Home Sweet Home

We bought our 1962 faded white aluminum sided house about 5 years ago ...



And last year we finally updated to vinyl siding in the color of our choice with green shutters to dress it up a bit. It looked nice but we knew it still needed the protection of a new roof since the one we had was starting to deteriorate also. The old siding was turning gray because the white was turning to powder and the gray aluminum was showing through. Time to upgrade. [kind of how my body feels right now ... time to upgrade]



So this past weekend ... with the help of my wonderful SIL and a good friend [I'd like to adopt him] ... we got a new roof put on. One that matches the siding.



To surprise my DH when he gets home and of course and to protect us from bad weather in the future. But I couldn't resist, I showed the DH some pictures and he said ....



"You made a great choice!"



Boy did that ever make me happy ...
my knitting needles can click away now!

Beautifying my feet or neighborhood street.

Ah how do I love Sundara's 'Bird of Paradise' sock yarn!

So nice in my hands as I knit. Like knitting in luxury. And the pattern is simple but interesting ... an attention getter. I'm loving every minute that I knit on these socks. And I am going to love wearing these so much.


First sock is done ... so now I can show you the fit. What a perfect fit!
Altho ...
Do you see more raspberry sherbert than lime?

Hey, I'm loving 'em all the more!!



And of course I don't want to forget to show you the house ....



The siding is done and most of the clean up. Then of course we need to see Spring with the flowers coming up and the patio set up out back under the trees. Think SPRING!

And the color of our house is called Almond.

My sweet DH is telling everyone, "Well Rhonda has finally done it ........

Put me in a NUT house! Almond nut."

Just wait until he sees sheep in the backyard ...

Trying to do some Stash busting ...

Well almost ... I'm really trying to use up some left over yarns so I'm going thru what I have and seeing what I can do with it. So I knit another scarf out of some unusual yarn I got recently. It's not as long as I would have liked it because I only had two Noro Kujaku and found the perfect pattern to use from the book "One-Skein Wonders". My DH loves the way it ripples and I do also. It was a fast knit so I'll be making up more in other yarns. For the grandchildren maybe?

I had only two skeins because I helped take it off the hands of Cynthia when she was cleaning out her own stash. I just had to send up some squares for Warming Grace [used cotton yarn from MY stash] and I received these two very unique skeins along with a bunch for sweaters. I'll get into those later tho, once I decide to get them out of hiding. I'm thinking of giving one of the bundle of yarns to my daughter to knit up a sweater for our Jayden.... but I also want to help find the right pattern for her to do as a first time knitter. She's just learning and I don't want it to be too difficult.

Anyway, back to my Stash.... well I had a couple of mail deliveries in the past few days also [ yes I know, that ADDs to my stash] that I'll have to show you tomorrow. I have more work to do on my contest entry Tea Cozy before I go to bed tonight, so for now I'll leave you with a couple pictures of our house. We're finally having new siding put on. Yippy Kyhee! This house was built back in 1962 and shortly after they put on aluminum siding. Out-dated now of course and the color on it was turning to dust with the aluminum showing thru. We also hate the looks of those ugly metal awnings in front. Keeps the hot Summer sun out of the living room & rain off our heads at the front door, but we need a better look than these old things. So this weekend the work has been started. The 2nd picture is of the back after they started to take the aluminum off and showing us the original shingle siding for the first time.

We were surprised to see it was white AND in really good condition. Never more than the one coat of paint was ever on it before the siding was put up. Well I won't tell you yet what colors we've picked out. I'll surprise you with pictures later in the week ... they said it would only take a week.

I'm hoping our "new face" is a happy one!