Spring and Saturday

I'm so excited that it's almost March. Early spring at our new house has been fun for me so far due to all the flowers poking through the cold earth and layers of last fall's leaves. Buttercups are up and about to bloom, crocuses are blooming, irises and lilies are a an inch or two high, and then there are some surprise plants. I don't know what they are, but I'm excited about them. I love flowers and can't wait to be able to cut some for my desk and our table.




Yesterday I went to knit at the yarn shop, and didn't accomplish much. I picked out some elastic I had knit into the top ribbing of a leg warmer because I didn't like it. Today I need to stitch the elastic in so I can give them to their owner tomorrow. My class aid asked if I would knit a pair for her daughter who has a birthday in March. They were fun to make except for the elastic mistake.

Last night Nathan took me out to eat. We went to Shoney's for the steak and seafood buffet. I ate a lot of fried shrimp and had an upset stomach later. It's becoming a pattern for me though, so I don't think it was their food. I am going to have to avoid deep fried meats because even if I make homemade fried chicken the result is the same. It's weird because I can eat French fries and nothing happens. I guess it's my body's way of saying, "Think carefully before you eat. Choose healthier things!" I'd like to tell my body to shut the hell up and let me eat my fried shrimp in peace.

After dinner, we went to his mom's house. She's been sick with a blood clot in her leg, but they've given her some medicine that is supposed to take care of it. She has to give herself shots in the stomach twice a day for the next nine days. She showed us her belly, and it's all bruised. I hope this works and that it will dissolve. While we were there, she asked Nathan to bring up this big bag from their basement. It was full of beads and hemp twine that his sister had used to make necklaces. She passed away a while back, and his mom wanted to see if I could use any of the beads. I looked through them and took several pairs of beads to make earrings. I don't know how to do anything else, and I don't want to learn right now because it might overtake my knitting. I figure I'll make a pair of earrings from the beads for each of Nathan's nieces and his mom. I took a couple of wooden beads so I can thread them through some yarn and make a little necklace for the nephew because he had fun looking through the beads and would feel left out otherwise. The other beads I'll use to make some earrings for me. She had some really pretty ones and must have been pretty serious about her craft. Maybe someday one of her daughters will want to learn it and can use what she had.