Category: Natter
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Initiate Holiday Mode
Low-desert style. There seems to have been a small miscommunication about the appropriate holiday temperatures, but I have great hopes that will be rectified by the end of the week.
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That’s my Picture!
Happy Things: 1. This photo of my skein of Twisted Sisters yarn bought on absolute sale and modeled in my lucky tooth mug (won at a guess-how-many-teeth-on-the-table contest in my Dental Anthropology course) was chosen as one of the Ravelry images for the Avarice. As an amateur photographer who has a hit to miss ratio…
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Crossing Paths
One of the many things I love about blogging is the way you can cross paths with other bloggers in another state or another country without even meaning to. This summer, I became intrigued by the flora of the UK. As my springtime forays indicate, I am reasonably familiar with the plants that grow here…
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Did the Vacation End?
Back in the Valley of the Sun. I was gone so long, I feel like a tourist gawking at the wide streets, low buildings, and skinny palm trees for the first time.
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Week 13: The Universe, Simplified
That little message when I opened up the packet containing the instructions for my new MacBook Pro. I love it–your set-up booklet is not thrown in among packing peanuts, it comes in its own little sleeve tucked in a recessed section of the tray holding the computer in its box. And when you open it–a…
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Update
1. No pictures (mis apologias). I don’t want to attempt rigging a 2nd camera to this computer, esp. just for another few days. And the iSight camera captures a most unappealing panorama of the most cluttered part of my room. 2. According to the Fed Ex oder tracker, my new computer is on the delivery…
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Week 12: Eventful
For such an eventful weekend, all I have to show you guys is one picture: That is also Event 1: I finished the Little Boy Cardigan, a.k.a. the Garter Ridge Cardigan from Little Badger Knitwear. That was my off-record project, which I finally finished last week, thank goodness. It’s adorable, and the yarn I used…
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Week 11: Beauteous Plague
Everything, and I mean everything is blooming. I took a walk around the neighborhood and was amazed at all the different flowers I was able to find. Trees, succulents, wildflowers, you name it–all the plants are covered in flowers, and both perfume and pollen lie heavy on the air. Hello seasonal allergies! These little guys…
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Procrastination?
I can’t really call it procrastination when the end result is scones. Productive avoidance? Recipe: Cream Scones from The America’s Test Kitchen Family Baking Book. My all-time favorite recipe–so easy and versatile. This batch has 1/4 cup finely chopped crystallized ginger inside, and I always brush the tops with butter and sprinkle on some turbinado…
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Week 4: Fresh Start
I’d hoped to go for a hike this morning and bring you guys back pictures of the mountain turning green, chubby little quail puttering among shoots of grass and wildflowers that have sprouted from all our rains. The only thing is that it was supposed to rain today. Not a problem as far as keeping…
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