Knits With Cats
Knits With Cats
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!
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August 2008
Antique Faire and Tomatoes
Sunday, 31 August 2008 7:57 P GMT-08
I picked tomatoes off and on all afternoon. The final tally was 3 baskets of tomatoes and 1 of assorted beans, eggplants and a cucumber. Perhaps 30 pounds of tomatoes? We took 10 pounds to a favorite local restaurant because they lo
Category: Furball Farm Home and Garden
What a difference a day makes
Saturday, 30 August 2008 7:46 P GMT-08
This morning I woke up early because I was cold. It was a lovely feeling, and I thoroughly enjoyed pulling up the light blanket we use all summer. There was fog for a while this morning, and getting a good nights sleep certainly made the
Category: Too Much Yarn! Yadda Yadda Yadda
Hot and Grumpy
Friday, 29 August 2008 3:41 P GMT-08
I'm grumpy and hot and tired of summer. We've had another week of unusually hot weather (this makes 5 weeks this summer, I think) and I. AM. TIRED. OF. IT. Officially and for the record, summer can knock it off right now.Last nigh
Category: Whine and cheese
Green Theme
Thursday, 28 August 2008 7:48 P GMT-08
Your result for What Cupcake flavour are you? quiz...Green-Tea Cupcake38% Green-Tea You are new and fresh. You havent been around long but already you are making loads of friends. Some people can be a bit hesitant towards you at times, but t
Category: Whine and cheese Blog Things
Random Greenery
Wednesday, 27 August 2008 3:47 P GMT-08
Jade Queen Sunflower Limelight Artemesia Limelight Nicotiana Lime Licorice Plant Green section of the Roy G. Biv garden, a work in progress.
Category: Home and Garden
Knitted FO Alert!
Tuesday, 26 August 2008 3:39 P GMT-08
For the gift box: Hat and scarf set knitted from stash and leftover yarn. The breen (between brown and olive green) is a mohair blend bought in 1993 or so from I-don't-remember-where. There were 2 skeins, and I used every last in
Category: Knit From Stash 2008 2008 Finished Objects
Must Have Cardi Revisited
Monday, 25 August 2008 3:25 P GMT-08
This is the beginning of the new, improved Must Have Cardigan. I love the flecks of color, especially in natural light. There are bits of red, purple, blue, lilac, yellow and perhaps other colors. It's a bit scratchy
Category: Knitting Projects Knit From Stash 2008
Arbor (Satur) Day (photo alert! new camera works!)
Sunday, 24 August 2008 10:54 A GMT-08
All summer - since April, in fact, I've been working on an arbor for the entrance to the patio. When we moved here, I planted a Climbing Joseph's Coat rose and didn't realize how much it really likes to climb. (Now that I thin
Category: Home and Garden
RIP Must Have Cardigan
Saturday, 23 August 2008 8:52 A GMT-08
Remember this?It's the beginnings of the Must Have Cardigan. I love the pattern, and love the color of the yarn. Together? Not so much. It's been frogged, and I'm swatching with some lovely green tweed Irish wool,
Category: Yadda Yadda Yadda Startitis!
TGIF
Friday, 22 August 2008 8:44 A GMT-08
It's been one of those weeks: long, frustrating for no apparent reason, and just meh.On the plus side, I did find a new doctor whose philosophies agree with mine. The weather has been lovely all week. Fifty-two of the 62 roses in the
Category: Yadda Yadda Yadda
Omnivore's One Hundred Meme
Thursday, 21 August 2008 11:21 A GMT-08
I’ve seen this all over blog-land this week, and thought it seemed interesting. See what you think, and give it a shot if you’re moved to do so. <!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--> This is the Omnivore&#
Stupid Camera!
