This week, our directive is ’10 Things to Bring on a Camping Trip’.  Ready?

1.  Marshmallows (and chocolate and graham crackers).

2.  Clothespins.  You’ll always need to hang up something wet or damp or clip down a tent something.

3.  A wireless television (oh I am going to get mocked for this one).  Back when R was working for the Evil Empire, he had a bunch of OT that we traded for a wireless TV.  The ‘brain’ gets hooked up to the cable and the screen can be plugged in or has a battery so you can watch TV next to the campfire.  What?  A girl can’t miss Dr. Who even when she’s stuck out in …nature.  Shut up.

4.  Your camera.  Does this one need explaining?

5.  Your tent?  Shelter is key.  (we have a camper but a tent will work just fine)

6.  Your knitting!

7.  Also, your spinning wheel (if you spin).

8.  A book – or, if you’re like me, your Sony Reader with most of your e-book library on it.

9.  Your iPhone or cell phone – the kind that have GPS independent of cell service – so if you get lost on your nature hike (*shudder*) you can find your way back to some semblance of civilization.

10.  Would it be overkill to bring a netbook too?  What?!

Okay that’s my list – what do you like to bring on a camping trip?

The pictures?  Those are two more skeins of TdF spinning done – top one is New Day/Corriedale/244 yds, bottom is Myrtle/Dark BFL/232 yds

First, thank you all SO much for all your comments!  It made my birthday OSSUM!  :o)

Since I made you wait in suspense all weekend, I will not make you wait any longer!

First winner of a bucket bag:

@irieknit!  Congrats!  (I counted the tweets AFTER the comments and the FB entries after the tweets, in case you’re wondering) :o)

Second winner of a skein of handspun:

Laura!  Congrats!

Third winner of a bucket bag:

Bev!  Congrats!

Last but not least, fourth winner for a skein of handspun:

@TreeHuggersWife!  Congrats!

If you won, please contact me by clicking the ‘contact me’ tab and sending me a note.  If you won handspun, please let me know your favorite colors and mailing address.  If you won a box bag, please let me know your email address and I will send you a gift certificate for the shop.

Thanks again!  I wish I could give everyone who commented, tweeted, blogged and posted on Facebook but alas, not even *my* stash is that big! ;o)

]]> http://www.jessaluknits.com/2010/07/19/winners-2/feed/ 11 http://www.jessaluknits.com/2010/07/19/winners-2/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JessaluKnits/~3/Y3WVMnTnhFw/ http://www.jessaluknits.com/2010/07/15/well-it-appears/#comments Thu, 15 Jul 2010 04:42:55 +0000 JessaLu http://www.jessaluknits.com/?p=2880 …I’ve survived another trip around the sun.  For me, that’s cause for celebration SO, since I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve, in the tradition of the Hobbits, instead of you all giving me gifts, I shall give you a gift on my birthday!  (it’s not my eleventy-first birthday though, even if it feels that way on some days, hehe)

Yes, I said gift, but first, let me catch you up with my TdF spinning:

Spun up:  ’Champagne’ from Spunky Club December 2008, waiting to be plied:  ’New Day’ from Spunky Club February 2009 and being spun: ‘Myrtle’ from Spunky Club March 2009.  (because I have readers who skim: THESE ARE NOT THE PRIZES!  I’m keeping these babies all to myself! muahahaha!)  ETA: All my singles for TdF are being spun on my Canadian Production Wheel, Mabelle.  Then, I’m winding off the singles from the CPW and plying on my Sonata with the Wooly Winder

My birthday gift to you?

A bucket bag – of your choice – from the stock in the shop.  The winner is welcome to look at what I have and then ask if I can make a bucket from a box listing.  What do you have to do to win this lovely prize?

• Leave a comment! (and feel free to tell your friends!)
• Tweet about it!  (no more than 1 tweet per hour, please – up to 5 tweets total.  If you include my twitter name @jessalu and a link to this post, you get an entry for each tweet!)

If we get more than 50 comments?  I’ll add a skein of handspun to the bucket!  ;o)  (handspun of my choice & it’ll be a separate prize from the bucket) ETA: Holy carp!  It only took 3.5 hours to hit 50 comments!  Okay, if we hit 100?  I’ll throw a third prize in – another bucket bag!

ETA again!: Holy carp on a cracker!  We’re up to 100+ – I guess this means if we hit 150 I’ll add a FOURTH prize, another skein of handspun!  See?  I love you guys! ;o)

This contest ends Friday night at Midnight – so you can spread the word via twitter, facebook and blogs until then!  Good luck!

Comments are now closed!  I’ll be pulling the winners over the weekend and posting them on Monday – thanks to everyone who commented and good luck!

This week, our directive is ’10 Things you Like About Where you Live’ so, let me count the ways:

1.  I am surrounded by beautiful scenery.  The Berkshire Hills are amazing, even during mud season.

2.  I live in the country, one out of four seasons it’s quiet.  Ohnevermind, the tourists are here all. the. time. (or at least it seems that way!)

3.  If I want to be a tourist myself it’s very easy.  Tanglewood?  30 minutes.  Bash Bish Falls?  I could walk there.  Stockbridge and the Red Lion Inn is 30 minutes, Jacob’s Pillow is an hour away.

4.  This is one of the places where the celebrities come to ‘hide’.  If I wanted to break the code?  I cold tell you where J*mes T*ylor’s house is, and Yo Y* Ma, and Meryl (because R has installed kickass stereo systems in them).

5.  Most of my neighbors are ‘weekenders’ which means it’s nice and quiet around here from Monday – Thursday.  ;o)

6.  I’m surrounded by history.  Moby Dick was written 30 minutes from my house, the man who sculpted Lincoln for the Lincoln memorial lived two towns away, so did Edith Wharton.  Not to mention that I’m within six degrees of separation from Norman Rockwell (my ex’s grandma was his nurse).  Crazy, right?

7.  I have at least three yarn stores (not counting a Joanns) within an hour of me.  Okay so the closest one I won’t step a toe into on principal but I can (and do) go to Colorful Stitches in Lenox from time to time (ohyeah, R installed music there too.  He took photos of their basement for me to drool over, hehe)

8.  Fall.  I love when the trees change and the air smells all crisp.  I already mentioned the Berkshire Hills, they are *amazing* in the Fall!

9.  I have a nice big yard – this means I can have a veggie garden, a rose garden, a shade garden and still have almost an acre of grass for the dogs to run.

10.  While I hated it as a kid, now I love the small-town-ness of where I live.  I love that people honk when they go by my house and I love that the owner of the restaurant in town checks with my friend to see if we’re walking that afternoon because it’s Wednesday.

Okay that’s my 10 – what do you love about where you live?

The photo?  R dragged me to a car show on Sunday so I was amusing myself with my current sock-in-progress.  There’s another car show on Saturday and I’ll be bringing the wheel – along with some pointy sticks for when I get stabby after too many stupid questions.  ;o)

I usually have to keep a close eye on my strawberries – there are two little dogs around here that are too smart for their own good who know where they are and are also keeping a close watch.  If I want to enjoy the berries, I have to pounce! ;o)

Have a great weekend, everyone!  Stay cool!