BetwixtTheStitch message #77
Re: Tunisian crocheting a picture
December 29, 2014 at 6:28:49 AM  (in response to astridl message #1)
 
Melanie,

I don't get tired of cooking as much as I get tired of trying to figure out what to cook.
The family isn't much help, "I don't know" isn't a dish I know how to make.

I feel for you with the dry, chapped hands. Mine can get pretty bad in winter too, and it isn't near as brutal here.

Astrid,

What beautiful gifts. Love the loop shawls, and that scarf is wonderful.
Do your winters get brutal, with the single digit cold like the area where Melanie is?

I understand about trying to use the phone to upload pics, I'm learning to do it from a tablet. Melanie told me a trick for resizing and it works. I upload the pics to facebook and they are automatically resized, then I can just copy them here.

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BetwixtTheStitch message #79
Re: Tunisian crocheting a picture
December 30, 2014 at 8:53:53 AM  (in response to astridl message #3)
 
Astrid,

It gets tiring that they leave it up to us, doesn't it?

The problem with not having the option to add pics to a comment sounds like it should be mentioned to support. They can't fix what they don't know about.

Sounds like your winters get pretty frigid, too. Here, a night time low of 25 F  happens a few times in a bad year.

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Stitchboard Admin message #80
Re: Tunisian crocheting a picture
December 30, 2014 at 11:39:21 PM  (in response to astridl message #1)
 
Astrid,

So glad you made it back here to post your reply and pics!    I looked at what you made and love it all...if anyone gets tired of anything, send it right here! 

Now that you mention it, I wouldn't know how to resize pics on my phone, either.  As Sherry said, the only way I know to do it is by uploading to Facebook, because that resizes them (pretty effortlessly!) to the point where they can be uploaded.  It's a handy cheat...fast and easy! 

LOL, and I agree...Sherry's food sounds soooo good...it makes one gain weight just from reading about it! 

Thanks for your kind words about our move.  Well, I think (hope) we're nearing the end.  But it's such horrible work, that's for sure.    Everything seems to take forever. 

Is it that you usually don't get a lot of snow in Vienna?

We normally get snow here...quite a bit some years.  Thankfully, it's just cold and not snowy...I don't know what we'd do if we were working around snow.    LOL, to us, snow is the most offensive four letter word of all. 

Do you like snow? 

So glad you were able to resize your pics...such a lovely treat! 

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Stitchboard Admin message #81
Re: Tunisian crocheting a picture
December 30, 2014 at 11:46:00 PM  (in response to BetwixtTheStitch message #2)
 
Sherry,

LOL, you need to invent a dish called "I don't know."  If it's something they all hate, they'll be sure to quickly pick something so you'll never make "I don't know" again! 

Ugh, so you guys get very dry air during the winter, too?    You would think with all of the precipitation we usually get during the winter it wouldn't be so dry...but that's just not the case...it's dryer than dry.    I could understand it with the winter we've had so far, with so little snow, but it's normally pretty dry in the winter, even with the deepest, heaviest snows we've ever had. 

Hope your hands won't get too chapped this winter. 

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Stitchboard Admin message #82
Re: Tunisian crocheting a picture
December 30, 2014 at 11:46:57 PM  (in response to astridl message #3)
 
Astrid,

Please let me know what problem you're having with adding pics to a comment...is that here in the Community, or elsewhere? 

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BetwixtTheStitch message #84
Re: Tunisian crocheting a picture
December 31, 2014 at 9:03:57 AM  (in response to Stitchboard Admin message #6)
 
Melanie,

Be careful, I've been hearing that you"re in for a dangerous cold spell.
They're even expecting snow in Vegas!

Most winters are pretty dry here, though we are expecting some freezing rain tonight. I'm hoping it stays west of the metroplex, like they think, I have to get out tonight taking kids to and from work.

I really like the idea of creating a dish called "I don't know", I'll have to really think on it to come up with something everyone hates. I'd hate to do that to my poor hubby though, he never complains about anything. So he'd just eat it and I'd never know.

