I am not, in point of fact, all talk. I am mostly talk, but not all talk. Our new refrigerator is in place, on top of newly-laid tiles.  And our hero Mike came by and did some lovely finish-carpentry for us over the weekend.  Ahhhhhhh.  We may finish the kitchen before, you know, any of […]

Not dead.  Swamped at work. Bill and Shirley, the keepers of the llamas-in-law are in town, so we’re showing them some great things about Virginia and DC.  I even managed to take pictures. I’ve been working away on Print o’ the Wave, on some sock ideas (which all get frogged), and on a circular needle […]

I knew I would come home from Celtic Summer Camp with new stuff.  I just wasn’t aware how much I would come home with.  I didn’t get by without spending any money this year, but Crazy Lanea’s (the basket of clothes for friends for which the blog is named, not the blog) covered my shopping […]

Bloglines sux.  I’ve added some more vacation posts, but bloglines won’t tell you that for some mysterious reason.  Please scroll back for your voyeuristic pleasure. In other news, I’m definitely going to Rhinebeck (and hoping to drag Ruadhan and Etaine with me), and I may also be going to the Knitter’s Review retreat.  Woot! I’ve […]

  That’s right–I’m betting I’ll stitch a mile sometime in the next while.  Not a short while, mind you, but it will happen.  I wish I had started measuring way back in the way back. I am in the sweatshop as much as I can stand to be in the sweatshop.  I do need to […]

Here are the updated Ring guidelines, as developed on Knitter’s Review.  Please follow them, so we don’t have to move you into the queue: 1. Link to this page with the words "Knitters Review Member",  "Knitters Review Webring", or the ring button.  Don’t link to Molly’s old KR Ring page. 2.  Include, at a minimum, […]

Scott just saved a squirrel.  It had fallen off of our roof into a trashcan full of rain-water.  We don’t normally keep booby-traps around to torture the wildlife, but these floods and storms keep getting ahead of us.  Our hero was outside grilling up some burgers and just happened to check to see if any […]