grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
heya peeps, can you even believe this weather? well, here in pa, anyway, it is gorgeous! my chives have come up already, the lemon balm and mint, too, which need to be torn out before they get huge. they tend to take over the garden. a lot. i am always excited to put on the overalls (oh wait, i already wear them a few days a week at least) and my gardening gloves (i know, i know, i wear gloves to garden but not to dye…bugs and rotten stuff…ew!)and my little yellow clogs and get busy. i love it. so fun. we have a strawberry patch that i planted a few years and we get zillions of berries now and they taste so intensely strawberrylicious. so good. and raspberries, which the birds love to eat. ah spring. sigh. i was talking to katrina last night about how fantastic spring is, and sleeping while it is raining, sitting outside on the porch in a thunderstorm…so surreal. again, sigh.
i got a ton of work done yesterday. i woke up really early due to pavel’s talks with the birdies (”hey birdie…birdie…hey birdie…”) and his launching himself onto the blinds at the shadow of the birds on the wire. such a nerdling.
i got a few skeins spun and plied, one with sparkly pompoms, one with tons of flowers, really really purdy. and fun. even after a really long day yesterday, i couldn’t sleep last night. i guess that i metabolize caffeine and such really slowly or something.
my younger brother josh is having some problems with his eyes, which is scary, if i lost my vision…i can’t even think about it. i would wither and die. anyway, he is a writer, his new graphic noveljust came out and is doing really well…my mom went to two places to get it, the first bookstore was sold out! and i imagine he is really freaked out. on the upside, he has a girlfriend that seems really great that takes good care of him and seems to keep him in line (wow!) although, i am sure no one thought that i would score anyone like jake who manages to keep me in some semblance of order. seriously. i was a bit out of control for um…most of my life. and not really in a good way. anyway. just wanted to let my brother know that i am thinking about him and i hope that we can keep better contact from now on. there aren’t so many fialkovs in america, you know. in fact, any fialkov you meet is probably related to us. anyway, congrats josh! this is one of many many things he has done. i guess we are all a bit obsessive about whatever it is we do. peeps is obsessive about peeing on everything and dropping nuggets, kahlo is obsessive about licking, pavel loves drinking out of the tap and saying “wawa”, jake is a musicoholic, i love to clean my ears and my cat’s ears…did i just say that out loud?
oh, also! i am going to be getting a sewing lesson from this crafty lady that lives kinda close by…and i told her that she could either pick out a sock yarn or dye a skein herself. i have a feeling she will be dyeing one herself. she already did a koolaid one and is a sockaholic, so she could really make the excuse that she would be saving money! that was how i got into making yarn. what a downward spiral eh?
i went to drop my packages off at the post office and of course i know all of the tellers (i have some favorities, too) and asked if i could get more of those plastic bins for sorting mail (um, yeah, that’s what i use em for…) anyway, i never have a bag big enough to hold everything and he gave me two gigantor bags literally big enough to put 3 of me inside of. i was so excited. they are ugly, but it works. and i got another plastic bin that i put dyed fiber braids in. that would make a nice photo, eh?
i haven’t knitted anything in a while. i don’t want it to just sit and it isn’t really scarf season, ya know? i made a wrap that is really fuzzy and pretty with big tassels. i might list it. it would be super for summer nights. i have been really uninspired to make anything. i do dyeing and spinning, but i haven’t felt terribly excited by much. not sure why.
i have stitch in my side. i have been having it a lot lately. it feels like an asthma attack coming, but doesn’t. it just hurts. odd, eh?
i will do a better post to-morrow. i swear.
xoxo
n.
Shannon said,
March 29, 2007 @ 4:36 am
You can come clean my pup’s ears. Silly beast has a yeast infection in them — I kid you not. Apparently it’s pretty common in longhaired dogs like my girl, the water gets in but can’t get back out and blah! So now she has to have drops put in for the next little while and she is VERY annoyed.
Spike and Giles have been calling to the birdies, too. We call it Bird TV because we have mourning doves nesting on our porch every year, and they sit on the back of the couch and stare at them.
Shannon said,
March 29, 2007 @ 4:45 am
oh! and p.s., why did i not know your brother is a Comic Book Guy? remind me to tell you my theory about knitters and CBGs always ending up together… and to tell you about the book my very own CBG is doing.
Felicia said,
March 29, 2007 @ 6:24 am
Spring arrived for us a couple of weeks ago but I didn’t get out to the garden until this week and the weeds are nearly to my knees!
Tala said,
March 29, 2007 @ 8:21 am
As soon as I get a little extra cash, I am SO checking out your bro’s comic book! It sounds like a great story - and hubby and I used to be REALLY into comic books before the kid came along and the money went away!
I spent some time in the garden yesterday, finally! I hate living on a busy street, because the trash that gets kicked into my garden is disgusting!! But the little one got to hold a worm for the first time and proclaimed him “cute” and then spent the rest of the time outside digging with her little pink shovel and flipping dirt over where I’d put the worm so he’d be “nice and safe.” SOOOOO glad spring is FINALLY here!
yarnjunkie said,
March 29, 2007 @ 9:29 am
Your yarn is FANTASTIC. Needless to say I will be purchasing from you again. Thank you!
Are the strawberries difficult to care for? I’d like to plant some this year (if it’s not too late). My grandmother and the boyfriend adore them, but it’s very difficult to find perfect strawberries at the grocery stores without spending a lot. Maybe I am shopping in the wrong places, but they are always too squishy or green.
Donna said,
March 29, 2007 @ 9:38 am
hmmm I have a mini me (my daughter) that loves strawberries really really a lot. If you have a lot, I may have to work a trade with you. By the way, she is soooo jealous that I am coming to see you on Monday. She is all like “why do you have to go while I am in school?”. Hehe she wants to hang out to.
PS I am going to Wal Mart to buy food dye today! I hope to have a lovely skein of hand dyed yarn later on this week.
Sssarahevt said,
March 30, 2007 @ 5:54 pm
oh gosh, the birds!! My Dulce talks to them also, a wierd gutteral clicking that actually does sound like bird sounds. Perhaps, like mine, your kitty is conspiring with the birds to organize the great kitty take over(right after she steals my cable needle and finishes my martini).
m*vina said,
April 3, 2007 @ 9:57 am
oh awesome! i will try and check that out. i love the comics.
natasha said,
April 4, 2007 @ 12:22 am
aw shannon, i love cleaning ears, popping zits, cleaning out pores…if you need a zit popped, let me know.
natasha said,
April 4, 2007 @ 12:24 am
felicia and amanda, yeah, my garden needs to be weeded bADLY. we get lots of garbage in the landscaping in the front of the house. gross.
it is cute that your baby wanted to help you out. even if it wasn’t helpful. i guess you gotta take it while you can get it!
natasha said,
April 4, 2007 @ 12:26 am
yj i am so glad you liked it! i tmeans so much to me when i get such sweet comments.
strawberries are about as hard to take care of as dandelions. they are a creeping plant which means they are rather aggressive and do their thing. it takes a year or so to get lots of berries though. not sure why.
natasha said,
April 4, 2007 @ 12:28 am
sarah, that is funny! i wonder what they are saying? and if they would understand each other. if i make similar sounds to pavel to the sounds he makes, he talks back to me. it is funny. pavel would never steal booze…only yarn, socks, and junk food, bless his little heart!