Good Times

Two weekends ago, I traveled up to Dad's house to do a bit of outside clean up. He has decided to rent out the house, hopefully sometime in spring. Which means we have a lot of work to do! We rented a large dumpster (took up half the driveway!) for the weekend and we overfilled it. Brush, trash, all kinds of crap that has been hanging out at our house for years. We ended up with a large pile of hazmat materials (paint, oil, stuff we weren't really sure what) and a large pile for donation. At times, it did look a bit like CalTrans was working at the house:
All in all, it was a good weekend, I enjoyed seeing my dad, my bro, and Jerilyn. On the way home, I stopped on 41 (or was it 46? Does it matter? They seem to be interchangeable, equally boring drives) to take pictures of the incredible sunset. Enjoy!

Beautiful day

Beautiful day, originally uploaded by tellen24.

After weeks (it felt like months!) of rain, overcast days, and cold (cold enough to snow), we finally have spring like days. Even though it's still mid-February, the weather is beautiful right now. This photo is enough to regenerate a girl's belief that the world really is a beautiful place.

But we don't get weather!

Oh yes we do! It's been just stormin' like crazy here in SoCal. Rain, sleet, hail and even snow. On Wednesday, Santa Barbara recorded over 4" in a 24 hour period. Blew our old record out of the water, so to speak. The street in front of my work flooded. To the point that we had waves lapping up in the parking lot. Today, we experienced a huge downburst of air and it was like a tornado blew through the 500 block of Gutierrez. Crazy! Took some pictures of the snow this morning. Supposedly we will get even more tonight!

My other love... I think.

Yesterday Chaun and I met my Aunt Karen at the Road to California quilt show in Ontario. In one word: WOW! I knew that people made intricate quilts but I really had no idea how intricate they got! Many of these quilts had to have taken years to make. I didn't write down the names of the quilts or the makers of them but enjoy the show! I do have more on my Flickr site if you would like to check them out.

Zeebee

Picture 1732, originally uploaded by tellen24.

It's a Zeebee for my friend Mike. I used one ball of Noro Shinano (from the sweater I knit a few years ago). I cast on 34 sts and did 10 wrapped sts. I love this pattern. It can be adapted to ANY weight yarn and it's a quick quick knit.

Noro Socks

Picture 1742, originally uploaded by tellen24.

The start of a sock!! I am hoping that keeping this in plain stockinette, I will be more inclined to actually finish the set. I am knitting this pretty tight so Chaun may just be ending up with a pair of handknits socks from me!

Meathead

Picture 1747, originally uploaded by tellen24.

The Meathead hat. Made with two strands of Bernat Alpaca held together. This little baby took about 2 hours to make. I love the point the hat comes to. Not for anyone in particular, was just feeling the need for a quickie one night.