Okay, this is not a science or geek post so those of you not interested in the art and craft of knitting or fibery goodness can move along. But I knit. I’m working on about six projects now. Yeah, I’m flighty and I knit with the mood. I’m nearly done with some socks I’ve been […]
You’re probably wondering why I have a cup as the image for this post. Well, this is the new December coffee cup. There was a bit of an accident with the original December coffee cup. I was making bread and opened the cupboard to get out the measuring cups when the cupboard exploded. Well, it […]
I seem to be in a nesting mood lately. Maybe it’s because Christmas is this month and that brings to mind hearth and home, family, and love. Today I made bread and soup for supper. I also worked on the baby sweater for a friend’s impending family member. I’d gotten a copy of 101 Luxury […]
Okay, finally the new external disk drive arrived. Thankfully, it got here before everything blew up. When it arrived I had only 1 GB of space left — everything was sooooo slow I was growing moss on my mouse. But, once I got it plugged in and moved all the photos and electronic books to […]
The last week has been a bit of a strain. Not that anything really awful has happened. There’s been the usual stress of gearing up for the publication of all the zines on September 1st. Just the usual stuff of pinging all the reviewers and seeing where we stand. Not to bad except I realized […]
It’s time for a report from the cat. It’s been a long day, and it’s not quite over yet. This post is being written on the road … literally, we’re doing about 65 miles per hour, and we’re passing though eastern Pittsburgh. We’re such geeks! Anyway, we got up this morning, did bills, laundry, errands, […]
As usual a project that shouldn’t have been so complicated turned out to be bigger than I thought. And, I started it just as we getting the zines ready to go live on August 1st. And, there’s more, Paul and I are making all the arrangements to drive to Denver for Denvention 3 (the World […]
Well, it was a gallant try but I didn’t make it. I had two goals: Spin every day Spin up one pound of green variegated top I spent most of one evening getting the wheel set up and ready to spin. Had several problems getting the tension right. I managed to spin up a full […]