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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Welcome to all who are here for the Sweet Summer blog tour, hosted by Karen and her Cotton Spice blog.
Yes, it’s really been a week since I last posted. Honestly, I can’t believe how quickly a week goes by these days. I think I’m starting to get the real gist of Grandma’s complaint about how […]
When I was up visiting Mom, we drove over to Martinez for lunch one day, and to try to see where the controversial beavers are living in Alhambra Creek. You can read about some of what’s been happening since the beavers came to town here and here on their blog. There’s a small spot for […]
Just a couple quick things for you before I go back to bed. Yeah. Been up most of the night. Spent too much time with the old dust in the closet yesterday—my sinuses are suffering—but I got a lot done.
We have a clear winner in the naming poll: Midnight Garden. It also happens to […]
Yup. You heard me right. A pigeon. Not that we haven’t had pigeons here before. We have. A lot of them. They used to nest on one of our decks. We took steps… This one was different. This pigeon was banded.
Our visiting pigeon flew in about 6:30 or so, and he stuck around until […]
I’m continuing to work on the swatches for the Posh shawl. Here’s a long swatch, in my style, piling one stitch pattern on top of another, as I’m too lazy to bind off and start again just because I’m changing stitches.
The bottom of this picture shows a stitch that I dearly love. Not only […]
Posh yarn arrived!
Finally. It took ages for the British and U.S. postal services to do their combined thing and deliver this fiber-y goodness to my doorstep. The yarn from Dee got here on Monday, just in time for me to take it to knit knight for show and tell. It’s so pretty! And soft. Yes, […]
While I wait for the yarn to arrive from Dee, I’ve been cleaning out my knitting to-do list. The socks, as you saw, were finished last week. The last of the small shop samples got themselves knit up late yesterday. I got four samples out of the one small ball of yarn I had. There […]