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Getting my Knit Together
Good news everyone! WordPress support helped me find my missing post. Somehow a draft version had overwritten the final version, which was thankfully still sitting in history. I feel rather silly I hadn’t thought to check in history, but user error is one of the easiest tech problems to fix, so I was like a…
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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
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Getting Started
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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
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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…