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Small Triumphs
One week in, most of the downstairs boxes are packed, but there are still clods of crumpled newspaper and stray sheets of bubble wrap everywhere, defying my attempts to keep unpacked packing material in the garage. For all the new space I find myself with, it is oddly inefficient. My wall calendar has yet to…
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Little Dog on the Prarie
Ok, so she’s just in our new backyard. But for a little dog accustomed to gravel, this weedy little yard might as well be the open plains. I think she likes it: she will pause to thoughtfully sniff a particular seed head, or take in the scent on the wind, before doing what she needs…
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And Suddenly–
I am packing. The shawl is done. Please, dear readers, don’t get all excited all at once: the best I can manage in the next few weeks will be pictures.
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Thank You, Nancy Bush
Happy Friday Thursday, everyone! [Edited to add: Oops. Still only Thursday.] I hope you were all celebrating Banned Books Week. I sadly am not (bad librarian). Earlier in the year I broke out of my usual Everything as Long as it has to do With Victorians rut and tried out Vonnegut and Whitman. Do I…
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Hurricanes and High Seas
Greetings famous Arizona! After last week’s Epic Rain, we then received the remnants of a hurricane, of all things. I am sorry for all the people who have suffered damage from the rain, but unlike the wacko politicians who usually put Arizona in the news, these storms were unavoidable. Yesterday’s dark, threatening clouds didn’t produce…
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Half a Librarian
Thank you, everyone, for hanging in there through me grumping–and then disappearing. I was out of town for a few days, and now I am back. My inbox has been gathering enough e-mails in my absence to start pulling objects with low mass into its gravitational field, but before I go there I wanted to…
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Not All Here
Sorry, mon peeps. I am not all here. The short of the long has never been my strong suit, but I will try here. Short: In early August, a good friend of mine listened as I gleefuly listed all the bothersome little things that I was able to get done while being unemployed. When I…
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Pot holders
I have entered end-of-project obsession. The latest Christmas knitting project must be off my needles by the end of the month, or I will toss it off the roof and cast on everything in my Ravelry queue in rebellion. While you wait for news reports of a crazed knitter in Phoenix, you should listen to…
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Stash Begone
Happy Tuesday, dear readers! Today’s posting will be sadly brief–I have to make my apartment acceptable to be seen by company, and I don’t expect that to be an easy task. But Arizona’s low desert permitted rain glorious rain to fall on her soil, so I am snuggled up with Melba on the couch and…
Anti-Quotidian 