tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54577888285020943202024-03-12T19:45:48.217-04:00As the Spirit Moves MeOdds and Endsknittergranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11160027913020949487noreply@blogger.comBlogger1020125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5457788828502094320.post-64005531209132640392021-05-10T13:44:00.002-04:002021-05-10T13:44:30.353-04:00I'm One Hellava Gardener<p> <span style="font-family: arial;">Well, maybe I'm not.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I don't think I did much gardening last summer and I don't know why. Covid? I don't think Covid was loitering around in my garden, so it couldn't have been that.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Anyway, this year I decided that my so-called perennial garden should actually look like one and I've been wandering around in it, trying to identify what I've planted in the past. I have lots of mystery plants.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Anyone know what this is? Anyone? I sure don't. I found lots of loose labels scattered around, but I couldn't match them to any plants, so I still have lots of puzzles to either solve or ignore.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdX17rd0L5_Xy7-9NqlYYtznLeVmrr7dFRUce6EO2EhXGe33s6pOPd_TnnLN0xIYb4Iz6QoJvEujx99IiGS8RFVIFjEtXinmMpdUvCfqiTBgr5tpwftp7kadzVQ-iUHoCOiZGPDSMlmlU/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdX17rd0L5_Xy7-9NqlYYtznLeVmrr7dFRUce6EO2EhXGe33s6pOPd_TnnLN0xIYb4Iz6QoJvEujx99IiGS8RFVIFjEtXinmMpdUvCfqiTBgr5tpwftp7kadzVQ-iUHoCOiZGPDSMlmlU/w400-h300/image.png" width="400" /></a></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;">This label (upside down, sorry, Blogger is misbehaving today) is for a rose. Queen Elizabeth. I don't know how it got on this plant but this is definitely NOT a rose.</span><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjClem2wjavEUCyooy0It4H9Xo2cfiesvEZ5lgyw-nxznCTPMN9IF0VQgj8KX4s95jvSFSrVVgq_2bp7K_3IhIJeCGIdfEeFHUGNRiM1VXmIjh2HSdf0MrDJ9-iE4ZyEoE1tVzhwOyRgsM/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjClem2wjavEUCyooy0It4H9Xo2cfiesvEZ5lgyw-nxznCTPMN9IF0VQgj8KX4s95jvSFSrVVgq_2bp7K_3IhIJeCGIdfEeFHUGNRiM1VXmIjh2HSdf0MrDJ9-iE4ZyEoE1tVzhwOyRgsM/w400-h300/image.png" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">It's clearly a blueberry plant, although I didn't realize it until I saw these little beginnings of blueberries. I knew that I had planted one in the past, and here it is! Surprise-I thought the deer had eaten it.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirSuQnP2RzUm27MS_BmUsnLYK34Gy5UW2K-e3CrLlpGlest3mjZEw6aWxRceVuJH-bE6WqCT_Euo73RJIb6TS4hGm7q4j2Ykxxub_bFkFN84wLC9-iwhvTo3JNdFQS0ZVZVkxybAuyr1Q/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirSuQnP2RzUm27MS_BmUsnLYK34Gy5UW2K-e3CrLlpGlest3mjZEw6aWxRceVuJH-bE6WqCT_Euo73RJIb6TS4hGm7q4j2Ykxxub_bFkFN84wLC9-iwhvTo3JNdFQS0ZVZVkxybAuyr1Q/w400-h300/image.png" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Here is an existing rose plant. I told you I was a good gardener.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi98En0DCnvgfY7bkLlgXmK2a98u6Tmzg9Zi3oFd8bu32vdOhzB2eh1DhludZCT5PaHWxeOVbTegREsqFL9IQCwfiEIAVldzJCwUIAxa94UqHnvdIa3HCS0K5TSvQodMrUN88dM35tCK7M/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi98En0DCnvgfY7bkLlgXmK2a98u6Tmzg9Zi3oFd8bu32vdOhzB2eh1DhludZCT5PaHWxeOVbTegREsqFL9IQCwfiEIAVldzJCwUIAxa94UqHnvdIa3HCS0K5TSvQodMrUN88dM35tCK7M/w400-h300/image.png" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I had lots of peony plants that did nothing this year and I think it's from lack of sun so we will move them. These poor, bedraggled peonies. (Sideways because ...Blogger, and it will only allow me to have text in the center now.)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT3UnUiRekZHzNXGZ0mf1Ucl3nqxTMh_ko2-SK8tePqvvhaJhVuI2p4rxDY4Kf8xAT6Bb-DLYRIMFvLYQJMUFpDpAJhmKlF2Nmrokr5O-RCTlxATeaDyfbLGhU6ZX8Ak_SDf0608MGSK8/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT3UnUiRekZHzNXGZ0mf1Ucl3nqxTMh_ko2-SK8tePqvvhaJhVuI2p4rxDY4Kf8xAT6Bb-DLYRIMFvLYQJMUFpDpAJhmKlF2Nmrokr5O-RCTlxATeaDyfbLGhU6ZX8Ak_SDf0608MGSK8/w400-h300/image.png" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">And, bonus! If you've ever wondered why a Tulip Poplar tree is called that, here is one of the flowers that fall in the spring. Very much like a tulip. </span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbW8XidyO_t1w5FDfTcdjU5KKrpy0WMfuDnBvBBU3S3Am_aVbZDt0ftdjAmdjuJKEZ8C0rzDCcmQyT0Z7hZZMzMVtJyj5fMcB-fQVZSQlNptnZ-DpoNFkEfk4OHmVxVoRbeJy51h_MQKw/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbW8XidyO_t1w5FDfTcdjU5KKrpy0WMfuDnBvBBU3S3Am_aVbZDt0ftdjAmdjuJKEZ8C0rzDCcmQyT0Z7hZZMzMVtJyj5fMcB-fQVZSQlNptnZ-DpoNFkEfk4OHmVxVoRbeJy51h_MQKw/w400-h300/image.png" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">We went to a garden show two weekends ago for inspiration and we did see some pretty gardens, but this was my favorite find. There was no For Sale sign on it, so it can't be mine, but I love it. Beautifully restored, better restored than my garden is so far.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdaH8olbAXK-ORjqYEnyAirGfyTj6kc-YOzvXxXnFtRhvezw8p4cz78oXHNfMngmoJj1LSivcPgNtELBEdeSC82pn5z6KTsjehNQsF4_tN8BHurqNn2MRkF26w48lZW_uxK2WPdJuv5jg/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="292" data-original-width="566" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdaH8olbAXK-ORjqYEnyAirGfyTj6kc-YOzvXxXnFtRhvezw8p4cz78oXHNfMngmoJj1LSivcPgNtELBEdeSC82pn5z6KTsjehNQsF4_tN8BHurqNn2MRkF26w48lZW_uxK2WPdJuv5jg/w400-h206/image.png" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><br 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/></a></p>knittergranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11160027913020949487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5457788828502094320.post-82385221601118191472021-02-09T13:00:00.000-05:002021-02-09T13:00:42.755-05:00My Goodness<p><span style="font-family: arial;">I just saw that I haven't posted since October. I guess because life has been so busy and fascinating and exciting since then?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Nope. Just boring and very Groundhog Day-ish.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The other day, my knitter daughter sent a photo of a hat she was going to make and mentioned that it required DK yarn and that she would <i>have to </i>go to the yarn shop near her. NO! said I. I have LOTS of DK weight yarn. A few years ago I sorted all of my yarn by weight, and I was sure I had more DK weight yarn than I could ever use. I offered to send my DK stash to her. She accepted, I went to retrieve it and lo and behold, I had exactly NO DK weight yarn.