I'm a senior technical project manager at work, a knit project starter at home and a list-maker everywhere! I'm married and have too many cats, lots of books, almost enough rose bushes, and way too much yarn!
Today is Memorial Day in the USA, when we remember the sacrifices of all our war dead. The first observances were in 1868, when people put flowers and flags on the graves of the Civil War dead - decoated them, so to speak - and the day was firs
I'm pausing the WIP enumeration today to get up on my soapbox. Something pushed me over the edge today, and the following is what bubbled over. Guess I must have been ruminating on this for a while, huh?
It’s soapbox time again.
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Continuing the march of the WIPs, here are the shawls:
Clockwise, from 6 p.m.:
Creatures of the Reef ready to be cast on (I need a couple of quite hours, no cats, and lots of stitch markers). In lilac, as chosen by my mother-in-law.&n
Yesterday we removed the top layer from my enormous overstuffed knitting bag, and found 5 sweaters in progress.
Today, we've excavated a bit deeper to find the sock WIPS in all their glory:
Count 'em, please! Yup, that's 9 socks in progress
Wow, it's been a long time since I posted. It seems like the early part of the week is OK, but from Wednesday on I just try to make it to the weekend.
The last time I posted, we were getting ready to look into my seriously overstuffed knitting
These are the pictures that belong with Monday's post.
First, the green hills of April 21 or so. It was a cloudy day, and the rain stopped later that week..
Today I actually remembered to transfer photos from the digital camera to the computer, to resize them, and to save them for uploading. So where are they?
When I upload them to Blog-City, exactly as I have for the past 14 or 15 months, nothing
1. Why do I keep writing posts that require pictures, and then leave the camera (with pictures) where ever I'm not? I have several such posts ready to go if the camera and I are in the same place.
2. It seems we've gone directly from
Inspired by Erica, and also because I keep forgetting to take pictures of knitting, here's a list, a meme of sorts.
10 Random Things I Enjoy:
Working in a garden when the weather is just barely warm enough, the ground is just soft enoug
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