Visiting Miles

There he is - our cutie boy - Miles.

He is 7 weeks old and such a good boy.

We had a nice visit with our son and d-i-l and grandson Miles.

This is my latest monkey. Her name is Olive. How about that hair. Pretty cute, doncha think?! She is made with Noro yarn. Wow, is that nice yarn to work with. Really easy on your hands.

Questions Answered

Since I've had several inquiries - - The little monkey pattern is from a lady over at www.etsy.com. Do a search for "Max the little monkey". The dinosaurs are called Prehistoric Pals from www.knittingatknoon

Fav Yarn Store

Made a trip to my fav. yarn store (Yarn Garden) this afternoon. Found a wonderful pattern to make some dinos for Miles. There are 4 different models. All little boys like dinos. Probably when he is a bit older. Six weeks might be a bit early.

I got some lovely NORO variegated yarn. I may need to keep a dino for myself (we'll see).

Sorry the pix are a bit fuzzy. I'm tired and don't seem able to focus very well.

But you get the idea.

Latest from Indiana

Latest pix of Miles - enjoying a snooze in the family vehicle.

We're going to Indiana!!!

Just had a call from my son and family. They are buying me a plane trip to Indiana for my birthday (hubs is going also). That means in 2 weeks will be meeting our GRANDSON Miles!! How exciting is that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can you tell we're just a tad bit excited!

Miles Smiles

Latest pix of Miles. He will be one month old tomorrow. What a cutie.

Lilac

Good morning to you. Monday morning here (way early) Can't sleep so new pix on the blog. Please meet Lilac. Latest off the needles.

I really like these colors and her face turned out pretty cutely.

Have a good week.

Oatmeal

Just finished another monkey. Figured I'd better take a pix of him while I was thinking about it.

He is beige with speckles (a skein from the Goodwill).

I was going to name him Oatmeal but just had a brainwave - his name is "Mush" (heh, heh).

Flowers and Chocolates and a sticky kitchen floor

Happy Valentine's Day to you all.

The hubs gave me red roses and we exchanged chocolates and cards. Pretty nice day!

This has nothing to do with Valentine's day (as you will see). But I found a great recipe the other day and tried it out last evening. When I have chinese food (at home) I love to have sweet pickled ginger with it. The sweetness is great with the soy of the chinese food. The recipe said when you get sushi at a restaurant you are given washabi (hot enough to kill a person) and the sweet pickled ginger (nummers). I recently purchased a small container of the sweet pickled ginger at the grocery store. Its a bit spendy. So I went searching on the internet for a recipe so I could make my own. There were lots of recipes to be found. I got the ginger and a large bottle of rice vinegar at the local asian store - they have the best prices. It took quite a while to peel the skins off the ginger and then to slice it up. At first I thought I'd try slicing the ginger by using a potato peeler. HA! That made it too thin and it would have taken toooo long. So I got my sharpest paring knife and started slicing. It ended up making about a quart. That should last a few days :-> Below is the recipe, in case you are interested in making your own.

Sweet Pickled Ginger (gari)

Thinly slice about 1/2 lb. fresh ginger (young or mature - doesn't matter) and place in a non-reactive saucepan with 1 cup unseasoned rice vinegar, 2 Tablespoons cider vinegar and 1 Tablespoon distilled white vinegar. Add 1/2 cup sugar and 2 teaspoons kosher salt (or sea salt). Stir over medium heat until the sugar and salt are dissolved and the liquid is simmering. Turn off heat and allow ginger to steep and cool to room temperature. Pour into a clean glass jar, cover and refrigerate. Ginger should be completely immersed in liquid.

"The Adventure of the Container of Ginger" (boo, hissss)

I went to the fridge to get the container so I could take this picture - show you all my hard work. I should have left it alone. When I reached for the container it slipped from my fingers and crashed to the floor, cracking the container. The ginger stayed in the container (plastic) but the sweet (super sticky) liquid leaked thru the cracks all over the floor in front of the fridge. I picked up the container and put all the ginger in another container. Luckily I'd saved the extra liquid from last evening in the fridge and it was enough to cover the ginger in the 2nd container. Now I get to clean up the super sticky from the floor! Don't you just love it!!! Thank goodness for Dawn dishwashing liquid. It did the trick.

HP33 has arrived!

HP33 arrived today from MonkeeMaker. He made pretty good time, considering how far he had to travel.

All the boys had to have a close look at the package before we could open it.

Once I cut the tape little legs emerged from the package.

Then a very cutely HP33 emerged and he had a package in his hands. What could be in there?

Oh, choccies!! HP33 would have helped himself, but since he has no fingers, he couldn't open the chocolates. Poor little guy. I'm afraid mom and dad finished them off. I think I've heard somewhere that chocolate is not good for primates, so we were just keeping him safe by eating the chocolate.

He hasn't told us his name yet. I guess we will need to get to know each other a bit first.

Thanks Monkee Maker - he is grand!!

Small Autumn

Just finished another small cutely monkey.

Next monkey will be for grandson Miles. I think I'll make it in bright colors.

Just received a few more pix of baby Miles. Boy am I envious of the grandparents on the other side - they get to hold him. He is back east and we're in the northwest.

What a sweetie!

New Ears

Its all better now. He looks like a monkey and not a mouse. What do you think?

Monkey/Mouse

Just finished a new pattern for another Monkey. There seems to be a problem. He looks like a cross between a Monkey and a Mouse. His ears are too large. I made them just as the pattern said but - see for yourself.

Next time I will have to amend his ears. Maybe make comepletely different ears. He is cute but he looks related to Dumbo!

He is actually a true red with variegated red, but the camera made him very orange.

Please meet our Grandson Miles

Please meet Miles Douglas North Watson

(less than 1 day old).

Miles Douglas North Watson

Our son and his wife had their baby today. We are grandparents!!! Don't have many details - they were a bit busy. More later.

Well, well

I just lined up the "Boys" and have come to the conclusion that they may not be as cute as 007 by Monkee Maker, but they are pretty cute in their own way. Have a look.

New Munkeh on the block

I finally finished my latest attempt at an ITV Munkeh - including the changes from Monkee Maker. I was hoping this Munkeh would be a bit cuter and possibly resemble 007 by Monkee Maker. Fat chance!! This one does look better than GM but not by much. You can tell they are from the same family! Poor babies. This will be my last attempt to make this pattern. I just don't have the knack!

Please say "hey" to Autumn. This poor boy. I hope no one makes fun of him. It would really hurt his feelings. He is a sweetie boy.

Oh my!

I'm afraid this doesn't bode well for the future.

New Friends

Munkeh has a new little friend.

He will go by LM (Little Munkeh).

Cheeky Munkeh

Look what someone has learned to do!