This And That

This is an especially busy week for me work-wise, so I’m feeling a little brain dead and don’t have much to say. I did want to drop in for a quick hello, though, and post a few pics. Gramps is finished and blocked. I’m hoping to find buttons on Friday. …

In The News

Check out this article: Oceanography Yarn-Bombed. The research vessel Falkor has an artist-in-residence, and she happens to be a knitter! I don’t know exactly why I love this so much, but I do.   A photo posted by spam KNITsubi (@spamknitsubi) on Mar 8, 2016 at 11:44am PST   While …

Say It Ain’t So

Guess what happened. I was knitting the very last of the shawl collar short rows on Gramps on Friday night, and I ran out of yarn. During a break in our ongoing Lost marathon, I jumped up to grab another skein, but crappity crap crap crap, there was no more Lorna’s …

Happy Friday

In honor of the Anatomy and Physiology class I’m currently taking (more about that later, maybe) and this week’s lesson on the senses, today’s post is an ode to the special senses which my textbook tells me are smell, taste, sight, hearing, and balance. Let’s start with smell. Wednesday was …

The things I took . . .

These are the knitting things I packed for the fire evacuation. I loaded three bins of yarn into the car as well but took them out. Moving counter clockwise from the lower left corner: my current WIP the yarn and other supplies for the Geek-A-Long blanket and the squares I’ve …

Fire

Since the last time I posted, we’ve had a forest fire on the mountain. Our house is on the other side of that ridge. A man who lives nearby took the picture. About 8:30 last Wednesday night, our neighbor called and asked if we’d looked outside. When we walked out …