If it wouldn’t fit anywhere else, it’s here.
So mornings do not seem to work for communal labor at this point, but we found a solution for working outside in July in the afternoon: the sprinkler. It makes us impossibly dirty and muddy, but also cool. After two efforts, we had a glorious little melon/squash patch. Canteloupe on one edge, watermelon on the … More Projects
Distress! I sat down this morning to work on Michelle’s poncho, ready to knit the final front and back points to give it a lovely kerchief shape. Simple knitting would be peacefully accompanied by reading a book on Christian symbolism. That’s when I took a good, steady look at the thing. The decreases at the … More Square 2
Moving into a new house, one is filled with high hopes. Future housemate and I have grand plans for turning this arid wasteland: Into 50% vegetable garden, 3% compost heap, 5% clothesline, and 42% bonfire area. We need to get a move on, because our front porch full of “seedlings” have turned into a barely … More Yard
Presented in list form, to save you the headache you’d probably get if you were to look for order in this series of half-coherent thoughts. 1 ) Whenever my husband walks into the living room at whatever unrighteous hour of the night to find out why I am there and not in bed, he always … More Thoughts from 1:39 a.m.
Random random random! 1. It is now that 20% of the year in which all I want to do is go to the pool, and all I want to eat are raw fruits and vegetables. (Not to be self-righteous; the rest of the year all I want to eat are fried carbohydrates.) I am sitting … More Random Summer Wednesday
Since Rebecca is crazy busy at the moment, and I have a bit more time, I thought I’d let you see the knitting I’ve been doing since Sheep and Wool, MD. After all that spinning, I had to put the wheel and drop spindle away so as to focus on Vacation Bible School which I … More Spring Knitting
This is just a little note to tell you, I’ve hit “It” again. The Yarn Harlot talks about “It” – usually associated with the Christmas season – when you realize you have so much to do and so little time to do it that you are going to have to carefully schedule every hour of … More Public Service Announcement
I have been knitting. But I have also been: Planting seedlings. Watering the seedlings of others. Transplanting seedlings. Playing with power tools. [As an aside: check out the beginnings of my magnificent sunburn. This happens to me about once a year. June or so rolls around, I am still pasty white, and I congratulate myself … More Other Activities
Foosh. What a weekend. It was one of those crazy wedding weekends, in which I was about as involved as one could be without being a bridesmaid or an immediate relative, and it was so fun. Bethany, of shawl fame, tied the knot on Saturday in high Catholic fashion, and it was a good time. … More Flowers and Foreshadowing
In twenty-four hours, give or take, Jared and myself and our 100 or so classmates will have run the gauntlet that is spring finals week. It will be over. I have most of a term paper left to write, but it’s going well, and I expect it to be a calm and quiet finish. I … More Almost There… Loosen Up!
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