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Heatwave?

Monday night Hubby and I drove down to the Chocolate Bar for late night dessert: 10:20 pm, 28C (82.4F), and summer has finally arrived in St Louis. Facing a week of temperatures over 30C, Britain is declaring a heatwave. BBC News: Ten ways to beat the heat. After

US Citizenship

Our swearing in ceremony took place on the 28th floor of the courthouse on a blazing hot day. Twenty applicants with friends and family milled around in a marble corridor with great views of the downtown area. We recognised three people from our citizenship test. A court official got us

State of the Union

NaNoWriMo has proved I work better with goals and a deadlines. I'm looking at the state of my knitting, spinning, and writing for the next few days and thinking about what goals I want to achieve. Passing the citizenship test was a huge personal goal, thank you for

Civic duties

On Thursday I finished my Vintage Velvet scarf in the waiting room of the Federal building downtown. The place has an airport security scanner that let through both my metal circular needle and wooden double point needles. It also has several chirpy security guys who are always helpful and point

Catch up

It's been a busy month. Knitting Did a little work on my Eris cardigan, but still haven't figured out how the back gets cast off. It has to go sometime and I can't find it in the directions, which worries me. I don'

Hiatus

Our home internet has been shut off because of an oversight by the provider. It would take at least a week to get it back online, which isn't worth fighting for. Things will be sporadic here till May 16th, then all will better. Everything's fine, there

Random Links

I'm knitting two scarves right now, and they need to be the right length. Isadora Duncan died in a tragic scarf-too-long accident in an open-top car. She was an American dancer in the 1920s. She would have died in a car similar in looks to

Orange belt!

I've been learning Chinese Kenpo at Tracy's Karate Studio since 17th November 2008 and I passed my orange belt test yesterday. There is a photo of me wearing the new belt on the wall of the studio, and I have a certificate to prove my rank.

Testing day

Tracy's Karate Studio, Kirkwood.

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