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Middle of the night stakeout ...

I am not a HUGE fan of the hampsters that the girls just HAD to have and that I get to take care of but I can live with the 3 that we are finally down to. We started out with 2 and that number rapidly grew to 14 which thankfully was reduced quickly due to natural selection and the mercy of a nice woman at a garage sale.  The last three have been pretty easy to deal with but they occasionally end up roaming freely thanks to the twins. For some reason Megan and Abby thought the rodents would like to play barbies with them yesterday morning and SWEAR that they put both of them back in the cage with the door shut tightly.  Understand my concern when DH and I were both awakened around 3:45 am by the sound of rustling and clanging in the kitchen this morning!  I did a mental rundown on the status of the various people and pets that reside in and around the Hicks residence and couldn't place the noise with any of the cats or the dog or the kids....this left just a few options, none of which I wanted to think of! Notice DH was not concerned with noises in the kitchen cabinets to do the husbandly thing and go check it out for me!  I got up and checked out the doors and windows to make sure we hadn't been entertaining a burgular and noticed a banging noise again in the vicinity of the kitchen, I just couldn't quite place it and then it disappeared again.  I was certain that there was something so I decided to sit down on the kitchen floor and wait it out!  Lo and behold, there it was again, a scurrying noise! Now I was envisioning some large member of the rodent family, we frequently have mice in the garage and I was just sure they had invited their Rat neighbor over to see what was worth eating inside the house!  I must have sat on the kitchen floor for almost 30 minutes trying to pin down the source of the noise. Finally I decided which of the lower cabinets was making the noise and turned on the light, no way I was making this discovery in the DARK!  Keep in mind that we have those cool pull out drawers in all of our lower cabinets, I opened the cabinet next to the dishwasher, pull out the drawer and see these two beady little black eyes looking up at me! HOW THE HECK did that little thing GET IN THERE? The cabinets were all closed, there are no holes in the underside of the cabinet!  I was too tired to think about it fully last night but this morning I was considering these things as I took EVERYTHING out of the lower cabinets so I could wash it ALL. Who knows where that thing had been!?! Yikes, the thought makes me sick! At least all of my tupperware and lids are sparkling clean!  Hopefully the kids can keep closer track of the rodents, one more late night stake out and I may have to let them loose in the field behind the house!

Back to knitting tomorrow....gotta go watch the closing ceremonies!

Totally Impressed

Ok, you may all think that it is completely screwed up understandable that I like to live here in Arkansas where there aren't many yarn stores and people think it is acceptable to leave your christmas lights up year round, not to mention the fact that my best friend asked if I had to surrender any of my teeth to get a drivers license here, but  ARKANSAS ROCKS!  I don't recall getting my State tax refund in THREE DAYS when I lived in Oregon! Definately didn't happen in California, Missouri, Nebraska or Idaho! Yes folks, I efiled on Monday and got the direct deposit THREE DAYS after they accepted the return! I don't care if they do claim Bill Clinton as one of their own, I like em!

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So many Blogs, So little time!

There are so many great blogs out there, I find it hard to keep up! Thank goodness for Bloglines or I would never find them all every time they are updated!  I will have to post a link for RSS just in case anyone actually reads this! 

I am afraid that I don't have any exciting Olympic knitting news! I may not make it through but I have an Olympic quantity of projects on needles right now if that makes any difference!  Because having two pairs of socks on needles along with the two sweaters and one scarf, one belt and one prayer shawl wasn't enough I had to cast on a new sock for class today! The ladies in my class wanted learned to knit socks with dpn's and I had to knit right along with them, now I have to stay ahead of them! Perhaps if I don't do anything else for the next 4 days I will have time to finish the sweater but I am not going to hold my breath and I don't recommend you do either! 

I will have to post some pictures from our Sit n Knit's at Michaels soon, We get together every other week to knit and we had a great time last night. Mei finally made it to join us at the last minute but she still hasn't shown me how to cast on two socks toe up. Guess I will have to go to see her at  work if I want to learn that! I meant to today but didn't quite make it!  Lunch with DH took precedence since I spent last night knitting instead of with him!

Ok, Pics of knitting to come later!

Welcome Home!

Welcome to the BRAND NEW Knitting Addiction Blog!We have moved here from Blogspot, you can still check in there to see the old posts but we will be here from now on! I will post an official first blog post soon, just need to post to blogger that I am leaving them for greener pastures!