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Do it Quickly
Hello all! Spring is here, attempting to kill me. The mornings are cool, the air is sweet with the scent of wisteria and orange, but underneath that idyllic surface is a layer of orange pollen that has completely clogged my sinuses. I am taking a sick day today and doing nothing*. Unfortunately after most of […]
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State of the Stash: Final Reckoning for 2017
Hello dear readers and welcome back! I have a finished object to share with you all, but it occurred to me that it might, just maybe, be a good idea to sum up my 2017 stashing before the end of 2018’s first quarter. I started beating myself up about my lackluster knitting output, but then […]
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Getting Started
Welcome to the new year everyone! I am feeling rusty as I try to settle down and begin writing after many weeks away from the blog. The holidays were wonderful fun, but so very busy that it took several weeks to settle down and think about how I want this new year to go. Rather […]
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Comfort and Joy
Hello, dear and long-suffering readers! I come to you from my kitchen, writing while standing and eating chipped beef dip straight from the container.* If your dishwasher was smaller than Barbie’s, that’s how you’d eat it too! These past few weeks, I had been frustrated, challenged to find those little moments of joy in my […]
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State of the Stash: Third Quarter
Happy fall everybody! Peanut and I (and Querido and the fuzzies) are doing well. The temperature has dropped to a positively frigid 70º in the morning, and Querido and I are turning poor Peanut into a thin-blooded Phoenician by bundling him up for his walk every morning. He’s built up quite a layer of his […]
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Welcome Peanut
Our little Peanut has arrived safe and sound. Querido and I are thrilled, proud, tired, and bewildered all at once. Blogging is going to take a back burner as we all get ourselves sorted out, but knitting continues and you can find me keeping odd hours on Instagram @antiquotidian. P.S. He wore his Little Sprout […]
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Til I Don’t Know When
I am waitin’ ’til I don’t know when, Cause I’m sure it’s gonna happen then. Time keeps creepin’ through the neighborhood, Killing old folks, wakin’ up babies Just like we knew it would. -Neighborhood #4 (7 Kettles) Hello all! No Peanut yet, but pregnancy comments have shifted from remarks on my size to questions of […]
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For the Price of a Skein of Yarn
Thank you all, dear readers, for giving me the space in my last post to whine a little bit. I needed it! After having my moment to fuss, I got to thinking about the things I don’t have to complain about, like a chronic illness. The Yarn Harlot is on her annual ride across […]
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Under the Big Top
Hello All! After one big night of rain (and part of the next day too) last weekend, the rains have moved away from the Valley, leaving some very happy plants in their wake. The Bermuda grass threw out new sprouts, the hibiscus plants returned from the dead with a respectable show of leaves, and the […]
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Jumpsuits and Monsoons
After weeks of teasing, the monsoon season has finally sent rain to the Valley. Things kicked off with a microburst Saturday night. One minute, there was only the muggy afternoon, the next rain was coming down so hard it sounded like hail. Water splattered first the front windows, then the back as the storm winds […]
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