“Freedom is measured by the distance between church and state”
This is a picture of my basic socks in the “Its Hotter Than…” colorway.
Besides being very pleased at how it looks, and the fact that I am (almost) finished with a complete pair of socks, I am even more tickled than I can imagine because I now have proof that ONE skein of my fingering [...]
I’ve been very careful to write down my color combinations as I paint up all this yarn, writing down which colors, in which order, and so forth. Yup. Yes, indeed, because “I’m SMART.”
Uh-huh. Yeah, ri-i-i-ght!!!!
And now, I have piles of yarns in gloriously re-mixed (re-wound) colors evoking the essence of Maque Choux, Etouffee, and [...]
Okay, so I’ve got this pile of really cool yarn, see? And … oh wait… you don’t see, huh? It’s because my @)*#$!# digital cameras aren’t capturing to the monitor what I’m seeing with my eyeballs. I don’t know if it is my monitor settings, my camera settings, or even the scanner settings (which also [...]
I was in the middle of sifting-and-sorting this afternoon (and had just taken out to the trash can a giant trash bag with the contents of a FORMERLY rat-infested cupboard), when an friend from work and his wife (do y’all ‘member Mr. C&S??) dropped by. What fun! And a good excuse to set on my [...]
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Ain’t it a shame??
NEW ORLEANS’ CRIMINAL CHAOS By NICOLE GELINAS - New York Post Online Edition: Postopinion
This is a very telling story, repeated in the media across the land. New Orleans is NOT a safe city. Period. Crime, especially violent crime, has long been a major problem. And now, after Katrina and way-too-long clean-up and restoration [...]
Last night I treated myself to An Evening with Garrison Keillor, up at McAllister Auditorium on the Tulane Univ. campus. It was therapeutic and very fun. Without giving away any of his material, I can only say it was well worth the price of admission — and that’s coming from a guy who DOES NOT [...]
Alison said:
but honestly I wouldn’t pay $40 for yarn for a pair of socks. My current limit is about $25 and I can find hand-dyed yarns in that price range.
EXACTLY! I wouldn’t pay $40 for a pair of socks, either! Actually I bought three of these hanks in a special sale pack for [...]
WOW! Looky here!
These are some of the bins of yarns that need to get labeled and ready for sale
Here is a close-up of the worsted weight yarns after dyeing, but before winding:
See how the colors are in big splotches? I LOVE those bold splashes of color, but with the nature of knitted [...]
well, that’s how I feel, anyway. LOL
Had a mostly good day — made a double trip around Audubon this morning, made it home just in time to shower and go outside for the rain to hit! Much of the day it was beastly hot, and I confess: I turned on the A/C [...]
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Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, in Dallas to raise money for Republican candidates, described the rebuilding effort in New Orleans as “pathetic” Thursday and said it will take political courage and leadership for the city to fully recover from Hurricane Katrina.Mr. Giuliani gave his analysis [...]
Okay, so here’s what I came up with:
As you can see, it IS all mixed around so that you can sorta kinda see all the colors interplay with each other — when you saw earlier pictures on the drying line, the colors were segregated according to the dye job. I wanted to show the intermix [...]
This is totally obnoxious!!! I really get upset over stupid lawsuits that seek to deflect personal responsibility.
CNN.com - Suit: KFC is finger-lickin’ bad for you - Jun 13, 2006
Part of it says:
Hoyte said he is suing to force KFC to change its cooking practices “for my son and others’ kids, so they may have a [...]
So I’m sitting here at my computer, playing with a little flitty-flighty-flutter bug of some sort on my monitor. Actually, I’m not touching it at all. The screen was mostly white-ish, and this teeny-tiny flying bug was just sitting there. I moved my mouse so the cursor arrow came up under the bug. The bug [...]
Okay, so I’m sitting here wearing my glasses and a smile, wondering WTF I’m doing here. There are days when I wake full of energy, and other days I feel like mush. What’s up with that?
I keep telling myself “A body in motion tends to stay in motion …. so just do something, anything, and [...]
98.5 °F / 36.9 °C
Humidity 35%
Well, geez! No WONDER I was feeling drained and drippy! LOL
Didja ever get so hot and sweaty that when you tried to pull down your Tidy Whiteys they just sort of stuck to you and rolled down into a rope around your hips and under your buttcheeks? Well, that’s how hot it is here, and it’s not even 9:00. O’course, I’m already on my 2nd [...]
Okay, so I did really good on my To-Do list — the first item of which was “Write a list of things I gotta do”. No, it didn’t really say that, but I made a point to do the list while having my first coffee and smoke on the back porch this morning. Slept well, [...]
The other day I ordered two new cell phone batteries, plus a charging station so that I could always have one battery charging while I’m using the other. It arrived today. I took out the current battery from my cell phone, just to compare and make sure I really did order the same size. Then [...]
Okay, these are what I did this week. I am NOT happy with most of the end results. Somehow the ending colors are not the same as the painting-on colors. But that’s okay.
First off, I’m feeling way much more better today than I did yesterday.
Next, I need to share with you a lesson I learned [...]
