tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72402485107804224552011-04-21T21:34:28.095-07:00Matt.......http://www.blogger.com/profile/04740955200944097483noreply@blogger.comBlogger281100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7240248510780422455.post-22800661506133048012008-09-15T10:53:00.000-07:002008-09-15T13:09:23.364-07:00

.....the power was back on. Mother nature really let loose yesterday with the weirdest weather I'd ever seen: Clear blue sunny skies, Blustery winds, and 75 mph gusts-thanks to the reminants of "Ike". Also, Thanks to Carolyn for baiting me to post this week.....and I should point out my Rudeness publically for not responding to her nice e-mail..."I'm sorry". so who wants pics? I got em' this

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Big thanks to Mia, who baits (guilts : ) me into posting everytime I want to stop blogging/delete the blog/or in this case, just let too much time lapse between posts. Back in june, I started a familar call from a friend who said, "I could use your help for a weekend or two" on a flip of a historic house in a quaint affluent community outside c-town. I predicted history would repeat itself with

Matt.......http://www.blogger.com/profile/04740955200944097483noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7240248510780422455.post-43594574658083006662008-05-11T08:13:00.001-07:002008-05-11T08:37:39.618-07:00

yeah, child birth is a bit#%! I started out my friday morning with a slacker friday "I'm outta here" moment (with permission of course) and made a run to damn near west virginia where my baby was.....In a little over 2 hours, I touched down in Flushing Ohio and picked up our new baby girl.....People, meet Matilda....Yep, It's a girl! A little boston terrier puppy at 7 weeks, born easter morning.

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It's been a crazy 5 months, but here's what happens when I get the chance to gut the first floor of a 30 year old house in need of a facelift...... New painted maple cabinets, Granite tops, Tumled limestone backsplash..... Awesome Wolf range, second Dacor under counter oven, fireclay porcelin sinkI won't even mention the cost of the faucet..... Totally custom and built on site bench seat, I even

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.....I still have nothing to report....but tomorrow I take pics of my big 5 month project and as of wednsday evening, I'll be on walkabout.....yep, a few days off are in order, so I got the "Crackmobile" outfitted and am getting set to head out, somewhere....anywhere.....but most importantly, a place where there is no cell reception, and as far as the eye can see rolling hills, thick woods, water

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.....for tonight, We'll try something new. More pics, less words, and a short story at the end about taking my 13 year old daughter to her first show.(concert for those not in the know ; ) Most of what I have is about this old house, and the beginings of the process to make it ours. So for starters, lets talk carpet. If theres one thing I hate more than feet, it's carpet.. Carpet is just

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.....It's way overdue but I'm back with Lots of good stuff so grab a drink and we'll get started!! Everybody loves crap so we'll get started there. I have officially had 3 full scale basement floods in 60 days to deal with and I can't tell you how much I appreciate the previous owners not disclosing that information. just look at the water coming up out of the fireplace. If they thought they

Matt.......http://www.blogger.com/profile/04740955200944097483noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7240248510780422455.post-68641586794594009052008-02-12T07:36:00.000-08:002008-02-12T10:43:19.262-08:00

On a day like today, I would find it next to impossible to study all day, but since I hit the books at 8am instead of going to work, I decided to take an hour and wrap up a WIP. Crosby (my GSP)and I had already shoveled once, and warmed up the misses SUV for her 2 hour commute, we decided to go out and hunt up where the squirrels had been in the yard. Even the old dog loves a snow day, but with

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.....It's been about a week since I've had a total slacker of a day, so I think I'm due.....Sunday maornings are now for eating fresh bread for breakfast with black coffee. Sunday mornings are for Wool clogs and stoking up a good fire for your German shorthaired Pointer. Yes, I'm still in my P.J.'s..... Sunday mornings are for casting on thick wooly man socks out of that stuff you dyed up a week

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.....I had the wonka golden ticket at how excited I was when I saw KnitXcore's post about the bread, and seriously, I was on a mission after that! Without any messing around, Here's the result:"A" and I turned out 2 loaves. The white one was...phenomanal,(and almost gone) The dark one was made with Teff flour, and it was like a rock, but had an interesting flavor. After some more google strokin',

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.....and around this old house, seems to fly some more... I met Yarmando for some friday morning knitting, and a liquid lunch, but was teased by a few sassy ladies of the knitwitters group at the merc about not blogging anymore, so here I am. I have been busy at work, busy around the house, and frogging nearly 75% of the projects I've been knitting that I just was bored with. On the Job, I've

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.....stole my bike.....not really, but it was a fitting song lyric for this week. So it's been one crazy month so far getting moved and robbed, but a promise is a promise, so who wants to see pics?So without further delay, Welcome to big Matty's house! Heres the front stoop with some fluted engaged columns, some dentil moulding and crown around the top. I thought the dog might coperate and stay

