Still trying to keep my Facebook page Trump-free. REALLY tempted to brush up on histories of demagogues and dictators and how they came to power ( Read more... )

The people who gave me Pumpkin in 2008 also gave me his fake-leopard-fur cat bed. They swore that he loved that bed. However, once he got into this house, he never sat in the thing. Eventually Julia came here, and she just took over that bed. She loves to curl up in it, especially now that it's in the bay window ( Read more... )

1. It has not escaped my notice that the funeral Mass for 9-year-old Tucson shooting victim Christina Green fell on the 14th anniversary of my mother's funeral Mass. Of course, my Mom did not live to see Sept. 11, 2001. Christina's entire life came after hers ( Read more... )

Last night I was going to go home from Three Left Feet rehearsal and post, "Golly gee, we had a great new sound tonight because maugorn was playing his brand-spankin'-new bass. It may not look medieval, but it sounds great ( Read more... )

Today I am wearing the yellow socks I knitted last year. I think I shall call them Lemon Zest. I have achieved Total Soxual Satisfaction! :-D ( Read more... )

First of all ... a somewhat late Happy Father's Day to all the Dads on my friends' list ( Read more... )

Thanks to all who complimented my sockLast night I cast on for the second sock. I had to go to knittinghelp.com to remember how to do the long-tail cast-on, and even then it STILL took me a whole bunch of tries to get it right, and THEN I discovered that I'd cast on way too tightly to transfer some of the stitches to the other needles, so I ended ( Read more... )

Tonight patches023 helped me finish my first sock!!!! I can has SOCK!!!

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Lazy wet flakes are falling outside. This is approximately the kind of snow my mother would have liked to see falling on Christmas Eve. Never mind that it's the first of March ( Read more... )

(Hmm, I think I need an icon that is a BIT more knitting-friendly than a drawing of a wool-destroying critter. But I digress already.)

I'm getting interested in knitting socks. I guess it all started when patches023 said she'd be teaching a sock-knitting class at Storvik fighter practice in the not-too-distant future. Knitted socks are period for the SCA ( Read more... )