Astrid, we get that "heat island" effect, too. The DFW metroplex stays a bit warmer due to the amount of concrete and traffic.

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Stitchboard Admin message #85
Re: Tunisian crocheting a picture
January 2, 2015 at 10:58:00 AM  (in response to astridl message #8)
 
Astrid,

If you're trying to add a photo here, there are tools available when you reply...you'll see them at the top, above the text window (three lines of them).  On the top line, toward the center right, there's a picture of a tree.  If you mouse over, the tool tip says, "Add Image."  When you click on that, it gives you a window that allows you to browse your computer and choose an image. 

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Stitchboard Admin message #86
Re: Tunisian crocheting a picture
January 2, 2015 at 11:05:02 AM  (in response to BetwixtTheStitch message #9)
 
Sherry,

Ugh, we have to have everything completed by Monday, and forecasts are calling for a big mess all weekend long.    I don't know how this is going to go.  

Hope your freezing rain didn't happen!

It doesn't seem to matter how much precipitation we get...the winters are still dry, dry, dry.    If only we could take some of that awful summer humidity and apply it to the winter!  It's annoying to go around with chapped hands, and 1000 times worse with what we're going through, because there's no time to stop for moisturizing or anything.  

Awww, your poor hubby!    Definitely, I wouldn't pull the "I don't know" on him.  Maybe make a dish he would love and everyone else would hate?  Although then you'd only be able to make that again when it's just you and hubby. 

Wow, wish we had the "heat effect" here.  Guessing not even at our (slightly more urban) new place, since the city isn't that big.

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BetwixtTheStitch message #87
Re: Tunisian crocheting a picture
January 3, 2015 at 8:53:59 AM  (in response to Stitchboard Admin message #11)
 
Melanie,

We got lucky and the temps stayed just above freezing here. Can you believe it's Jan. and we still have green grass?

I sure hope you get all the moving done before the weather takes a turn for the worse.

Cooking things that only hubby and I will et is easy. For instance, I made our traditional black eyed peas and ham for new years day and, of course, no one else wanted to eat them.
We just told them that if they didn't want to eat it, they had to carry them in their pocket or be poor all year.

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Stitchboard Admin message #90
Re: Tunisian crocheting a picture
January 6, 2015 at 7:53:59 PM  (in response to BetwixtTheStitch message #12)
 
Sherry,

Woo hoo, glad your temps stayed above freezing! 

No, we didn't get the moving done before the temps dropped like a stone.    It was freaking miserable, miserable on top of miserable with an extra helping of...miserable.  And a side of miserable, too. 

My hands are only better now because I've been using Udder Cream.  I seriously couldn't even put on a pair of gloves without severe pain from my split and chapped hands.  They still look awful, but they actually looked worse, so I'm glad there's a great treatment!  It started healing within hours of using the stuff.

So now we're finally finished.  The last day we pulled an all-nighter and got it done.  It was also awful.    It had snowed, temps were below freezing, and the roads weren't great.  My husband wanted to give up.  But we stayed with it and on the last day, though I was not sad as I thought I'd be, we did both have a teary moment looking at our empty living room.  And then we drove away, saying we don't want to go back...ever...unless they said we had to go back for some reason.  But we don't and won't.

I had thought I'd be crying as we drove away, but after all of the crap we went through, I was actually not in any kind of crying mood!

It was nice to drive up to our desperately-in-need-of-rehab house, warts and all, and know we didn't have to go out immediately thereafter, nor did we have to do any more moving.  We napped for a few hours, drove out and made a few important stops, then returned to...snow.  Again.  But we made it home in not a lot of snow and then this morning we plowed out our driveway and the neighbors'.    The front sidewalk and other neighbors' sidewalks, too.    I even hand shoveled the one neighbor's steps, because hubby had plowed out his sidewalk and front walkway as far as he could to the steps, so I just finished the job. 

LOL, is that some old saying about black eyed peas and ham - and being poor?    I can't say I'd want to eat that, but I'd definitely try it...especially if the alternative was to be poor! 

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