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Here to care for Mom

Saturday, January 3, 2009

I’ve been absent from my blog lately.
Have you noticed?
I’m currently about 400 miles from home, in the house where I grew up. Mom had cataract surgery on Monday, and I came up to take care of her. The surgery went extremely well. The surgeon is pleased. All that has gone as fine as can […]

More sock frogging

Monday, December 22, 2008

I worked almost exclusively on the green Shibui socks all weekend. I don’t have a picture for you at this moment, as it’s nearly midnight, and not nearly light enough for photography. I’ll get one to you soon, I promise.
Remember the other day when I ripped out the first attempt and restarted on larger […]

Knitterly party

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

The knitting group I go to on Mondays decided to have a party this week. Anne graciously opened her house to us, and we descended upon her en masse with loads of yummy food, delectable wines and spirits, and knitting gifts. After we ate and settled in we did a gift exchange. Most of us […]

That was fun!

Friday, December 5, 2008

Yesterday was the single best day I’ve had in… ages. Start to finish, it was a marvelous day. Thank you one and all for your birthday wishes! They mean the world to me.
Lunch with the Monday night crowd was tons of fun. And yummy! We went to El Cholo in La Habra. The food […]

It’s my birthday!

Thursday, December 4, 2008

I have tons of stuff to do today before I need to leave to have lunch with the Knit Knight crowd. I am so looking forward to this. I haven’t seen anyone other than my dear husband on my birthday in years. Years! Not that hanging out with my guy is bad, in fact it’s […]

Site move, knitting, turkey

Friday, November 28, 2008

Site move
You may have noticed the complete absence of my blog and/or pattern shop over the last few days. It’s because we moved to a new server, and as the way of such things, our new location takes a bit to trickle through the Internet at large. My other pages are moving today, well, the […]

Catching up a bit

Monday, November 24, 2008

It feels like eons since I’ve posted, so let’s catch up a little bit…
For a day or so before Dave and I left for Las Vegas on the 16th, there were huge fires raging in the area. We could only see the smoke from one of them from here, as it obscured all else. This […]

Finally home

Sunday, November 23, 2008

Yup. We were out of town last week. In Las Vegas. At our timeshare. The Internet hookup this time was… unreliable. Frustrating. Practically useless. Dave had planned on getting work done while we were gone, as he’d been able to in the past, but it didn’t work out this time. More frustration. We did end […]

Dying to know

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Anne had a wine and dye party at her house on Saturday. I didn’t think I was going to be able to go at first, but then at the last minute my schedule miraculously cleared itself, so I went. I was late, so though there was still plenty of food, it was a bit ravaged.

Here […]

Sock name saga

Thursday, November 6, 2008

It seems like it’s been forever since I posted—only the one post on Monday this week. Pathetic. It’s been a busy week. I’ve been getting patterns and revisions into the hands of my test knitters, knitting, running errands, voting, trying to make hotel and airline reservations for stuff in January (some of these attempts have […]