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">However, I discovered that I have LOTS of fingering weight yarn.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>SIX POUNDS</b> of fingering weight yarn.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2QB7DanRaYCJEBCCITBdlCWbzowzOcz9Ek-mO90oCyc_nHOJx3xirNIKPtHiVbYlcgITR_ZIu3u68GqGkEUXbs8KfPnm6TdB7N-dXicjsQD0HXjPXiuk70Vl1ohW2K79F1OkJf1zoApk/s2048/2234B1D6-7D63-484B-A7CB-FDBD2B054088.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2QB7DanRaYCJEBCCITBdlCWbzowzOcz9Ek-mO90oCyc_nHOJx3xirNIKPtHiVbYlcgITR_ZIu3u68GqGkEUXbs8KfPnm6TdB7N-dXicjsQD0HXjPXiuk70Vl1ohW2K79F1OkJf1zoApk/w300-h400/2234B1D6-7D63-484B-A7CB-FDBD2B054088.heic" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;">I know that I bought it bit by bit, but really? Six pounds of a weight of yarn that I have no idea what to do with?</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">So that is exciting, right?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8LHrXmQXiGDNnUfvNA2xPvJMLduH2x8W4PuTocOGXiv1Xu4TpPvIMKW7H3vl4y6fXTzVNuylZGq-udi5qG_X88mHcjelXvYTV_5onOVbrsdb6BdSV1GZqcAFdCCrewKrB0NPsdqHaATU/s603/449F34AB-0DEE-48F0-8A44-DA75F93FF3EB.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="377" data-original-width="603" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8LHrXmQXiGDNnUfvNA2xPvJMLduH2x8W4PuTocOGXiv1Xu4TpPvIMKW7H3vl4y6fXTzVNuylZGq-udi5qG_X88mHcjelXvYTV_5onOVbrsdb6BdSV1GZqcAFdCCrewKrB0NPsdqHaATU/w400-h250/449F34AB-0DEE-48F0-8A44-DA75F93FF3EB.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Now on to the $%^& virus that has kept us from normal lives since last spring. I am <i>lucky</i> to be over 65 so that I qualified for the vaccine program and I've already received my second shot. First shot? No problems. Second shot? Chills, fever, aches. Something like 20% of people get reactions to the second dose, and anyone who has already had Covid is more likely to get flu-like reactions according to a <a href="https://covid.joinzoe.com/post/covid-vaccine-pfizer-effects" target="_blank">study</a> in the UK. <p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I don't think I've had Covid, so I guess it's just luck of the draw for most of the 20%. At any rate, it's better than getting Covid, so</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">GET YOUR SHOTS when you are eligible. Tell them Knittergran sent you. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p>knittergranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11160027913020949487noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5457788828502094320.post-41397012252684227332020-10-04T15:42:00.001-04:002020-10-04T15:42:20.344-04:00Baking Again<p> </p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I'm nothing if not persistent.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Yesterday I made buttermilk biscuits again. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-rjkckMRxcLfL1K42tLeBIBFVxCkEGSj8vw3zuIsGAGaSnMGvpgYcjviXB8uetFRh2K_jz_xoNqXlGXSUsWE3eArQo2xPn3EYhYC4Xh17HpFxT1V4O2dqQxYn7WxDn_b5qUFqFjzkQV0/s2048/DA6A3945-B810-465C-B34F-62A34485042D_1_201_a.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1480" data-original-width="2048" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-rjkckMRxcLfL1K42tLeBIBFVxCkEGSj8vw3zuIsGAGaSnMGvpgYcjviXB8uetFRh2K_jz_xoNqXlGXSUsWE3eArQo2xPn3EYhYC4Xh17HpFxT1V4O2dqQxYn7WxDn_b5qUFqFjzkQV0/w400-h289/DA6A3945-B810-465C-B34F-62A34485042D_1_201_a.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">They aren't pretty. They aren't all the same size. They do taste good though and I used actual buttermilk instead of faking it with vinegar and milk. I believe I get extra credit for that.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">And this is what my kitchen looked like afterwards.</span></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOzXl2TZVFmmMBbIh7TeayUEKcUzdFm41Epe-ir8K1ezh55WEh-3UICXh6e7TiDQ2JzBqmSUohmSnzUis2aeXG6bFw4HlSyBEAQkTxmJakilDS-bxUMMFESNrsiL7Bv_RA8Szl7CoBP0E/s2048/4054B710-943C-4DE4-8C7E-DAC0E39A026D.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOzXl2TZVFmmMBbIh7TeayUEKcUzdFm41Epe-ir8K1ezh55WEh-3UICXh6e7TiDQ2JzBqmSUohmSnzUis2aeXG6bFw4HlSyBEAQkTxmJakilDS-bxUMMFESNrsiL7Bv_RA8Szl7CoBP0E/w300-h400/4054B710-943C-4DE4-8C7E-DAC0E39A026D.heic" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Add caption<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxhSuG6b3uPXCwSdhRRnZbHBXv2x0E43oU_jV7b6Lpgkd5UhKXSX95_eZKXJaiJvhVyxIJ0UMKa2nxGTwo6MpFvngWIspBMgxWzJaRQP9ZgtMf-BPtvwHwyT2-3vJrPY8h5Nog0dxWpVc/s2048/B1DECFB8-FDF3-4C3C-99F7-811DAF4C2A40.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxhSuG6b3uPXCwSdhRRnZbHBXv2x0E43oU_jV7b6Lpgkd5UhKXSX95_eZKXJaiJvhVyxIJ0UMKa2nxGTwo6MpFvngWIspBMgxWzJaRQP9ZgtMf-BPtvwHwyT2-3vJrPY8h5Nog0dxWpVc/w300-h400/B1DECFB8-FDF3-4C3C-99F7-811DAF4C2A40.heic" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeIzY7swkN1y3DfGFb6thztfz_bgvOh2jtFnhvlpl6Q79ZamiXnRtqAwujheG0rsVP_0QxutUxqJ49LYQq0MRNdhf1Npnj_tG-ZrvG9Z8fFDIHmLyyO8dxTcKNwHWOW53MiTXCrVvK8C8/s2048/E255AE4B-CEE9-4AC8-827C-5EE1F37E27DC_1_201_a.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1078" data-original-width="2048" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeIzY7swkN1y3DfGFb6thztfz_bgvOh2jtFnhvlpl6Q79ZamiXnRtqAwujheG0rsVP_0QxutUxqJ49LYQq0MRNdhf1Npnj_tG-ZrvG9Z8fFDIHmLyyO8dxTcKNwHWOW53MiTXCrVvK8C8/w400-h210/E255AE4B-CEE9-4AC8-827C-5EE1F37E27DC_1_201_a.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">I will probably hear from the Cooking Channel any day now, don't you think?</span><p></p>knittergranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11160027913020949487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5457788828502094320.post-80245130164466544302020-09-09T13:34:00.000-04:002020-09-09T13:34:00.813-04:00I Did It!<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I rode my bike all the way to the Post Office and back! That has been my goal for years because, as I have mentioned before, I love <a href="http://knittergran.blogspot.com/2008/10/why-i-should-live-at-po.html" target="_blank">Post Offices!