Some January RIFFing | 1.12.24
It has been a relatively quiet week here... Steve was back to "regular" work hours (whew!) and I found the time to knit myself to "fresh" yarn (as Carole so brilliantly put it!) on the Great Cabled Cardigan! And I have been having great fun "unpacking" my word for the...
Friday thoughts | 5.27.22
Bring poppies for a weary mind That saddens in a senseless din. — William Winter One of the most fleeting of things... my poppies... and yet, perhaps I love them so much because they are so fleeting. One thing I hope is not fleeting... our outrage at the gun violence...
When Knitting Updates Are Never The Answer
Hello, Gentle Readers. I had a completely different post planned for today and then the world fell apart. I am sorry, but I feel publishing that post is rather tone deaf in light of what happened at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas yesterday. Hug your loved...
Sometimes Monday | 5.23.22
The best laid plans of bloggers... sigh. I had planned on giving you all a May Word update today. But Carolyn posted this weekend that word update would be next Monday. Okay... that works, because it gives me a few more days to contemplate Four Thousand Weeks, which I...
Friday Finds | 5.20.22
It's been a week, hasn't it? I have tried and tried to make sense of the senseless and I can find no simple answers... no complicated answers either. My heart is heavy for the citizens of Buffalo and for the Black/Brown/Indigenous American/LGBTQIA+/Non-Christian...
Unraveled Wednesday | 5.18.22
The making this week has been of the "small" variety but I wanted to take a moment to identify the photos for you all from Monday's post: 1. A chive blossom 2. an African violet 3. Bee balm and 4. the Tri-colored birch beech (thank you, Kym) in my back yard. Monday...
Randomly on Monday | 5.16.22
A bit of a random brain dump this morning... sorry about that. This morning I am a bit "foggy" because I got another COVID booster shot yesterday. I had thought to wait till the fall but COVID numbers have been on a sharp incline here in Allegheny County so I went and...
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