How many books do you usually take with you on vacation? Too many? Too few? Do you still have room to pack clothes? The last few years, vacation has meant four or five nights in our timeshare in Las Vegas. And we take way too many books. We take the books we’re reading, books we’re […]

We’re not exactly what you’d call big sports fans around here. These days, though, we almost always watch the Superbowl, and root for the game to be a good one. We often watch at least part of the World Series, and hope that the teams are evenly matched, and that we get a full, fun […]

Fire
Since I took this photo this morning, the wind shifted and there was more smoke directly overhead again. It keeps moving around. Joy. My sinuses are bugged, my eyes ache. I’m tired of smoke. As of 7 a.m. they had the fire 41% contained. Progress. It seems that the CDF only updates their site every […]

I just came back from the post office. My car was parked in their lot for, I dunno, maybe 15 minutes. It was covered with little tiny pieces of ash when I came out. The fire smells good, at least. Smells pretty much like a campfire. Just from that I can tell that no houses […]

The last official news I have is from the local newspaper yesterday afternoon. Unofficially, I can’t currently see much smoke. Only some wispy stuff. Not the huge plumes that I’ve been seeing. Yesterday afternoon it got a little too close to us, within about 5 or 6 miles. Earlier, they evacuated neighborhoods that are just […]

Whether you’re participating in the Knitting Olympics, or you’re going to relax and enjoy the process like me, you’ll want to make your knitting experience as pleasurable as possible. The Beadlizard posted some marvelous tips for hand and wrist health. I found the link on Yarn Harlot’s blog.

There. That enough links for you in […]

I’ve been working merrily along on my purple socks. Finally got the lace pattern worked out. I ended up knitting the “foundation row” only to arrange the stitches on my needles and make sure that I had the right number of stitches, then headed out from there. I knit for a while during the Superbowl. […]

I haven’t heard the details yet, finally turned on the radio in hopes of eventually hearing something. Dave and I have been watching the smoke come over the hills for several hours now, ever since dawn, really. It started out looking like this. Now it’s even worse than the photo below. I really can hardly […]

This week’s questions brought to you by Deb, reader extraordinaire. Thank you, Deb.

Do you lend your books to other people? Not any more.
If so, do you get them back? That was the whole thing. Most people that I lent books to—otherwise very good friends, by the way—never returned my books.
What do you do if they’re […]

I’ve lost track. I don’t know if it was the earlier this week, or some time last week, but either way, at some point I was up in the middle of the night tinkering with images for my blog. If you look over at my sidebar you’ll see new images that say “About us,” “Memes,” […]