Here is the wool/alpaca vest I’ve been working on for my friend Arvin, who for the first time in his life says he’s feeling the chill now and then. It took much longer than I expected, but I’m pretty happy with the way it turned out.
Ran across this while I was hunting for a place that will sew leather if I can’t get my sewing machine to do it:
http://www.stopabductions.com/
No explanation required!
Since I cleverly forgot to take shots of the skull hat before I sent it frantically off to its intended owner, beloved Son 1 did so for me. Here it is, by itself, looking like an oversized golf-club cover:
And on the noggin of the lovely youngling who was its recipient:
Reports of killed and severely injured Botts’ dots following last week’s winter storm triple-hitter have proven to be true.
A trip down city streets today revealed innumerable wounded, crushed, and fractured dots scattered pathetically across the pavement and onto the roadsides, lying still and silent on the dirty, melting snow.
The gruesome sights included so many of […]
The weather promised to be in the low 40s today, with rain melting the two-foot accumulation. However, Mother Nature yet again failed to live up to promises made on her behalf. It has been below freezing all day (at my house; it was a few degrees warmer in town), and yet another two-plus inches of […]
This bloody white stuff has outstayed its welcome.
The shop picked me up yesterday to go get my car, which now has a new battery and alternator, and on the way home I had the devil of a time getting started from two stops. The city sold its snowplows a couple years ago, and even the […]
We here in Lotus Land, where warm Pacific currents normally keep our winters quite mild and pleasant, if rainy, have endured an awfully Midwest-like series of storms lately. I mean, I left North Dakota to get away from this. I am not particularly pleased with Mother Nature at the moment. After the third storm, which […]
Wednesday morning following the drop-off of Car at the shop, the phone wakes me. At 7.29 a.m. We all know that “morning,” by definition, begins at noon in my universe. This is unconscionable.
“Hi! This is Jason at the shop,” says a far-too-chirpy voice.
“Anghrgh,” I mumble. “Shop. Car. Oh. Yeah. You have an unexpected auto sitting […]
When I arrived at Ryan’s the other day after having braved snow and ice to check out a new yarn store in West Seattle, my car expressed its displeasure at such abuse—108 miles’ worth—as I pulled up to the curb.
The radio died. The traction-control and ABS lights fluttered on and off (odd, since I wasn’t […]
Wow, a busy day! Took Miss B. to a different park today, one that doesn’t allow off-lead runs but also isn’t a three-foot-deep, 34-degree mud swamp. Went way back in so I could let her run anyway. Couldn’t believe how much faster I was walking, and with how much less effort. First I thought the […]
Just in case you don’t realize it, the shrieking about the automakers’ bail-out is all about eliminating the autoworkers’ union. You notice they’re yammering about cutting union workers’ wages so they match those of non-union workers making Japanese cars in the U.S.? The issue should be raising the non-union workers’ wages to match the union […]
Ah, yes, my much longed-for vacation starts today. :happy dance! happy dance!: Well, tomorrow, technically, but who’s counting? Not going anywhere except maybe a couple of day trips, but I have tons of things I want to do (fun things, not house-cleaning things. I want my epitaph to be “She had a great time!” or […]
Finally, I think, I have recovered from the turkey coma that Snaotheus and KrisDi put me in. What a feed! Since I habitually cook with little fat and little if any salt, what other people think of as normal food seems really rich to me. And I know I saw Snaotheus putting a bucket of […]