a day late…a dollar short?

I know that I promised to post pictures yesterday and I didn’t.  I forgot.  Mea culpa.
This weekend I visited my friend at her new store, Spirit Wind West (where my jewelry is on consignment) and bought a couple greeting cards.  This is one of them; I had to frame it and put it in my [...]

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on heat…

It’s hot here today.  Not unbearable, just uncomfortable.  Yesterday I had a crown put on my back tooth and I’m glad it wasn’t hot yesterday because I would have been super cranky.  Today I’m just mildly cranky mostly because all I want to do is knit.  I’ve started on my Oblique, am over half-way done [...]

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where was i?

I don’t know if you heard, but last week was freaking hot.  Triple digit weather here for I think, three days.  One both sides of those triple digit days were temps in the high 90’s.  96, 97, 99.  No AC.  People died.  No, I’m not kidding, three people died. Thankfully my husband put in a [...]

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photo laden post. you’ve been warned

First, the knitting:

Yarn: Fleece Artist Merino 2/6 (I think, that or Basic Merino Sock) in Mahogany, which no matter what setting I used on my camera, would not display exactly right.  This is close enough though.  Needles:  Addi Lace 2.25, 40″ circulars.  Pattern:  I’m knitting my first pair of socks from Wendy Johnson’s new book, [...]

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it smells so lettucy

I harvested a head of lettuce last night and the smell – wow.  Homegrown veggies have such a strong, hardy, yummy smell, stronger than grocery store veggies.  There is one benefit to buying store-bought veggies though; I’ve never cleaned a head of lettuce and found critters inside.  Yikes!!  I had to call Husband to the [...]

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