October 10, 2005
It's an interesting thing, this new routine of mine. The first day, I shut the computer down but I must admit I watched a good deal of HGTV (Home and Garden TV). Although I was putting hexagons together for the...
August 07, 2005
Ahhhhhhhhhh. The heat has dissipated somewhat, returning to levels in the low 80s rather than the high 90s. Randy is off to Japan. The Ten are off to Alaska. I have a car and a cell phone again. And I...
August 05, 2005
I was a good sister/cousin/kinfolk of kinfolk today. But I was a bad daughter-- or was I? I dutifully collected folks at the airport coming from Houston. I waited around at the airport while we recovered more kinfolk from Memphis,...
It was hotter than hell and Hades combined yesterday. 98 degrees, they say. Having no air conditioning (but seriously considering selling the stash to finance some), Sherlock and I sweltered while the Gray was once again wined and dined by...
August 04, 2005
It appears there are many other sinners such as I who do nothing with our handspun. Let us seek absolution and grant it to ourselves, eh? I've now restored more than 80 blog entries dating from February of 2003. These...
August 01, 2005
I'll take a brief respite from Ireland photos to indulge in some fiber-related ephemera. But before I do, guess who showed up at my house yesterday? Ladies and gentlemen-- back from Belgium, Israel, Spain, Italy, Holland and other Lands Far...
July 10, 2005
It's amazing what Worry will do to you. Even though statistically you know that a reason for worry really isn't likely to exist, you do anyway, especially when you are a mother and the worry concerns one of your offspring....
July 08, 2005
As it happened, I did not get to play dollhouse yesterday. I heard about the bombings in London and thought how horrible, then about 1.2 seconds later I thought huh, my son is in Europe and I'm not sure where...
July 01, 2005
Yesterday I cleaned off the tops of my two desks and called it good. My sink is still shiny, I thought to her Flyness, and so I moved on to other, more fun, things. I knit a bit on the...
June 30, 2005
If you grew up like I did, you had a mother who constantly nagged at you to do your chores. I never voluntarily cleaned my room because I knew that at some point it would be a punishment or at...
September 29, 2004
In the introduction to Poor Richard's Almanack for the year 1733, the author writes, in an attempt to explain why he is writing the Almanack: "...and my Wife, good Woman, is, I tell her, excessive proud; she cannot bear, she...
May 09, 2003
Yesterday was a fun day. Brad brought Sherlock out for lunch so that we could take a walk along our wonderful nature trails near my workplace. There is a beautiful salmon creek there that goes for miles, and the areas...
April 27, 2003
The camera got a nice workout yesterday. The brilliant thought occurred to me that if I took it down to the Parlor with me, I could take pictures whenever something inspired me.... what a concept. The Knitting First of all,...
April 23, 2003
Wednesday always sneaks up on me like a cat stalking the ends of my knitting needles as they leave contrails of circles describing the stitches just knit. Suddenly the whole weight of the cat is suspended from the end of...
April 19, 2003
There really is a god. The lace dilemma on the Mourning Shawl has been repaired and although it could be slightly more perfect, I choose to leave it as it is, as a token to ward off further evil. Pictures!...
April 17, 2003
I had the overwhelming urge yesterday to compare my Henry VIII with Wendy's for color difference between Alice Starmore Scottish Campion (discontinued) and Jamieson's Spindrift. Amused to find that my FO pictures of Henry VIII and the Flying Geese gansey...
April 15, 2003
Mostly pictures this morning.... first, shawl progress! Mom's Weekend, Sherah supports the troops with a poster of her own making: And welcomes me with her door decoration: The photo was taken the very day she was born: And the newest...
April 10, 2003
The shawl border is complete!! I won't bore you with another photo, it looks the same as the last one, only longer and without a needle still attached to one end! Isn't it always the case that by the time...
April 09, 2003
Only 8 more scallops to go before the border is done on the mourning shawl!! I was going through old computer files and found photos I thought I'd lost, yippee! Harvey & Sherah in a photographic mood: I am given...
April 03, 2003
Ok, you want pictures, you get pictures. First, the first 7 scallops of the border of the lace shawl: And here is what the shawl is supposed to look like when finished: I was working quite hard on Neighborlady before...
March 21, 2003
My daughter Sherah has been in town this week and last night we took her and her boyfriend Brendan to eat at Frankie's, a great little family-run restaurant in Redmond. If you ever go there, be sure to check out...
March 18, 2003
Last night as I was driving home from work I was listening to our President's speech and its promise of war soon to come. There were an abnormal number of accidents along the way, and I very nearly got rear-ended...
March 17, 2003
The trip to Bainbridge was a nice outing. While waiting for the ferry and riding the ferry I worked on my second Koigu sock, which is coming along nicely: I'm finding that this one is smaller than the first one,...
February 01, 2003
The men in my life -- both have curly hair. They await the presentation of the Long Leaf yarns... but let's begin at the beginning. Why did I start a blog? I never have time to read other people's blogs,...
