WIP's, Computers, Weather & Willow

As I promised a long while back, here are some WIP's!

I am working on the City Wrap pattern by Patons and I am using their Decor yarn as suggested in the pattern. It is worked up using 2 strands of yarn held together. I love the color of this yarn and the colorway is called Secret Garden and it is 75% Acrylic - 25% Wool . It is working up really fast. I started it the night before last and only worked on it for about an hour yesterday. Click on the picture to get a better look.

And this is what I am calling Green With Envy. My oldest daughter loves the color lime green and she wanted a funky scarf to go with her lime green ski jacket. It is almost complete. I am using size 13 needles. The yarn is Lion Brand Fancy Fur in the Spring Garden colorway and I'm using 4 skeins. I cast on 18 stitches using the long tail cast on and I am just working it in garter stitch.

And here is the Irish Hiking Scarf I started a while back. I made a bit more progress on it but not much. This is a project that requires a block of time to work on because of the cable pattern. Its not like the other projects that can be put down in mid row so it is slower going.

My hubby surprised me this morning by telling me he was going to order me a laptop for my birthday. He let me pick out the features with his help (since he is the computer expert in our household--he builds desktops from scratch for a hobby.) We were on Dell's web page putting it all together and when we were finished we clicked on the order button which took us to the order screen. We were just about to click the finalize order button when I noticed there was a place to put a coupon code. I said "Hold on, I think I have something on my blog that takes you to a list of Dell coupon codes." So I checked my blog and sure enough there was. So I clicked it and low and behold there was a coupon for the laptop we were ordering. The coupon code gave us $400 off the laptop! My hubby was really impressed and excited with the fact that he got to save $400. So if anyone is in the market for a new laptop and are going to make a purchase from Dell, just look on the right hand side of my blog and scroll down to where it says "Look Who's Watching" and click on the Dell Coupon Code link.

This is what it looked like when I got up this morning. Pretty to look at but not enough to keep the kids home from school. We are supposed to get more snow this evening. The weather service is predicting about 1-3 inches of snow for this evening.

Welcome To My Wonderland

It's Christmas all over again! This is what I woke up to... and then it gets better. I got a parcel from my SP9! Look at what she sent me. The yarn is just fab and super soft and I love the color. I am definately going to try the Irish Hiking Scarf pattern using this yarn. She also sent some note cards, cable needles, a comic book, lotion, some salt scrub, some beads and some yummy butter tablet. I have to say the butter tablet she made is ten times better than the store bought tablet she sent to me last time. I might have to get the recipe for this...its soooo good. Thank You India!

This is What We Got for Christmas

This is how much it has rained so far...........

3 miles NW of Roseburg, Douglas County. Heavy rain 1.84 inches, reported by co-op observer. 24 hour rain fall ending at 1200 PM PST.

And this is what we got for Christmas due to this weather....
Our neighbor knocked on our door at about 3 p.m. to let us know that our/their retaining wall was giving away. Our neighbor did some excavation this past summer to create more parking. As you can see from the pictures below, he removed a ton of earth (3 feet high and from his shed to the cement pad). He then put some railroad ties in as a retaining wall. (don't ask me why he thought a wall of railroad ties would support a cement retaining wall.) Then to make matters worse it rained about 2.20 inches in the past 24 hours. Too much rain and no support created this nightmare. We are just hoping that it doesn't give out totally. Our neighbors are going to get some boulders in the morning to put in underneath the retaining wall to support it until things dry out and it can be fixed properly. They are also going to try to file a liability claim with their insurance company. I am greatful that they realize that this is due to the excavation they did this last summer. Click on the pictures to get a closer look at the damage. Our boat was falling into the fissure and when John pulled it out the tire came off the rim.