Knitting Along

Hidey do.  Hope this finds all of you well.  I did haul my sorry self to the Dr.'s office today.  I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.  I got several meds to help me shake it.  Let's hope they do the trick!
I have soldiered on in my quest to become a better knitter.  I shouldn't say "better" knitter.  After all, the only thing I knitted were wash cloths.  I have completed several small knitted projects now.  I placed an order with Knit Picks for a proper set of interchangeable knitting needles and cables.   They arrived the other day, and I promptly cast on another hooded cowl.  This one shall be Hannah's.  Red, with no ears, just a "Little Red Riding Hood."

I knitted another baby hat for Taci's project, hats for babies in Brazil.

It is so soft and squishy.  This is for a newborn baby.  I got the free pattern from All Free Knitting.com.  They had a rolled brim and the ribbed brim.  I added the sweet little pom pom to the top.

Here are my new big girl knitting needles with cables.

I remember when I would see other gals in my knitting/crochet group working with something on circular needles and I would be so perplexed!  In the past few weeks I have learned so many things about knitting!  And each thing I complete looks better than the one before.  I also got these two balls of sock yarn.  My next knitting challenge will be to knit a proper pair of socks.  I knitted a pair that were like a slipper sock.  Done on double point needles, but there was no heel.

Yesterday we had three palm trees removed from the backyard around the pool.  When we bought this house, there were 4.  I hated them.  With a passion.  They shade the pool.  They are messy and drop flowers and stuff into the pool constantly.  And now they are so tall that trimming them cannot be done by my husband.  So it is expensive to maintain them too.  After being here a couple of summers, I took it upon myself and had the one palm removed that shaded the shallow part of the pool.  Greg has never wanted to have the others removed.  They are pretty.  But they are a pain.  FINALLY, he gave me the okay to have it done.  There was a crew here on our street yesterday doing a lot of work at a neighbors house.  The owner approached me yesterday as I was pulling into the driveway and asked me if I would be interested in a truckload of freshly ground mulch.  I said I wanted to see it.  It was fine ground Eucalyptus and Melaleuca trees.  Clean, no large pieces.  I said absolutely.  He backed the truck into the grove and dumped it.  We will use it to mulch around the trees and in my garden.

Good deal for him because he didn't have to pay to dump the truckload, and good for us, because we got it for free.  I asked him to give me a price on removing the trees, and he said since he already had a crew out here, he could do it same day, and for a good price.  I called Greg and he said tell them to do it.

By the time I got out there with my camera,  he had already lopped off the top portion of the first tree.

It wasn't any time at all that he had both of those smaller ones down.  Later he took the the stump down to the ground.  I didn't have him grind the stumps.   Then it was on to the tall one.

I was a little nervous watching him do this one.  That tree is way up there!

And then, piece by piece, section by section, the tree got shorter and shorter.

We decided to have them only take this tree down to a few feet below the roof line, since we have our clothes line anchored here, and I use that all the time.

They did a fantastic job, and hauled all of the debris away, and cleaned up the mess thoroughly.  We will certainly be using them again.  I am so excited to have those trees down!  No more shaded pool!

Hubby is at a fishing show with my brother.  I am going to go take my pounding head to bed and watch a little telly.
Tootle Loo
XO Kris