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Knitting Retreat on Tomales Bay starts tomorrow!
My to-get-done-before-I-leave list is growing by the minute.
Thank goodness I’m off work tomorrow.  But see above.
On the list:  buy ant bait for my car.  !!!  Grrr.
Oh, I can’t wait for my weekend to start!  I’ll turn off the guilt switch when I cross the Richmond Bridge.

Tuesday after Lambtown

We’re up!  We’re out!  We’re well-provisioned!  Pretty good for a Monday morning.  (And now it’s Tuesday!  We’re provisioning.)
The kiddo and I went to Lambtown on Saturday.  Lovely little show!  It was mostly a kid-directed day.  (Except when I dragged him protesting and crying and whining through the vendor building.)  Sheep dog trials!  Shearing contest!  An alpaca [...]

Sky

Morning sky on Tuesday – texture!  Usually high fog, sometimes clear.  But we could see the bumps and breaks in the clouds, and a bit of gold light coming through here and there.  The house is placed so we don’t get good sky views from inside.  Sometimes I go out to the back yard in the [...]

Quick! Go do a Survey!

About you and knitting!
Our friend the Knitting Linguist is thinking about knitting and personal identity, and fun stuff like that.  Do her a favor, and go do it here.  I had a good time thinking about knitting and why I do it and how I started.   Give her lots of words to analyze. 
Peter Pan was [...]

The Chickens Came Home to Roost

What chickens have to do with reaping what we sow, I don’t know. 
I procrastinate.  I finding charting tedious.  Thus, I am very behind.  One of the computer systems we use for charting is being upgraded a week from today.  All forms done before 7-31-09 will be read-only, whether completed or not.  Guess what I’m doing [...]

Lost Habit

(If I ever had the habit…)
I’ve got a memory card full of photos to sort through.
I’ve got a backlog of this and that in my head. Rapidly dissipating into the realm of lost ideas.
I’m playing with the spindle. Addictive little thing. I’ve got one or two or three somewhat active knitting projects.  Very slowly active.
I’ve [...]

Chart or Knit?

No, not the eternal debate of charts v written out instructions. The other eternal debate – should I work or can I knit? We all know the correct answer, even if we don’t live the correct way. Interpret at will.
I’m so close to finishing my grey alpaca shawl! My son encouraged me last night (at [...]

Happy Mothers’ Day

Speaks for itself, I believe.  Not that I can leave it alone!  Now I know why he’s been asking how old I am.  I hope he means the yarn store or the book store.  Or the chocolate store.  Certainly not the grocery store.  Please note that he spells ‘knits’ correctly.
Here are a couple things found [...]

nearly done

Warning. This is not real time blogging. But I want to extend the suspense as long as possible! Where were we? Ah, yes! Knitting sleeves!
I finished the sleeves. I added the collar.

When we’ve tried it on for size, the kid’s complained about the itchy neck. That can’t continue. [...]

Two Steps Forward, Ten Steps Back

The other morning I had a chance to sit in hell and knit on the orange snake sleeves.
In case you wondered, hell is the customer waiting area for Honda service. Time bends. One hour is really two, but feels like seven or eight. The flourescent light over my seat flickers. [...]