We’re in the Darks. The Kid asked me today why I picked him up so late. It feels late when BART goes by with all the interior lights on. Maybe this will translate into an earlier bedtime? I always feel tired much earlier this time of year.
Even so, I made dinner! Hurrah for me! I [...]
One more day of work before vacation time! (only one! Agrgk ack!) Then a day of frantically getting the house ready to survive without me and food packed for the flights and clothes washed and…
We’re off to see the Kid’s grandparents. Alabama in August! Hot, humid, hot.
What knitting to take?
Remember that one pound cone of laceweight a few posts back? I’m in the depths of the beginning of a lovely large epic possibly neverending idea.
I have a good number of nieces, at least 10, mostly in Mexico (ages 2 years to 17 or so?). And I’m a godmother a few times over, mostly to [...]
I’m knitting the sleeve decreases on the Tomtem baby sweater (bathtime knitting). By the way, this is a decent view of how the stripes will and won’t line up.
This is how I’m keeping track, so the second sleeve will come out the same. I hope.
Kalev’s mittens (Nancy Bush, Folk Knitting in Estonia), into the second [...]
Woe is me.
I scheduled myself a vacation day today with the wispy hope I could see the Yarn Harlot in Petaluma tonight. Unfortunately, I’d be home much much too late for a work/school night. As I said, it was a wispy hope. No matter - my work week so far has been such that I needed a [...]
Why I should feel shy, when I’m talking to myself, I’m sure I don’t know. Well, hello to myself!
Perhaps a plan…
knitting and yes, another knitblogger out here!
kid stories - what else? when he’s hanging on my shoulder sweetly asking when we can go to the toystore and not just the grocery store
vague mentions of [...]
