Quarter Acre Adventures

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Sunday, October 5, 2008

Today was quite the day. I decided that because I’m going on call next week, that I would take Max to the coast. Around 9am we headed out down the 26…I look in my rear view mirror and…flashing red lights. Crap.

The OSP officer was actually really nice and left me off with a warning, but my odometer never topped 60 for the rest of the day. Around 10:30 we rolled into Hug Point where we explored rocks, waterfalls and tidepools. We also saw lots and lots of jellyfish on the shore which were fascinating. Max picked one up that was denuded of its stingers and gave it a proper burial in a tidepool. Then we ate our picnic lunch in one of the caves and watched two seagulls fight over our leftover bread. The batteries died in my camera so I don’t have any pictures past Hug Point.

Then we headed over to haystack rock, but we were too late to get to the tidepools, so we just ran in and out of the waves for a bit. Then another family told us that there was dead sea lion about 100 yards out, so we went to go check it out. It was…so beautiful. Maxwell and I walked around it several times. He kept asking me to call the animal doctor and I told him there was nothing anyone could do, the sea lion was gone and the best thing now was for other creatures to eat its body. We talked about how since that sea lion had died that there would be more food in the ocean for other sea lions to eat and maybe that sea lion’s babies were eating well right now. Max drew a picture of a baby sea lion in the sand and a sad face. I wrote “farewell” in the sand.

It had either just died when it washed up or it died on the beach this morning., and there was a small pool of blood under its nose, but its eyes were still clear, mouth slightly open. It was over 6 feet long and there was a small wound on its side that was yellowed over. Of course, I don’t know how it died but I would suspect from the blood under the nose that it got into some kind of fight with either another sea lion or a shark. Or maybe it just…died and there is no reason. I’ve never been that close to a sea lion before it was pretty cool. We were able to really look at the animal. Who knew they had little claws on their flippers? So far I haven’t found any information about it, but it’s only been a few hours.

Monday, September 29, 2008

OFF 2008

Edit: I am sad to say that Snowy was not a good fit for our family. However he found a new life on a rabbit farm in Forest Grove as a breeder rabbit so he's...you know, a stud bunny now.

Fate handed us a new pet today. Well...the Oregon Flock and Fiber and fate. And $15.00 for the cage. And $39 for the supplies....

Meet Snowy!

Max originally wanted to name him "Whitey" but I convinced him that Snowy might be better.

We also saw sheep and, of course, members of the Alpaca Cult. I bought a small amount of yarn, but really the bunny was the major purchase.

Max and I had an insanely busy weekend, we went the Chinese Classical Garden on Saturday with his Papa and Susie which turned out to be...well, not in the most fantastic part of town. The garden was lovely though and we made it up to them by taking them to Imbrie Hall for dinner.

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Well, all hail the new washing machine

So, finally, finally I was able to felt something successfully.

I give you...felted potholders. 100% wool goodness

Pre-felted

Post-felted!

Sunday, July 27, 2008

Adventures in waterbottle holders

Knit/Crochet Waterbottle holder1
Originally uploaded by WeavesWithFire

So, I've been trying to make a waterbottle holder all summer. Of course, now that I figured it out, summer is just about over. Ah well.

This is my first attempt. As you can see, the bottom is a total mess.