“Freedom is measured by the distance between church and state”
I finally got a copy of Simply Creative Crochet — the Better Homes and Gardens speciality magazine for which I’d supplied SIX sample skeins of my yarns, with a blurb about what Knitivity is about and why. I read every page. There are no pictures of my yarns, and no written description of Knitivity, Southern [...]
What a day it was today.
Yesterday was the b’day party for the grandson. And today was a trip downtown to meet up with my cousin. I came home from yesterday’s party and realized it was too late in the day for an effective nap, and I would need to go to bed [...]
Today was my grandson’s birthday party (the birthday is tomorrow, actually, but the party was today).
Guess how old?
Yup….. he will be ONE YEAR OLD tomorrow. For the record that is a hand-shaped CHEESE spread mix that I made early this morning, pressed into shape and then pressed chopped walnuts into it.
Here’s a [...]
Here ya go…
You ‘member last week all the different yarns my grandkids dyed up, picking their own colors? Well, here’s the end result of it:
There’s three sisters across the top right; a big sister/little brother at the top left (the little brother’s cap has ear flaps at his mother’s request); and a matching mother/daughter [...]
Okay, so I was talking with the customer service folks at the gas company (again!). It was at least 30 minutes I’d guess, with more time on hold than actually talking to someone. You may recall that last week they cut off service at this address because the prior tenant didn’t pay, and the gas [...]
Very well, in fact. Stayed up to listen to Jay’s monologue, but was in bed by 11:00 and asleep by 11:01, I’m sure. I sorta-kinda woke a few times, but rolled over and drifted back to sleep. Then I heard the rain, saw the daylight coming in through the blinds and curtains and thought “Gosh, [...]
Sensitivity Disclaimer: those with sensitive eyeballs may wish to avert their eyes while I rant a bit, okay?
Didn’t sleep well last night (shifting weather most likely culprit), overcast day today (think: “Seattle Gray”), things not appearing at my doorstep the way I would have liked, nothing I do on the computer is satisfactory, phone calls [...]
Okay, so here’s what I did over the weekend and yesterday:
On Sunday DD2 (that’s “darling daughter #2) drove me to the Target store over in Baytown. I was looking for a set of clear Pyrex mixing bowls (4.2 qts each for rotating dye jobs through the microwave), and a bunch of spring tension shower curtain [...]
Does anyone recognize this? Is it a poem? a song title? a song lyric?
For the last hour or so it has been rolling over and over in my head like the first line of a song once learned and long forgotten, and it’s about to drive me up a friggin’ wall!!! In my head it [...]
My neck hurts. A lot. Right where the base of the neck meets the top of the spine. Not only is it painful, it is distracting.
Last night when I went to cook supper I discovered my gas had been shut off for nonpayment. I spent a good amount of time last night on automated phone [...]
Pictures from the weekend!
First, these are the yarns by family.
DD#1 and her daughter each got a hank (the leftovers of these will make a winter cap for DD#1’s husband:
DD#2’s young daughter and infant son will get winter caps from these:
And DS#1’s three daughters collaborated (and bickered) in creating these yarns:
And after these [...]
Yippee!
I had a GREAT time on Saturday with my grandkids. Later today their yarns will be dry enough to re-reel and photograph and then start knitting up.
I didn’t realize until yesterday just how much pain I’d been in after Saturday’s activity — I had a fairly good night sleep Saturday night, but woke early … [...]
Shoot! Four of my granddaughters (and two of my own kids) came over this morning for “Grampa’s Time to Dye”, and while I had a great time, and I assume the girls did, too … I failed to actually pick up the camera to capture the moment. Sheesh! O’course, it may have been that [...]
Hey, if you look down a couple days ago (Oct 11, to be exact), I told you about Owen Plant’s music, with a link there to order his CD’s. Well, I’ll be darned! The CD’s arrived today by Priority Mail — in 2 days! Okay, so that would make me recommend CDBaby for getting CDs. [...]
Okay, so Kit asks:
“wait, so are we now shearing domestics for wool? “
to which I must respond, “Yes, but we no longer call them ‘domestics’ — they are now called housekeepers, in-home chefs, and au paires.” bwaahahahahaha…. !!!!
But seriously, it’s a good question. I have just asked the company that I intend to do [...]
I don’t normally do this, but you need to go hear Owen Plant and buy his CD’s if you like the sounds of James Taylor and similar folk musicians.
I found out about this guy from Johnathan Walton’s blog (Walton’s World) Be sure to watch Walton’s video interview and learn about what [...]
What is this?
Nope… it’s NOT a corset for an American Fashion Doll!
It’s an experiment in mixing regular wool with superwash wool, trying to determine the ratio of wool rows to superwash rows in order to create a semi-felted article. The bottom is 1:1, knit back and forth evenly; then is a 4:2 combination by shortrowing [...]
Okay, how’s this for ‘clever’?
THIS:
is the pole that used to hold a couple of clamp-on / screw-on lamps — the kind you can slide up and down the pole, swivel and turn to throw light in almost any direction. I got it at a yard sale for about $5 a few years ago. The lamps [...]
No, not really. I’m going today to get a flu shot. I’ve been faithful to do this for many, many years (I think I got into the practice when flu shots were free to employees at my job at LSU), and haven’t had the flu in this whole time. You can find a location near [...]
After being reminded I failed to post pictures, here’s some of the colors from the current dye jobs:
This is supposed to be lilac. I’m discovering I do not lilac in general, whether it appears correct on the monitor or not. I just don’t like it.
In real life I like this very sunny yellow (it’s much, [...]
