Crochet Me Crazy

Still trying to get Alison well. She was hoarse and losing her voice yesterday. Yesterday, she went out to feed the show goats and found they had escaped the arena so while she was walking and trying to find how they got out, she found a goat with its head stuck in a plow. She came back and got me and we spent some time trying to get the show goats rounded up and back in the arena. I couldn't see how we were going to get the goat unstuck from the plow. She was skinny and apparently had been there for some days. I brought her some food and water. Then, a relative came over and got the goat free. Once she was free, she was falling down and week so I brought her to my yard and put her with my deer. She got stronger and was able to walk fine after a couple of hours but she's still really skinny. We put her back out with the rest of the goat herd last night. We're about to go out there and move her again though. When Alison went to take care of her show goat this morning, she said they other goats were beating up on the skinny one. We're going to try moving her in with the little show goats now. Anyway, I'm finished with the Wedding Ring Afghan...I'm just weaving and weaving and weaving in ends now....lots and lots of weaving of ends with this afghan. It's really pretty though! I'll try to get time to take a picture of it soon!

Today was a non-stop day. I brought my little crew to church this morning minus Michael. He had to work out at the ranch he works at today because the owner was in town. We came home straight from church and loaded up the kid's show goats in the trailer to take them to stock show validation. The got back and we got ready for pumpkin carving. We grilled hamburgers and ate and then the kids worked on their masterpieces. That took a long time.

I'll take pictures of them once we get them lit up. We ran out of time tonight. I decided I wanted to go the State Park to take a shower tonight so Alison and I just got back from doing that. Now, we're settling down to relax. Alison has been fighting a cold all week and I've been working on getting her better. Tomorrow is the start of another week that I'm sure will fly by as usual! Hope everyone has a great week!

I can't believe this but I've run out of yarn for my Wedding Ring Afghan AGAIN! This the third time I've had to send my husband to get me more. Lucky for me, he is in San Antonio every week for his job and there is a Hobby Lobby right down the street from his office! HA! I didn't want to over buy the yarn but boy, was this pattern off on the amounts of yarn needed to make it! I bought the yarn to make this Wedding Ring Afghan before summer. At the same time, I bought the yarn to make THIS afghan....

This afghan may prove to be challenging and I'm a little scared to start on it. I read online that there are some errors in the pattern and lots of people had to work through it and wing it a bit. I've always LOVED this afghan. I guess I should at least try. It's a granny type pattern so it shouldn't be too hard to figure out...right??? HA! I may be nuts!!

I had many, many saved free crochet square patterns but I lost them all when my hard drive crashed. Today, I spent some time looking for free crochet square patterns online and saving them again. Makes me want to make some. I had so much fun making my King Sized Afghan from various square patterns. Crochet Me Crazy: 05/01/2006 - 06/01/2006 I found this blog where she shares some really nice free crochet square patterns Confirming His Covenant I really like this blog and all her references to scripture put with her patterns.

We had the horses next to our yard today and I got these pictures of the horses and Gracie greeting each other. It was sweet.

Now, I finally got a picture taken of my Wedding Ring Afghan. Not the best picture...I was in a hurry but you get the idea! It's coming along! I actually only have two more rows to add to it and I'm done. Well, there's all those ends to weave in but that won't take long. Well, this is visitor's week at Alison ballet this week so I'm gonna be watching all her classes this week. She's such a beautiful dancer. Her teacher came up to me today during class and told me how beautiful Alison is and how you just can't not watch her when she's dancing. She said your eyes are just drawn to her. It's a high complement! I have to agree but, of course, I am extremely biased since she is my daughter. I love her very much and am extremely proud of her in so many ways!