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Sea Wolf and Worsted
The weather in Arizona is finally, finally, finally turning. Mornings are chilly, evenings are cool, and daytime highs are below 90º. This is the time of year when Sea Wolf‘s music becomes my soundtrack and I start craving sweaters knit in worsted-weight yarns. (if you live somewhere where October means highs in the 60ºs or…
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It Was a Dark and Stormy Day
Today dawned dark and cloudy. I am so excited: the forecast high is 73º. After weeks of pretending that highs in the 90s are fall, we may get some real fall. I did not fully appreciate changes in the weather when I lived in Illinois. There, it’s really rare to have exactly the same weather…
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The Kittens are Better
Now that I have made the grand announcement about my kittens, perhaps a little backstory. In June, someone put a box full of kittens outside the house of a friend of a friend of a friend. These two were three weeks old, and I was the sucker kind-hearted soul who screamed “They’ll never survive!!!” I…
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On a Roll
With the blanket done, I dove into another for-charity project: a Holden Shawlette. I started the shawl back at the beginning of August, but after zipping through the body, set it aside to work on The Blanket. Blanket out of the way, I picked it back up, and it zipped along. Even with the setback…
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Behold The Blanket
Happy Thursday, people. WordPress tells me that yesterday’s post was my 400th. I feel like that is the sort of milestone that should have been celebrated with trumpets and fanfare. But the world didn’t end because I only fussed about a UFO, so stay with me and we’ll pull out the party hats for 500.…
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The Screams All Sound the Same
One day, my computer and all the good pictures loaded on it will be in the same place as I am when the urge to blog strikes. Unfortunately, that day is not today. Nor is today the day I will finish the Holden Shawlette I’ve recently picked back up. Last night, while rammed into the…
Anti-Quotidian 