A Mānoa Girl's Bloggie

I am very fortunate to have several Flickers visiting my suet feeders on a daily basis. I was ready with my camera today, and was able to get this close-up of one of them. Last year Mr and Mrs Flicker raised their babies here, and now both babies come around too!

I’m pleased with the detail in this photo.

Today during knitting time at Littlelamb and Ewe, Ellie, the adorable shop kitten, was keeping my friend and I entertained by her antics, zooming from one place to another. It was hard to get knitting done because I was having so much fun watching her!

At only three weeks of age, Ellie was dumped off into some bushes at our local college. A friend of Cindy’s (Cindy and her daughter, Katie, own Littlelamb and Ewe) fed and nurtured her for several weeks, saving the little kitten’s life. When Cindy opened the yarn store, she knew she needed to have a shop kitty, and that’s where Ellie, now healthy, came to live.

Today Ellie decided to pay me a visit as I was knitting, so I decided to make her part of Project 365. She is a love!

I saw these clouds today and they looked like gigantic marshmallows, so I pulled over and stopped the car and snapped the photo. But I forgot that I was taking the photo through the tinted part of my windshield so I ended up with a pretty surrealistic effect, especially with the sun in it.

Taken on Highway 26 East just past Hillyard Road.

I was really lucky to get this shot; I’m not sure if you can see it, but when I took the photo of the hummingbird, I suddenly realized that I could see her little tongue sipping the sugar water right through the side of the feeder!! Whoot!!

Ho, I’ve been so busy today that I almost didn’t get this uploaded till late! Today I went to one of my local yarn stores; I got some yarn that needed to be wound. Littlelamb and Ewe has an electric swift and yardage counter, and a bambucha ball winder. While the yarn was winding, the swift was making weird shadows on the wall, so I decided that this would be my photo of the day. It’s actually kinda neat. And isn’t the shawl pretty up on the wall?

Okay, I’m kinda cheating because I didn’t take this photo. However, today is my youngest daughter’s birthday, and I wanted to commemorate the day by using her photo. Every year, I tell her her birthday story, the story of the day she was born. It is a yearly ritual that I do for both of my daughters, and I am unbelievably happy that they want to hear it as much as I love to tell it.

Anela was born eleven days before a tragic event in my life, and having this precious baby just then was part of my healing. I held her close, along with her sister, and thanked God that I could keep going because of them.

Hauʻoli Lā Hānau, Anela, my beloved girl. I love you!

Another fibery day today. I wound this handspun yarn (yes, by me!) into a ball so that I could start knitting with it. My swift (da kine that goes ’round and ’round and counts yardage for me) worked great and I think I’ll have about 400 yards of yarn to knit with. I want to make sure I’m calculating the yardage right before I do the other little skein.

This is some lovely Targhee fiber from Sweet Grass Wools in Montana in the “Swirl” colorway. Once I know how many yards I have, I’ll know what I can knit with it.

Today Nolemana and I drove all the way out to Carlton to the Fabulous Fiber Fair. It was its first year, so it was fairly small, but that was fine with me. I got to see friends, fondle lots of fiber, and inhale the wonderful atmosphere. This is just one photo that I took to show all the fibery goodness.

I was at the gym today and a big flock of Canada Geese flew by; I’d so hoped to get a good photo of them for today’s photo, but they were just too far away and the photo was major blurry. So instead, I give you another kitty in the cat bed photo. I love Noelani’s look of content and the way Keola is watching over her with that quizzical expression on his face!