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Blog break

As we will be away for a one week vacation from tomorrow morning, here will be a little blog break. I will be return at February, 17. Wish you all a nice time.

Forgot some photos

I had forgot put photos from my cats with the balls into the last post. Here they are:

Thank you Secret Pal

Today I got this wonderful package from my (not longer) secret pal.

My secret pal was Kele and she sends me a very big package. She done a wonderful job.
Here is what she send to me:

Here helps me Oskar to put the things out of the package. Or did he look if anything is in there for him?

All this wonderful things had been in the package. One skein of sock yarn with the american colours, one wonderful Cherry Tree Hill skein in pink. It feels great. I haven't this yarn before. Now I must look what pattern I will use for it.
One very nice cat figure. And some crochet cat ball (with catnip) for my cats. A box with selfmade cookies, they are yummy. I had to ask for the recipe :-)


Some nice postcards from the area my pals is from. Some chocolate. A candle who smells great. A Vogue knitting magazine. And finally some nice crochet slippers. They made a good job at the evening when I'm sitting at the couch.

Now I will go to bring Fiona into the staples. We have funny weather today. First it was snowing a little bit, than it was raining and now the sun is shining.

Socks

This socks are ready since Monday. I made them with Opal whool, the name is rainbow. They are for my mother. The colour is very pretty and luckily I have one skin at my stash. This will be than socks for me.

What Happened the Year You Were Born?

In 1970 (the year you were born)

Richard Nixon is president of the US A federal jury finds the "Chicago 7" innocent of conspiring to incite riots during the 1968 Democratic National Convention The lunar spacecraft Apollo 13 splashes down in the Pacific after near catastrophe The first Earth Day is marked by millions of Americans participating in anti-pollution demonstrations At Kent State University, National Guardsmen fire into a crowd killing four student antiwar demonstrators A powerful earthquake claims 50,000 lives in Peru 18 year olds are given the right to vote in federal elections Tidal wave driven by cyclone from Bay of Bengal hits East Pakistan, killing hundreds of thousands An anti-war rally is held at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, attended by John Kerry, Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland Queen Latifah, Mariah Carey, Andre Agassi, Uma Thurman, Jennifer Lopez, and Matt Damon are born Baltimore Orioles win the World Series Kansas City Chiefs win Superbowl IV Boston Bruins win the Stanley Cup Tearjerker Love Story is the top grossing film I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou is published "The Long and Winding Road" becomes the Beatles' last Number 1 song

What Happened the Year You Were Born?

Stormy weather

Germany is hidden by a big storm today. It is so uncomfortably outside. Its stormy and it is raining much. I don't brought Fiona to the willow today, was she doesn't like much. She don't like to stay the whole day into the staples, but it is better with this kind of weather. So she got some extra food from me and it seems that this make her a little bit happier.
I hope that all things at our house will be safe. We have no money to pay a new roof. Maybe the storm getting that worst as they say. I hate this kind of weather. It should be better by tomorrow.
My cats don't want to go outside at the moment, I can understand them so well.
Here is a photo, I taken some minutes ago. Sure, you cannot see the storm well, but the dark clouds.

Back again

We are back since Saturday, but it was too much to do the last days. Now I'm back from Fiona and I use the time before my nephew comes. It's still a much to do. Why is this so after a vacation?
The week was nice, but as you can believe, we had no snow. It was too warm. The temperatures had been around 10°C, not really winter temperatures. So we made other things, than to made sledge rides or cross country skiing. We visited the castle Linderhof, went to Kempten, to Lindau (not that we had been there in summer enough), went to a swimming hall and so on. Some days it has rained. I will post some pictures of the vacation soon.

Away for vacation

We will leave for vacation tomorrow morning. We going there <klick> We want to make a winter vacation there, but it seems that this will be more a spring vacation. Here is a picture of a webcam from today. As you see is there not much snow. And the weather prognose isn't better, there should be warmer temperatures and rain. So we must find other things to do as we normally want to do.



I have all my things ready now, only some knitting stuff is left. My nephew and I go by train there. As our car is too small for us all. My mother also come with us.

So we will see again at the next weekend.

Last sock of last year,first sock of new year

Here is my last sock of the last year and the first one of the new one. I made the Monkey pattern from knitty.com. It was easy to knit and went on very fast. The yarn is from Opal. The socks are for me.

And than finished I another pair of socks at the last year, it is also yarn from Opal And the socks are also for me.

So I had made 58 1/2 socks at the last year. Whow, this is very much.

1. January

Now we nearly have 2 o'clock in the morning and it is time to go to bed. I hope that you all had and have a good starting of the new Year. We had a good one. We celebrated it with my brother Knut and his family and my mother. We ate Raclette and had a nice evening. Than we went out to shot some rockets in the air. It just started raining right before we went into the house. My cats are a little bit nervous, but now all seems be better.

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