Saturday, February 09, 2008

Chirp, chirp, chirp

Chirp, chirp, chirp. Do you hear them? I was hearing little peeps chirping.
My little fingers clicked to the http://www.loopyewe.com/ and there they were. Soft, buttery yellow, little peeps. Chirping for me to hold them and pet them. Right then and there I was twitter-pated. I scooped them up in my little cart. They arrived carefully wrapped by Sheri and the elves.


Shaking, I unwrapped each skein. Yeah I know, I ordered more than the peeps but I just had to have a few extra skeins. Stash build up, you know.

L to R is Butter peeps in fingering, Cool Fire in worsted, Butter peeps in worsted and Cloud Jungle in lace weight.




I grabbed the swift and winder and butter peeps was wound. I cast on for the socks and I am in knitting heaven here. I love it!
And they're mine, all mine. After all, I am the one who saved these little peeps from another knitter's needles.







The above package came in the knick of time. Mr. Bettis is in T-R-O-U-B-L-E...........again. We shut our bedroom doors when we leave the house. Mr. Bettis is forbidden to jump, leap or otherwise frolic er destroy beds. ALL beds.
However, I went into my room after an outing and it looked as if it had snowed in there. Mr. Bettis shredded my comforter. We went to Walmart to purchase a cheap quilt. After all, buying a cheap quilt vs. expensive quilt saves money for chirping peeps.

This is where I found Mr. Bettis the other day. Notice I was smart enough to put plastic on the bed. Not that, that will deter him from the bed. I couldn't figure out how he was getting in the bedrooms knowing we shut the doors. So I shut the door and lurked around the corner. AH-HA! I caught him "red-pawed" hitting the door latch! We have latches not knobs on the doors and that oaf figured out how to unlatch the door. The one-armed DH is now at the hardware store trying to find something to fix this problem. Trust me, I won't allow the DH to use the table saw to fix any problem at this time. :)

p.s. The butter peeps saved Mr. Bettis from finding a picture of himself on the web looking woeful hoping someone would put him in their "cart" to bring home.

6 comments:

Bubblesknits said...

Even though he's getting in trouble, it's absolutely hilarious that he's learned to open the door! :-p

monica said...

Your new Dream in Colors yarn is beautiful.

Mr. Bettis is a smart "oaf" what a stinker!!

KnittingMoose said...

What a dog!! Although I suppose we ought to give him credit for figuring out how to open the door... ;)

Pretty yarn!

Sheri at The Loopy Ewe said...

I love that Butter Peeps colorway, too! (And I know it's not funny that your dog destroys the quilts and comforters. Not at all. But it did give me a little laugh this morning when I read this....) :-)

Laura Neal said...

He is so cute! I love his talent! I found a rawhide on my bed the other day, the dogs were obviously all over it. That is why I only have quilts or blankets on the bed, the hound dog has huge toe nails and when he steps on my feet, ouch!
I splurged on some angora yarn. It was cheap and from elann. sigh!

Anonymous said...

I think I might try to collect all of the DIC colors and then knit a rainbow sock and not share my yarn.

Does Mr. Bettis get out much?