Sad Monday

My dogboy Spencer is sad. Monday’s are hard for him because he loves his poppa so much and misses him terribly on Mondays. So he is sad and needy and it is hard because he is so cute and horrible all at once. He leans up agains me and sighs, noses [...]

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I’m in Love

I have fallen in love with my shipment of yarn from KnitPicks. It arrived yesterday and I held off opening up the package until I had put away the groceries. Anticipation.
Here is a pic of my KnitPicks

Left to right: Simple Stripes – Vineyard & Storm, Sock Garden – Pansy, Star Gazer Lily, [...]

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Fiber Excess

Oh boy, did I purchase a lot of yarn on Saturday. It was good though, because it was all on sale – and as good as that is, it was even better because I got another 20% discount on top of the sale price, as well as a not quite legal punch [...]

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Socks and Life

I have one and a half sock done. Here’s a pic of the finished sock

I followed the pattern, "Dream Socks" by Priscilla A. Gibson-Roberts and had a lot of trouble with the short rows. I have done short rows before, but not like this. Now that I am on the second sock, I [...]

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Because

Today I got up early (for a Saturday) and got going to pick up Chaachi at 9:00 am so that we would be at a special preview showing of a new movie, Because of Winn Dixie. On Wednesday, Chaachi noticed free posters for the movie when I was paying for a new knitting [...]

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We Have Lift-Off!

I have been working hard getting my computer switched over from Windows 2000 Server Edition (don’t ask – DO NOT ASK) over to a more reasonable version of one of the many, fun, easy to use, perfectly operating and easy to understand, perfectly logical always working right microcrap (oops, did I say that?) products. [...]

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