On Sunday, we went to the National Museum of the American Indian.  Bill and Shirley were so happy to see how well everything came together for the museum.  They live just outside a Ute reservation and have been active in the Nine Mile Canyon Coalition for years.  Shirley was also a Latin American Studies major […]

As I was saying, Bill and Shirley, Scott’s aunt and uncle the llama-ranchers, were in DC last week for a conference.  We got to claim them over the weekend.  Like most people, we get stuck in the daily work-cook-clean-sleep routine, and forget what our hometown has to offer us.  When guests come to town, we […]

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 […]

Our friend Scott Hull (aka Gallen from Dalhraidia) has needed a liver transplant for a long time.  He has primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC)–the quick and dirty explanation is that his bile ducts are all screwed up for no good reason, so the excess bile they produce corroded his liver and made him really sick.  Scott […]