</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, and this is a big however, I did fall, yet again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bikers have to abide by rules of the road, I am told, so at a crosswalk, I had to stop, which means I have to get off my bike, because the seat is TOO HIGH and I can't quite get enough of my foot on the pavement to casually balance the bike while I wait to go across the street. I tried, but I fell.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The last time I fell I <a href="https://knittergran.blogspot.com/2016/08/as-flying-spaghetti-monster-is-my.html" target="_blank">broke my wrist</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I asked my bike-mechanic/long-distance rider/biking EXPERT- husband to lower the seat so that I could put more of my foot on the pavement, rather than just the very tip of my toe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He said, and I quote, "You have to learn how to dismount gracefully." Apparently that involves gracefully sliding off of the seat as I gracefully put the very tip of my toe on the pavement.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Alrighty then. What that means <u>to me</u> is that I have to fall again and again and again in order to practice and finally learn how to GRACEFULLY DISMOUNT.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nope. Nope. Nope.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lower the seat! Or I will, if I can find the right wrench. You use a wrench for that, right?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I finally, FINALLY, finished this scarf:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is the <a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/perfect-blend" target="_blank">Perfect Blend</a> by Casapinka using <a href="https://www.ravelry.com/yarns/library/miss-babs-yummy-2-ply-toes" target="_blank">Miss Babs Yummy 2-Ply Toes</a> in the Casapinka Perfect Blend colorway.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I say "finally" because I began working on this on May 14th. It's a scarf, not a complicated stranded or cabled sweater, but it sure took a long time. And yes, I'm wearing it in this photo because I wore it indoors while I watched Serena Williams win her match at the US Open. Really, where else can I wear it? The grocery store? I hope by the time cool weather arrives we can go places again. Wear masks y'all!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now for the fail:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My first ever in this century part whole wheat bread. Brand new King Arthur yeast and Harvest Grains Blend,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">brand new King Arthur bread flour, brand new King Arthur whole wheat flour, and I followed the King Arthur recipe exactly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It just didn't rise enough in either of the two rises. So here it is. It tastes really good; it's just kind of...flat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So maybe next time?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>knittergranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11160027913020949487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5457788828502094320.post-65595390142171906042020-08-18T14:17:00.006-04:002020-08-18T14:17:55.314-04:00And!<p> </p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">We did experiment with cooking/air frying/baking other recipes too, not just the Eton Mess.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I bought a large bag of cauliflower florets for the kids to snack on. I like raw cauliflower, but the kids looked at them and pronounced them "styrofoam" broccoli." I see their point, but they were not going to eat them no matter what I said. So I used a <a href="https://www.thepioneerwoman.com/food-cooking/recipes/a101940/air-fried-buffalo-cauliflower-bites/" target="_blank">Pioneer Woman recipe</a> younger daughter had given me, and air-fried them. Yummm... But the kids had no interest in them and I had to eat them all myself. Again, yummm.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-fGmf-cY7P-eRrp9KrkB8sWKW3VWV__ReZ79PPmETbjUMOohh-8kacnv6mEHLD-1-u5AT7fT1i4rx0T07bmb4qsWvS1QWXMYfFiqQ-MzKPTeD2-MGlgg7uoMCidOwzCIxyYTbIkW3PkE/s2048/D74CEB71-6A71-4CB3-AC57-2A85363CCD53.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-fGmf-cY7P-eRrp9KrkB8sWKW3VWV__ReZ79PPmETbjUMOohh-8kacnv6mEHLD-1-u5AT7fT1i4rx0T07bmb4qsWvS1QWXMYfFiqQ-MzKPTeD2-MGlgg7uoMCidOwzCIxyYTbIkW3PkE/s640/D74CEB71-6A71-4CB3-AC57-2A85363CCD53.heic" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Another recipe:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Scones, from <a href="http://www.maryberry.co.uk/recipes/baking/devonshire-scones" target="_blank">Mary Berry's recipe</a>. They tasted great, but the recipe calls for self-rising flour, which I didn't have, so they were a bit flat. (Notice the one on the far right, the one I used a cutter to make. Flat. For the others, I just plopped the dough on the cookie sheet and those looked better.) Self-rising flour means self-rising flour. Lesson learned.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs0nuLG1iLrxxf5B0EKdvzESV1s_7V0nd554gSsD3EAPwXnCNSgzjAkm0NsZLZRJ-NxKDjQ_xmlMN05xDGKTG10OjpRxWfWYVLp2WFCEp7PtOqfe8oz3_SMip3P9QRdpgxtxUqBB-0kGw/s2048/7EF4440D-F041-4013-9447-0675427C69A4_1_201_a.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1328" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs0nuLG1iLrxxf5B0EKdvzESV1s_7V0nd554gSsD3EAPwXnCNSgzjAkm0NsZLZRJ-NxKDjQ_xmlMN05xDGKTG10OjpRxWfWYVLp2WFCEp7PtOqfe8oz3_SMip3P9QRdpgxtxUqBB-0kGw/s640/7EF4440D-F041-4013-9447-0675427C69A4_1_201_a.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">And I made homemade buttermilk biscuits, which I am ashamed to say, I had never done before. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">They turned out well, and they were for strawberry shortcake. We haven't had that in years and years because my husband thought he was allergic to strawberries, but a particularly bad reaction last year to who knows what sent him to the allergist. He had lots of tests and it turned out he is not allergic to strawberries. What he is allergic to, really badly allergic to, is now a mystery.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQIigYz13O7AXRUKE01UDrkE8r0JuZM-3oovdfpX0DaX3hj8d5PJd_B7uclCZ5cwVbf7jxd1zAzNmKP36qLExhC7XlnOPCiaVWp2TZ1a5HwZvF0vacPYx2N7rC1lhysKZRyWENhOE6lJw/s2048/9ECD6649-FF37-4094-B834-D169AF361B32.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQIigYz13O7AXRUKE01UDrkE8r0JuZM-3oovdfpX0DaX3hj8d5PJd_B7uclCZ5cwVbf7jxd1zAzNmKP36qLExhC7XlnOPCiaVWp2TZ1a5HwZvF0vacPYx2N7rC1lhysKZRyWENhOE6lJw/s640/9ECD6649-FF37-4094-B834-D169AF361B32.heic" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Beautiful, right?