I was on my last nerve for a while today, but the new purling (so my stitch legs are where I want them on the other side) is going ok. Of course almost every time I think, "This is going well!" I drop the yarn and my fingers have no idea what they're doing with these two pointy things, but so far no blood anywhere ( Read more... )

I haven't confirmed this with independent observation, but I think it could be studied and would compare well ( Read more... )

I've been doing extra knitting lately. People on Ravelry talk about knit and crochet patterns a fair amount, and I kept seeing references to various designers and patterns. I'd go look at them and after a while I noticed I was seeing some designers' work quite often, such as verybusymonkey and Boo Knits and Nimble Knits ( Read more... )

LJ has gotten weird about whether I am logged in. Sometimes I can look at multiple pages before I discover I am not logged in. Other times I click on one other page and poof. Sometimes I can actually comment somewhere; other times not. Today is a not ( Read more... )

We have a greenhouse. At least until the first big windstorm, when it will probably depart our property for some other location. G didn't arrange any kind of tie-downs yet ( Read more... )

I'm re-reading Bride of the Rat God ( Read more... )

With my new "don't just store it, look at it" philosophy, I turned the window around in one of the empty miniature room boxes and put into it all the things I could find that go with an outdoor garden, including the plastic container with tiny birds, the make-your-own-paper butterflies, the Japanese garden lanterns, the terra cotta pots and wall ( Read more... )

I'm playing a computer game and I find a brick wall that is begging to be dismantled. I have a crowbar, so I click the crowbar on the bricks. Nothing happens, but the game says, "I need something strong for this, like a crowbar ( Read more... )

I've had some new books ( Read more... )

There is some thin snow out there. The birds are flapping by, cars are moving along at a good rate, and there's precipitation off and on, usually rain ( Read more... )