Happiness Is . . .

After a crazy busy work week, with more crazy business slated for tomorrow, today was a little piece of awesome. My favorite Saturday of the month—fiber guild! I can honestly say that one of the very best parts of trading Chicago for the mountains of NE Tennessee has been finding …

Keep on bloggin’ in the free world . . .

Happy Tuesday, my friends! I made it through my crazy weekend of work and am happily back in the regular groove. I actually finished earlier than I’d expected on Sunday, so I had some time for weeding the garden, going for a walk (where I saw these beauties): Making my …

Pro Tip

When you’ve been sitting at your computer working all day, and you aren’t anywhere close to being done, and you feel yourself starting to hyperventilate, look down.* *Snoozing dog and fun striped sock-in-progress recommended for best results.

Here Now.

So it turns out that the up side of the weighty heart-fullness I was feeling earlier this week was the joy I got to experience this weekend.  The wedding that occasioned The Wedding Afghan happened, and it was everything you’d ever want a wedding to be. It was like the …

Checking In

It’s been several days since I posted, so I just wanted to check in and say hi. Here are a few pics to give you an idea of what I’ve been up to. I cast on the second of my purple and red stripey socks while having lunch at the …

Picture Day

  The weather is beeeeeautiful here today! It’s so nice that I spent several hours outside putzing around the yard and wandering off taking pictures even though I had work to do. I promised dogwood photos a couple of days ago, and here they are. The pink ones are new to …