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Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Homecoming
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
If You Want to Make this into a Meme, Consider Yourself Tagged.
Monday, August 28, 2006
What a Difference a Bath Makes
I wish I could look 10 lbs. lighter with a simple trip to the salon...
Thursday, August 24, 2006
Portrait of The Student as a Master
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Oh... I am SO Using This Someday
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Overheard (Or Said) in the Last Month or So
Sunday, August 13, 2006
A More than Fair Day for a Fair
Thursday, August 10, 2006
They Hate Us for our Dental Work.
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
Cats and Finished Objects
Homecoming
Welcome home to a lovely new piece of
machinery/furniture. Just in time for a long weekend, which will be lost to
taking perfectly nice fiber and making bumpy, beginner yarn out of
it.
It arrived in a gigantic box. Some assembly was definitely required:
John had to work late, so I actually had the pleasure of putting it together myself (believe it or not, that was not sarcasm you just read. I'm the gadget freak in the household). I broke into the coopworth roving almost immediately and lost about an hour of my life.
Here's to many more hours similarly "lost."
It arrived in a gigantic box. Some assembly was definitely required:
John had to work late, so I actually had the pleasure of putting it together myself (believe it or not, that was not sarcasm you just read. I'm the gadget freak in the household). I broke into the coopworth roving almost immediately and lost about an hour of my life.
Here's to many more hours similarly "lost."
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
If You Want to Make this into a Meme, Consider Yourself Tagged.
In an alternate universe,
I:
- Sucked it up and became a litigator with an ulcer
- Indulged in an early curiosity for computer programming instead of being intimidated by the whole idea
- Am the fifth member of The Lascivious Biddies
- Like peanuts, sweet potatoes, and oatmeal
- Didn't summon the courage to call my ex of 6.5 years, didn't therefore reconnect with him and marry him, and am still wondering what would have happened if I had called him at the right moment
- Had a brother or sister I grew up with
- Many other things I couldn't even imagine
- Sucked it up and became a litigator with an ulcer
- Indulged in an early curiosity for computer programming instead of being intimidated by the whole idea
- Am the fifth member of The Lascivious Biddies
- Like peanuts, sweet potatoes, and oatmeal
- Didn't summon the courage to call my ex of 6.5 years, didn't therefore reconnect with him and marry him, and am still wondering what would have happened if I had called him at the right moment
- Had a brother or sister I grew up with
- Many other things I couldn't even imagine
Monday, August 28, 2006
What a Difference a Bath Makes
I wish I could look 10 lbs. lighter with a simple trip to the salon...
Thursday, August 24, 2006
Portrait of The Student as a Master
Our Hero, John Smith, etc., (pictured below teaching the dog the finer
points of cataloguing while Dash looks on) can now add "M.S.L.S." to his various
titles.
Congratulations, my darling!
Congratulations, my darling!
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Oh... I am SO Using This Someday
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Overheard (Or Said) in the Last Month or So
At the yarn
shop:
Jaqui: I may be too literal right now. I just finished a Tom Wolfe novel.
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In the shoe store:
Maria: These are good... well, not the color, and I don't like this strap. And the heel's a little too high.
Jill: You mean, "These would be perfect - if they were an entirely different pair of shoes."
Maria: Yeah. Exactly.
Jaqui: I may be too literal right now. I just finished a Tom Wolfe novel.
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In the shoe store:
Maria: These are good... well, not the color, and I don't like this strap. And the heel's a little too high.
Jill: You mean, "These would be perfect - if they were an entirely different pair of shoes."
Maria: Yeah. Exactly.
Sunday, August 13, 2006
A More than Fair Day for a Fair
My sweetie took me to the Montgomery
County Fair this weekend. We spent about as much time on the midway as it took
to get beyond the
midway:
It's funny - I'm used to more rural fairs, and didn't expect to see this type of thing quite so quickly:
Then, there were the pig races.
Complete with bad puns.
But dang, it was cute - check out these faces:
I was using the day partially as a shooting lesson - this one taught me to use framing elements to better effect. Had I moved a few inches to the left, this guy would have been perfectly centered:
Also, next time I spend an hour in the stylist's chair, I'm not complaining:
I just love this face:
And I've always loved Jersey cows with their big, doe eyes:
This guy...
...came with his own warning sign:
I got to see (but not pet) a pair of alpaca!! (I really want an alpaca of my own. It's a rather daft obsession for someone who lives in a townhouse):
There were many other cute things.
Including my husband.
Also, many cows.
And bunnies! So cute.
Poultry...
Last visit - the chicks in the red light district (take that, google-searching freaks):
It's funny - I'm used to more rural fairs, and didn't expect to see this type of thing quite so quickly:
Then, there were the pig races.
Complete with bad puns.
But dang, it was cute - check out these faces:
I was using the day partially as a shooting lesson - this one taught me to use framing elements to better effect. Had I moved a few inches to the left, this guy would have been perfectly centered:
Also, next time I spend an hour in the stylist's chair, I'm not complaining:
I just love this face:
And I've always loved Jersey cows with their big, doe eyes:
This guy...
...came with his own warning sign:
I got to see (but not pet) a pair of alpaca!! (I really want an alpaca of my own. It's a rather daft obsession for someone who lives in a townhouse):
There were many other cute things.
Including my husband.
Also, many cows.
And bunnies! So cute.
Poultry...
Last visit - the chicks in the red light district (take that, google-searching freaks):
Thursday, August 10, 2006
They Hate Us for our Dental Work.
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
Cats and Finished Objects
First of all, thanks to everyone who
congratulated me on my new spinning wheel, but it's far from here yet. It'll
take about six weeks to arrive, as apparently the nice folks at Schacht are too
popular for their own
good.
Second of all, a small lesson on avoiding the evil eye:
Be sure to stay away from boxes. Lesson over.
Lastly, I have a couple of finished objects it has taken me a while to photograph. First up, John's endless socks were actually finished last month:
I also did a weekend "what the hell, I've never felted before" project (leftover Knitpicks "Memories" merino, size three needles, pattern? We don't need no stinking pattern, man!):
It's a little smooshed because I had carried it to work to show a colleague. It's not really that wonky.
I have quite a few other little finished objects lying around, but they're Christmas items and I don't want to spoil anyone's surprise...
Second of all, a small lesson on avoiding the evil eye:
Be sure to stay away from boxes. Lesson over.
Lastly, I have a couple of finished objects it has taken me a while to photograph. First up, John's endless socks were actually finished last month:
I also did a weekend "what the hell, I've never felted before" project (leftover Knitpicks "Memories" merino, size three needles, pattern? We don't need no stinking pattern, man!):
It's a little smooshed because I had carried it to work to show a colleague. It's not really that wonky.
I have quite a few other little finished objects lying around, but they're Christmas items and I don't want to spoil anyone's surprise...