Category: Shop on the High Street
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Second Chart
I’m into the second chart & final of Haruni & I can’t put it down. Being home sick is allowing me to indulge in my lace mania, but even if I was out & about I’d be tempted to sneak it out of my back & work one more repeat, then another, and another. There…
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History of the Universe
Walking back to the bus along Tyler Mall after volunteering yesterday, I discovered this timeline in sidewalk chalk, beginning with the Big Bang and chronicling the formation of the earth, the beginning of life, and the evolution of mammals. The whole thing stretched along the better part of Life Sciences, no mean feat as the…
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Monday
Monday again, and big surprise, I’m on the couch with the dog, my knitting, and a cup of coffee. And a tower of CD-Rs; this week’s readings for my digital information class are all about short-term preservation risks and are sufficiently dire that I’ve been inspired to back up all my files. What’s on your…
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Lace Time, Just in Time
Tulip the Hedgehog came off the needles Wednesday afternoon–just in time, as I learned when I dropped her off with Pinky at the Children’s Library. Her little recipient came into the world safe and sound that same day. Huzzah! Hedgie is the baby’s (no tail to swallow, but lots and lots of nubby spikes to…
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Re-Knitting
This is a knitter’s morning. The sky is dark and gloomy, sending down intermittent but steady showers of rain, and the air is cold. Not cold by the standards of anyone in the part of the country getting slammed with winter storms, but cold by the standards of those of us in a metropolitan area…
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Brisk
All winter, my bus stop (that’s it above) is in complete shadow. Although today’s high will be 70º, the forecast also tells me it will be in the low 40s when I go out to wait for my bus. Add the shade and a morning breeze, and I’m in for a brisk wait. But–come summer,…
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Getting Rolling
(Jolty view from the bus window) After the snuggly, bakery-filled stasis of the holiday season, the year is getting rolling again. I have started the year with some volunteering at ASU. Traveling to ASU can only mean riding the bus, and that can only mean knitting on the bus. Woohoo! I’m coming out of a…
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Now I Remember Why I Dislike Sewing
I was bent on having a tablecloth for my graduation party. Finding some cute (inexpensive!) Ikea fabric was no problem, and thank Gawd it was just wide enough for the selvedges to serve as seams (our table is really long). But then there’s arranging everything on the ironing board correctly so the weight of the…
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Cold Snap!
No series of unfortunate events diverted graduation, Christmas went by without a hitch, and New Year’s has already zipped by–all of which is very hard for me to believe. The Powers that Be were feeling extra benevolent this season, though, because we even got several days of Serious Cold. Not just anything-below-70-feels-freezing cold, actual cold,…
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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.
Anti-Quotidian 