Oooops!!!!!!

Whilst celebrating the freedom of a mended leg and enjoying the end of Winter skiing opportunities.... beginning to get the hand of X Country skiing... three times round the stadium ..getting some slid YES!!!!
Down the gentle slopes Yes!!!
Got a bit ambitious .....

Partially dislocated Sternoclavicular Joint anyone ? (Collarbone)

Very rude words and it's my right arm side too ..drat
So I'll be reading blogs and commenting slowwwly....fiddle de dee








Well I hope so ....

Yarn Along 8

Joining Ginny's Yarn along again Thanks Ginny

She's going to be Reading a Josephine Tey that I loved :0)

I've just been rereading a Dick Francis Racing Mystery "Enquiry" that rattled along.
I remember my Grandfather who was a farmer and real horseman reading Dick Francis and Nat Gould.. I can see why.



Knitting I managed one square for my blanket trying "Coral knot stitch" for the first time...it was easy and is an interesting texture.



Coral knot stitch
multiple of 2 stitches plus 2
Row 1: K1, *k2 tog; repeat * to last stitch, k1
Row 2: K1,k1, pick up loop between this and next stitch and knit it; repeat from * to last stitch, k1
Row 3: Knit
Row 4: Purl

I'll add a photo in the morning!here it is..



It's Spring break here and we've been busy ...that's my excuse, fighting off the local yukky bug of the moment we still managed to see the start of the Iditarod on Saturday, The Mammoths and Mastodons exhibit at the Museum on Sunday, Go skiing and sledding on Monday and Swimming today...and now we're tired ! but Happy :o)

Have a good week all!

Iditarod 2011 video added

2011 Iditarod ceremonial start from Marc Lester on Vimeo.

It's Saturday the 5th of March tomorrow and that means it's the start of the Iditarod.

The Iditarod is often referred to as the last great race. It's a race between teams of dogs pulling sleds and a Musher from Anchorage/Wasilla to Nome that's about 1,000 miles in length and pretty darn tough to complete.

It's not a man's race or a woman's race is a one tough human plus a team of keen tough dogs race... and the teams of Vets at each checkpoint look out for the dogs...they really love to race though, you should see them set off!

Here's where they go...this is from the ADN for their real interactive map go here



to learn more look here

The official site is here

Can Lance Mackay do it again?
He has won four times can he make it 5 see what the local paper has to say ADN

Or will a Rookie make history ?

We'll be out to see the start...the first section starts downtown and follows the parks and greenbelt . We usually watch on the trail as it passes near where we live.
On Sunday they restart away from the crowds and the race is on!

Lord Peter Wimsey

I came across a very inviting post on reading DL Sayers Lord Peter Wimsey stories.

"As My Wimsey Takes Me"

I enjoyed reading J P W's follow on story the Attenbury Emeralds recently and this had redirected me back to DL Sayers originals.

So this challenge seemed rather fun and a chance to share enjoyment of her novels, rather than any sort of challenge at all really! Which is just as well, as usually, whenever the word challenge is bandied about, I fail miserably!!! So we'll just whisper that word 'challenge' very,very, quietly and keep it in it's proper place...lol

and in between daily lifes chores and challenges... I'll try and sneak in some darn good yarns :0)