My pumpkin goodie bags are all ready to go. We don’t get too many trick-or-treaters, maybe 15 if we’re lucky, and since we don’t, we tend to toss several good handfuls of candy in their bags. This year I thought it’d be cute since we give out more than just a couple of pieces anyway to make goodie bags. I called my Mother to tell her I had them all done and can you believe it she’s going to her sisters out in the country so she doesn’t have to deal with the t-o-ters. Now let me give you a little background so you can understand how crazy that is. We used to live in this one neighborhood and I kid you not, we used to get more than 200 kids and more like 300. I remember making that special trip to Wally World to get a full buggy of candy. Every year it was the same thing too “one candy bar and a piece of gum or a tootsie roll for the little ones who can’t have gum”. Well we lived there for 12 years and of course the numbers grew as we lived there so we didn’t have any many when we first moved there. But then we moved and the numbers drastically went down. We went from oh 250 to 30 if we were lucky. She was devastated. The second year there our house was the most decorated in the neighborhood, still no more t-o-ters. The third year we had even more decorations than the second, still no more. She lives for the t-o-ters to knock on her door. I don’t get it folks but its true Momma’s place will be locked up and pitch black. Shame on you Mom, just think of those poor kids dressed up in all those great characters carrying that bag of candy. Well this year I’m sorry to say those bags will be a little lighter.
On another note my nieces, 8 and 11, are knitting, I’m so proud. I asked one if she wanted to try it again, her and her mother had tried to learn once before, and she gladly said yes. She’s doing quite well. The younger of the two was mad then because I didn’t have another set of needles on me or another skein I wasn’t in the middle of a project with. As a matter of fact the older was using a set of circs so I ran to Hobby Lobby and grabbed two sets of straights and a skein of a soft fun green yarn I knew the younger would like. They are both doing great with it. The oldest has a couple inches done in about two weeks however as the youngest told me they can’t knit during the week because they have school then if they knitted after school they wouldn’t be able to watch tv and they want to watch tv at least once a day. Then after I showed them my SIL said she wanted me to show her too, she took right off as well. I was/am very surprised how well they all did and still doing.
I can’t forget to update you on my own knitting. I got my dpn’s for the i-cord on my Booga bag and now all I have left is putting the i-cord/handles through it and I’m finished. I’m still working on Baby Tart, I’ve only gotten I think one row of bobbles done. A stitch, well three, came off my needle and I need to fix that before I can move forward on it. It was one of those knit or purl (can’t remember which right now) in the stitch then yo then do it again and again and again and again. Oh and this weekend I also picked up some SWS to start a Lady Eleanor. I’m waiting until I’m finished with Baby Tart to start it but while I was shopping I also grabbed some more felting yarn to try my hand at Interweaves Knits’ Old World Booties. I’m trying the Gold Bobble booties although mine are going to be teal.
