Knitting, cooking and other enthusiasms
Posted in Spinning, Ten on Tuesday, garden, politics on Aug 31st, 2010
Ten ways to Lighten My Mood. Are you insinuating I’m cranky???!!!!?
Plant sunflowers in your garden.
Go out to lunch with a friend.
Change the routine. We all need a little variety. So that would be peanut butter on the English muffin instead of jam.
Spend time puttering in the garden. As long as there are no aphids. Bastids.
Read [...]
Posted in Ten on Tuesday on Aug 24th, 2010
Ten things I would tell a college freshman. Oh my sweet Jeebus. Please don’t make me go back there. I’m getting nightmares just thinking about it.
It’s OK to question authority.
Don’t be smug because you don’t have any cellulite today because in exactly 12 years you are going to be 30.
You will now have to buy [...]
Posted in Ten on Tuesday on Aug 10th, 2010
Ten reasons to love bacon. Do we need ten reasons? Isn’t one good enough? It’s fried, salty and fatty. OK, that’s three, but you get my drift.
I’m a skeptic when it comes to those weird recipes for bacon flavored ice cream or bacon brownies or bacon jello; I’ve had brown-sugar covered bacon and thought it [...]
Posted in Ten on Tuesday on Aug 3rd, 2010
My list of ten things to take on vacation varies depending upon what kind of vacation I’m taking. Is it a city location, filled with visits to museums and theaters, much walking on city streets and dinners in restaurants? Is it a vacation at a rental cottage, with only occasional restaurant visits and more cooking [...]
Posted in Ten on Tuesday on Jul 27th, 2010
Ruby Spice Summersweet is extra fragrant this year
(Clethra alnifolia)
Ten things to do instead of watching the boob-tube. I’m leaving knitting and spinning off the list because it’s like brushing your teeth, just do it. I still ended up with a bonus.
Grab your favorite alcoholic beverage and a book and head for the deck. You’ll remember [...]
Posted in Ten on Tuesday on Jul 20th, 2010
When I saw this week’s topic for Ten on Tuesday, I had an immediate thought and nothing else I later came up with seemed any better so here it is:
Ten things to bring on a camping trip.
1 – 10. Hotel reservations.
Don’t get me wrong, we used to camp. Not well and always in a tent [...]
Posted in Ten on Tuesday on Jul 13th, 2010
Here are 10 things I like about where I live, sort of a mini-travelogue to Middle Earth. Go see what others have to say about where they live.
Spring is beautiful here. The Bradford pear, red buds, dogwoods, and magnolia trees all go crazy in April/May [...]
Posted in Ten on Tuesday on Jul 6th, 2010
Ten ways to enjoy summer wrote itself in about 5 minutes even with a bonus.
Look at pictures from last winter’s snow and remember how cold you were and how you longed for the long hot days of summer.
Get up close and personal with nature: plant a garden.
Join the Tour de Fleece and spin [...]
