While going through our digital pictures in the hopes of actually finishing this year's calendar [the 2008 model got stuck around October's page as it got triaged.] I discovered that ( Read more... )

Caffeine & I don't mix well.  Since I don't like coffee or soda, this is generally not a problem.  I do however like Thai Iced Tea.  Since P. has nut allergies, I don't get Thai food often.  But Saturday night was coop night, and both P & I. were at someone else's house ( Read more... )

There have been a few things I've said in all seriousness to my kids lately that I never thought I'd have to say:

"Pens are not food. Neither are pen caps."
( non-work-safe words here... )

Our Rhinebeck /New York State Sheep & Wool Festival trip was wonderful again :)  Great cold clear weather, gorgeous leaves ( Read more... )

I love the fact that although I had to have my wedding date engraved on my wedding band so I'd remember it [it only took 4 years to realize this], Dan always remembers it.

Happy late anniversary Dan!

Taco Bell's Cannon Ball
otherwise known as Pachelbel's Canon. 

I think we have a standing population of slugs in our yard waste bin.  They get varied & frequent meals brought to the bin a several times per week, are sticky / strong enough to keep from being shaken into the garbage truck, and the weather hasn't been extreme enough to kill them off.  It's probably my fault they got in in the first place - When I ( Read more... )

Dan, to put a positive spin on it, has been getting a lot of father-sons bonding time lately, and tomorrow looks like another stint.  I'll be in the North Bend Mt. Si parade with part of my belly dance troupe; the parade is at 10:30a, and there's a performance at 3-something.  Current theory is we'll all go early to get me there in time for the ( Read more... )

I finished the bamboo ankle socks for me, and the acrylic knee socks for P. 
And a bottle cozy / carrier for the small & medium sized metal water bottles we use.

Full details in ravelry under cats.

 I've given up on the beans, something [bug? slug? bunny? mountain beaver? deer?] keeps eating the plants before they get 6" high.  And the morning glories grow back faster than I can yank them our by their roots.  So now we have a morning glory tunnel.  If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.  One benefit of the morning glories is that I just don't care ( Read more... )