Blogging from the trenches here! The flooding is under control, and we have the green light to move all the non-flooded rescued stuff from the basement into the new house. Now we just have to find time to do that tomorrow and still finish final papers, whee!! We’ll be fine. I’ll just be really glad … More Sheep & Wool: Orderly prizewinning
Stop the presses. After the day I just had, I cannot do another happy Sheep & Wool blog today. Last night, we left our dungeon master’s house around midnight, as is our usual Monday night routine. The scene had faded to black in the midst of an epic battle, carried on to the sounds of … More Life, Interrupted
I’m not going to lie. My favorite part of the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival every year is the presents. Sort of like your favorite part of Christmas when you’re 10 is the presents. I am unashamed of this. I save up my birthday money every year for just this occasion, so I can just … More Sheep & Wool: Shopaholism
We are back in PA, and completely exhausted, and I am more than a little slap-happy with all the wool goodness that was the past two days. I got to hang out with some really cool people, reconnect with friends, and acquire an absolute ton of inspiration. I am cooking up at least a week’s … More The Tale of the Boring Shawl
Happy Cinco de Mayo! If you are reading this right after I publish it, I am the least bored I am all year, pooped from a day of the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival, also known as the Knitter[/Spinner/Weaver/Crocheter/Sheep-Enthusiast]’s Epic Christmas. There is no way I am processed enough to tell you about it yet, … More The Tale of the Boring Socks
Today’s entry in the Week of Boring Knitting is a tee – the first tee, in fact, that I’ve ever knit. I am doing it for the top down class that I was teaching, although half the students dropped out so it’s now a private lesson. My goal is to get through everything but the … More The Tale of the Boring Tee
You got a hint of this one: it was the reading knitting of choice in Navarre, while I read George Marsden’s Fundamentalism and American Culture. It went in the car with us from site to site, and sat on my lap for long hours while I pored over millenarian diagrams. What is it, you ask? … More The Tale of the Boring Cowl
Once upon a time, I cast on a sock. It was out of a ball of Zauberball, in some gorgeous spring colors that I love to see together. It was an incredibly boring sock, but that was what I wanted: a boring sock. The ultimate in vanilla: some K2xP2 ribbing, followed by endless rounds of … More The Tale of the Boring Hat
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My brainpower is at a pretty low ebb right now. When I went back and looked over that last post, my writerly self-esteem dropped a couple notches. My life is fascinating and wonderful, but taking up so much physical and emotional energy that I have none left to write about it. So in that spirit, … More The Tale of the Boring Shawlette
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