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A Ribbiting Sky Watch ~ ;)

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Big Stormy FROG came HOPPING through our rain-infested skies… Happy Sky Watch

And Happy Fourth of July for us here on this side of the Pond I shall try to visit as many as possible. However we still have young puppies and their Mom that demand much attention…

I SPY with my little EYE ;)

Fathers Day was a HIT here

The game I Spy originated in the early 20th century. It remains a common pastime played by children - albeit often initiated by adults to occupy bored children on car journeys and the like. One person secretly choose an object that they can 'spy with their little eye' and the others take turns to guess the name of the object.

The game spawned a highly successful series of I-SPY spotter's guide books made for British children. These were very popular in the 1950s and 1960s.

The word "SPAWNED" and this POST made me Laugh

The guessing game was preceded by another children's game called I Spy (or Hy Spy). This was a variant of what is now called Hide and Seek and was known in the UK from the 18th century. John Brand refers to it in his History and antiquities of the town and county of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1789:

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PS I like FROGS...

HUMOUR FOR LEXOPHILES (lovers of words)

Thanks Pete for sending a picture of one of your THREE Frogs...

-- I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.

-- Police were called to a day care where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.

-- Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? He's all right now.

-- To write with a broken pencil is pointless.

-- The short fortune teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.

-- When the smog lifts in Los Angeles, U.C.L.A.

-- The math professor went crazy with the blackboard. He did a number on it.

-- The professor discovered that her theory of earthquakes was on shaky ground.

-- The dead batteries were given out free of charge.

-- A dentist and a manicurist fought tooth and nail.

-- A bicycle can't stand alone; it is two tired.

-- A will is a dead giveaway.

-- A backward poet writes inverse.

-- A chicken crossing the road: poultry in motion.

-- With her marriage she got a new name and a dress.

-- A grenade fell onto a kitchen floor in France, resulted in linoleum blownapart.

-- A calendar's days are numbered.

-- A boiled egg is hard to beat.

-- If you jump off a Paris bridge, you are in Seine.

-- When she saw her first strands of gray hair, she thought she'd dye.

-- Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead to know basis.

Silliness on a lazy March the Oneth ;)

Bizarre Holidays in March

Potted FROG?

From inside the NOOK Frog on Shelf, that Sweetie put up for me

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March 1 is National Pig Day and Peanut Butter Lover's Day

March 2 is Old Stuff Day

March 3 is I Want You To Be Happy Day, Peach Blossom Day and National Anthem Day

March 4 is Holy Experiment Day

March 5 is Multiple Personalities Day

March 6 is National Frozen Food Day

March 7 is National Crown Roast Of Pork Day

March 8 is Be Nasty Day

March 9 is Panic Day

March 10 is Festival Of Life In The Cracks Day

March 11 is Johnny Appleseed Day and Worship of Tools Day

March 12 is Alfred Hitchcock Day

March 13 is Jewel Day

March 14 is National Potato Chip Day

March 15 is Buzzard's Day and Everything You Think Is Wrong Day

March 16 is Everything You Do Is Right Day

March 17 is Submarine Day

March 18 is Supreme Sacrifice Day

March 19 is Poultry Day

March 20 is Proposal Day and Festival Of Extraterrestrial Abductions Day

March 21 is Fragrance Day

March 22 is National Goof-off Day

March 23 is National Organize Your Home Office Day and National Chip and Dip Day

March 24 is National Chocolate Covered Raisins Day

March 25 is Pecan Day and Waffle Day

March 26 is Make Up Your Own Holiday Day and Spinach Festival Day

March 27 is National "Joe" Day

March 28 is Something On A Stick Day

March 29 is Festival Of Smoke and Mirrors Day

March 30 is I Am In Control Day

March 31 is Bunsen Burner Day and National Clams On The Half Shell Day

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A big PS here Thanks Tene for sending this list of ODD holidays what fun it is ;)

Froggy day today

Finally I got it to work after three attempts. I tried to begin this weekend BUT! My Sweetie was working on a project that required electrical saws and the like, so the noise level did not aid in my concentration.

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I am a rather new knitter, only my third year. So Deep concentration for me is a must. Having just completed the KNITTING part of a baby blanker for my Niece, and needing to wait until it is blocked before I can complete the project I start a new project.

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Which brings us to FROGGING: If you make a mistake in your knitting and don't notice it for several rows, the best course of action for fixing it is to remove the work from the needle and simply rip out the rows you have completed since you made the mistake.

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This process is known as frogging because you have to just "rip it" and move on. Get it Ribbit? Tee hee!

