. Sure smells good right now.

I hate posts without pictures but once again, a certain dd who shall remain nameless has taken off with the camera I normally use. I'll try to post more when I can find the time. Settling the new little guy (AKA LG) into a loving, caring family with food in the cupboards has taken a lot of time and energy. School is taking a lot more time this year as well since E is struggling with some math concepts. Who decided 2nd graders need to know how to "count by 3s and 4s"?? Seriously.

Uber Cool High Nerd

Love that History/Lit score.