Posted Wednesday June 25, 2008, 1:03 pm, Over one day old
Last night we went to the elementary school for the last event ever and watched Samantha slide from the playgrounds and recesses of her childhood school up to the grand and glorious adventure that is High School. This got...
Read Baby Mine and Hers (Links)
Posted Tuesday June 24, 2008, 11:33 am, Over one day old
The weather here has been dismal. Huge thunderstorms ripping through every day, or twice or three times a day, dreadfully depressing for those of us who walk or ride our bikes everywhere. I feel like I've been trapped in...
Read Looking up and down (Links)
Posted Sunday June 22, 2008, 2:13 pm, Over one day old
I've decided that this was one of the best trips ever. I left Saturday morning, met knitters, had dinner with a Chicago friend, did my thing, met more knitters, drank a frosty beer in a hotel room and was...
Read Chicago redux (Links)
Posted Sunday June 22, 2008, 2:13 pm, Over one day old
On my flight from Toronto to Chicago this morning, a guy got on the plane, sat next to me and took out his ipod and started watching a cartoon on it. He watches it while people take their seats...
Read Orderly fashion (Links)
Posted Sunday June 22, 2008, 2:13 pm, Over one day old
All I've done in the days since the big deal on the weekend is putter around the house, go to be early... and knit. I'd felt tired in the time leading up to it (actually, I think "exhausted" has...
Read Recovery (Links)
Posted Tuesday June 17, 2008, 1:33 pm, Over one day old
I have virtually no words (and almost no pictures) for how tremendously well the whole birthday/1000 Knitters/ WWKIP day thing went. Knitters came, knitters knit, knitters had their pictures taken, we drew for prizes (from my stash and Franklin's)...
Read That is how it's done (Links)
Posted Monday June 16, 2008, 11:40 am, Over one day old
I have to tell you, I've only been 40 years old for a few hours and it's very good. The last day of 39 was pretty wicked as well. I spent it puttering around the house with Juno and...
Read Rather good (Links)
Posted Friday June 13, 2008, 1:03 pm, Over one day old
1. I'm knitting that beaded scarf and I have 10 repeats to go and I'm so glad. It doesn't matter how beautiful a project is, at some point in it you just think "Oh, come on." I'm there with...
Read Random Thursday (Links)
Posted Tuesday June 10, 2008, 12:33 pm, Over one day old
What I am doing: Writing about knitting this scarf. This is still undulating waves, and it is lying on my beautiful blooming chive plants which were smashed absolutely flat by a huge thunderstorm that passed through here last night....
Read Am too, am not (Links)
Posted Tuesday June 10, 2008, 12:33 pm, Over one day old
(NOTE: added later. Someone lovely pointed out that one of my links was wrong and when I fixed it something big blew up in Movabletype and whammo...all the comments were gone. Sorry about that, if yours is gone, it's...
Read Once Upon a time (Links)