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It's not much fun to have to frog your projects, but you'll be glad you did rather than leaving in a mistake you could have fixed. Also Known As: Ripping ;(

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I have learned this much, one can learn as much un-knitting as one does knitting. I can even read most of the abbreviations now.

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The Wedding Shawl I made our eldest daughter.

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Better picture of the WEDDING SHAWL PLUS

daughter after she opened it at a Bridal Shower

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That was a labor of LOVE especially for a new knitter.

Tee hee like YO!

[Sometimes you'll want to make an extra loop on purpose. This is a way of increasing and leaving a hole for a fancy pattern. Try it now: *K1, bring your yarn to the front between the needles * (this is called a YO, yarn over). Rep from * to *. You will have twice as many sts on your needle when done. P the next row across on every loop. Watch carefully to see what that YO looks like. Beginning knitters often make these when they don't want to. ] TOG! [Together]

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Beg

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[ha ha like a dog NO it means beginning]

Then the ever-dreaded psso

GAG

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Check here for other knitting abbreviations!

Soon

What is soon? Is it always linear? Soon is a measurement of time. What time? What measurement? Whose time and measurement? Why is it that soon seems like folded fingers…as in they all fit neatly in most instances. If that is true then when does soon get to be later? Is later a fracture waiting to heal? Is it like this? “The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over. “Aesop Possibly so and quite possibly this is the stress I have allowed myself to be caught up in. At any Hoot, I have re taken control. We have been under construction since the end of May. The roofer should be gone TOTALLY by Friday. Remember the light wells have to be finished. The painters have begun their cosmetic reconstruction of the house. First the Astringent ~ Then the facial masque possibly a facial nip and tuck here and there. Then the magic begins, the reclaiming of the guts. Yup guts, as clean your fingers to the bone, have that vacuum suck every last bit of plaster dust, debris and other icky stuff. I think I will so enjoy, and so NEED the re painting of our bedroom and bathroom. I feel quite sure once the workers are outta here I will flourish in my quest. I have a secret bottle of special perfume… 15-30 percent essential oil, [In my case since there has been only one female here since the end of May, I need estrogen oils. Might have to up it to 40%] See a totally on any given day here 8 men. Weekends two to three! 70-85 percent alcohol, and the remainder or at least 5 percent water. [Well this is not a party, so why not rubbing alcohol.[ Drop that down to 15% add 40% of water, good for you] the remaining 5%? My creativity? Or is that BS, as in Be Specific? HA! I am finally seeing the trees in the forest. That’s a good thing Right? Does this relate to? Can’t see the forest for the trees? An expression used of someone who is too involved in the details of a problem to look at the situation as a whole: “The congressman became so involved in the wording of his bill that he couldn’t see the forest for the trees; he did not realize that the bill could never pass.” So it is and so it will be, I am already contemplating the Canada project…and that is for September. HA

ONE LITTLE SPECKLED FROG

While there was ONLY one frog this song HOPPED into my mind. Enjoy!

Think I shall call it LOTUS…[get it Tene?]

One little speckled frog,

sitting on a speckled log

Eating a most delicious fly (ya, ya, ya, ya, ya-ya)

One jumped into the pool

Where it was nice and cool

Then there were no little speckled frogs

Musings from the Critters

First we saved a couple of Craw Daddies; now add a frog and Castor spying on us, as Falcor seems to be the Pond side Inspector on the job! Castor and Pollux, our orange cats and Falcor from The Never Ending Story.

Feeling Fit as a Fiddle

Meet Celeste. THANKS for Friends! After spending 2 hours Tuesday weeding the garden I felt driven, because the weather was conducive, to weed eat yesterday. Then after 4 hours of that a shower I take off for lunch. I stopped to visit a friend and this is what she gave me. Is that not sweet? Of course today I ache all over, I even have blisters from using the weed eater, how weird is that?

Early Addition of the ELEVEN O’CLOCK News

As Promised…Before and After Shots Zelda was really hoping to have this chance for a Photo OP! 30 QUARTS ~~~~~~~~~~~~of the most heavenly golden West Virginia Peaches

Booty-T-Ful Pictures

the New Frog

I will carry this totally in hand so it will get home safely for our Koi Pond. It was the LAST one of the proper size...

The last night of camp

I toured the local Veterans Park so lovely. Ah – 1S Cobra San Diego Aerospace Museum Some History A Virtual Cockpit I also took me to Foxfire Botanical Gardens which is an official National Hosta Display Garden for the American Hosta Society, and one of the Midwest's hidden gems. I needed time away from camp to ingest all that I learned, saw, touched etc.; just time for me to assimilate these last few days of intense and wonderful STUFF called knitting. I got a new frog!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :0