This may not be news to anyone who reads my blog, but I’m almost done Robin’s shiny happy socks. The biggest challenge? Making sure that the long colour gradation didn’t change abruptly after the heel. You see, I didn’t do an afterthought heel, or a contrast heel…I just knit the heel. On sock #1, it […]
We are totally exhausted. Today was spent in preparation for Christmas. We got up early and started cleaning the main floor of the house. Most of the counters are clean, the floor is scrubbed…even the table is almost prepared. I even have a very sweet husband making my dinner in the kitchen (Yay! Meatlog! …er…Meatloaf….). […]
So, we went to the mall to get someone some new pants and wound up in the Christmas section. Yeah. That one went out on Twitter with a caption of “If you complain once more, you’ll meet an army of *me*”. Though the “me” was misspelt. Dratted predictive text. But yes…we found pants. Pants are […]
Just a quick one…Last night’s dinner: Don’t you think he’d look great in a music video, maybe dancing around to a tune by Peter Gabriel? I sure thought so. Dinner was surprisingly healthy: Chicken, a salad, and veggies. Tasty! More than halfway done sock #2 of Robin’s Beer Socks. Going fairly fast now that I’m […]
It has now reached *that* time of year. The time of year when the cute little slender girls are decked out in cute little swing coats, with their cute knitwear that’s meant to look bulky so that they look tiny. It’s a fashion that never seems to go out of style, and why should it? […]
I have to admit that I was a bit alarmed that Hallowe’en wasn’t even over yet when the stores started to put out their Christmas displays. I guess it just goes to show how the commercial world moves. I thought it was gauche to put up such store displays before American Thanksgiving, but I guess […]
This was last night’s dinner: a home-made chili from scratch. The only things that did not come in my produce box this week were an onion from my veggie drawer, spices, the beans, the ground sirloin, and a wee little bit of starch to thicken the juices slightly. When I say ‘my produce box’, I mean that […]
I finally managed to squeak a little time to take a few photographs, and very quickly came to the realization that maybe, just maybe, I should have gotten my rear in gear a little sooner. On a less overcast day, perhaps. But, things being as they are, I tromped out to the patio and set […]
We’ve been needing to take a break for quite awhile now, and it only just finally happened. Thank goodness for vacation time! Some may recall that we took a trip to Saskatoon about a month back…and a week of vacation with it. Yeah…that didn’t work out quite so well. Robin was recovering from a cold […]
I really wanted to have something to post. But I’m coming down from the freezing from my dental visit this morning