Lisathemom's Blog

Chocolate introduced yesterday. In 1550.

lisathemom — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 20:28:50 +0000

In honor or this momentous occasion, I decided to post. It’s been awhile since I’ve posted, but with all of my exciting agricultural pursuits, I haven’t spent much time blogging. Here’s a pic of the chocolate cake I ate in Chicago 2 weeks ago. It was delicious. Nuff said.

Bottles and Brushes

lisathemom — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:48:25 +0000

Saturday night I treated myself to a night out! My friend, Brenda Rose, taught a painting class at our GA Museum of Agriculture. We brought our favorite beverage, and she supplied everything we needed to paint a canvas! Her sunflower painting was our inspiration, and 11 of us left with 11 different renditions of her painting. it was a great night out and I can’t wait to go again on March 18th!

Keeshound Dog hair scarf

lisathemom — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 15:11:40 +0000

Josie is modeling the scarf I knitted for my sis, Judy, with dog hair spun into yarn from her 2 beautiful Keeshounds, Oscar and Mocha.

Meeting Vince Dooley!

lisathemom — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:43:25 +0000

As president of the Tifton Twentieth Century Library Club, I get many opportunities to meet famous folks…..well, not MANY opportunities….OK, so I get a few opportunities to meet famous people. Last Saturday night while attending the GA Federation of Woman’s Clubs Institute in Athens, GA, I got to meet former UGA football coach, Vince Dooley. Of course, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to mention that I was a student at Penn State in 1982….the year Penn State beat UGA for the National College Football Championship….and Coach Dooley was gracious to say he meets a few of “those folks” every now and then, but doesn’t mind because JoePA is such a great guy. Coach Dooley is now a gardener, among many other attributes, and I purchased his gardening book with a forward by one of my former Horticulture professors, Dr. Michael Dirr. Coach Dooley is a wonderful speaker, and his wife, Barbara, is also delightful. It was a wonderful evening!

30 years later…..

lisathemom — Tue, 25 May 2010 23:09:35 +0000

The sock I’m knitting got a little worried earlier today…..inspired by the dance recital I attended last Sunday, I dug out my old tap and ballet shoes…..

I put them on, and did a few dance steps on the dining room floor.

Then I got out the ballet shoes, and tried to stand on my toes…..I don’t remember hurting this much when I was younger….

I don’t think my knitting has anything to worry about….it won’t be replaced by a dancing hobby anytime soon. Think I will bring them out again in another 30 years…..

Alligator Point Fun!

lisathemom — Fri, 21 May 2010 02:17:41 +0000

Fun with my spinning friends at Alligator Point, Florida! We enjoyed the bay, kayaking, spinning, knitting, dyeing yarn, dyeing t-shirts and scarves. I’m ready to go back!

We Win!!

lisathemom — Wed, 05 May 2010 01:38:43 +0000

IN my other life, I’m president of a club in Tifton – the Tifton Twentieth Century Library Club! I serve a great group of ladies who meet once a month and do various civic projects that benefit our city, state, nation and world. We are a member of the Ga Federation of Women’s Clubs and at our recent state convention held at Jekyll Island, we learned that we won a special state award for our work in raising $5000 to benefit the Ronald McDonald House in Macon, GA. We held a bunco/bridge tournament that involved many in our community and was a huge success. Here we are receiving our certificate and silver platter!

Pictured above are Terri Stumpe, 2nd District Presiden; Debbie Thompson, treasurer of our club;me; Shirene Daniell, member of our club and state president elect; and Genie McCook, member of our club and 2010 Convention Co-chairman.

Cables…..

lisathemom — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:20:10 +0000

Here’s my first attempt at knitting cables….they are in the new Death by Socks pattern so I’ve been forced to learn. I have to knit my pair of socks and mail them to my “victim” before my “assassin” knits the socks intended for me. There are 26 of us attempting this…we’ll see how long I live. I dyed this yarn myself – it was an awful flesh-colored off white skein of Cascade 220 superwash I got on sale.

I also took some pics of Smokey the bunny on Saturday after I groomed her – she wasn’t happy with me, but she did pose for a few pics.

Knitting Olympics socks finished!!

lisathemom — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:54:46 +0000

Phew….finished sewing in the ends right before the closing ceremonies! Came down to the wire but I finished. WHOOHOOO!!

For this grand and noble undertaking, and for the fact that I finished before the extinguishing of the torch, I have awarded a medal of achievement! I will treasure it as one of my greatest knitting possessions.

Destin Spin-IN

lisathemom — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:04:47 +0000

Fun times with our crazy spinning/knitting pals in Destin, FL. This is one of our favorite trips of the year – 4 days of nothing but spinning and craziness!