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I’ve Moved
Please visit my blog at its new location:
http://jayayceeblog.blogspot.com
See you soon … 🙂
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Hoppy Easter
from the Easter Buppies!
and Happy Birthday to my MN BIL … we love you bunches!!!
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Baby Hats and Big Girl Blankets
Received a baby boy announcement last week from Hubby’s cousin — isn’t he a cutie pie? Had some variegated blue baby yarn and size 4 double pointed needles handy, so just went for it. Turned out pretty cute …
Rolled Brim Baby Hat
I used Bernat Softee Baby Acrylic #3 Light weight in color His Jeans Ombre
Size 4 dpns
Cast on 88 stitches
Join and knit until it measures 5″ from cast on edge
Decrease Rows:
(I use my cast on tail as my place marker, always keeping the first stitch at the beginning of a needle)
Next row: Knit 9, knit 2 together
Next row: Knit around
Next row: Knit 8, knit 2 together
Next row: Knit around
Next row: Knit 7, knit 2 together
Next row: Knit around
Continue decreasing in this manner until you have completed Knit 1, knit 2 together
Knit one more round
Cut yarn, leaving about 8″ to work with. Using a yarn needle, take each stitch off and close the hole by pulling snugly. Bring yarn through the hole inside the cap and weave in end. Weave in cast on tail. And it’s ready to wear!
And congratulations to my baby sister and her sweetie on the purchase of their house. All that moving and unpacking of boxes is exhausting so I made a Big Stix Afghan and sent it so they could take a nap with it.
I used skeins of Caron One Pound acrylic yarn in Black, Country Rose, Taupe and Off White. I love those Big Stix size 50 knitting needles!
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Ostrich Festival
We went to the 22nd Annual Ostrich Festival at Tumbleweed Park in Chandler, Arizona a few weeks ago. I’ve been having trouble downloading photos off my phone onto the computer until today. It’s one of those simple, annoying solutions — I have to reboot my phone while it’s attached to the computer.
Hubby and I went with YD and her BF and the Granddaughter to the festival. It’s funny, because we kind of thought an Ostrich Festival would have ostriches as far as the eye could see. I think there were six of them — several in a viewing pen and several that they raced. Oh, well. Beyond that, there was the usual great festival fare including food, carnival games and rides. It was fun, we spent way too much money and everyone was exhausted.
Here’s an Ostrich fact sheet, in case you were wondering …
There was a neat little petting zoo and it was definitely spring — lots of cute babies …
An alpaca, which is where some beautiful, soft yarn comes from …
These guys just needed some honk if you’re horny bumper stickers …
We did see an Ostrich Chariot Race …
This may be why they were running …
And no, none of us had an Ostrich Burger. Stuck with my favorite taco fry bread. And for dessert, chocolate and whipped cream covered funnel cake …
Evening carnival rides make everyone a kid again …
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Wordless Wednesday – Easter Bunny
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What’s Cookin’ – Chicken Salad Sandwiches
I got a great deal on a dozen boneless, skinless chicken breasts at the grocery store last week. Made Parmesan Chicken with 8 of them, then Hubby barbequed the remaining 4 last night. We made grilled chicken sandwiches for dinner and had 2 left over today so I got to make one of my favorites … Chicken Salad Sandwiches.
I chopped up two chicken breasts into small chunks, although you can use the large cans of chicken that are sold near the tuna fish at the store. Drained and chopped one 10.5 oz. can of mandarin oranges, threw in about 1/8th of a cup of sliced almonds, seasoned lightly with garlic salt and mixed all together with a few spoonfuls of mayonnaise. It’s that simple and is so good. It always tastes really fresh. I think it’s the mandarin oranges that give it the light, bright flavor and the crunch of the almonds is spectacular!
You can get four sandwiches out of the two chicken breasts. We pile them nice and thick on wheat bread.
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He had me at Hot Dog
YD, Hubby and I decided to attend a Cactus League baseball game at Scottsdale Stadium yesterday, Spring training home of the San Francisco Giants. It was around 80 degrees and we slathered on the sunscreen, which was a good thing. There were a lot of people frying out there and will be many sorry, sunburned folks this morning.
Originally, just Hubby and YD had planned to go. I’m not so big on sporting events and I like my quiet time at home. He starts giving me all these reasons to go — I honestly can’t remember anything he said until he hit, “You can have a hot dog!” Hhhhhhhhmmmmmmmm?!?! I was ready to go in a few minutes.
The Scottsdale Stadium was built in 1992 and is in the middle of downtown Old Scottsdale. It will hold 12,000 people and I think 11,500 were on the lawn with us. Lawn seating is the cheap seats. You bring a blanket, spread it out on the grass, watch the game, watch the fans, and work on your tan. We saw people playing cards, lots of kids rolling down the semi-steep grassy hill and many babies (I guess it is Spring). I even took a small knitting project for when I got tired of people watching — a simple, rolled brim baby hat. I need a fast baby gift for an announcement we just received last week.
I had my hot dog. It was delicious! I ate it so fast, I forgot to take a picture of it. So I took one of some guy at the condiment stand juggling several dogs and fries. And my sweet Hubby tracked down a bag of Cotton Candy — or as he calls it, Polyester Candy — for me, which was hard to do near the end of the game. Supplies were low!
A good time was had by all … except for the San Francisco Giants who were beat by the San Diego Padres … 7 – 0.
Here are a bunch of pictures from yesterday, starting with this parking sign that YD pointed out to me. For some weird, unknown reason, it has a sticker of a ball of yarn on it.
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