Knitting Without Needles

I am enthralled by this one..

Well this week has been busy. And has been full of headaches!

Right now my face feels like it is going to split open!

Anyway.. I have a finished object.. but I can’t show it to you till after the weekend..

We are going out of town to my brother’s high school graduation!

So between vacation bible school this week and the headaches and trying to get the house in order and hav enough clothes for everyone to wear this weekend.. you get a pitiful post..

My test knitters are trying out Jiree.. and well just when I thought my week was going bad.. I got this email from Pam!

I am afraid I haven’t been working on the project too much these past 4 days as we FINALLY got dry weather here in NY & had to shear not only OUR alpacas but customers alpacas & very large wild llamas!  Nothing more entertaining by the site of me trying to shear the belly of a Chuck Norris llama that has a karate kick like you would not imagine!  This llama was …well…. his back was at my chest level & I am 5’4″ !!! Mark had his arms around his neck at base, trying to restrain him while I sheared with electric shears. Mark being tossed about up off the ground as the lama rears up… kicking at me, VERY expensive shears flying through the air as the llama throws a sharp blow to them while in my hands… My hand is bruised badly…. shears landing in gravel 4 ‘ away! 
He kicks so loud & forceful his leg swoshes like Chuck Norris’s do during his heroic karate/kick boxing stunts!  LOL!! 
     

Needless to say…. We will NEVER shear those llamas again! 
After being battered & bruised by these very bad mannered llamas Sunday…. in the 90 degree heat…. I was faced with a 13 hr overnight shift at hospital…. then a 17.5hr  shift again last night & today (7pm last night till 12:30pm today!  Yep!  The hospitals surgical unit nurses all called in this morning so the night shift got mandated to stay until they could get replacements to take over for us.
I just got home 30 min’s ago & am exhausted!
    

Well take it easy Pam!! And steer clear of that Llama!!

Well take it easy Pam!! And steer clear of that Llama!!

You know the drill. We all go out and get those cards.. Dad your the best, you give it your all.. your name should be up in lights!…only we only knew the half of it.

You can’t get through my town this week without seeing a sign honouring Sgt. Dan Crabtree. Every business that has a changable sign has one, every digital sign flashes his name. Some businesses have even rented outu portable signs to honour this fallen soldier. He’s a Dad who did give his all, and as a result won’t be spending Father’s Day with his family.. 

I am lucky enough to be blessed with two Fathers.. the one who adopted and raised me and my birth Father who I reunited with some years ago.. (boy was that a surprise..for him..)

But do think of those who don’t have their Father’s today.. whether lost by war, an accident and illness.. and give them an extra hug, some extra care.. isn’t that what your father would do?

fatherless and the widow
stricken down by the hand of death
grasping for security
anticipation of the imminent next
of the imminent next
the fatherless and the widow
find their souls filled with fear
her lover gone forever
his hand to hold is never coming back
never coming back
behind closed doors they cry their tears
behind closed doors they reveal their fears
to the god in heaven above
to the god in heaven above

lyrics..Sixpence none the Richer..