wandering wordsmith

Tawiewanda looks so cute and cuddly when she’s sleeping. Makes you go all soft and warm inside, doesn’t it? And then, she opens her eyes. . .

Woke up this a.m. to sculpted white jackets on all the big cedars—about two inches of snow, or maybe a little more. It’s so beautiful here; usually it falls vertically, not horizontally as in North Dakota, and the flakes are almost always big, fat, wet ones that feather down atop one another and settle into […]

At least for a few more days, I guess. My hand is better, but tires very easily and I can’t do a full (or even half) day’s work, so my ramen noodle fund will be ve-ry l-o-w next pay period. Trouble is, all the things I do for fun involve my hands. And even I […]

So, last week I’m doing extreme knitting, with three midweight-to-bulky yarns and #8 needles, because I want a really dense fabric. This is hard on your hands, and mine get really sore. I stop and take it easy for a few days and they’re getting better, which makes me happy.
A major storm shows up—82 and […]

So yesterday I went to the little yarn store to buy two skeins of very pale blue yarn. That’s all. Honest. But I ran into a 70% off sale, on yarns I could never, ever afford otherwise, and . . . well, I went . . . well . . . bonkers. But I […]

I can’t resist breaking into your regularly scheduled lives to do a little celebrating.
*leap, hop, shout! twirl, cavort! spin and jump! crow, shriek, hoot, howl! dance, dance, dance! woo-hoo, woo-hoo!!*
Whew! That felt really good.
What’s this about? The Democratic wins yesterday. I was truly doubtful that anything other than an ultracon would win anything—after all, Diebold […]

Ran across this piece of upholstery fabric, one of many similar ones that make me drool. What I love about these (geometrics aside) is the way the thin, shiny threads of bright red, yellow, green, blue and gold reflect with and play off the fuzzy cafe au lait browny background to make your eye think […]

I’ve just deleted another 25 spam comments (about an average for the day, along with about another 45 per day in my email account). Many of them were the third, eighth, or seventy-fifth that the same ignorant yahoos have sent before. All of them include some inane comment, like “Wow! Nice site!”, that I suppose […]

I stand corrected. I sit corrected, too. It wasn’t the neighborhood bobcat that tried to snatch the neighbors’ footprint dog. They were walking along peacefully, and a bald eagle swooped down and tried to abscond with the pooch. Actually, I think that’s more interesting. It also probably means that nobody’s caught the bobcat eating Fido […]