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Here is a masonry blog layout with no sidebarThings I learned this week | 2.9.24
Happy Friday! Yes, February is moving on... rather rapidly! (too rapidly?) I am thinking that our little run of gloriously sunny days might be the reason why... because the normal sunless winter we usually get... well, those days just seem to drag, don't they? But...
Unraveled Wednesday | 2.7.24
Greetings dear Unravelers and Happy First Wednesday in February! Is it just me or are you all surprised to find yourself on the seventh day of this month? I hit a HUGE milestone on Sunday afternoon... (I feel like I should insert a drumroll here... lol) I finished the...
Welcome February | 2.5.24
The Polar Intuit of northwest Greenland, the northernmost people, call February ‘seqinniaq’, “the month when the sun appears. ― Fred Bruemmer Yes, February brings lengthening days and in Pittsburgh, we will gain an additional 66 minutes of daylight this month! Woot!...
Proof of Life | 2.2.24
Today is Groundhog's Day and Punxsutawney Phil will soon be making is prediction... but regardless of him seeing his shadow or not, we have 6 more weeks of winter before spring arrives on March 19th. (Although with our forecast of a week of much warmer temps, maybe...
Unraveled Wednesday | 1.31.24
Greetings dear Unravelers! At long last, we have arrived at the last day of January... it has been A. Month. (that felt like a month and a half... at least!) We had "winter" for roughly ten days... ten glorious flannel sheet days. There was snow for less time, but for...
A Timely Beginning | January 2024
A new year, a new month, a new word... (and at least one of these things is a very good thing!) This month I spent my some of my time "unpacking time" a bit. I found that I had quite a few "boxes" to look through as this word began showing up for me last April! I am...
January… or April… a RIFF | 1.26.24
It has been a topsy-turvy week here... we went from having temps in the teens on Sunday... to this morning an unbelievable 63°F. It smells like spring outside... and the birds must be thinking so as well because there was so much singing as Sherman and I trekked out...
Unraveled Wednesday | 1.24.24
Greetings dear Unravelers and Happy Wednesday to you all! It has been a study in slow making in my house since last week... very slow. I have not knit a single stitch on my cabled sweater... I know, I know! I have been stitching... which is so delightful but it is...
Sometimes Monday | 1.22.24
Is so random! Here in the 'Burgh we have had winter for a hot minute but all that changes this week as we are looking at temps soaring into the 50's... sigh. That means all the snow we got will melt... we had some melting yesterday which turned the steps to get...
A Gathering of Poetry | 1.18.24
One of the best things in my week are the moments that I allow a poem to set the tone for my day. This year, I am reading through Phyllis Cole-Dai and Ruby R. Wilson's Poetry of Presence II as my morning devotion. And last week, a poem really jumped out to me... bits...
Unraveled Wednesday | 1.17.24
Greetings gentle Unravelers! When I look at a weather map, almost the entire US looks plunged in cold... and knitters everywhere knit on with a bit of delight! Right? I know I did... Sock One is DONE! and Sock Two is moving right along. I shall have pink socks soon!...
Sometimes Monday | 1.15.2024
Brings answers! Last week, a few of you asked me questions and I have answers! Carolyn asked these burning questions: "That photo, what a treat!!! With your phone? Or serious camera?" I took that photo with my phone, which I think is a very serious camera! (Why?...
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...
Unraveled Wednesday | 1.10.24
Greetings dear Unravelers and Happy Wednesday! It has been a week with a good bit of actual unraveling here... sigh. Yes, on the Great Cabled Sweater... because of course. This time it is 100% knitter error... I somehow** skipped an entire section of the "straight"...
Hello, January | 2024
Begin as you mean to go on... Charles Spurgeon Here we are one week into the new year. I spent some of last week tucking away Christmas... a bit of a melancholic activity. But I also like the feeling of reclaimed space to start the new year... which helps to balance...
A Year of Time | 1.5.24
Life can be very curious and last April I stumbled into this conversation with Jenny Odell. It was the beginning of time showing up for me... nudging me... as I moved through my year with Authenticity. I could not get the conversation with Jenny Odell out of my mind...
A Year of Unraveling | 2023
...To not be making things is to be dead. — Donna Druchunas, comment from Melanie Falick's blog. Greetings dear Unravelers and Happy New Year! Welcome to a new year of unraveling... one which I plan to continue exactly as we have been... sharing peeks into our making...
Reading…the best of the best | 2023
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one. ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons It has been an excellent year of reading (again!) I truly do not understand how the non-reader gets through the day......