about 10 months ago - 2 comments
I love how gardens grow. Despite the heat. Despite the weeds. Despite the negligence (on my part). …still wish I could knit in my sleep.
about 1 year ago - 3 comments
x x My Sister, she says her definition of vacation is “chocolate, wine, and dirt.” x x We’re taking it in stages – we’ve run out of dirt so we’ve moved onto the “wine” portion of day; later – chocolate. Also, we are knitting.
about 1 year ago - 4 comments
So, I was about to put a cry for help: my knitting mojo was lost.
about 1 year ago - 3 comments
Today, I am convinced that more gardening would solve all the world problems*. x x (Or maybe it was 65 degrees F in January and I’ve got sun stroke.) x x p.s. Dude’s little kids won a third place award at the FIRST Lego League Maryland State Championships. 74 teams advanced from 13 regional events. The…
about 1 year ago - 3 comments
We took The Robot and a bunch of high school kids to the local Halloween Costume Contest and Parade. We made them decorate the robot and get all dressed up and give away candy (oh the hardship!) And Dude was busy getting pix of ginormous bees and wee stegosauruses (stegosauri?) and I run over to…
about 1 year ago - 4 comments
1. This cowl: x x It’s done now. The yarn is Blue Sky Alpaca Techno in the Fame colorway. The site says “baby alpaca is blown into a mesh tube of silk for really fast knitting with literally no splitting”. I don’t have a macro lens or I’d try to get a picture. It…
about 1 year ago - 3 comments
Backstory: I’m at my sister’s a few weeks ago. She’s just had surgery and she’s o.k. but bored. She sends me off in search of reading material, ice packs, and something else. x And, yarn. Because it is there. (Well, actually, nothing is there. But if I’m going to drive around looking for reading material,…
about 1 year ago - 6 comments
x What I thought was going to happen during September: 1. massive house cleaning, organizing, decluttering 2. my sister and parents would visit 3. there was a wedding to attend 4. my birthday would come and go 5. my sister was going to take my credit card, go to the best nursery in the area,…
about 1 year ago - 1 comment
1. ”The best laid plans of mice and men / Often go awry” ** x 2. Few things are sadder than a garden of wilted sunflowers. x x 3. I should never guild trip an Irish Catholic my mother, even in jest. She won’t realize it, and it is just mean. x 4. Aurora is…
about 1 year ago - 2 comments
Because: 1. It is 7 a.m. 7:20 7:37 7:47 and 84 87 89 90 degrees out*. 1. a. and humid x x 2. I really really really need to clean off the kitchen island x x 2a. I made pickles; the canning pot is still warm. x 3. I have now harvested 59 pounds of zucchini (My…
about 1 year ago
Croci? Really? It will be 2 months before we see them here. This has been a fairly mild winter, though, so I won’t complain.
Nice, warm hats!
about 1 year ago
They are enjoying them because……………………….IT IS WINTER HERE!
about 1 year ago
Kmkat may have a crocus before I do… *sniff
We’ve had a fairly mild winter, too – it only got below zero a couple of times in January. Though February and March are traditionally our heavy-snow months, so we’ve still got that hurdle to go. You know, just when you’re drooling over seed catalogs and dreaming of dirt.