Wedding Song - God Knew That I Needed You

Wednesday, October 5, 2022

LOVE

December will mark 4 years since Bob's been gone. And this picture resonated with me while visiting a friend's FB page.

I got a message on Messenger a few minutes ago (4 weeks old - for whatever reason FB saw fit to keep it hidden), from a woman Bob and I were friends with when we lived on Sparks Drive, in Lexington (different friend). While reading the original 4-week-message .... and massaging back and forth ... it was like time hadn't really passed at all: with my mind's eye, I could see her and Bob talking, and laughing together. Visualizing that remembered time of my life, made my heart happy

A happy surprise.
 

She was sending me love through that message. I needed that message tonight – with the days getting shorter & darker.

God is good; He always KNOWS what I need, and makes sure I get it 😊

GYPSY WOMAN

This morning, I pulled my ice trays out of the freezer; and got a good laugh:

Is my ice trying to tell me they had a rough night in the freezer? LOL!

Still chuckling after storing the triggered ice, I poured a cup of coffee, and cruised a few Blog Hops – posting MOD Knit Receiving Baby Blanket … and was pleasantly surprised to notice that MOD knit Baby Jacket had been featured on one of the crafting Blogs 😊

Blog Hopping today ... my MOD Baby Jacket was featured! 
MOD BULKY BABY JACKET & EARFLAP HAT; NB-3 MO. BOY. Knit, bulky weight yarn.

After making all the Blog Hop rounds, I started watching a vintage black-n-white movie, while starting work on another knitted receiving blanket:

MOD KNIT Receiving Blanket; Boy.

All this month I’ll be watching movies, and listening to songs with an October theme – not necessarily with the word ‘October’ in them … but rather, themes that kinda go hand-in-glove with the month of October.

This afternoon, I was watching a movie with a dancing gypsy in it – and that got me to thinking about the Gypsy Woman song; and the time Bob and I were driving country roads, and saw what I dubbed a ‘gypsy wagon’ sitting off in a field, by itself; there was also a camel in the field 😉

A camel in a PNW field! Vader-WA
Gypsy Wagon; Vader.
Brian Hyland – ‘Gypsy Woman’ song:

Santana – ‘Black Magic Woman’ song: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EfAsOBjkp8)

Cher – ‘Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves’ song: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOSZwEwl_1Q)

Don Williams – “I Remember a Gypsy Woman’ song: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyfeshvlZ6k)

Planxty – ‘Raggle Taggle Gypsy’ song: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyP407UnUWw)

Uriah Heap – ‘Gypsy’ song: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj1QzZmyNEM)

Van Morrison – ‘Gypsy’ song: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkkW4ynas08)

Van Morrison – ‘Gypsy in My Soul’ song: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q8ZZWrPHj0)

Deep Purple – ‘Gypsy’s Kiss’ song: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xuBw63xj00)

Bonnie Raitt – ‘Gypsy in Me’ song: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T79QmeSEcs)

Ricky Nelson – ‘Gypsy Woman’ song: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9GUV6Kru1s)

Checking out other picture files of my life with Bob, in the same timeframe as the gypsy wagon and camel … I ran across pictures of the time we went target shooting up Spruce Creek – I hadn’t shot a gun in quite awhile (and then it was a pistol, not a rifle); but I really liked the old W22 bolt action rifle Bob inherited from his Grandpa Smalley, so I was excited to get to shoot it 😊

The rifle didn’t shoot {true}, so Bob had to show me how to line the shot up correctly: that took a few rounds before I got the hang of it. But I have a competitive streak in me, so I kept at it until I made a bullseye … and two more, for good measure. Bob knew how to line his shots up accurately with that rifle, so he shot bullseye all the time; but he praised me every time I made a score, and I came home feeling pretty proud of myself.

Bob setting the target – 75-foot distance Spruce Creek, 2010. My wolf ‘Precious’, is beside him.
W22 Bolt action rifle.
‘Sighting’ the W22 was a bit tricky because the sidewalls of the 4x bed was practically at my collarbone!
My ten shots got better with every voiced competitive, ‘I can do it’; and eventually became ‘BULLSEYE!’ 3 times, echoing off the forest walls ðŸ˜‰
Upping the stakes … my shots at ‘something a little smaller’; they got better too, as my {sightings} honed in on the bullseye zone ðŸ˜Š

Bob’s son, Alex, inherited that rifle after Bob’s spirit passed from this life to the next, nearly 4 years ago.

L wants to take me shooting at the shooting range on his family ranch, but I’m not sure I want to do that. Even though there would be other people there, too, I’d feel weird without Bob beside me: I guess maybe my gypsy woman vibe left when Bob did

But I did like the memory of that little competitive moment with Bob, in 2010.

Bob always loved a good challenge – that's how I came into his life 😊

And my challenge was Bob – in those white cut-off shorts that showed off his dripping, tanned manly body, as he sailed through the air doing triple somersaults behind his cousin's speed boat; looked like a nordic god to me.

We both loved challenges 😉

Tonight, this gypsy woman misses her viking man.

MOD KNIT VAREIGATED RECEIVING BABY BLANKET ~ Easy Pattern

I’ve been making baby items for the local Caring Pregnancy Center – this is the latest item completed; a blanket made with ‘girl’ colors 😉

Crafted to match sizing; knit blanket.

Yesterday afternoon, I received news that Christina’s baby arrived very prematurely; he was born yesterday, and weighed in at 3 lbs. 15 oz. … so, the receiving blanket I’m working on today is in ‘boy’ colors 😊

MOD KNIT Receiving Blanket; Boy.

The pattern is so simple and easy to work up, I almost feel embarrassed to post it.

MOD KNIT VAREIGATED RECEIVING BABY BLANKET ~ Easy Pattern

Materials: 9.8 oz. MC Bernat Baby Sport Yarn; adequate amount of CC baby sport yarn for trim; #5 straight needles; st counter; #G crochet hook; tapestry needle.

Size: Baby Blanket; receiving size – 34 x 29 inches

Terms Used:

MC = main color

CC = contrast color

CO – cast on

sts = stitches

garter st = knit 1 row (RS)/purl 1 row (WS)

RS = right side of work, facing

WS = back side of work, facing

sc = single crochet

sk = skip

EO = end off

Pattern: Slip st counter on a knitting needle. With MC yarn, CO 150 sts; purl next row – knit next row. Continue in garter st for a total of 250 rows. EO

With crochet hook and CC yarn, pickup 125 sts across top of blanket as follows – 2 sc in corner st; *5 sc, sk 1* - to top corner edge, then make 3 sc in corner st and continue down the side in 124 sc to bottom corner, making 3 sc in corner st: repeat *5 sc, sk 1* across bottom of blanket with a 3 sc in each corner sts … and finish the whole thing with 124 sc to top corner, making 1 sc in top corner st to equal 3 sc total in that st. EO and weave in loose ends.

SC edging, with corner increases.
MOD KNIT Receiving Blanket ~ Full Size, 34 x 29 inches.

That’s it 😊 Easy-peasy 😉