Archive for June, 2008



D-Day, plus 1

Published on June 7, 2008

is our wedding anniversary.  We went out to dinner this evening, and then someplace else for a nice fattening dessert.  Had a lovely time. The heat is getting to us all, though.   It’s after 10pm and it’s still 92 F. outside with over 70% humidity.  The heat haze during the day obscures your vision, makes […]


Spinning makes my back hurt

Published on June 5, 2008

And if I was smarter, I would stop sooner.   But, clearly, I’m not.  And I didn’t. Proof.     Just plied Sakina Needles merino superwash, oddly (at least in this picture) named “Lavender.”   Huh? Well, those that use a flyer with hooks can place the colors “just so” and all of them could show.  I […]


Sheri, from The Loopy Ewe, is an Enabler

Published on June 4, 2008

With a Capital “E” !! I had been thinking that I really needed to go on a bit of a “yarn diet.”   We aren’t discussing the other sort of diet here, or the ever-widening, uh, need.  I must work from the stash more, reduce it’s size – or buy the house next door just for storage.   I […]