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Washed Mitts

February 5, 2009

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Here are my washed mitts.  Do you notice something odd?  It has nothing to do with the camera angle.  The left mitten is definitely shorter than the right.  I didn’t notice it last night.  I don’t think I can get the right one on my left hand, so I’ll use it as a washcloth.  I’m fixing baked salmon, roasted red potatoes and asparagus with something.  I haven’t rummaged in the refrigerator yet so see what I have lurking there.  You may ask if I have a dishwasher.  Well, I do, but I like to wash dishes.  It’s quiet thinking time.  I also worry about my pre dishwasher era dishes and my sterling silver.  What’s the reasoning behind having nice things and not using them?  If you come to my home for lunch or a big dinner, you’ll see the same plates and utensils.  Well, the tablecloth will be different.

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Stupid Snow

January 28, 2009

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I’m making ham and bean soup so this is it for today.

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On Line Shopping

January 22, 2009

Normally, this is the best way to find what I want.  Not today.  The scissors, the book and the needles I wanted were out of stock.  I finally found the book elsewhere, but I didn’t want to pay the price.  I had no luck with the scissors.  My day went downhill from there.

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Looking Out the Window

January 12, 2009

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All Time High

January 5, 2009

I couldn’t believe the number of people that looked at this blog yesterday.  And it was a variety of places other than yesterday’s crap.  Interesting.

I was going to have this nice newsy blog this afternoon.  Then I realized it was knitting group day and I wanted to look at ipod accessories beforehand.  I wanted to wear my Latvian Dances, but I couldn’t find them.  One of the cats had jumped up onto the cutting table, sending the socks into the flower pots.  How do they do these things?   I couldn’t find my water bottle or my sunglasses.  I was kind of going crazy.  When I got down to the stores, I couldn’t get any deceit answers.  Everything I was interested in was on the bottom shelf.  I guess I’ll just buy on-line.

I had a nice time at knitting group.  We’re going to do an entrelac thing next time so I’ll dig out a few things and print out a few patterns.  Afterwards, Leslie and I went out to dinner and talked for a long time, so I guess I’m a bit talked out now.  When I finally got to the computer I started looking at the blog surfer.  Bad idea.  I am amazed at what I find, like this and this.  I lost tract of time.  Here’s my own kind of cute.

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Latvian Dances

January 3, 2009

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I finished the Latvian socks last night.  The pattern was almost perfect, considering all the charts that came with it.  I would recommend Red Bird to anyone.  The pattern did not have the two colors on the toes or bottom of the heel.  That was my doing.   These socks took less time to make than my red socks.  The increases and decreases in the red socks slowed me down.  Knowing how to hold yarn in either hand made these go fast and I am very happy with them. 

I’ve started another pair of socks.  The color is not to my liking, but the yarn feels wonderful.  The directions are a little strange.  The writer did not use standard abbreviations and some of the explanations are not well thought out. Perhaps, they were never proof read by an impartial subject.  I would probably drop this club and just get Red Bird more often, but they always send such great yarn.  What do I do? 

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We had a bit of snow this afternoon.  It was gone in a couple of hours.  But it certainly was pretty to look at while it lasted.

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More Nano Stuff

December 30, 2008

Today, I subscribed to a couple of podcasts.  They were good to listen to while I was folding clothes.  I added one of my Buddy Holley CDs.  Even the picture of the album showed on the screen.  Maybe tomorrow I’ll read about DVDs.  It would be nice to have my Lucy Neatbys on it.  I am also wondering about deleting the music that came on it.  There’s nothing there that I am really interested in listening to again and they take up almost 1GB.  This thing has 8GB and I’ve got a lot of CDs.

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Here’s Fergie in her new dress.  Nancy says she loves to wear it.

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Nano Stuff

December 28, 2008

So, I downloaded iTunes and I read a bunch of stuff.  It said it has to charge for three hours so I thought I would blog.  I looked at accessories.  I know I want to be able to play it in the car.  I like being able to put my CDs on it.  I looked at some package deals, but only a few had what I wanted.  I’ll probably make my own case for it.  It needs to have a pocket for the earpiece.  I’ll probably also make a separate case for the other stuff .  I’ll have to look through my stash.

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Here’s Olive in a rare pose.

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That’s more like it.

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A New Duck

December 20, 2008

p1010387It looks like a Muscovy duck.  There used to be a bunch of them by the restaurant on Route 13.  Since it closed, they had been leaving a few at a time.  It was raining all day so these pictures aren’t very good.

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I Finished the Pies

December 19, 2008

They took all day.  I was creaky.  I was cranky.  I did some knitting.  I watched a couple of movies.  We went out and got a pizza.  When we got back, I turned on the oven and now the pies are cooking.  Their lovely aroma is filling the house.  I shouldn’t, but I’ll probably have a piece before going to bed.  I have to go cut cheese.

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