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Here, There, and Everywhere
Posted on | February 29, 2008 | No Comments
Call me crazy, but I think it’s just spring fever that’s making me unable to focus on one project at a time. I, who have always prided myself on finishing one thing and one thing only before starting on a new one, am hopping around in a state of fickleness that is most unlike me. [...]
The Rough and the Smooth
Posted on | February 27, 2008 | No Comments
In the last few days, the postman has rung the doorbell to deliver some fabulous stash-building additions – as if I needed them which I can always use. Leanne at Beaverslide Dry Goods sent these tweedie beauties, both of which are 100% fine wool: Prairie Aster, on the left, is a deeper, richer purple in [...]
Sick of Being Sick
Posted on | February 24, 2008 | No Comments
Still sick… a full week and counting. Back to the doctor tomorrow if I can’t shake this lung-rattling cough by morning (Oh, yeah, as if another twelve hours will make a difference when an entire week hasn’t been long enough to get it out of my system). Finished the antibiotics yesterday… shouldn’t I be feeling [...]
Hacking and Wheezing and Sniffling
Posted on | February 20, 2008 | No Comments
I don’t get sick very often, but when I do it’s as if my body is determined to make up for all those healthy months by knocking me flat on my ass. Well, on my ass I am, and I’ve landed in the squishy middle of a pile of used tissues and cough drop wrappers. [...]
Confessions of a Cheating Knitter
Posted on | February 18, 2008 | No Comments
What you see above is the back of Berroco’s Lotus cardigan, which I started over the weekend. See, the Lizard Ridge blanket is really, truly about 75% done, and my darling daughter won’t be leaving the nest to start college for another year. I thought I’d do a square here and a square there, taking [...]
Hellebores and Hardenburgias Galore
Posted on | February 14, 2008 | No Comments
Camera in hand, I stroll the grounds of my little patch of northern California dirt and am astonished to discover that suddenly, when I turned my attention momentarily to other, indoor-type pursuits, the garden absolutely exploded with early spring blooms. White, pink, and burgundy hellebores bow their heads toward the ground as if they are [...]
We Be Jammin’
Posted on | February 12, 2008 | No Comments
A veritable avalanche of ripe citrus fruit littering the kitchen counters, filling baskets and bowls, appearing in recipes and cups of tea of late, resulted in this sampling, which represents the tip of the marmalade iceberbg: from left to right, Blood Orange, Bearss lime, and Meyer lemon. The blood oranges were contributed by a friend, [...]
Here Comes The Sun
Posted on | February 6, 2008 | No Comments
I keep looking out my office window toward the garage and back garden, and bemoan the absence of blooms. With all the rain we’ve had the last few weeks, it’s easy to think everything is gray and wet. Yet right outside my front door, all I had to do was look a little more closely [...]
Poetic February
Posted on | February 3, 2008 | No Comments
I catch my breath to spy the raw edge of spring through February’s naked furze I shout a shout that cleaves the chilling fog and mists the breathless ragged trees in hinted green
Singin’ in the Rain
Posted on | February 3, 2008 | No Comments
Today is my beautiful sister Jenny’s birthday. She is forty-…. well, four years younger than I am, which makes her… oh, never mind. She is lovely, hard-working, funny, and has two exceptionally smart, feisty children. I love her very much. Happy Birthday, Jen! Hellebores bow their heads to the gods of rain: I’ve managed to [...]