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vacation knitting

The weather before we left on vacation was iffy, to say the least.  After a lovely June and early July, it turned wet and overcast.  I packed well for vacation, anticipating much rain and time spent indoors.  I packed three WIPs, yarn for another project and the spinning wheel with roving for two projects.

As it [...]

vacation stories

Last Tuesday, while in Westport, Hubby and Dad went out fishing on a charter boat.  They got up before the ass crack of dawn and headed down to the marina for a day of fishing.

About 4 o’clock or so Mom and I and the kids headed down to the marina to see if we could be [...]

welcome home

UPDATE: 8/26 MIL had surgery yesterday. She came through it fine, but it was a very long surgery. Thanks to all of you for keeping her in your thoughts.

We arrived home today from a week at the ocean, less than an hour later we received a phone call that MIL had fallen and broken [...]

view of the ocean

Here is the first finished yarn off the new wheel. The roving is 4oz of targhee, hand dyed by Emma of DragonFibers, in the colorway Oceanic.

    

Although it did end up being thick and thin in places all over, I am quite pleased with the plying, it is a tighter ply and [...]

jammin’

I’m exhausted.  Spent Saturday at MIL’s house canning . . . all day.

Yellow plums, blueberries, and blackberries.

pints – 8
12oz jars – 12 (one case)
1/2 pints – 24 (two cases)
4oz jars - 10

This was something like 8 batches of jam, of which one batch of plum preserves was done on Friday night, the rest were done on Saturday.  [...]

trip to the p-patch

(pictures from a trip to the p-patch 2 weeks ago)

7 random things

I was tagged for 7 random things long ago, by at least two different people.  Finally, here it is.

I only have 9 toenails. In the 5th grade I had half of the little toe on my left foot surgically removed. They thought it might be bone cancer, it wasn’t.
Hubby and I got married when I was [...]