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I’ve almost forgotten how to check my email on my own on a computer, since my phone just notifies me when an account has fresh mail in it. I haven’t really had to check my email since entering in my account information via my Droid because my phone makes sure my email checks on me. [...]

What’s interesting about some people is how careful they can be to remain very non-specific. Victorian knitting patterns where the author gives everything else but carefully withholds gauge come to mind, where I assume one would just follow the instructions with obedience and worsted wool on such-and-such-sized pins and hope to heaven they know someone [...]

…and more to come. I think. I haven’t exactly been very definite lately. I seem to work best in bursts. After a stint of yarnlessness (it was really not pretty) I went through a bit of a knitting related dry spell. Actually, if I hadn’t been for the knitting this week I would have probably [...]

We have an older F100 Ford pickup truck. This isn’t a brag point, it’s just the vehicle we drive. If you aren’t familiar with this style of truck, relax, close your eyes and envision a gun rack. Slowly let the truck form itself around the gun rack and a tattered John Deere baseball cap in [...]

After putting some lace knitting behind me, I totally understand the value of knitting something that keeps one entertained. Am I just a freak of nature because I’m not bored by stockinette or garter stitch? Or am I just so obsessed with composition that I think the eye should have a clear line to travel [...]

Reasons why you have to mentally prepare for a craft fair; small children with muddy hands, large adults with muddy hands, people looking to ‘ghost’ projects, people looking to barter/haggle/trade/or sell you something, thumbnail marks on candles (yes, it’s really wax people, why do you have to test it?), people that smoosh stuff in hope [...]

This morning I took advantage of the age old housewife trick of sleeping in sweat pants and ratty t-shirt. Bless Flylady’s sweet heart, but there are times when baby steps are not the answer, there are times the answer involves two quarts of degreaser concentrate, an alarm clock, thick rubber gloves and sweatpants. Earlier in [...]

I absolutely love it when people who don’t know what they are talking about insist on talking about something as if they are total experts. It’s even more fun when they convince me that they are an expert in something and I act on their advice. I’m such a rook. I just spent half an [...]

Cow abductions are serious business, don’t be fooled– first the aliens will take a few cows and when bored with bovines they will take our sheep. Don’t let this happen, lets stop those bad aliens before they threaten our wool supply. I am seriously craving a jumbo flyer for my Traveller wheel. I have four [...]