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.....yeah, Big Matty's neighborhood......I do have to apologize....I can't find the wire to the camera, or the battery charger for that matter, so pics are out of the question.....I do know, however that some ass wipe stole my giant ford expedition right out of my driveway last night......Pics are comin, but for now, I'm gonna fix another drink, and work a couple of rounds on my sock......More

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Matto has been a busy boy......I have been totally out of sorts for 2 months and it's finally come to an end.. The wife and I bought a house finally after an exhausting 2 month search! (can you imagine what that was like for the carpenters wife?) ((she's a saint)) So with any good luck, I'll be back to regular posting in a week or 2 but after tonight the interwebs go bye-bye, and wont be back

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Here in the midwest, a state wide holiday commenced today, and it's not what you think....dig this...... Nope, it's got nothing to do with halloween, thats what I thought at first, but then I realized the case (well, 30 pack to be honest) had pictures of deer and turkeys all over it and this caption ensued: "Enjoy one after the hunt" Thats right people, it's deer season here in ohio.

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.......That is a direct quote from my wife as she rocked the baby to sleep (with her "majic pillows"). I apparently forgot what it was like to have a baby around the house full time, So my daughter in middle school for health class brought home a 7.5 lb. replica. Damn is that thing loud. Not only is it loud, but consistent too. It howls like the devils child at least every 30 minutes, and

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..........The sharing of free knowledge......When I first began to knit, the internet and knitting blogs were my main source of info, especially in the how to and pattern department. But the more you get to see of this isolated craft world, the more I think it';s really retarded. I mean, it seems now a days, there are so many shitty people who unless they are getting paid, wouldn't help a new

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..........Why is it that you don't always wake up hung over? Why is it, that sometimes you wake up feeling fine, then it sets in slowly, and painfully? Damn you hangover.......Thank god for "formula 50" vitamin water and black coffee. It didn't keep me from finishing the cuff of the Knucks I've been working on this morning. Check it:Yarn: Knitpicks Bare 100% merino DKDyes: Jacquard Fire red &

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.....so, lets get to some grossness, but I swear I'll have you laughing (or sympathizing) when I'm all done. Last night, I'm just hanging out, winding down from the weekend, knitting, when it hits me.......this is an emergency of catastrophic proportions if I "don't make it" in time, so....I run! whew.....just made it......out of the blue, no warning signs, and I am violently ill......but still

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So, I was on the phone with my brother from the same mother happily cranking away at the pair of knucks I've been on, waiting for the BBQ to heat up so I can start basting the babyback ribs (that were cut fresh at the butcher yesterday) that I'd been par-boiling for 3 hours, (I think thats a personal best run-on sentence) when the air raid sirens went off, letting me know there were tornados

Matt.......http://www.blogger.com/profile/04740955200944097483noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7240248510780422455.post-32312728263960510762007-08-24T13:18:00.000-07:002007-08-24T13:55:37.257-07:00

.....I was ready to post again, but really, I think progress photos tend to bore you 5 (micah, ger, david, don, dave) loyalists.....As some of you well know, I went camping, fishing, and drinking last weekend, after meeting the fellas for breakfast. I gotta say, I was an entirely more relaxed guy this week and definately needed it. Cast on the needles this week, since I finished the wifes socks,

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.....So, sometimes, working for the who's who takes me to some fun places, over the top designed houses, and sometimes I even get "what it costs is what it costs" no budget types of projects. It's been a long time since I've said, "I've never seen anything like it"......or "it's the biggest one yet." but even at my relatively young age of 33, I never expected those 2 sentences to run on together.

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.....So, for this week, I'll have more photos to share than writing, well, because I don't have much to say since I have spent an entire week knitting at all hours of the night with a sick dog.....I know he loves stealing the cats occasional treat of 9lives wet food, but I only turned my back on him for a second. I had a feeling something was really wrong here when both cats were eating out of

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So, it's really early (almost 4AM), and if you have dogs, this has happened to you I'm sure. I keep wet food around for my cats just so when I run out of dry food, or they look like they need a treat, I can hook them up with some disgusting concoction. Problem is, the dog loves it. I can't leave the room or the cats get mugged of their meal. this apparently happened friday night, since he had

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Yeah, more dyeing........So, completely envious of Micah's striped socks, I had to give it a try on myself. I got the idea from See Eunny Knit, and what a slick little method this is. I stopped by the Merc yesterday for lunch and to snag some more yarn to boil up before heading home to get busy. These pics don't do the color saturation any justice, but I am relatively pleased: Yarn:Kreamer

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So, Let me first say that a few really good people e-mailed me and persuaded me to keep blogging, so here I am. I really do like getting comments, but no one likes being picked on, so heres my mini lecture. if you don't enjoy the content, don't come back...if you feel like being an asshole, please keep in mind that knitting is a small world, and I might just run into you somewhere, and may

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here it is, a day later.......

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heres yarn I dyed this this week.....then cast on these!

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