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2008, It’s Been Great
Posted on | December 31, 2008 | No Comments
Well, 2008 has had its great moments, but I’m still happy to turn the page. 2009 promises to be quite the ride. I’ll be writing a book (see how well I contained my excitement just then?), my daughter will graduate from high school in June and start college in the fall (see how well I [...]
Happy To Be Home
Posted on | December 27, 2008 | 1 Comment
Hope everyone out in the blogosphere had a merry Christmas, happy Hannukah, Kwanzaa, Winter Solstice, or whatever other holiday you celebrate at this time of year. Ours was a combination of the usual much-loved family and friends and one particular Scrooge (who shall remain unnamed) thrown into the mix just to remind us that nothing [...]
The Cat In the Hat
Posted on | December 22, 2008 | No Comments
Please don’t turn me in for feline abuse. Shadow loves this combination of yarn: Manos del Uruguay kettle-dyed wool in pale pink, with a strand of matching Anny Blatt Fine Kid carried along. So enamored was she of this project that she couldn’t stop kneading her paws into it as I knit. Some quality in [...]
Lemony Bucket
Posted on | December 21, 2008 | 1 Comment
This is a tale of divine citrus. A tale of two trees that nearly succumbed, four years ago, to a combination of poor drainage and unskilled gardeners’ good intentions (which sent them at least part way down that road to hell). Two trees that, after a year or so of our tender ministrations, appeared scraggly [...]
Hoary
Posted on | December 17, 2008 | No Comments
It got cold last night. Not the California thin-blooded sissy kind of cold, but a true, below-freezing, red-nosed, numb fingers and toes kind of cold. And a hard frost blanketed every surface with a miraculous iced-sugar coating. I crunched my way across the postage stamp “lawn” in our back garden to find the geum leaves [...]
Who Me? Knitting Fatigue?
Posted on | December 15, 2008 | No Comments
It was a productive weekend, followed today by another (perhaps the final?) pre-holiday trip to the post office. There are more items I’d like to make, but the critical ones are finished and that is a great feeling of accomplishment. The Thorpe above is for my brother-in-law, the pediatrician in Ohio. The colorful beanie below [...]
Chocolate Makes the World Go ‘Round…
Posted on | December 12, 2008 | No Comments
…especially when you’re knitting lots of little holiday gifts on a deadline (Time and Christmas wait for no one) and although you’ve already made a couple of smug “Oh, I’m so ahead of the crowd!” trips to the post office, you’ve suddenly realized you will have to make at least a couple more of those [...]
How Do I Know It’s Winter?
Posted on | December 8, 2008 | No Comments
Let me count the ways winter is revealing itself here in the Bay area. First of all, it’s getting “cold.” In northern California, that means daytime temperatures in the 50′s, and nighttime temperatures in the high 30′s and low 40′s. I can’t help laughing when I see people running around town zipped into heavy down [...]
Hat-Cha-Cha
Posted on | December 8, 2008 | No Comments
Okay, here’s another hat. I’m on a roll. If I’d known how supremely light and soft and warm this yarn would be when knit up, I’d have 1) bought more of it at Stitches West two years ago and/or 2) used the three skeins I have much sooner. It’s by Chasing Rainbows Dyeworks, and the [...]
Gift-Knitting Race Continued…
Posted on | December 7, 2008 | No Comments
In between knitting holiday projects, dinner has to be resentfully thrown together for picky family members who wolf it down in less than one-tenth the time it takes to make it lovingly and carefully prepared for my always appreciative family. But with as many knitted gifts as I hope to make, at this time of [...]