This is what I did last night after the Happy Hookers meet-up. I started spinning up some of the rovings that I bought at Rhinebeck. The name of this colorway is “Sage” and I only have half a pound of it. It is (I believe) 100% merino wool. I am not sure that I like spinning …
Today was one of those weekend days that seems to go on forever. The weekends are the hardest for me to deal with Tech Support being gone. He is usually gone during the week normally. But then I would have him home all weekend making me tasty things to eat and cuddling. Oh, and mowing …
I have nearly finished the baby burrito. Today I bit the bullet and decided to get out the sewing machine and sew in the lining. Yesterday I went to Jo-Ann’s and found the perfect flannel to match this. It has puppies on it in sort of a patchwork look with the same green and brown …
Today was busy and expensive. I booked the shipping container that will be taking all of our worldly belongings to the UK. That was a $750 deposit. I paid the tag for the car…$55. I paid the fees for my gym membership $40 (they waived the late fees since I told them about the card …
Today at work I walked by a bench of marigolds and they reminded me of my grandmother. She always grew a hedge of marigolds in her garden, near the road. They were the open pollinated type, tall, hedgy, small pungent flowers. She would collect the seedheads in a paper bag that she kept in a dark …
I have an urge. An urge that involves a dark blue sharpie, the cover of darkness and a small flashlight. Oh, and a sign on someone’s front lawn. Have you seen those McCain-Palin signs everywhere? When I very first saw one I thought that it said McCain-Pain and I though, “Heck yeah!”. Then …
I figure that if I get them out in the open, they cannot come true. So, I am getting them as out in the open as I possibly can (with maybe the exception of having Susan Stamberg read them aloud at 8:30on a Tuesday morning). I mean, what is more out there and in the …
Sarah Jane Humke 