Knitting, cooking and other enthusiasms
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 13th, 2010
How can it be Monday again? What happened to Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday? Tuesday, work was light, I actually took an hour for lunch and went for a walk around the neighborhood. Our building sits at the edge of an upscale residential area complete with mature trees and beautiful gardens so the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 7th, 2010
Ten things to do before the end of summer. Wait, isn’t that summer’s caboose disappearing around the corner? I think so. We’ll just have to make it ten things to do before the end of Indian summer. Sit on the deck and eat a pint of coffee ice cream. Hem that pair of summer-weight blue [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 12th, 2010
I was going through my draft folder this weekend, cleaning up some debris. I was surprised by what I found that I hadn’t told you about. Look at what you missed: Last summer, the contractor got his backhoe stuck in one of our ponds during a dredging and reconstruction project. I have a ton of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 1st, 2010
This spring when we were setting up our garden plots we experimented with straw bale gardens on two of the beds. We built the first straw bale bed because it sounded like a cool idea. We planted watermelon, a pepper, basil and a tomato plant here with sweet potatoes in the middle. We built the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 22nd, 2010
There’s one pissed-off tom cat in a cage on my deck. It’s been a week of strategic planning in this battle to get Teddy some health care. Right when I was ready to set the trap he stopped showing up regularly so it threw my schedule off. Then he absolutely refused to eat the food [...]
Posted in Cats, Uncategorized on Jul 15th, 2010
I’ve mentioned before that I’ve been feeding a stray cat for about 18 months. Teddy first showed up in the middle of winter, skinny and starving. Completely feral, no matter how hungry he was, I couldn’t approach him. In the past, I’ve chased away stray cats, fearful of disease spreading to our two house cats. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 29th, 2010
When I saw this week’s topic I panicked. I’m supposed to have a reading list? Who knew? I wondered who could be that organized, particularly in summer and with gardening and the Tour de Fleece looming. So it’s a good thing it’s Tuesday because it forced me to come up with 10 books on my [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 30th, 2010
Let’s talk gardening because there’s been more of that going on around here than anything else. I’d like a record of what Evie and I did this spring, so bear with me. We started with two 5 x 20 foot plots in the community garden at a former college soccer field. We decided to put [...]
Posted in garden, Knitting, Life, Uncategorized on May 26th, 2010
ETA: to add links I was too lazy to do yesterday and clarify a point here and there. It seems like a century since I was last here. ~ The travels for health and pleasure are finished for a while. Jack has been checked out tip to toe and the upshot is he’ll be a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 24th, 2010
Peas have sprouted in the deck box! Woo! There’s no spinning and very little knitting going on, every spare moment is spent either in the house garden or up at the community garden. Or else I’m reading about gardening or surfing the net looking for plants, products or seeds. Spring fever has mellowed under the [...]
