October 21, 2004
Halloween everywhere...
Ok...I enjoy Halloween as much as the next person...it's that time of year when everyone is putting up their Halloween decorations. I put out a bowl of orange and black yarn, plugged the jack-o-lantern in, and bought some candy corn. That was the extent of my decorating. Or so I thought. Yesterday, my roommate Genia and I were working on our kitty beds, innocent enough, right? My mom and sister came over with the baby to use my washer to felt a bunch of finished projects that have been piling up. We watched some shows that I had Tivoed. All this is normal. Then Genia, my mom, and I head downstairs to start felting...we had 5 kitty beds, a purse, baby clogs, and a christmas stocking...it was a large load. We are about to head upstairs, when my mom yells, "Aaaahhhh"...and we are talking a big yell. We were all like, "what, what's wrong". She's just pointing at the basement window well. Hanging on to the screen outside in the window well was a huge RAT! Holy crap, it was soooo disturbing. My house isn't a house for rats, it's a nice house, in a nice neighborhood...we have no rats here. This then started a whole discussion on what to do, and how to get him out of there. Imagine if you will 4 grown women and a 2 month old baby running around trying to find something long enough to stick down into this 4 foot deep window well, so that the rat could clilmb out and go far, far away...it was all highly amusing. What did we do in the end you ask? Called in male reinforcements. I don't care if that was the easy way out, or a huge step back for womankind, it was a large rat, and I wanted nothing to do with it. End of story.
Needless to say, guess what I dreamed about last night, yep you guessed it...giant rats.
Posted by Stacey at October 21, 2004 06:00 AMThat's horrible! I don't blame you one bit for calling in male reinforcements - that's why we keep them around, isn't it?
Here's hoping you have rodent-free dreams tonight.
Posted by: Dawn at October 21, 2004 01:19 PMHow scary!! I hate rodents, even the ones people keep as pets. My cat likes them but that is a different story.
It was good to see you again at the knit out. Since they changed the way that those are done, maybe we should suggest a second one each month but on a different night of the week. I bet you aren't the only one that has Wednesday night conflicts.
Posted by: Michelle at October 21, 2004 02:23 PMIt was great meeting you too- I think we've sort of met before. My friend Lisa and I came to La Ti Da a few Thursdays this summer- wasn't your mom making a teeny tiny scarf at one point? For Alice, maybe? Or possibly this is all a figment of my imagination.
Sadly, I'm not going to the knit out, and I don't think Lib is either. Family stuff going on, sadly- not sad stuff, but sad that I won't be knitting. I don't know if you saw on Libby's blog, but we do have a knit group (Yahoo Group MHCKnitters), and we try to get together at least one Friday a month, usually at someone's house. Do Fridays work for you? I thought I remembered reading that you do a church thing then, but I'm not sure. I will definitely let you know when our next one will be- probably not next week, but very probably the following!
Posted by: Cathi at October 21, 2004 03:40 PMStacey, I LOVE your yarnscaping! Okay, I posted my stash pictures on my blog...don't tell my husband!
Posted by: Lynne at October 21, 2004 04:11 PMlove your halloween yarn display. very cute!
Posted by: froggy at October 22, 2004 12:54 AME-gads! Rats!
I love candy corn...glad to hear that someone else does too...I thought we were a dying breed.
Love the hallowe'en yarn decoration..
Posted by: Heather at October 22, 2004 07:02 AMYuck - rats! I feel your pain because several months ago I was sitting here innocently knitting and a huge rat ran right across my LIVING ROOM! I, too, fell back on my feminine wiles and called my husband to come immediately!! I'm not wimpy and and can handle mice with the best of my feminist friends, but I draw the line at rats!! Love your decorating scheme - I'm going to consider decorating with yarn too!
Posted by: Dorothy at October 22, 2004 01:53 PMCool new banner, Stacey! Good to see you last night at A Knitted Peace.
Posted by: Joanne at October 22, 2004 04:12 PMRats don't know where one neighbouthood ends and one begins. They are eveywhere. We were dismantling our old gas barbeque and guess what was in there? A HUGE rat.
You get the prize for the best Holloween decoration. No, not the rat, the yarn :)
Li
Indeed, even though I was there, it was more fun reading about it here than actually seeing that rat hanging on the screen! Your Halloween yarn does look soooo cute. You really have an eye for decorating! I wrote down the date for the knitting night at B&N!
Posted by: Marsha at October 25, 2004 08:53 AM