They tore out the bad boards around where the owls nested earlier this year. There’s not much left! I’m standing in the neighbor’s driveway to get this picture. Sure wish I could have gotten closer so I could see in. Dave said the hole was pretty gross. The owls had torn out all of the […]

With J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince making its sensational debut last weekend I started thinking about children’s books. There have been a lot of wonderful ones over the years, The Cat in the Hat, Where the Wild Things Are, Bambi, the Mother Westwind stories, the Chronicles of Narnia, the Chronicles of […]

Have you ever done a color conversion? If so, what did you think about your results and would you do it again? If not, would you like to try someday?
The first color conversion I ever did was to change the color of some pansies I stitched on a fingertip towel for my aunt when […]

I was on Knitter in Progress’s blog and found this link to this year’s knit alongs. Yowsa. There are oodles of them. Lots are extremely tempting…

I really shouldn’t have. But how could I resist? I broke down and bought two balls of Simple Stripes in Storm, two balls of Parade in Plum, and the Sock it to Me gauge. Bad girl. Bad. Haven’t even gotten to the heel in my second sock yet. Perhaps this is the incentive I needed. […]

Dave took a couple photos when the scaffolding was all done. Here he’s standing on the downhill side of the house looking up at the east side of the house. The post going up holds our deck in place (the post is a steel I-beam with wood sides). I’m fairly good with heights, but that […]

Uh oh. Knit Picks has done it again. New self-striping sock yarn. I think I’m going to have to get some. I love the plum, checkers, and blues colorways. Gads. I never wear yellow (makes me look sick), so the ones with all that yellow in them are right out. Whew! There’s even a link […]

We went by Costco on Saturday to pick up some chicken to take to a BBQ at a friend’s house, and I saw that huge pile of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince books sitting there, and the price was incredible. We were in a hurry (late as usual), so I didn’t get one. But […]

Describe a typical morning in your house? Neither one of us sleeps well these days, so who gets up first varies, but once up the routine is fairly regular. Dave’ll get up, dress, get breakfast and a pot of coffee, then go down to his office and go to work. I’ll get up, dress, go […]

Here’s the current view out that octagonal window we replaced last month.

Around the corner from the dining room and its octagonal window… Here’s the view from the living room (billiard room, yes, that’s a pool table in the foreground). The man standing there on the scaffolding looking down apparently owns the scaffolding company. I talked […]