Upgrade
My wonderful, dear, sweet husband helped me with upgrading WordPress this morning. It all went without a hitch, just as it should, though a couple odd things showed up… like a super-duper old sidebar. After I figured out where that came from, I decided to give a stab at using widgets for my sidebar. It […]

Ooh. Look! Wordpress 2.3.1 instead of the oldy-mouldy 2.0.4. Woot! While I’m getting things straightened out, it may look a little wonky. Please pardon the mess.

My fabulously wonderful husband knew how much I’d been pining for a set of blocking wires to call my very own. After doing a little searching online, he figured that he could put together a perfectly passable set of stiff stainless rods for not too much money. Then he went a step further, and found […]

Though there’s still plenty to tell you about our trip to Montana, I thought it was high time I got a little more knitting content inserted into this blog.
First up. Yes. I have been knitting! When I started the lace scarf over Thanksgiving everything else got dropped like a hot potato. Now that the […]

The dinner
Once upon a time Dave and I gathered up our friends for a holiday dinner. We did them five years in a row before things like life and babies got in the way. The life thing settled down a bit, the kids got older, and it was time to do it again. Saturday, December […]

Another year’s gone by. It’s my birthday again! Wow. Amazing. Don’t know what all will be going on here today. At some point we’ll wander over to the pub for a birthday beer. Dave has a nice dinner planned, taking full advantage of the fabulous leftovers from Saturday night’s feast—I’ll tell you about that soon. […]

I live in southern California. I just don’t need scarves. I almost never knit them except as gifts. But I had this idea for a scarf pattern. I had one ball of some pretty yarn. The idea for the scarf was born while I was swatching for my South Seas Stole, and I looked forward […]