Crochet Me Crazy

Here is the pattern I have been using for the aluminum can hats. I am changing the brim on mine though. I am doing straight double crochets around with no increases because I don't want the flare.

Crocheted Can Hat


Modeled by my lovely daughter...

Hey, I'm getting really quick at these beer can hats! The lady I sold the other one to wants another beer can hat...she wants the variety of cans again so I'll have to take a walk around to the can corrals tomorrow. Pretty convenient that I live in an RV Park with recycling corrals all over it where everyone throws their cans!

Jeff worked for the dentist today. It's supposed to rain tomorrow so he can't go back until Wednesday or Thursday. Then, he has to wait 7 days for the caulk to seal for 7 days before he can go back and paint it. Hopefully, the dentist will be ready to start on the next job shortly. He asked Jeff he could be in his pit crew if he wanted to when he races cars. They didn't have time to talk about it in a whole lot of detail but he says he pays for your travel, food and hotel when he travels to drive in these races. It pays a little. Hmmm...interesting things seem to come our way. Might be something to experience if you don't have anything else to do. We could do that or maybe join the circus or something -- just kidding!

Here is a carving by Michael.

Today, he went in search of Soto for Grandma Bev at the stables. He said she wants a walking stick made out of Soto. He came back with some and then went over to our elderly neighbor's to see what he thinks. (He's been recently making walking sticks) He left Mr. Clubine with some Soto and came back to work on that stick. He carves a bear on the end of it.

Finished the pop/beer can hat order. I brought them over to her this afternoon and got my money. She loved them. I'm going to continue to make some more of these. Maybe I can sell some around here.




Two other hats I had made a little while back but hadn't had a chance to get pictures of yet.




Starting on the next beer can hat now.

Trying to make a difficult decision again. It really wouldn't be so difficult if my daughter's heart wasn't so inner-twined in this decision. Mr. Stable seems to be unhappy with how we are taking care of the goat. We have been trying to do what the county agent told us to do but he and Mr. Stable don't agree on what should be done. It gets complicated because everything we have read on the internet and 4 other people that raised goats have told us NOT to do exactly what Mr. Stable has told us to do. However, it IS his goat so we've felt obliged that we should listen to him in the beginning. Then, the goat wasn't gaining weight so we decided to go with the County Agents advice which was no hay, no corn and remove the other goat so we could monitor what our goat was eating even though Mr. Stable wasn't too happy about it. County Agent said he will get hungry and eat the show goat feed once he realized that's all he was going to get. Everyone tells us they will fill up on hay or corn and not eat the show goat food. Two people have told us flat out the corn would mess up their digestion. In the meantime, Alison has been spending her own money feeding this goat. It makes me feel uncomfortable as it is their goat and I don't want to seem ungrateful. It's our own mistake for getting ourselves into this to begin with. We shouldn't have tried to do this with someone elses animal. Today, Mr. Stable cussed at Jeff and was extremely irritated with him because he came too late to feed the goat. Jeff came home very upset. We don't treat people that way so its pretty upsetting when people act that way to you. Be irritated, say whatever you want to say like a civil human being but to cuss him out in front of a bunch of people is really uncalled for. Needless to say, we are still required to act right no matter what other people do so we're trying to make a conscious decision about what is the right thing to do instead of act on emotions or in defensiveness. Also, we need to do right by Alison and not set a bad example for her. She is completely aware of what has all been going on. The goat actually gained 2 pounds the last week we weighed him and he has never been without food at any time since we've been feeding him. Now, we are trying to decide if it is time to just cut our losses and forget the whole thing. If the decision only affected me, it would be a done deal. I don't need the added stress to my life at this point in time. It's Alison I'm worried about. It's really not her fault all this has turned out like this and it's our fault for letting her get into this situation to begin with. We'll need to buy more feed soon if we are going to continue with this. She will have to put out more money into a goat that may get sifted anyway. We certainly don't have the extra money to help her out with it. She has more money that we do at this point! LOL

The good news is that Jeff has a small job to do tomorrow for the dentist in town. It's only about a day and a half of work but at least its something. Also, Christmas Eve we went up to the stables to do one ride and more people showed up and ended up doing 9 riders that day so Jeff got a day of pay for that. There is our grocery money for this week! Talk about manna from heaven.

Well, hope everyone has a great week enjoying the last week of 2010. Can't wait to see what this next year has in store for us. After the past two years...2009 the difficult years with my mama ending with her passing in November 2009...which quickly brought us into this past year of 2010 with Jeff being without work...I can't help but hope this next year will start to look up for us. Maybe this next year will be our year!

It rained and a cold front blew in on Christmas Eve. Our Christmas tree made it fine outside all month until Christmas Eve. It blew over and we had to get the presents in side. We planned on opening presents outside but it was too cold this morning! We had a very simple Christmas. Jeff got up and cooked breakfast. Alison likes pancakes but we didn't have pancake mix... so he did it the old fashioned way and made his own mix. We went over to a friend's house who are from Ecuador and ate lunch. Not the traditional Christmas dinner. No pies, cookies or dressing! I guess we saved ourselves from gaining that 5-10 pounds over the holidays this year! She gave me some "hongos" to start the yogurt making with. I'll be posting about that soon. We went over to the clubhouse room tonight and the guys played a game with the old people while Alison and I made Thank You cards. She's going to send cards to her birthday party guest. We closed out the day with a campfire and hot chocolate.

2011 here we come!

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

May you have a beautiful day!


BRRRRR....It's COLD here!