Wednesday, 20 August 2008 4:21 P GMT-08
This lovely sight greeted me this morning on the kitchen counter. The rose is Tropicana, rose of the year for 1964, and the first rose I knew had a name. My grandmother planted Tropicana, and it's always the first rose I plant i
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Tuesday Randomness
Tuesday, 19 August 2008 9:04 A GMT-08
Lots to say, but nothing that makes a coherent post!I've found and bought a camera like mine on eBay. Photos will resume as soon as it arrives.As luck would have it, the old camera has decided to work just fine today. I knew this woul
Category: Yadda Yadda Yadda
Pay it forward
Monday, 18 August 2008 5:47 A GMT-08
Earlier in the year, Erica offered to make "pay it forward" gifts for the first 3 respondents who agreed to do the same.* I responded, and this is the lovely gift Erica made. It's a hand-quilted wall-hanging and it is
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Weekend Wrap-up
Sunday, 17 August 2008 5:48 A GMT-08
My camera is still on the fritz, so for photos, go to Joan's blog.We went to see the old and beautiful cars at Hot August Niles after Ken and Darrell finished on the roof. Joan and I looked at antiques and yarn while the guys looked at car
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What a difference nine years makes
Saturday, 16 August 2008 8:58 A GMT-08
Nine years ago today I received a series of telephone calls and messages that changed my life. While on the last motorcycle runs around the racetrack at Laguna Seca before lunch, Ken had met with an accident and was in the hospital (CHOMP - rea
Category: Family Stuff
1812 Overture and more innocent times
Friday, 15 August 2008 4:50 P GMT-08
A local classical music radio station has played "Classic Olympics " all week: head to head "competition" between two pieces of classical music with a theme, and listeners vote for the winner. Categories included Husband vs.
Category: Yadda Yadda Yadda
More Memes
Thursday, 14 August 2008 4:59 P GMT-08
White KnightTake Your Secret Self 1 Step Beyond today!Created with Rum and Monkey's Personality Test Generator. Going 1 step beyond I would be rescuing damsels (or damsirs?) in distress, standing up as a champion for the underdog and/or righ
I do. We did. We'd do it again!
Wednesday, 13 August 2008 3:01 P GMT-08
Today is our 8th wedding anniversary. It's wonderful that we get to celebrate the smartest thing I've ever done over and over! Happy anniversary, my dear. It seems like just an instant, and it seems like forever. So much has
Category: Family Stuff
This and That
Tuesday, 12 August 2008 8:26 P GMT-08
This week, it's Random Tuesday.I've spend much time the past week or so trying to find a new doctor. My old primary care MD is no longer part of my insurance plan, and this is a great opportunity for me to find one I actually like.
Category: Yadda Yadda Yadda
Still no photos of knitting...
Monday, 11 August 2008 8:04 P GMT-08
Knitting is happening, and since this is a knitting blog, I feel bad that there aren't any photos of new knitting. Especially when there are Finished Objects that must be photographed and blogged about.There's this tank-ish top ma
Category: Yadda Yadda Yadda Knitting Projects
New York Police Department Jazz Band
Sunday, 10 August 2008 3:36 P GMT-08
Saturday Mr. Ken and I celebrated our anniversary a few days early by attending the San Jose Jazz Festival. Until a couple of years ago, it was the largest free jazz festival in the world, but they've started charging $5 per day admission.W
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Naked Ladies!
Saturday, 9 August 2008 3:39 P GMT-08
I love this plant because the common name makes me giggle like a twelve-year-old. These are Naked Ladies, properly known as Belladonna Lilies. They suddenly appear in August, just when you've forgotten planting anything in that
Category: Home and Garden
Glitches
Friday, 8 August 2008 3:13 P GMT-08
OK, things are looking up. Monitor status is now upgraded to "iffy" - it seems to be working more than 75% of the time now, so replacement ca wait until either Fry's has a good monitor sale or the whole computer is replaced.
Category: Whine and cheese
Love (memes, some days) Thursday
Thursday, 7 August 2008 6:28 A GMT-08
So my computer / monitor / camera / cell phone / PDA / iPod are all giving me fits today. They're refusing to connect, hold a charge, whatever. The planets must be mis-aligned or something.On days like this, a meme can be a Very Good
Category: Blog Things