A year or so ago, Grandma managed to pull over onto herself the big clock that Grandpa built. She was willing to move it out of her place at the time, but I didn’t have any place to put it and she’s always been very attached to the clock (Grandpa made it for her, because […]
As in other things, in yarns I seem to be drawn to the odd and unusual. So I was tickled when I received my monthly knittable samples from Elann.com and one of the yarns was of hemp. (Last month the oddball was flax—it’s a good thing the sample was large enough to knit with, because […]
No comment is needed on this, or this. The second one includes a BBC interview about it, which is pretty interesting.
Yes, I’m LOOKING for things to waste time on! It’s too hot for anything else!
Interesting things that happened on my birthday:
* 1605 - Gunpowder Plot: A plot led by Robert Catesby to blow up the English Houses of Parliament is thwarted when Sir Thomas Knyvet, a justice of the peace, finds […]
Got sucked into wasting half an hour on someone’s blog (a knitter), where she’d posted quite a few of those stupid tests people have set up all over the place. Got sucked into taking one, too, this one something called the “House Personality Test.” I occasionally watch “House,” mostly because it’s intriguing to watch Hugh […]
On second (and third and fourth) thought, I think I really blew this one. I babbled inanely and didn’t get to the point, and didn’t explain things I should have because they’re so elementary to me it didn’t occur to me until much later that I should’ve explained them. Crap. Maybe enjoying an interview is […]
I should be getting pretty good at these, considering that I seem to rack up one or two a year without results. Yesterday’s was long, but oddly enough was even kind of fun. Mostly because the three people doing the interviewing were very nice and seemed to be enjoying the process themselves.
Twenty-six questions, none […]
Walking uphill from a big-city downtown, headed toward home, I was carrying Tawie-zowie-wanda in my left arm and something else in my right. (Don’t know what.) Tawie got too heavy, so I put her down, but worried that she’d wander off or not be able to find her way home. Two people who were with […]
Looking at the pile of books on my headboard, many of which need to go to Village Books‘ used-book buy-back program, I’m kind of surprised at the variety. Usually, I tend to stick to mindless entertainment, simply because that lets my brain unwind at end of day so I can (usually) get to sleep within […]
Sounds a little like a bad comedy team, but it’s actually two of the projects I’m working on. The swatch below is of the afghan/blanket/lap robey thing I’ve been working on for what seems like forever. I love the colors, and I’m using two strands of yarn with the color variegations arranged so they contrast. […]
My buddy Rick was over yesterday and decideed he’d play with my Spiffy New Camera, and he got some good shots. These are Mr. and Mrs. Grosbeak (one of the sets—there seem to be two pairs of black-headed grosbeaks around), who have become pretty sanguine about people being in the back yard and encroaching on […]
Spring and summer are always amazing in my tiny back yard, because the forest is Right There and I get to see all sorts of neat things. Among those are the garden spiders, the Douglas squirrels, and the birdlets.
Now, I’m not too fond of spiders, but I can manage them as long as they […]
The whole overtone of this dream was very sad, with lots of sense of loss. I was in Grandma Lawson’s house in Stillwater, with (initially) Mom and Dad and (later) Uncle Richard and Aunt Gloria. Or maybe they were all there initially and I just didn’t talk to all of them at once. Grandma’s house […]
I’ve certainly been derelict in my duty. Should have posted about meeting The Probable Future In-Laws last week, as well as several garden- and knitting- and exasperation-related things. But nobody reads this but Ryan and me, so who’s to care? Here they are, left to right: Paul, Kristen, Eric, Les, and […]
Shoulda done this a couple of days ago when I had the dream, but I was busy getting an encyclopedia together to apply for a job. Which I have no hope of getting, despite being eminently qualified, but the worst they can tell me is no thanks, and I’m used to that.
I was in […]