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">And yesterday I learned about this:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL5vES1F41fVBfJpXXEP3-5dE4RzljJhWNrU3-2AabTWpOvfo5zTCoUuAUUNbZUbM0sxP0HdUclRBewk6Uem6TirSFtYhIKUZ90-OF3s70Rz8hzORDGoWQ3hZmzJ2OOBMedLEBCQKP4cU/s500/DB44C36B-8283-47DB-8D03-81A7FB188E95.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="381" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL5vES1F41fVBfJpXXEP3-5dE4RzljJhWNrU3-2AabTWpOvfo5zTCoUuAUUNbZUbM0sxP0HdUclRBewk6Uem6TirSFtYhIKUZ90-OF3s70Rz8hzORDGoWQ3hZmzJ2OOBMedLEBCQKP4cU/s0/DB44C36B-8283-47DB-8D03-81A7FB188E95.jpeg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;">Oh, my.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I can't imagine that (probably frozen, pre-made) Eton Mess could possibly be good. Wouldn't all the merengue pieces and the added chocolate cookies be kind of soggy or cardboard-y after being held in the whipped cream for who-knows-how-long?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">It's too easy to make and too good to use this pre-made stuff instead. I wonder if restaurants do.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Make your own, y'all!</span></p>knittergranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11160027913020949487noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5457788828502094320.post-16367586119951369852020-08-17T23:14:00.002-04:002020-08-17T23:14:25.732-04:00Dinosaurs, Panda bears, and Eton Mess<p> </p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">We had our older daughter and three of her children visiting last week. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Her husband and oldest daughter, both working, held down the fort at home in Austin, Texas. We hadn't seen them since Christmas, and don't know when we will see them again, so it was a treat to have them here. They drove straight through, getting food at drive through restaurants only, to avoid contact with people. Bathrooms? Masks, soap and water.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">During this never-ending pandemic (wear masks dammit), there wasn't a lot exciting to do, but we did go to Zoo Atlanta, which was limiting the number of people at the zoo, masks were required, and six-foot sections were marked on the pavement in display areas. The indoor exhibits were closed, so all in all, a safe---and hot---way to get out of the house for awhile.</span></p><p><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3e262QGiI9uX1MqkY0KI4KxeJGO1g3MWSsNbio2hD4YiUMTmuHAyGMzsgk6lQEp-UjHFZa0X32-esdneZO_lVdZU02aI_vmv5PXikAh5FHb_1eRKkbIw3fBUq6lwq9PLIla9aJli7sGc/s0/99A574D0-6B42-4ACB-BE74-1133A7E00E74_4_5005_c.jpeg" style="font-family: arial;" /></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">And then there was this, Jurassic Quest, a drive-through exhibit with animatronic dinosaurs. It did not live up to expectations. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">It took place at the Atlanta Speedway parking lot, and was not remotely set up as a real environment for anything but cars. It took 90 minutes to get there, 30 minutes to get in, and an hour winding through the paths marked by yellow traffic cones. Yee-hah...</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLr-crNjtJpBqFFO1ceapoy30_4kXxIjjAUYD65oNET2nCwj6oKyvYVqVvEZ4vIg1OCQW_-jcdKK_-yGB39R55pdy2iMMcSTEn6_IKhxITwuW1xg7XTVuv-vtDdmznV6k1fFGRX_vnpaw/s2048/62F6FA76-B6FF-4A74-B1C1-F01E1BB7EE20.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLr-crNjtJpBqFFO1ceapoy30_4kXxIjjAUYD65oNET2nCwj6oKyvYVqVvEZ4vIg1OCQW_-jcdKK_-yGB39R55pdy2iMMcSTEn6_IKhxITwuW1xg7XTVuv-vtDdmznV6k1fFGRX_vnpaw/s640/62F6FA76-B6FF-4A74-B1C1-F01E1BB7EE20.heic" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpPoxXpoZcrIPAb5TioEz9UC57Rk49uz2rT0xUMFdMXHjKlHUOYW4hTxuRtCgmMKeJIFxaL8ULRqvX_rZS6wN3CLwvRZ1kNnlZmLTTobaGYGbudMQ_2incstEYSbiGecRKBuSw_pdLaiQ/s2048/74FD61EB-B9E3-45A7-80D7-BA987952EF3A.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpPoxXpoZcrIPAb5TioEz9UC57Rk49uz2rT0xUMFdMXHjKlHUOYW4hTxuRtCgmMKeJIFxaL8ULRqvX_rZS6wN3CLwvRZ1kNnlZmLTTobaGYGbudMQ_2incstEYSbiGecRKBuSw_pdLaiQ/s640/74FD61EB-B9E3-45A7-80D7-BA987952EF3A.heic" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;">The dinosaurs creaked and groaned and moved a little.</span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKxhjBKX5sdBvFfLPtRfZpw6S4PQ7Twy_spswysyrJp_H8t5pELvU3Sk9iLrIRgPUgQ_Sb6uadu3ht57PwZTenMPNg1r66G8Q9inXfHrs6GObI52B7SVu4671ZGu1qJRku_s2Wj-yvKlc/s2048/358A4547-B231-4704-AC4B-F96C95EE25BA.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKxhjBKX5sdBvFfLPtRfZpw6S4PQ7Twy_spswysyrJp_H8t5pELvU3Sk9iLrIRgPUgQ_Sb6uadu3ht57PwZTenMPNg1r66G8Q9inXfHrs6GObI52B7SVu4671ZGu1qJRku_s2Wj-yvKlc/s640/358A4547-B231-4704-AC4B-F96C95EE25BA.heic" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Looks like fun, right?</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikXLq6ZbTIkxBkg7o3NpX3cIZGeIr087RueiXlyq04HCKnC5ytnwFXxGMCVmQC07xGwnPjGCpvOnIU731xp4smq7O3hF8oXbLcQj70skpVuYyegBOBORfGEqmXY7n8wEk6LALr7Ry2D48/s2048/052529EA-952F-41AE-B373-97F9DABDC160.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikXLq6ZbTIkxBkg7o3NpX3cIZGeIr087RueiXlyq04HCKnC5ytnwFXxGMCVmQC07xGwnPjGCpvOnIU731xp4smq7O3hF8oXbLcQj70skpVuYyegBOBORfGEqmXY7n8wEk6LALr7Ry2D48/s640/052529EA-952F-41AE-B373-97F9DABDC160.heic" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">A plastic volcano! How realistic!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPwQTOlQExuglDqVTmZXdCPHNQALkoOVQuLeuqMPe1leiii7OHV-7rDwFbv_KRHK8HjruGcc2FHkq03OxzZxvHSn6jnvZaiaxCxZwCvqpVz7w6TezRNnkHfj5HtTus3Op_I5ABQynJva8/s2048/77982E71-FCE8-41E2-9E70-D8E4BFB5F88C.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPwQTOlQExuglDqVTmZXdCPHNQALkoOVQuLeuqMPe1leiii7OHV-7rDwFbv_KRHK8HjruGcc2FHkq03OxzZxvHSn6jnvZaiaxCxZwCvqpVz7w6TezRNnkHfj5HtTus3Op_I5ABQynJva8/s640/77982E71-FCE8-41E2-9E70-D8E4BFB5F88C.heic" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Again, we are mostly homebound during this pandemic so this "adventure" was good for a lot of laughs. And some moaning. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">A high point of the visit:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">This was fun and yummy---Eton Mess. My husband and I had this in Dublin a few years ago, and it's easy, easy, easy to make. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Jaden made the merengues, Elizabeth cut up the strawberries, and I made the whipped cream. We crumbled the merengues a bit, stirred the pieces and the strawberries into the whipped cream, and done!</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7_bk89xx2fqAM6sz2hGLgtbJtRv6SNOkSge5d5dXp2tygYVeOXkPrqazUPvKBRZ8NrcwpFELXBzSjauciq7DKl0gaIb4W-wADV7ewd6-wh3_wPj7PbqLv87kjMlrz2xYt2f2cdYa3Utc/s546/2DF9D06E-589C-4A19-A897-D2A1F3BCD330_4_5005_c.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="342" data-original-width="546" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7_bk89xx2fqAM6sz2hGLgtbJtRv6SNOkSge5d5dXp2tygYVeOXkPrqazUPvKBRZ8NrcwpFELXBzSjauciq7DKl0gaIb4W-wADV7ewd6-wh3_wPj7PbqLv87kjMlrz2xYt2f2cdYa3Utc/s0/2DF9D06E-589C-4A19-A897-D2A1F3BCD330_4_5005_c.jpeg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div>This is not my photo, but you get the idea. YUMMY!!!<br /></span><p></p><p><br /></p></div>knittergranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11160027913020949487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5457788828502094320.post-56297518988249603022020-06-22T12:43:00.002-04:002020-06-22T12:43:57.731-04:00I'm So Happy<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to a lip reader who watched Kate Middleton as she was driven in an open carriage after her wedding, that is what she said to William. "I'm so happy."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The spices, all but one, are in identical new jars with readable labels on the tops.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Apparently it doesn't take much for me to be happy during this endless pandemic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And what have I been doing? Not much. It's Pandemic World.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Each day is the same as the last, and the next. Some days all we accomplish is breathing and eating three meals. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It will probably be mind-numbingly boring, but that's where I am. I have 24 identical bottles and lots of matching labels and I am transferring my spices to these bottles so they will fit in the pantry AND so that I will be able to see what is <b>in</b> the bottles. I'm going to go really crazy and alphabetize them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Because I'm cooking more than I ever wanted to, I occasionally break up the menu with something different, and that's where the confusion of spices comes in. I fumble amongst them looking for the one a recipe calls for, it takes a few minutes sometimes, and because I have nothing better to do, I get annoyed. When I pulled all the containers out of the pantry, I found that I had duplicates, and in one case, triplicates, of some of the spices. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and has been for awhile. I just forgot about it, <i>stay-at-home</i> being so hectic and all. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And I was bored, so I've made scones using what was labeled as a British recipe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The pasty yellow ones are bland; they need clotted cream and strawberry jam. They were supposed to have blueberries in them, but I forgot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These turned out ok. AND I remembered the blueberries, and I used a larger wine glass to cut them out of the dough.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sort of, if I don't consider that I still need to: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pick up stitches around the neck and knit the ribbing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pick up stitches on each side of the front opening and knit the ribbing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Weave in all the ends.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So there's a lot to do yet, but I do see the light at the end of the tunnel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm also knitting some socks:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am halfway done with the second sock, so again, light at the end of the tunnel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AND next!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/perfect-blend" target="_blank">Perfect Blend</a> by Casapinka. Twelve colors (<a href="https://www.missbabs.com/collections/perfect-blend-sets" target="_blank">Miss Babs yarns</a>) and twelve different stitches. That should be fun, but first, I must finish the sweater. Says I. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It has been a long time since I have been here, but I have made some progress on my sweater:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's sort of weird looking, but it hasn't been blocked and that won't happen until I have finished knitting the whole thing. I did start a sleeve, picking up live stitches and casting on about eight more for the required total of 62 stitches.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then I started knitting, and according to the pattern, I should be decreasing two stitches every 8 rows. I did that and then tried on the sweater. The sleeve was very form fitting, skinny, narrow, tight, all of those things. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So I performed what I call a "Sally™,"</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue";">which involves yanking the needles out of live </span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue";">stitches and pulling out row after row after row.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "helvetica neue";"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue";">I’ve seen Sally do this over and over, and each time, any knitters present, including yours truly, gasp.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "helvetica neue";"> </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">It will all unravel.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>She will lose stitches and NEVER get them back, </i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue";">we all fear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">She has never had anything unravel that she didn’t want to unravel, and she doesn't lose </span>stitches, at least not in the presence of other knitters.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>( We don’t know what happens at home.)</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-kerning: none;">I pulled back row after row, and then stitch by stitch, took back the first row that I had made decreases in.