Rockin’ girl blogger

Die Trude has named me a Rockin’ Girl Blogger, though without the pink badge. That’s okay. One of the other bloggers she named is Yarnstorm Jane, which is the first time I’ve been put in a category with her (except that it turns out we know some of the same people IRL, strangely enough). Thank [...]

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The tile job

In the comments, teeni comments that I am a “complex” person because I mix shinkendo with sock knitting. What can I say? I live to confuse. She also asks what got me into the shinkendo. Literally, it was the sysadmin at work, who is the assistant instructor, but I was also in the fencing club [...]

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Pink and orange and brown

Second shinkendo class tonight. Rawr. It’s fun, but it does eat up the evening.
Color evolution. We moved through pink and black to pink and brown, sidestepped to pink and duck-egg blue, then went back to pink and brown and added cream to the mix (and sometimes a little green).
At this point, the evolution split. Pink [...]

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Brown and white and red (and yellow)

Eeeeeeeek! I have Peppermint Mocha socks!!!

They’re thick and squishy, droopy and down at the heel. I like them very much. Aren’t the colors scrumptious? I really can’t decide if they’re actually peppermint mocha, or if they’re cranberries and eggnog and gingerbread. What do you think? Anyway, they’re practically edible, and they were a treat to [...]

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What god hath wrought

A forward-dated entry… photographed and written back when I had some kind of garden. Sigh.

I am pretty much agnostic, but I do acknowledge the presence of forces greater than man–thermodynamics and electromagnetism, for example, are definitely two of my personal gods. The seasons are less deities or spirits, and anyone who has ever grown a [...]

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Ten-picture chicken dinner

I have been missing picture-heavy blog posts this week because I’ve gotten myself involved in a shinkendo club. Tonight I’m home, though, and to make up for what’s been lacking, I present a great big ten-picture chicken dinner, with not one recipe but three.
First: cornbread. Cornbead is a contentious topic in the States and there [...]

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The peanut gallery

Hmmm. I am feeling worn out, tonight. It was a long slow day in the office. It’s better to have full, fast days, you know?

The most exciting thing that happened was going out to lunch. Since that was naughty, I had a Greek salad for dinner. Pretty, isn’t it?
Let’s address some issues from the comments.
Brigitta [...]

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Scones II

Almost two months ago, I wrote about Martha Stewart’s delicious whole-wheat, rolled oat scones with dried cherries. Mmmm, I’m getting nostalgic just thinking about it. At that time, I said that there was a different kind of scone that was simple and unassuming, and which was meant to have clotted cream and jam piled on [...]

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Garden roses

Hmm, I jumped the gun, promising pink and brown and orange. I’ll need to put that off a few days while I finish one object, find a second, and finally own the third. Mea culpa.
What I have for you instead is a bunch of “garden roses,” purchased at the newer, better grocery store, which has [...]

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Color evolution

I have been knitting a lot and reading knitblogs for almost three years, now (my official anniversary is sometime around Labor Day, when my mother gave me a sweater’s worth of Cascade 220 and a copy of Vogue Magazine. I still have not finished that sweater). In that time, I have seen slow shifts in [...]

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Love letter from lunch at home

Good show getting a job that is such a short driving distance from home, kid. You’re such a genius.

Nothing makes the day seem humane like going home for lunch. Free–comfortable–well fed–well caffeinated–and unwatched. Ohhh, the panopticon!

Another of this weekend’s extraordinary finds, and though it’s called Cajun Power, I don’t think it’s particularly Southern at all. [...]

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Pins and jars and scissors and thread

One of the many things to like about maintaining a blog is that it does require maintenance. It is probably the German in me, but I do feel obligated to put something here at least every couple of days, and I am always thinking of what to blog about next. Fortunately, I have more blog [...]

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Green River gumbo

I go, you go, we all go for gumbo.
If my claim to Southern heritage is tenuous, then my claim to Cajun or Creole heritage is nonexistant. However, after last week’s happy catfish fry, I was taken the very next day to a local restaurant that serves real Soul Food, and I was inspired. They had [...]

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A quiet place

I worked very hard this weekend, and got all of my books onto their shelves (and there isn’t an inch of shelf space to spare!), copied all of my files off of my old desktop computer, and pulled the deskosaurus into place in the study, which made it possible to lay out my Turkish carpet. [...]

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Summer produce

Mmm, produce. I will never get over how lovely the summer produce is.

The supermarket near my house is rather a disappointment, both in terms of selection and quality, but they had these three wonderful looking varieties of plums this week. I had never seen green plums before, and I wonder what they are. Greengage [...]

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Miscellany

Hey, I got my first award! Christy, whose best friend calls her Martha in case you didn’t know, has decided that I am nice. It’s good to be nice. Once on a bulletin board, the board ranter-and-raver told me to “keep on being your nice-ass self.” Funny how things get turned around on the [...]

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Tomatoes and strawberries

What to do with all those scraps leftover from sewing projects…
Yes, I’m rolling on the floor laughing, too. As if dealing with leftovers was a problem! There are doll quilts and clothes, tiny stuffies, scrap quilts, crazy quilts, yo-yos, banners, and pincushions just to name a few of the many things that can be done [...]

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In The Pink

Oops, we did it again. My mother has quilted the top that I made from “In The Pink” fabric, designed by Robert Glass for Buggy Barn.

Do I really need to go on about this collection of fabric? I mean, you can see that it is pink–my favorite color–along with wonderful shades of brown and cream [...]

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Books, libraries, collections

Books. They’re a problem.
Yesterday, I put together my Billy bookshelves and managed to unpack only two boxes of books, before making an executive decision to spend the rest of the evening (the whole hour left to me) on the sofa with my knitting. This evening, my chore is to finish unpacking the books and to [...]

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“Lucy” socks

Thanks for the catfish love, especially from Deutschenblogger Trude and from Teeni, who is the world’s most diplomatic vegan
I don’t have much today, folks. I did finally get my Billy bookshelves from IKEA, so tonight’s project will be putting them together and maybe, if I am very lucky, unpacking my books (hooraaaaaaaaay). I [...]

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