Diane’s World

Howdy world!

Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

I’m now in….

WASHINGTON!!!

Yup!

It was three days of driving, and I was not about to do it by myself.

So I enlisted this little munchkin to help me out. Doesn’t the corn make her look good? She should consider moving to Iowa. Yes?

I made a few improvements on my own looks as well. I think the country bumpkin life is brilliant on me:

We were at pumpkinland… a wonderful land of pumpkins and corn. And a huge corn maze… it took us about an hour to get in and out of it.

Look Ma! I’m tall! And I didn’t cheat at all! It’s not like I’m wearing 2.5 inch boots at alL!

Anyways our roadtrip started on a Tuesday after I showed Michaele around the wonderful world of Iowa. Here is what our trip looked like:

We decided to do it in three days.

On day one we saw the missouri river in South Dakota. I’m sure Michaele and I have actual pictures of the river, but I think that this sign was much more fun. Uh oh… there are snakes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We then took a nice little detour to Mount Rushmore. Once again I am more fascinated by the signs than the amazing scenery… um.. Yeah.

It was a little chilly. Poor Michaele’s ears. Poop.

But we did help out Jefferson a little bit… I bet that booger has been bugging him for ages. Thanks for your civil service, Michaele.

So yeah… we decided to try a self-portrait at the mountain. We had several attempts.

This was our best one:

This is what happens when you let me try to take a good picture:

And this is what happens when a park ranger takes pity on us and offers to take the picture for us:

We didn’t think it was as cool as what we could do. Our photos are the bestest.

In South Dackotah they speelll reall gud.

On our second day, the most memorable pit stop we made was when I saw a sign for a restaurant called “The Purple Cow”. My father used to always tell me this poem:

“I never saw a purple cow

I never wish to see one

But if I saw a purple cow

I’d rather see than be one!!!”

So I made sure to take full advantage of this kodak moment.

In Montana, my dearest Chimichanga hit 80,000 miles! And we were going 80 at the time! How amazing is that? We even made sure to sing “Happy Birthday” to little Chimi. I’ll buy him new Washington License plates in honor of this event.

On the last day of our trip, we stopped at a scenic outlook somewhere in eastern washington.

I wasn’t really paying attention to it though… I think I was really sick of just being in a car by now.

And I think Chimichanga was sick of traveling too.

The only way to cure this problem? Ummm…..

I claim insanity.

I got home to finding out that I have no clue how to turn off my parent’s home security system, and it ended up in me having to explain to a pair of cops what I was doing in a house that doesn’t belong to me. Eeek.

I politely asked them not to arrest me. Hooray that they didn’t!

Anyways, it’s late, and we need to sleep! This is our first night in a long time that we don’t have to wake up early!!! Woopeeeeeeeee! And I still have to unpack the car tomorrow. Rar.

Have a wonderful week everybody!!!!

The Deedles

(and Michaele )

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Howdy world!

Just a quick update on one small thing:

I’ve been continuing with my new hobby… yarn dying, and I thought I’d show my last three attempts!

Attempt #1: Wanted to make a “fall” theme yarn. Used red, brown, yellow and gold dyes. Everything went well… except that the “brown” dye really was a deep olive green. Poo! here are the photos for that one!

These yarns were kettle dyed, which means I put the yarn into a pot and poured the dyes strategically over the yarn.

Result? Something rather amazing. I named this one “scarecrow”

I gave this one to a resident in my nursing home who is learning how to knit.

Attempt #2: David Lammers, a friend from college, decided to come by and see how my yarn dyeing goes. Being under the stress of being closely supervised, I kind of fumbled through a second attempt of dyeing.

Color choice: Yellow, blue turquoise. I made a bad mistake though, and threw it into hot water when finished, turning the entire skein…

green. Wah wah wah.

And being dumb and not using gloves, my fingers turned…

green. Poo.

And then I got it tangled, and david got to spend a few hours being unsucessful with untangling it

Yeah…so it’s still tangled so there aren’t very good pictures of it.

Wanting to have some kind of success today, I did attempt #3…

Sarah chose out the colors: red, gold and yellow. Instead of using a pot this time, I thought that this kind of dyeing would be better in a skillet.

I was absolutely amazed with how beautiful this yarn turned out!

looks kind of like a nectarine! Now i’m craving peaches, darn it!

Anyways, i’m so tired. I had to work 3am-2pm today, and I’m still really wiped out from it! Have a wondeful week, folks, I’ll update again soon!

Love, the deedles

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