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I came out with the right number of stitches, and, my theory is, that I can just work with that number of stitches, no decreases, and keep trying the sweater on.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>If it looks as if I can make some decreases further down the sleeve, in order to have the right number of stitches for the ribbing section, then that’s what I will do.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-kerning: none;">I probably ought to write down what I do so that I end up with two identical sleeves, right?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am struggling along on the Throwback sweater, sweating and swearing (quietly) as I knit the rows that use three colors. True fair isle, I am told, does not ever use more than two colors, and I swear, as doG is my witness, that I will never do three-color stranding again. The yarn gets more twisted than you can imagine, and I can't find a way around it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">People who have seen me work on this have noted that I take more time untwisting yarn as I knit a row than I do actually knitting. I'm sure it's true.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, I have no problem purling the wrong side of the sweater while I am stranding two colors, and people on Ravelry and in person have said that purling stranded knitting is really difficult. I find it pretty easy, which probably means I'm doing it wrong, but it's turning out ok.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yesterday I had only two rows of three-color knitting to do, but after I finished the second row, I found a mistake halfway across the first row. I had to take a row and a half out, just when I thought I had finished with the most difficult of the knitting. The rest would be a breeze. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I start over with three colors today, sweating and swearing (maybe not so quietly), hoping for the best. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In other news, I bought this good-looking cat tree. It's so much nicer than the one we've been using. No thick carpeting to hold onto hair and barf. Easier to take care of. All wood, so sturdy. The last cat tree we will ever need, I told my husband. He spent an hour and a half putting it together. The cats don't like it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm hoping they will eventually learn to love it, but so far, nope. I even squished Baxter's old cat bed into the bottom to replace the white fluffy faux fur pillow. (White? What were they thinking?)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ODC cats, right?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am fair-isle-ing!!! (not a word, until today)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I didn't think I could do it, but apparently I can! Knitter/needlepointer Elizabeth told me to keep the old yarn on top as I went from color to color, and that's what I did.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yay me!</span>knittergranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11160027913020949487noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5457788828502094320.post-40501518700637591492020-01-18T18:15:00.000-05:002020-01-18T18:15:58.359-05:00Ooops...<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of these things is exactly like the other.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Do you see the two identical halves of a snap? Yes, yes you do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I carefully cut off the hand-sewn half on the knitting, flipped it and re-sewed it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The snap is a clever way to attach the pom-pom to the hat, but I think I prefer the elastic loop method, where the elastic is pulled through the top of the hat and then buttoned around a, well, a button. Less sewing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I played yarn chicken with this project because I was using left-over yarn from the second Cowboys and Angels wrap. I both won and lost.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I still had rows to go before I could start the decreases and I gambled that I could make it because I had made the ribbing section shorter in order to save yarn. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So here's an update. Yes, the bathroom project in the previous post is finished.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am back to knitting, working on some socks</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and a hat (that I am probably going to run out of yarn for) in order to continue avoiding the sweater project I'm intimidated by. The </span><a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/the-throwback" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Throwback</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> by Andrea Mowry. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I was <strike>shopping</strike> <strike>on</strike> wandering around the internet today, I found these bobbins:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Aren't they <b><i>cute</i></b>?!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And I NEED <a href="https://www.craftyflutterbycreations.com/collections/stitch-markers-and-tools" target="_blank">them</a>, right, for the areas where I don't have to carry a lot of yarn.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I <i>suppose</i> I could have gotten by without them, but why do that? They will be on their way on Monday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I do hope they are coming on a slow boat from China. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No. No it is not.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On the good news front, it didn't require cutting away drywall to put in more backer board. The board that was there was large enough to provide support for the new sink.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">New sink, new outline. And yes, there is wall paper under all the layers of paint.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sigh....