Knitting, cooking and other enthusiasms
Posted in Life on Mar 9th, 2010
The only thing worse than driving across the state of Iowa in March is driving across the state of Iowa in March in a fog so thick that you get tunnel vision: nothing to see to the right or left, up or down, except a blanket of white cotton; nothing in the rear view mirror [...]
Posted in Life on Mar 8th, 2010
Buzz off buster
Based upon their loud and aggressive posturing that would.not.end until I reminded them that pooping on my deck was not included in the Complete and Unabridged Handbook of Canada Geese Mating Rituals (not even in the end notes), I’m guessing these are males establishing territorial rights over our back yard and some poor [...]
Posted in Knitting, Life, woodworking on Feb 22nd, 2010
Mother Nature stomped all over our traces of spring this weekend, leaving behind five inches of snow and ice. I started the morning shoveling snow, not for the first time this winter. Dare I hope it will be the last?
Not.
I went to a woodworking show with Jack this weekend. Small by comparison to events [...]
The other day I had a bout of spring fever and went out into my patch of garden looking for some early green. I thought I might find some early daffodils foolishly poking up through the February snow. It took some scraping through the mulch but I did find the first green shoots. I covered [...]
Posted in Life on Feb 12th, 2010
big momma raccoon, little brown bird, confused little orange cat, tree-hugging gray squirrel, me
(these pictures were all taken on different days, after different storms, hence the difference in snow and lighting)
Posted in Life on Feb 10th, 2010
My version of corn snow. This colored corn is indestructible. I thought the birds would peck away at it all winter, but they haven’t touched it. A life lesson.
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This is not the post I had planned for you. I had this whole chatty post about preparing for spring written in my head, which segued into [...]
The invasion of zombies has been vanquished with the aid of sunflowers, peashooters and puff-’shrooms. I swear I thought Wordtwist was a time suck, this is so much worse. An hour gets lost in a flash. I’ve mastered all the levels I can in the online and trial versions and have pinky-sworn that I’m not [...]
Hey! Go see JessaLu Knits and help her sweetie raise money to benefit their local community. It won’t cost you a penny. All you have to do is follow the link on her site to a local bank that is making grants to the non-profit organizations that win the most votes. One vote per person. [...]
It continues gray and gloomy around here at least in the weather area. Snow melt has proceeded to the point that we’re left with dirty piles of gray stuff and mud in the garden, as evidenced by the tracks across the carpet made by the boy cat’s feet.
Thanks to the presence of Vera however, the [...]
This was yesterday morning around 8 am looking north from our deck. I should be able to see the small pond and other homes where that indistinct patch of white is. Instead it’s pretty much fog and mist, mist and fog. Since socked-in fog doesn’t happen all that often here I’m not tired of it [...]
