Category: Natter
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Brown Paper Packages
Receiving mail is so fun. It would be better if packages still came in brown paper tied up with string, but still. And packages with yarn? The best. Way back in December, I had convinced Mum that a share in the sheep from Grand View farm in Vermont was a good graduation gift. Doubts about…
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Not Smiling
I’ve gotten myself into a funk. Above is my thumb, unhappily bandaged. I went to open the window on the bus home Tuesday and it came down faster than I expected (little neumatic hinges), shoving back my nail. There was blood. This little incident is tied into my being in a funk, in several ways.…
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I May Regret This Later…
Before I go off on a tangent, I want to thank you guys for your thoughtful comments on the Garter Yoke Cardi. It’s immensely encouraging to get positive reviews on a project I never even set out to make : ) Tangent: I’ve gotten myself a Ravelry account. For the past year, I had been…
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Creature of Many Habits
Not just knitting, but also coffee drinking. To tell the truth, I wouldn’t touch coffee until a few years ago. Then I’d share lattes and other milky sweet drinks if someone else had one, then I’d have my own, now I’m on to the straight stuff.Well, not quite. I have to have a little sugar…
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This is the New Year
Gotta love Death Cab. (Advance apology: all these photos are terribly lit. The fixture on my overhead died.) To start the new year afresh, we packed away our Christmas decorations, y las hermanitas y yo cleared the deadwood off our bookshelves: Alack, we are still double-stacking. I managed to fit my entire college education into…
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Betwixt and Between
Happy Holidays to all–Christmas blew past me, but we’ve still got New Year’s to help us get down off the holiday buzz. Thanks to everyone in blogland for sharing their celebrations! Here’s a quick Christmas recap:I made~Monkey (a pair of Monkeys?) for Hermanita~Hedera for Mum~Gretel for Monita (as chronicled last post) Plus a lace sachet…
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Week 11: First
We have a new President. This was the first national election I was able to participate in, and at the end, we have the first African-American President of the United States. How cool is that? I heard so many complaints about our voting process–“I have to wait how long?” “Why can’t I drop my ballot…
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Day and a Half
This has been one of those days in which you just go go go… and it never gets any later. After getting out at the crack of dawn to trim back the poor sad tree in our backyard that got blown over in Thursday’s storm so we can actually lift the thing back up, Las…
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Switching Gears
Knittyness is on hold momentarily while I switch from summer to summer school. Bear with me here… For all shall be revealed in due time.
Anti-Quotidian 