</span>knittergranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11160027913020949487noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5457788828502094320.post-60353466922536580872019-12-06T16:24:00.000-05:002019-12-06T16:24:12.288-05:00A.n.d...NOPE<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Returning to the mission creep episode, nope, the project will not be finished today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It seems that the new sink is just enough taller than the old one that it requires installation of new backer board, which means cutting away some of the freshly painted drywall and then patching the drywall and re-painting the drywall and then installing the sink.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sigh.......</span>knittergranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11160027913020949487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5457788828502094320.post-38176781905378123812019-12-06T14:45:00.002-05:002019-12-06T14:45:45.871-05:00Mission Creep<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because there were just the two of us for Thanksgiving, we (meaning I) decided that the half bath on the first floor needed re-painting. We (meaning my husband) had previously painted it in a semi-gloss paint. It was too shiny, reminding me of what might be used in a run-down gas station bathroom, a bathroom that might need scrubbing down. I'm not imagining why that might be necessary.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway, when we were re-doing the bathroom upstairs, a salesperson at Sherwin-Williams told me about the matte finish they sell. Not quite flat, not quite semi-gloss. It was just right. So I took everything off the walls, bought the paint and off we (meaning my husband) go.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Painting is finished. Hmmm... maybe we should get a more modern, low-flow toilet. Off to Lowes and Home Depot. Found one, bought it, installed it, and done.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But we needed new faucets to "update" the sink. Off to the Lowes and Home Depot, bought new stuff, and when my husband tried to un-install the old plumbing stuff (I don't know what that entails) he discovered that the sink had a couple of cracks in it, all the way through. Apparently that happened because the plumbers, 30 years ago, used something resembling concrete to install the plumbing, and hammering that away broke the sink.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By the way, we are three weeks out from when we started this project. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Off to Lowe's and Home Depot. Again. Buy a new sink, and maybe later today, everything will be finished.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cross your fingers, ok?</span>knittergranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11160027913020949487noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5457788828502094320.post-24979579890788405912019-11-10T20:53:00.000-05:002019-11-10T21:22:21.543-05:00Come On Over for Dinner! <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1st step: 450 deg: 15 minutes</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2nd step: 350 deg: 20 minutes. Instant read thermometer reads 55 degrees. OK, maybe that's ok.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3rd step: 350 deg: 20 minutes. Instant-read thermometer reads 71 degrees. OK? Seems odd.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4th step: 350 deg: 20 minutes. Instant-read thermometer reads 79 degrees. WTH? (Not quite what I said)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5th step: 350 deg: 25 minutes. Husband is closer to the oven, he checks the thermometer, thinks that this doesn't make any sense because it's still not over 100 degrees.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He flips the thermometer over. It's set for Centigrade. I didn't even know that was an option and I've had the thing for a couple of decades. AND I have no idea how it got set to centigrade.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My two daughters and I went to Ireland, had a great time, saw the usual places and some new ones. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I learned the value of really good car rental insurance. I have no problem driving on the left side of the road while seated on the right side of the car, and oddly enough, I am a champ at parallel parking. I DO have a problem with tiny parking spaces in parking garages, and I scrubbed the left front of the rental car on a concrete post in a garage in Galway. There were two narrow spaces between two large posts and that's where I had the problem; when I returned the car, no problem. Phew. Also, the car was a Toyota hybrid, which I think means a Prius, and I loved it. Used not a lot of gas for a lot of driving.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We found the church in Garvagh where my paternal grandmother was baptized in 1881. She moved to the US in 1905 and died here in 1953. I only met her once and I was not even five yet so I only vaguely remember her. I have tried without success to get her birth certificate but I just found my grandfather's bc and it is on its way to me. If I can get his death certificate, I can apply for Irish citizenship. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because one of my daughters had been to Ireland before, and I had been there twice before, some destinations were a repeat for one or both of us, but everything was a first for older daughter. A special treat for all of us was Newgrange. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And now, for something completely different, this explains where ghosts come from, but now that Halloween is over and the ghosts are gone, we are still left with the struggle to put duvets inside their covers. I've gotten smart and let my husband do it. He has come up with a technique that involves turning the cover inside out and then doing something that involves hanging the whole thing over the stairway railing. I have not bothered to learn this technique. </span><div>
