It’s barely 10:00 in the morning here in Houston. It’s Friday, October 31, 2008.
And ALREADY they’ve started with the noise down the street. It will only become louder into the evening. Yes, I realize it is Halloween. I realize there will likely be a festive mood all over. I get it. I’ll be at my [...]
It’s weird… I dye and dye and dye and then I just have to stop. Today I’ve done 3 steamers full, plus a vat dye, starting early in the morning, a bunch of sports, and some fingering.
Coming into the final stretch feels good, but it does hurt. Not that I’ve injured myself (I hope), just [...]
Wheee! Tomorrow I’m doing 20-ish sport weights, about a dozen fingering, and a smattering of worsted weights. I did the last of the socks today and the lace yesterday. Now it’s just a matter of letting it dry, packing up what’s left, and then figuring out what odds and ends I’ve missed.
That will catch me [...]
Okay, I made good headway through the soaking yarns. I didn’t complete all of them — my back started to seize up from standing all afternoon — but I got more than half done, and the rest are lined up and ready to go in the morning, while the next marathon session soaks. If I [...]
Holy crap… I’m going to check myself into an asylum now, m’kay?
No, just kidding. Last night I stayed up to watch Jay Leno because our next First Lady was scheduled to appear (Michelle Obama). She is SUCH a class act, down to earth and all that. She’s going to be a GREAT First Lady and [...]
Okay I managed to get to sleep just after 4:00, slept until almost 9:00. Not adequate, but better than nothing. Even with the earplugs AND my own radio going, I still heard stuff from down the street. Thanks for the various suggestions. I know the neighbors at my end of the street are NOT pleased; [...]
They’re probably across the street from MY house, dammit!
EVERY friggin Saturday I’ve been assaulted and held hostage in my own home, and I am SICK OF IT. These damned people throw a party EVERY weekend, complete with balloon streamers, DJ, and loudspeakers. Always outdoors, of course. I should not have to put up with this [...]
Yes, it is. A couple days ago, I was running around sweating. Wednesday evening my daughter drove me to Academy for some new shows and we were treated to a marvelous cold front moving in, complete with an electric light show. The next morning, it was ch-ch-ch-chilly!!! I mean, SERIOUSLY! Yes, I know it’s all [...]
Whew… another big crate of orders was just carried away by the postal carrier.
And again I failed to take a picture of it. There’s just something really tickle-worthy seeing a box of packages waiting by the door. As it happened, I was sticking stamps on the last of them when the mail carrier drove up, [...]
I have just now edited the colorway choices, suspending those that require any variation of a black-brown mix. This includes much of the Barista Collection, as well as the Doberman colorway.
I’ve tried a few times now to get the “Cream, No Sugar” to come out right. This is a modification of the Cappuccino or Supreme [...]
just not feeling well in general, somewhat depressed. Nothing serious, just my regular cyclical sh*t. But I’ve been dyeing anyway, and reskeining reskeining reskeining. After manually reskeining a few dozen of these suckers, my arm gets rreeeeaaaallly sore and worn out. I go as long as I can each day, but it’s not easy. I’m [...]
In spite of the hurricane, the catching up, feeling under the weather, and other things, I have been putting in a small amount of personal knitting time.
One of the projects is a baby blanket for a friend. Here’s one of the squares:
It’s done in a cotton-wool blend, in a weird double-seed stitch I started using [...]
I don’t know why.
I can’t explain it.
I just have this overwhelming urge to kick off my shoes and socks, strip down to my unders or beyond, and dive into the river. I want my toes to feel the rocks along the bottom. I want the cold waves to splash over me. I want to slip [...]
Hmmm… while yarns are soaking for dyeing, I was catching up on some lists and managed to come across a thread about the price of downloadable patterns.
I realize that the economy is difficult these days. And I realize everyone has to do what is required or possible according to their own budgets. Bitching about $5 [...]
Woke feeling somewhat more better, the headache is barely a dull roar this morning. Marietta (a nurse with 30+ years experience) sent a note to be careful for early warning signs of a stroke. I appreciate that. As I wrote back to her, this back-of-the-head-with-nausea is one of three main types of headaches that I’ve [...]
Okay, I feel good. Today I got to send out packages! And there are more to go out tomorrow and probably the next day, too! Yippeee! First time in a month I’ve been able to put the notice in the mailbox for the mail carrier to pull around and pick up packages.
At the same time, [...]
I’ve been meaning to show you the Darn Pretty needles Tom Diak sent me. I mentioned them when they arrived a couple weeks ago, but didn’t show you how pretty they are:
The ones on the right are the teal colored, and the ones on the left are the multicolor slant-cuts, similar to the similar ones [...]
plow through a pile of orders, one by one, wrapping and packing and stamping and piling up by the door for the mail carrier…. and then you come to an order that sounds vaguelly familiar. You KNOW (without proof) that you’ve done this order before because it is filled with very specific one of a [...]
I’ve been printing labels for the orders of solids that came in during the last month. Labels get printed on my electric printer, which is connected to and controlled by my computer, which also runs on electricity. And, of course, I was listening to the early news on my television. And guess what? The television [...]
Judi was just kind enough to remind me that tomorrow, Monday, is Columbus Day, and that the post office (and mail delivery/pick-up) will not be operating tomorrow. dirty-word, dirty-word, dirty-word.
I am sorely disappointed that this is, in fact, quite true. I just checked it myself on the USPS Web site.
On the other hand, I am [...]
