Wool and Spice

I just won a drum carder!!!!!!! It’s huge! Must buy more fiber!!!!_!

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I knew when I saw this week’s topic — ten favorite cocktails/mocktails — that I’d never make it to ten. I drink the same thing over and over. I don’t think I’ve ever had a martini and the last time I had a Manhattan I was a 17-year-old exchange student in Ecuador. At the welcoming [...]

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All those weather bunnies getting hysterical over the Storm of the Century? They’re pretty close on this one. I’m happy I don’t need to be anywhere tonight because I doubt I’d make it. It’s snowin’ and blowin’ and goin’ down toward zero. Just walking to the mailbox was an adventure. Facing away from the wind [...]

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Ronald and Geri having fun? This week’s Ten on Tuesday topic: Ten favorite games from my childhood. Well. I don’t know if they were favorite, since my favorite past time was reading, but these come to mind. We chased each other a lot. Games like 1) hide-and-go-seek at night in the fall when the air [...]

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I have a date with this pile o’ red and the Bug tonight and can’t think of a better way to spend the last evening of the year. It’s part of my 2011 goal to spin the good stuff. It’s not turning out like I thought it would but that’s part of learning. It’ll be [...]

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If I stretch the definition of 10 favorite holiday shows, here’s what I look forward to every year: Handel’s Messiah. While technically not a “show” the pageantry makes it such. For years we went to the production at the Community of Christ Temple auditorium in Independence on the weekend following Thanksgiving. The temple’s huge organ [...]

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Blogger’s note: This was written yesterday and then I got caught up in reading a book and didn’t post. I’m happy to report both man and beast are much improved. (I’m making this all pretty and red to make up for the absence of a picture.) For the second time in a month I hauled [...]

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Ten things to love about Thanksgiving. Getting together with family, even the annoying ones. It’s on a Thursday. Seriously. You get a holiday in the middle of the week and then you have the weekend to recover and eat leftovers. It’s much less commercialized than Christmas. Except for the food and the need to overeat, [...]

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I’ve been gone so long even the spammers have given up on me. My time has been mostly spent working and keeping my head from going all ‘splody. The temp assignment continues but the tear-your-hair-out-because-it’s-a-bottomless-pit-of-work phase has passed.  End of year approaches and there’s hope on the full-employment front. Keep crossing those fingers. It hasn’t [...]

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Just a few minutes to post so I don’t lose my spot in the Ethernet. Work has gone to overtime, including working last Saturday so the speed on my personal treadmill has gone up a notch. I’ve decided to Just Say No to a few outside commitments and focus on getting through the next month. [...]

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