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Monday starts my favorite season---kids go to school and I pretty much have the pool to myself. Here is a re-run of the post I originally put up celebrating my very own pool.</h3>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Paradise is what our neighborhood pool felt like today. For some reason, once the end of summer vacation comes and the kids are all back in school, no one comes to the pool, and so I have it to myself. It was lovely this morning: the bluest, cloudless skies; no noise except for the birds and whatever the noisy insects in the trees are; perfect temperature and humidity; and the occasional, silvery corporate jet gliding noiselessly overhead, very high in the cloudless blue sky. I have said for decades that the only thing I would trade my soul for is my very own swimming pool. Natas, are you listening?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When I lived in Florida, I was a regular long-term substitute teacher in a school for the gifted. It was a separate facility, on its own campus, and the students had to meet IQ and other ability requirements to qualify for the school. The kids were amazingly bright, smarter than most of the teachers probably, and teaching there required that the teacher’s ego could stand knowing that if a student questioned something, it was OK to say, “I don’t know, but let’s find out.” We couldn’t fool these kids. Since it was a separate school, the kids weren’t bullied by the types of people who would call them “geeks” or “nerds.” They may have called each other that at times, but all in teasing fun. They tended to spark off each other so classes were never dull and it was a blast to teach there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One student has stayed in my memory. His name was Pete, but when I took over the class for the remainder of the year at the start of second semester, I couldn’t figure out who he was; he signed his papers “Natas.” I asked Natas to let me know what his real name was so that I could record his grades correctly in the grade book. Turns out, he was signing "Natas" because that is "Satan" spelled backwards. It was meant to shock, I’m sure, but I just said “OK.” Let’s just say that Pete was dancing to his own music. He was sort of Goth before Goth was even in existence and occasionally got in trouble for his behavior and his appearance, but all in all, he seemed like a nice kid. His poor father was called in once for a conference after Pete had done something wrong, and he certainly was rattled by his son’s behavior. He said to me, “Do you know he signs ‘Natas’ on his papers?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Well, yes I did, and I told him it didn’t worry me, that it was just meant to shock and it wasn’t working. He finally bought his son a computer (before the days when every home had one, let alone multiple, computers), hoping that using it would inspire better work. Oddly enough, Pete started signing his papers “Pete *anonymous*, 3rd.” I guess he liked how his actual name looked in print.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We teachers wondered what would happen to Pete. Would he end up a bored office worker? I hope not. I hope he’s found a creative and fun way to make a living, and is able to use his sort of odd outlook on life in a way that he and those around him can appreciate. It’s just one of those things I will probably never know….</span></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Knittergran?</span></em></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's me, Natas. </span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Huh? Wha…?</span></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Quitcher bitchin. </span></em></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Didn’t you just go on and on about how no one is at the pool and the weather is perfect and blah, blah, blah? </span></em></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So you already have your own pool. Stop bugging me. I don’t want your soul. Geeze, you’re practically circling the drain aren't you?</span></em></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Well, you're old. So there's not much soul there for me to work with, right?</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Well, Ohh...kay . I see your point.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Isn't he a pretty <a href="https://www.mincingmockingbird.com/" target="_blank">peacock</a>? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He is ever so slightly off center. I tried, but in spite of the several sets of nail holes behind the print, it is still <span style="font-size: x-small;">slightly</span> off center. I was too lazy to measure, y'all, and I didn't. I just kept making holes for the nails and n.e.v.e.r getting it quite right.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>What does that have to do with anything?</i> you ask.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, here's where I tap my head, acknowledging my stroke of genius.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mattresses are heavy and I can't push the bed over to get it centered under the print, so when the mattress is OFF of the bed, before the new one is put ON the bed, I will, <b>tah-dah</b>, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">move the bed ever so slightly to get the bed and the print correctly centered.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Work smarter, not harder, says I.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sing as if no one is listening. <i>check</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Write as if no one is reading. <i>check!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>That</b> I can now do because I announced to the world in general that I was not writing any more posts, and so I imagine that no one gets notices that there is a new post, and yet here I am again. Talking to myself, as it were.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But I have knitting news and it has to go somewhere:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm working on my second <a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/cowboys-and-angels" target="_blank">Cowboys and Angels</a>. The first one came out really well and it was fun to make so why not make a second in a more neutral color? So I am. Also it serves to put off starting work on the</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/the-throwback" target="_blank">Throwback Sweater</a>. It is going to be such a difficult knit because it involves stranding ON THE BACK SIDE, whic</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">h I hear is torture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Swanky indeed; it has cashmere in it! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So the yarn for the Throwback Sweater lies dormant, waiting for me to work up the desire to knit it.</span><br />
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