You’ve probably all heard about the deluge of rain California has been hit with recently. Rain wasn’t the only thing we got. At higher elevations there was also snow.
While we obviously got a lot of rain, for the most part our neighborhood came through just fine. There were some very small areas were a […]
I went out for a quick walk this morning, and saw a very odd fungus along the side of the footpath I was taking. When I returned to our room, I googled “orange white toadstools oregon -golf -fish -pumpkin” and found it! The fungus I found is called Amanita muscaria. It likes to be around […]
Love the sound of those storm-tossed waves hitting the beach and rocks. A storm at sea when I’m safely onshore is one of the best things in life. Having fun watching the rains come and go, the sun shine and the winds blow. I just love this stuff. Boy, do I live in the […]
The first two days of this week were fun, fun, fun. Monday we went into San Francisco with Mom, and spent a good chunk of the day at the new California Academy of Sciences. This is an incredible new structure that completely replaces the old Steinhart Aquarium building, designed with the ecology firmly in mind […]
Organizing
Last week I got a bee in my bonnet, and finally rearranged my under-counter shipping center. In the last year or so my focus has changed from shipping individual patterns to sending out great lots of them, and the previous “shipping stuff” arrangement no longer suited. Now it’s all nice and neat again. I even […]
After a yummy stuffed pork chop dinner and a movie, we wandered out onto the deck last night for a short nightcap and to enjoy the evening air. Ricki loves evenings on the deck. She was out there and waiting for us long before we had everything arranged. We finally got our ducks in a […]
No. Not the whole thing. Probably. But a goodly chunk of it. Never mind that I didn’t pin it out very well. That’s easily fixed later, when the knitting is actually done. But see that top edge, after the corner turns? I don’t like it. It isn’t working for me. At all. You can sort […]
Actually the server is up, but our host has been having problems today—a denial of service attack has had them scrambling since the wee hours. Sometimes my sites will be up, others down. Email is just as flaky. I had a plan for a post for you for today, but I’ll do it tomorrow when […]
I just got off the phone with my distributor. We talked a bit about delivering patterns in pdf format. I have some stuff to do behind the scenes, but in front of the scenes, where you are, pdf sales will continue after all. Woot! I know. I am so happy. The only caveat is that […]
Other than this brief introduction, I’m going to do my best to imitate a photo blog today. Click on the images to make them bigger.
Okay. Can’t resist. You get some description, anyway.
Row 1. The bird had flown full tilt into a sliding glass door. Knocked out cold from the impact. I’m happy to report […]